Wish new content type: free text

There is no content type that exatcly match what you are asking for. So maybe you can create a feature request on that forum, if you think this is something that would be useful for other people in the community.

Maybe Questionnaire could be used for inputting longer text?

- Tom

Steve Jobs used to say that AI stood for Anything Insanely-great - free recall is definitely an important and powerful tool for closing the learning loop.

Perhaps the tool would work around a list of *words/synonyms* and the challenge for the learner would be to recreate a concise text (time or character constrained) leveraging those words. The challenge for the content type would be to recognize the use of any of those words in the free recalled textarea. There might additionally be an option to either show the words that need to get woven into a free recall text or not. And have them disappear (and the points add up) when the user used the word.

The leveled up AI bit would be if the content type could recognize that a learner had in fact entered a grammatically correct sentence that also made conceptual sense.

Not "low hanging fruit", certainly. But I'll bet it would be a hit. Even without the leveled up AI.

Of course the MOOC I have been test driving would be the MOOC NOT attempting AES.

Peer Review has its uses - but test scoring is not one of them - particularly in the context of MOOCs.

A MOOC I test drove at Coursera has an incarnation @ EdX with an interesting difference (same institutions) - Coursera Deciphering Secrets: Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts and EdX Deciphering Secrets: Medieval Manuscripts Toledo 12th-15th centuries. Smart Move?

Been there, done that.

There is, however, an upcoming course (August 14, 2017) on Ancient and Medieval Europe (my favorite subject (I guess that's cheating, huh?)) offered by Arizona State. I can hardly wait!

That'll give me enough time to digest Balfour's 2013 survey, easily. Thanks!

A study for a study (you've probably seen this one already, but others might not have). What Roediger & Karpicke (2006) found was that people who engaged in free recall testing remembered more after a week (56%) than people who studied by simply rereading remembered after just two days (54%).

The knowledge that a teacher or TA would be looking at whatever text entered (via tech already achieved in Questionnaire question type) would probably be enough to get an honest effort out of test takers. So really, when looked at that way, the fruit seems like it might be hanging pretty low -- maybe even 2017 low.

:-)

Test-enhanced learning: taking memory tests improves long-term retention.

hi otacke,

h5p essay looks brilliant.. would like to suggest tools to help students organize their thoughts first.. in k-12 alot of the writing that happens students are required to brainstorm a really powerful tool to do this is a mindmap or any type of graphic organizer .. i had a question type developed a while back you can look here https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/farrisimin/2806787 this is good for students to organize their thoughts .. another way create any graphic organizer is quite simple add a graphic organizer image as a background image and then have an insert tool for text where the teacher assigns parts of the image for the students to insert text.. and quick example would be the hamburger essage after completing the graphihc organizer the student can then complete his or her essay.. hope you find this worthy of developing.. different organizer with a simple google search https://www.google.ca/search?q=graphic+organizer&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa...

best regards

this will for sure make writng more fun and engaging as the students will find time to research.. it is also highly likely you can make the essay part auto populate for the students as they fill in the graphic organizer saving them time ... for practice or turn off as an option.. where they must retype it instead of autopopulate the essay..

Moodle has an option in their free text widget to use wildcards. The implementation is a bit wonky (literally thousands of people show up for their course, every year, and only a few attempt the final project, and a small percentage of those attempt to use the free text widget). Is there a way to use commas and periods to ask, for instance, for a student to mention 1066 and the Norman Conquest in a paragraph requesting that a student recall 5 events that characterized the eleventh century? They wouldn't be picking them out of the wild blue yonder, it would have been mentioned in the "lecture", however that would manifest itself.

1. Norman Conquest, 1066

2. Road to Canossa/Humiliation at Canossa, 1077

3. First University Bologna, 1088

etcetera

The student would then be able to mention the keywords in any order, but they would need to mention them in the same sentence. And not confuse the Road to Canossa with 1088, for instance.

What we'd really love to do is use the same content we are using in the question sets (that we're developing in MS Office), and include the essay type in the question set to systematically bump up the challenge. So the keywords/keyword phrases/alternative correct answers would be delimited in the same way they are for the drag text and fill in the blank text types, with *asterisks*.

Then if there was some way to evaluate a string as anything in *asterisks* that ends with a period. That seems like it would make a long story quite a bit shorter. And the UX would totally glow. It might be too complicated, but we thought it was worth asking anyway. Particularly given the potential and the huge leaps and bounds h5p has been clearing in the last 6 months. You guys are really breaking the sound barrier.

I have been looking for something similar, but even simpler. I just want usere to enter an answer in a text area, after saving they get a feedback (no summative grading)... but this answer is saved for users, so if they comeback to the post, they can se their saved answer.

At a particular point, I would like to add multiple free text questions, like in statements.   But we are allowed only one question.   If I space the questions out, then the video would have advanced and many of the words in the audio would be "chopped up".If I space individual questions using microseconds, sometimes the question gets missed out, even though I have set pauses and made questions mandatory.  Can there be a block of a few free-text questions?

I can neither access Questionnaire on Drupal nor here at H5P any suggestions would be helpful.

PJ