Dictation

Submitted by Dorte Nielsen on Sun, 02/17/2019 - 11:16
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Dictation

 

I have a few suggestions for several options of the dictation quiz. The orange markings of words that show partly correct answers does not work well in Danish. It is hard to figure out which words are considered to be partially correct. For example, words with incorrect grammatical endings are marked with orange color.

 

 

Wishes:

 

1. Is it possible to make an option in which the words are either marked as correct or incorrect?

 

2. It would be fine if you could choose that a capital initial letter does not count as errors.

 

3. Is it possible to make the quiz so you could choose to check each line separately?

 

Best regards

Dorte

 

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BV52

Mon, 02/18/2019 - 07:05

Hi Dorte,

Thanks a lot for contributing your ideas on how to make H5P better! We’re now working on something called the H5P supporter program allowing the H5P community to vote for and fund the top voted H5P features. Also there are developers in the community who every now and then works on a feature they find interesting or useful.

-BV52

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otacke

Mon, 02/18/2019 - 10:42

Hi Dorte!

1) Having such an option should be easy to do. I'll probably take care of it when I work on Dictation for the next time.

2) In the next version of Dictation which is in the phase of code review, you will be able to add optional spellings. This will allow you to configure this on a per word basis.

3) I assume that Dictation will also be choosable in H5P Column when that one is updated, so you'd be able to have multiple one-liners that can be checked separately.

Best,

Oliver 

Dorte Nielsen

Sat, 09/28/2019 - 17:14

Hi Oliver  

I would like to ask if you have had time to look at the Dictation program. As it is now, it cannot be used in Danish as the orange marking does not make any sense but is just confusing. 

Best Dorte

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otacke

Mon, 09/30/2019 - 19:00

Hi Dorte!

I think I misunderstood you the first time. You just need to set the value of typos in the behavioral settings to either mark typos count as an error at 100 % (incorrect) or as an error at 0 % (correct).

Best,

Oliver 

Marta_Nunes

Mon, 04/06/2020 - 15:29

Hello,

I'm trying to create a dication exercise, but i don't want students to see the solution.

When I go to the "Behavioural settings" i unmark it, but when i save it, the button is still there!

Is it a bug or just my ignorance?

Thanks for your help.

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BV52

Mon, 04/06/2020 - 20:50

Hi Marta,

I can confirm that this is a bug. I reached out the developer of the content and you can check the progress here.

-BV

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otacke

Mon, 04/06/2020 - 22:15

Hi all!

The bug has been fixed. Luckily, Dictation is scheduled for a patch release shortly anyway, so it should be gone very soon.

Cheers,
Oliver

sergioccg

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 10:11

Hi there!

First of all...thank you for such a useful content-type... I checked your GitHub but I'm lost on how to fix my Moodle with your fix because I search for the JS without a single clue where could it be...I'm using Moodle 3.11 and supposedly with the latest content-types from h5p.org but "Dictation" is still 1.0.7 and in your repository it's shown 1.0.8... I'm very interested in using this activity but for it to be useful in my case I need to have the "Show solution" disabled.

Thank you in advance for any help!!

sergioccg

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 17:41

Hi there!

First of all...thank you for such a useful content-type... I checked your GitHub but I'm lost on how to fix my Moodle with your fix because I search for the JS without a single clue where could it be...I'm using Moodle 3.11 and supposedly with the latest content-types from h5p.org but "Dictation" is still 1.0.7 and in your repository it's shown 1.0.8... I'm very interested in using this activity but for it to be useful in my case I need to have the "Show solution" disabled.

Thank you in advance for any help!!

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BV52

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 20:01

Hi sergioccg,

If I'm not mistaken the PR for this has been merged into the official repository but has not yet been released. I will follow up with the person responsible with releasing the updates.

-BV

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otacke

Tue, 07/06/2021 - 20:01

Hi sergioccg!

That problem is fixed on the master branch of H5P.Dictation (which is to become version 1.0.9 - just waiting for some pull-request to be finished), but the H5P core team (they didn't create that content type) will have to find some time to update it on h5p.org and the H5P Hub.

Cheers,
Oliver

bjaffeblueledge

Thu, 07/30/2020 - 17:20

I would like to request a version of dictation that allows for more than 1000 characters. 

Ideally it would have more of a text box that could even accept and score line breaks.  

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otacke

Thu, 07/30/2020 - 21:10

Hi bjaffeblueledge!

Would you mind to elaborate on the use case?

You can change the character limit yourself easily by using the alter_semantics hook described at https://h5p.org/node/2692 but allowing and score line breaks would require to change the code.

Best,

Oliver 

bjaffeblueledge

Tue, 08/04/2020 - 23:31

We want to use it for transcription practice. 

Basically play a piece of audio from a business meeting, interview, doctors notes, etc. and have someone practice transcribing it. 

If line breaks are hard is there an easy way to open the writing window up from a single line to more of a text box? 

bjaffeblueledge

Tue, 08/04/2020 - 23:37

Hi otacke, 

I dont think i have access to the H5P in a way that woudl allow me to modify the alter_semantics. I have an account with h5p.com  and h5p is installed in the LMS we use, eFront. 

Any tips would be great. You are a huge help. 

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otacke

Wed, 08/05/2020 - 11:56

Hi bjaffeblueledge!

You're correct, on H5P.com you cannot use the alter_semantics hook.

As for the text input field: There's already a ticket for making it grow once the text exceeds the available space. H5P.Dictation a free time project though, and I have no clue when I'll come around to do that.

As for your use case: I assume this could be done, but it'd require some rewriting. Don't know when I'd find the time.

Best,
Oliver

bjaffeblueledge

Wed, 08/05/2020 - 17:14

I appreciate yout feedback,

If this was soemthing we were interested in could we pay you or another programmer to do it? 

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otacke

Wed, 08/05/2020 - 19:11

Hi bjaffeblueledge!

Sure! I won't be available before October (maybe even November) however, so it might be best to look for another developer first. The source code is on github (https://github.com/otacke/h5p-dictation), and the other developer could simply create a pull-request that I'd have to approve or ask for changes. If you want to share your code, that is. Of course, you could also only run that code on your systems.

Best,

Oliver 

andrec1

Sun, 02/06/2022 - 01:31

Hello,

I might just be totally overlooking how to do this, but say I have 10 dictation sentences, but I only want to have 5 show in the course but can rotate through the 10 randomly if students do more than one attempt. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks, 

Carmen 

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otacke

Wed, 02/09/2022 - 08:15

Hi Carmen!

Dictation is supposed to mimic a classic dictation as a cohesive text. So no, it does currently not support randomizing or pooling sentences, and unfortunately it is not one of the content types that H5P's Question Set offers which is supposed to allow randomizing and pooling single contents.

Best,

Oliver