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Check out which H5P content types have accessibility challenges

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Jaswinder Singh
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Check out which H5P content types have accessibility challenges
Check out which H5P content types have accessibility challenges

H5P is a free and open-source platform for everyone to create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content. Since it has been released in 2013, it has made the life of educators easier with its tools. The educators can use the H5P platform to create different types of interactive content easily. In this post, we will see which H5P content types are accessibility friendly and can be used for creating more accessible courses.

Few months back, H5P community team has released the list of the accessible content types and recommended by the H5P project. If you are also a modern educator and using H5P to create different types of interactive content you can consider the recommendations to create accessible course for your learners.

Content Type

Accessible

Maintained by the core team

Accordion

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Agamotto

✔ Yes

❌ No

AR Scavenger

❌ No

❌ No

Arithmetic Quiz

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Audio

If text alternative is added

✔ Yes

Audio Recorder

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Branching Scenario

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Chart

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Collage

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Column

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Complex Fill in the Blanks

✔ Yes

❌ No

Cornell Notes

✔ Yes

❌ No

Course Presentation

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Crossword

✔ Yes

❌ No

Dialog Cards

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Dictation

❌ No

(providing a text alternative won’t make sense)

❌ No

Documentation Tool

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Drag and Drop

✔ Yes

(Note: Must have visible labels for dropzones/draggables)

✔ Yes

Drag the Words

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Emoji Cloud

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Essay

✔ Yes

❌ No

Fill in the Blanks

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Find the Hotspot

❌ No

✔ Yes

Find Multiple Hotspots

❌ No

❌ No

Flashcards

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Guess the Answer

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Image Choice

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Iframe Embedder

Depends on the content

❌ No

Image Hotspots

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Image Juxtaposition

❌ No

❌ No

Image Sequencing

❌ No

❌ No

Image Slider

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Information Wall

❌ No

❌ No

Interactive Book

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Interactive Video

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

KewAr Code

✔ Yes

❌ No

Mark the Words

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Multi Poll

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Memory Game

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Multiple Choice

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Personality Quiz

❌ No

❌ No

Quiz (Question Set)

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Questionnaire

❌ No

✔ Yes

Single Choice Set

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Sort the Paragraphs

✔ Yes

❌ No

Speak the Words

❌ No

✔ Yes

Speak the Words set

❌ No

✔ Yes

Structure Strip

✔ Yes

❌ No

Summary

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

The Chase

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Timeline

Unknown

❌ No

True/false

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Twitter User Feed

Unknown

❌ No

Virtual Tour (360)

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

Word Cloud

✔ Yes

✔ Yes

 

Kindly note that the content types mentioned as accessible are known to have no accessibility issues. All the recommended content types are having WCAG 2.1 AA support. When a content type is listed in red it means that the H5P Team does not recommend using it and is not actively fixing problems with it.

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New LAE versions released by CLAMP Project

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Jaswinder Singh
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New LAE versions released by CLAMP Project
New LAE versions released by CLAMP Project

The CLAMP Project has released new LAE versions of Moodle LMS. There are 5 new LAE versions released recently which are all Maintenance releases only. There are no new features added in the new released.

In a recent announcement, Charles Fulton announced the release of new LAE versions. The following 5 LAE versions are released:

  • Moodle 4.2.2+Liberal Arts Edition v24.0.1
  • Moodle 4.1.5+Liberal Arts Edition v23.0.5
  • Moodle 4.0.10+Liberal Arts Edition v22.0.9
  • Moodle 3.11.16+Liberal Arts Edition v21.0.15
  • Moodle 3.9.23+Liberal Arts Edition v19.0.23

All the versions can be downloaded from the GitHub channel of CLAMP Project here. The next stable releases are scheduled for mid-October.

The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project is a group of colleges and universities who collaborate to develop and support Moodle, with an eye toward the issues unique to a liberal arts environment.

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Moodle LMS – PAG Group kickoff meeting took place, check key outcomes

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle LMS - PAG Group kickoff meeting took place, check key outcomes
Moodle LMS - PAG Group kickoff meeting took place, check key outcomes

Moodle LMS – the most popular open source Learning Management System (LMS) will soon get a new Advisory Group. As announced few days earlier, the Moodle HQ team has initiated the Product Advisory Group (PAG) for the Moodle LMS.

Yesterday, the first kickoff meeting for the Moodle PAG was organized by Moodle HQ team – Brett Dalton & Matt Porritt. During the PAG Kickoff meeting there were around 40 participants from all around the globe.

In the Moodle LMS PAG Kickoff meeting, Moodle HQ team explained the objectives & scope for the Product Advisory Group. They also explained the reason to shift from Moodle Users Association to PAG and the transition plan.

The key outcomes of the PAG kickoff meeting are:

  • Fundraising via crowdfunding will start from early 2024
  • MUA project development cycles will continue till Moodle 4.5 release.
  • All PAG communications will be cross posted in both the PAG course and MUA site during the transition period to ensure all MUA members have visibility of activity
  • PAG meetings will be held every 8 weeks in rotating time zones.

For all those who have missed to attend the PAG Kickoff meeting, you can watch the recording of the meeting here and go through the slide deck here.

What are your views about the new Moodle LMS Product Advisory Group (PAG)? Pl share with us in the comments section below.

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Kenyan Startup “Ed Partners Africa” Raises $1.5M to Provide Affordable Financing to Schools

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Jaswinder Singh
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Kenyan Startup "Ed Partners Africa" Raises $1.5M to Provide Affordable Financing to Schools
Kenyan Startup "Ed Partners Africa" Raises $1.5M to Provide Affordable Financing to Schools

Ed Partners Africa, a non-banking financial institution that specializes in providing infrastructural loans to embark on transformative projects, has raised $1.5 million in debt funding from the social impact investor, Oikocredit, known for its commitment to empowering low-income individuals across Africa, Asia, and Latin America to uplift their living standards sustainably.

With this strategic funding collaboration, the Nairobi-based firm intends to provide essential loan facilities to affordable private schools to expand and improve their infrastructure in line with the requirements of the new education curriculum.

Founded in 2018 by Lydia Koros and David Fitzherbert and currently led by CEO Amos Mwangi, Ed Partners Africa aims to enhance access to affordable quality education. The platform provides infrastructural loans to support the construction of new classrooms, washrooms, laboratories and dormitories and the acquisition of computers, buses, vans, and internet connectivity. Leveraging its deep expertise and specialization in the affordable private schools market, it also offers advisory services through its beyond loans program to improve school management and ensure long-term success for all education stakeholders.

Commenting on the fundraising, Chief Executive Officer of Ed Partners Africa Limited, Amos Mwangi, said:

I am thrilled by the remarkable collaboration between Oikocredit and Ed Partners Africa. This funding collaboration will further increase Ed Partners’ capacity to offer loan facilities to affordable private schools to expand and improve their infrastructure in line with the requirements of the new education curriculum in Kenya. We aim to enhance the quality of education, improve access to learning resources, and foster sustainable development in African communities.

Currently, the startup has positively impacted over 400 schools, serving more than 100,000 students across 20 counties in Kenya. Lewis Nyaga, Oikocredit’s Investment Officer in East and Southern Africa, added:

I am delighted with the remarkable partnership between Oikocredit and Ed Partners. The funding collaboration opens opportunities for implementing innovative educational initiatives, such as curriculum development, teacher training programs, educational technology integration, and research projects. These initiatives will enhance the quality of education, improve access to learning resources, and foster sustainable development in African communities.

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Moodle Administrators – Use Smart Cohort plugin to automatically add users to cohorts

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle Administrators - Use Smart Cohort plugin to automatically add users to cohorts
Moodle Administrators - Use Smart Cohort plugin to automatically add users to cohorts

Moodle Cohorts offer administrators an easy way to organize & group the learners, so that these users can be easily enrolled in a course. The cohorts can be created by the Admin at Site level or at category level. The purpose of cohorts is to enable all members of the cohort to be easily enrolled in a course.

However, adding users into the cohorts can be a tedious task for the administrators especially when there are new users added in the Moodle. The Smart Cohort Moodle plugin can be of great help in such cases. It allows the users to be automatically added to cohorts based on the filters.

The Smart Cohort Moodle plugin allows you to set custom rules to add the users into cohorts. The rules can be based on any profile field like Name, email, city, country, institution, department, suspended, etc. It will automatically add the users based on the set filters whenever the cron runs for your Moodle.

This can make the life of Moodle administrators easier and help them save a lot of time by adding users automatically to the cohorts instead of manual addition.

Here is a screencast to show how Smart Cohort plugin works in Moodle:

You can download the Smart Cohort Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here. After installing the plugin, you will get a new link under Site Admin > users > Smart Filters. The interface is pretty easy afterwards as you can click the Create Rule button to add a new rule.

Once a rule is created it will show you the conditions for the rule as well the option to view the members within the cohort. During my testing, the plugin works like a charm and added the students pretty easily. All you need is to have some cohorts ready on your Moodle before creating the rules.

Let us know what do you think about the Smart Cohorts Moodle plugin? Please share your views in the comments section below.

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Children’s Speech Therapy Platform Mable Therapy Raises $3.95M to Fuel Growth

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Jaswinder Singh
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Children’s Speech Therapy Platform Mable Therapy Raises $3.95M to Fuel Growth
Children’s Speech Therapy Platform Mable Therapy Raises $3.95M to Fuel Growth

Mable Therapy, a digital platform for children’s speech and language therapy, has recently raised $3.95 million (£3.1 million) in its Series A funding round led by Gresham House Ventures, a growth equity investor specialising in software and digitally driven businesses. With the funds, the company plans to expand its tech offering and bolster its sales and marketing function to accelerate adoption in the education sector.

Co-founded by Martha Currie and Elliot Agró in 2015, Mable Therapy provides easy access to a nationwide network of therapists who deliver live, one-to-one sessions through a bespoke online platform that facilitates improved therapeutic outcomes in a child-friendly environment. It also offers affordable direct-to-consumer service and solutions for the education and healthcare sectors, where technology adoption is now seen as vital to address the growing unmet demand.

Speaking on the fundraising, Co-founder & Clinical Director of Mable Therapy, Martha Currie, said:

Mable’s mission has always been to design Therapy that puts children at its core, giving them the best chance to reach their full potential. Our pioneering technology has already helped thousands of families across the UK, and with this investment by Gresham House Ventures, we can take this support even further. We also look forward to welcoming to the team Oli and Andrea, whose expertise will be instrumental as we continue to enhance and expand our service beyond the UK.

Headquartered in Leeds, Mable Therapy claims to have delivered over 22,000 hours of Therapy to over 3,000 children in the last year alone. The firm has been working with children for six years and has helped thousands of children with their mental health and communication skills.

Adding further about the capital raised, Co-founder & Head of Product and Technology of product and technology Elliot Agró said:

This investment by Gresham House Ventures will enable us to expand Mable’s technology offering significantly. It will support the development of an intra-therapy app designed to engage and empower children beyond session hours and school screening tools to equip educators to effortlessly assess students’ mental health and speech and language needs. The fusion of technology and Therapy offers enormous potential to improve lives, and Mable is proud to be at the forefront of this transformative approach.

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Personalised Mentoring Platform Shaktimaan.ai Raises $2M in Seed Round

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Jaswinder Singh
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Personalised Mentoring Platform Shaktimaan.ai Raises $2M in Seed Round
Personalised Mentoring Platform Shaktimaan.ai Raises $2M in Seed Round

Shaktimaan.ai, a personalised mentoring and discipline-driven educational ecosystem, has recently raised $2 million (INR 16.5 crore) in a seed round led by Y Combinator. According to the company, the fresh capital will be allocated towards building an LLM (Language Model) trained for diverse educational use cases and enhancing the platform’s capabilities and adaptability. It also aims to reach the milestone of serving 100,000 students by December 2023.

Co-founded in early 2023 by Vimal Singh Rathore and Aseem Gupta, Shaktimaan.ai’s current offerings include real-time doubt resolution and personalised feedback, with detailed evaluations of students’ handwritten answers. This approach helps UPSC aspirants with targeted assistance and efficient study plans. The platform aims to make learning accessible, engaging, and tailored for aspiring candidates.

Speaking about the company and its mission, Co-founder& CEO of Shaktimaan.ai, Vimal Singh Rathore, said:

Shaktimaan is our answer to the challenges of affordability and accessibility of excellent education in India. The prospect of making a real difference keeps our entire team driven and inspired. When I encountered GenAI last year, it struck me that this could be a game-changer in education, particularly in a nation where quality teaching is often beyond reach.

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Moodle LMS – New Minor Versions released today

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Jaswinder Singh
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Moodle LMS - New Minor Versions released today
Moodle LMS - New Minor Versions released today

Moodle LMS has got latest Minor versions released today. The new minor versions are released for all the supported versions. While there are no new features added all the versions are fixed with security and maintenance issues.

The Moodle LMS new versions which are released today are as follows:

While the Moodle 3.9, Moodle 3.11 & Moodle 4.0 are currently supported only for security fixes, Moodle 4.1 & Moodle 4.2 are currently stable versions. So, if you are still using any previous versions, you are recommended to upgrade to stable versions as soon as possible.

For complete details you can refer to the Moodle’s release calendar below:

You can get the latest Moodle versions release from the official Moodle website or through GitHub repository.

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‘One Model’ Austin-based workforce analytics company raises $41M in Growth Funding

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Jaswinder Singh
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'One Model' Austin-based workforce analytics company raises $41M in Growth Funding
'One Model' Austin-based workforce analytics company raises $41M in Growth Funding

One Model, an Austin-based workforce and people analytics software company has recently raised $41 million in a growth funding round led by Riverwood Capital, with participation from Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), Geekdom, and AV8 Ventures. With the funds, the startup plans to accelerate the development of its two core technology solutions.

Co-founded by Chris Butler, David Wilson, and Matthew Wilton in late 2014, One Model provides the People Data Cloud™ and One AI, which offer advanced analytics capabilities and data orchestration to help businesses make data-driven decisions, optimize talent strategies, and facilitate business success. With the platform, organizations can identify areas where they lack skills or talent, forecast future workforce needs, and calculate the cost of turnover. It also offers a monitoring dashboard that consolidates HR data and allows users to create reports, dashboards, and visualizations

Speaking on the fundraising, Co-founder & CEO of One Model, Christopher Butler, said:

This capital will allow us to maintain our growth trajectory and remain the innovation leader of the people analytics domain. With our expanded resources, we aim to empower HR and IT leaders to harness the true potential of their enterprise workforce data to drive significant business outcomes.

The startup’s growth trajectory is powered by solid customer relationships with nearly a hundred of the world’s largest global employers and brands. By delivering secure and unprecedented access and visibility to these organizations’ international people data, it has earned a reputation as the industry’s most respected and capable people analytics provider.

Francisco Alvarez-Demalde, Co-founder & Managing Partner of Riverwood Capital, commented:

In a world of increasing digitalization, automation, technology innovation, and complexity, making informed and timely talent decisions is fundamental to the success of any organization. One Model’s platform makes sense of all HR data, providing employers with the right people analytics tools and insights to unleash their workforce’s full potential. Companies can identify, develop, and retain talent with the One Model and make better hiring and other HR-related decisions. One Model’s people-centred approach and innovative technology have set them apart as a great partner for enterprises globally as they pursue more robust people strategies. We are excited to work with this fantastic team to grow the business and revolutionize HR with a comprehensive platform for people analytics.

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Moodle Teachers – Create nested Course section using the Flexible Sections Course format

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Jaswinder Singh
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Create nested Course section using the Flexible Sections Course format
Create nested Course section using the Flexible Sections Course format

Moodle LMS allows you to customize the learning experience for your learners by using different types of plugins. Moodle supports a wide variety of plugins which includes more than 2050 plugins in the official directory. In this post we will discuss about the Flexible Sections Course Format plugin and how you can use it in Moodle.

The Flexible Sections Course Format plugin allows you to create nested course sections which provides educators with more control and customization over the organization of their courses. Traditional Moodle courses are often structured linearly, with topics or weeks following a predetermined order. However, the Flexible Sections plugin breaks free from this rigidity by offering a dynamic way to arrange course content.

This course format looks very similar to Topics format except:

  • sections can be added inside other sections
  • each section (regardless of its nesting level) can be shown either on the same page as parent or on a separate page. Teacher can change it in edit mode.
  • If section is displayed on a separate page, it’s name is displayed as a link and on this  page the link “Back to … ” is displayed
  • If teacher hides a section all nested sections and activities become hidden as well.

You can download the latest version of the Flexible Sections course format plugin from the official plugins repository here.

What are the other course format plugins you are using on your Moodle site? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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