Moodle Exchange - Student-Content Lightning Talks by Jill Anderson

“Memory is the residue of thought”

2025-05-20 17:06:07 UTC

Daniel T Willingham wrote this in his book “Why Don’t Students Like School?”

The point is that, if you hope for students to remember something, you must make them do cognitive work with it. PlayPosit helps students do significant cognitive work with video material by embedding questions, reflections, and pauses in video.

Low Stakes Assessment

2025-05-20 17:07:04 UTC

Providing feedback in the moment is critical for learning - it’s the basis for the Socratic method!

+20% Completion & View Time!

2025-05-20 17:09:01 UTC

Knowing that you have tasks to complete that appear during the video encourages persistence even through longer videos.

Discussions Embedded in Video

2025-05-20 17:10:45 UTC

Talk about to while you watch it. There’s a reason the reaction videos to sports, movies, or shows are tremendously popular on the internet.

Completion Gates

2025-05-20 17:13:44 UTC

Set it so they have to complete the video before the quiz.

This serves two purposes:

Making sure they see the video.
Helping them apply the knowledge after the video - a key part of the learning process.

“Not getting saved to the hard drive”

2025-05-20 17:16:11 UTC

Content doesn’t necessarily get encoded into long term memory without significant cognitive interaction.

H5P is Natively in Moodle!

2025-05-20 17:18:43 UTC

H5P is included in the core code of Moodle, making the integration with the wider platform as seamless as possible - there’s no “grade sync” step for a core tool like H5P.

Multiple Interactive Content Types

2025-05-20 17:21:23 UTC

H5P has a LOT of content types. You can make interactive videos, slide decks, pages, and more. Similarly there are lots of question types. Start simple, then grow forward and ask the folks at DELTA for explanations early and often!

H5P works in mobile app!

2025-05-20 17:23:09 UTC

This is a recent improvement that makes sure these tools work in the mobile app.

Not just for student responses!

2025-05-20 17:27:30 UTC

Teachers can get chat GPT to summarize and analyze responses.

Export Data to Files

2025-05-20 17:29:05 UTC

ALL posts can be exported to a csv file, for instance, which can then be loaded (anonymized, please) into GPT for analysis.

“Send Content Change Notification”

2025-05-20 17:49:53 UTC

Check this box at the bottom of the settings page of your syllabus activity to be compliant with the change tracking requirement at NCSU.