Transcripts

Related activities tab

It is almost like I'm still awake in my dreams. It's like I'm dreaming of, I'm still working, but in the dream world, I'm still working. I moved from Sweden to the Philippines in January, 2009. One of the first things that struck me was how people sleep at work here. Something that is completely foreign to me, to be honest, it really confuses me. Why is everyone asleep? Why am I awake? What's going on? It's not really sleep. No sleep, huh? Because I'm, I'm a light sleeper, so maybe go on along like Nap. Yeah, nap. I think anything beyond two hours is sleep. So yeah. Napping is different from sleeping. I prefer to, uh, hunch up on my desk, uh, sleep, but a little bit uncomfortable to remind me that I'm not at home. I'm, I'm still on the clock. I can just imagine you being from Sweden, it's understandably strange for you coming from the outside, looking in and seeing how relaxed people are every day. Sometimes I feel like I have an obsession almost to be effective and productive and always working. If I oversleep in the morning, I feel bad about it, and I spend the rest of the day trying to catch up with the time I lost. But here it seems like people love to sleep. We live in the equatorial tropics where the weather is not hot, it's humid. If it were any thicker, you would need to cut through the weather with a knife like butter. It just makes you sleepy, man. So what do you want to know? Why Do you think people Do this? Well, it's culture. It has always been culture. I think it could go way back, way back when the Spaniards, you know, like conquered the Philippines for 500 years and stuff like that. Uh, we have this siesta thing. Even before the Spaniards came, in the beginning, Philippines was a paradise. We had all the fish in the sea and all the fruits in the forest, and people don't see the reason to work. And this has become, I think, some kind of a collective consciousness. We are an agricultural country, so we do not go on an exclusive, uh, nine to five structure. That is still a concept we need to grasp. As I get paid 10 pays per hour, I will work 10 paces per hour. That means I sleep half of the 30 minutes I sleep. We're hardworking. We just lazying. It's uh, yeah, I know. Uh, uh, an oxymoron kind of thing, but, But contradictions are sometimes true in Sweden. Everything in society works and everyone works hard. But are we happy? Philippines? We get colonized with the Spaniards. We wanna speak like a Spanish crap. After that. We got the Americans in. We wanna be like American Joe. We eat hot dogs, we drink beers. No, we never became a Filipino. So you cannot undo a 300 year brainwashing of a colonial master. It goes back to why would I work hard to make these people richer? So sometimes it's not laziness, it's the lack of opportunity. I dunno if we want to change it. The progress of our place is also taking very slowly, maybe because we want it that way. We, We love this place so much and this culture so much that we want to retain, we wanna hold onto it as much as we could. If we change it, it changes, uh, the people. It changes who we are. I think this whole concept of sleeping at work, for me, it shouldn't be a big deal. I mean, we're humans after all. We're not robots. Yeah, yeah, Yeah. If, for example, Swedish people be told not to rest, how do you think they would feel? I just feel bad, Sammy. I just really feel bad. Like when, let me ask you, I know you're the one interviewing me,

Transcript tab

S**t. I thought I told you to look after the toast. Hm mm-Hmm. You don't care as long as you have yours, do you? Hmm? Uh, can I help you? What do you want? Yeah, I, I toast on some toast. Uh, Aren't you going to have some I help. There's nothing worse than cold toast. I actually like a cold. Do you? That's funny. So it is my own feather. Some people like a born That's rotten only fit for the hens. Do you live around here? Why? Or a girl? What a girl. Do you want more toast? What's her name? Lucy. Lucy. Oh, Lucy Lou. Oh, you are gorgeous, aren't you? Do you want money? I have some in my purse in the hole. You can have it. Why'd you have to go say something like that and ruin, ruin everything. I didn't mean I We're having a nice time here. Just sitting and getting to know each other. And what next thing you're asking me about money? I'm sorry I didn't break in here. Alright. Your door was open. Are you gonna do women? Who thinks every man is out to get them? Is that No, sorry. I, ah, what do you think I'm gonna rape you or something? No, I wouldn't think that I'm a good man. I'm a good person. You don't know the person? Do I know? I, I'm sorry. I Right. Why don't you sit down and you can tell me about yourself? Don't What? What did mommy say? Lucy? Oh, she giving out again. Is she? Oh, I think she is. Oh. Do you want anything else to eat? Do you want more food? No. Eat your toast. You like it? Cold Tea? I could do with a cup of tea. Would you like one? I think that would be grand. Nevermind the hot weather. I never say no to a cup of tea. She gonna make the Tea. She want to bring us tea Coke. You never told me your name. You never asked. I'm asking now. I had like to know It's, it's Pauly or uh, Paul. You can call me Paul. Paul, nice to meet you Paul. Hmm? There you go. I can take her now. I have to change her or her dad. He'll be home soon. No he won't. What do you mean? Uh, Lucy's daddy doesn't live here during the week. Oh. Lucy. Lucy, your mommy's a liar. I'm not lying. You can't fool me. I know all about you Sarah. I'm not lying. He'll be back. No He won't. Jim has a big jab in court during the week. Only comes home at the weekends. Not today. Today he he'll be back. No he won't. It's the same thing every week. Big wave to daddy on a Monday. Big kiss for mommy off. He goes to make the big bucks and bring it home at the weekend. What do you want? Tell you one thing. If I had a woman like you, I wouldn't be leaving her on her own like that. No, I wouldn't. Would I? No, I would not. Although, I dunno. Maybe. Maybe that suits you Sarah. I'd say you were a bit of a wild one when you were younger. Stuck out here. Now You must be aching for a bit of attention. Why are you doing this? This tea tastes like pure p**s. Sorry. I can make you another. Oh, it's just not right Man. Like that. Walking away from everything. Coming and going as he pleases him for a while. Huh? Two day daddy. Is that what you have Lucy? Two day daddy five other days. Mommy must get very lonely. It's all gone upside down. That's what my old fellow used to say. And he's right. It's backwards. I suppose you got what you wanted though, didn't you? I dunno what you mean. No. And you got your nice house and your baby all the same. Maybe El Jim was the one who's got all the lamb. Oh, it's him. Mommy. No smoking her prayers. Sick of talking. We're going for a walk, Lucy. Don't worry. Mamy, you are coming too. It's a gorgeous day outside. Would you like that Lucy? Eh? Would mommy like that? Oh, where are we going? You don't get to ask any more questions. I tell the truth. You keep on lying. We're going to the woods. Can you stop at me for five minutes and do what I say? Can I please carry? No. It's like my daddy used to say. Sarah, if you want a you to go somewhere, you don't bother with her, you take the lamb and she'll always follow Now. Nothing to say. No quiet at last. She can walk. Can I hold your hand until we get outside and then you can carry her please. I'll be good. I'll walk With you. Fine. Come on. Really? I haven't got all day.

Visual display of course and section progress

Let's move on to our new features for the progress display of courses and sections. Previously, designer displayed all the relevant activities when it came to course progress. So when it came to this progress bar here, it was automatically displaying all the relevant activities and relevance is determined by the activities that are selected for course completion or s course completion criteria. And, uh, while we're discussing this with a couple of customers, we realized that in some courses, uh, that is perfectly fine and we think that's most courses to be honest. But in other course, um, you might want to have a progress which lists all the activities that you've completed so that you have a continuous, uh, positive reinforcement for your students because they continuously see that they per proceed and get a new percentage added to their progress, even if it doesn't really matter for the course progress, because that only is increased when there's a new milestone that they reach like an a quiz or an assignment or something like that. So in order to make this better customizable, um, we are adding mains to control how cause progress and section progress is determined in the progress bar. You see, for example, in this case here that the four remaining criteria that need to be completed are these four activities that that's visible. Once you click on this and you've completed 56% of the calls and you've completed 50% of the first module. In this example here we are using these sections to calculate the course progress. So it's, it's the same activities that are completed actually, but we are counting. You have completed one section, which is the required learning section. You've got 100% in this section. So all three activities have been completed and you have two more sections to go and that's especially helpful if you have a, a long course and you don't want your course progress to be so clotted to have, I dunno, 17 out of 36 activities completed. You'd rather have like the first module or the first section is completed and the two other ones are remaining. So both this is telling the student one out of three criteria is completed and the donut is telling the student 33%, which means like one out of three sections exactly the same information is completed of in addition turned on the call status here, which is enrolled in progress or completed. And obviously that's a bit too much for a real course. I've just turned everything on and clicked on the progress bar here, uh, to take the screenshot for you so that I can show you everything. One kind of odd problem that I sometimes say on customer's courses is that it's hard to say for a student if a course is actually completed. And in order to mitigate that, we have now multiple means to indicate that a course is completed both in our to of course with a progress bar and with this course status batch here. Let's have a look how it looks on our Moodle side. So I'm back in this very course here, which we used previously. And if you look at the participants list, you'll see that I'm not in this course. So let's change that. Just need to find me. There we go. And now you see that I'm enrolled in this course. I've completed zero out of three criteria and this is also reflected in the donut in this section. I now also have a donut, um, in designer 1.5 and earlier you only had the progress bar in the section. Now you can switch between donut or progress bar or nothing, it's your choice. So let's complete a few activities, shall we? In this case it's very simple. I just have to open the page and that's used a course index to complete all three activities, which means that I've now completed the required learning section. So let's look back at the course and not a surprise. I've completed the required learning section and now I've completed one or three criteria, which means 33%. If I click on the green bar in the progress bar, I see that I've completed this section. If I click on the gray bar, I see that I have two more sections to complete. Let's look at the settings in this course in the header section because like the progress is displayed in the header. That's kind of why we put it there. You see that we've both turned on the progress bar And we set the course progress to be a donut. We usually recommend to use just one of those two, not both. So if progress is, is a very important thing for you, we would probably recommend to just use the progress bar like so, Because This is providing both a visual clue as well as a textural clue and the information which sections or activities or relevant activities are supposed to be completed. So students have a lot of information. This is maybe a bit too clunky for some courses, so if you'd rather have a more clean interface, which represents the same information but it's just a bit cleaner, you probably would want to use the course progress as a donut instead of the progress bar. And probably also let's turn off the, um, where is it? Completion status indicator. And this now looks very clean and simple. So it really depends on what you need and your courses. Do you need a very clear information what the student has done and not done or is just like one information enough? You might want to, in addition to the donut also include the, um, completion status indicator, which you can place either below the course progress or with the course metadata to the left below the title. Let's put it to the course progress for a second. And then students have a one clear element which tells them, am I in progress? Have I completed the course or am I just enrolled and haven't even started it. So depending on your use case, you might want to use one or both or in combination. Let's have a look at the course completion settings, shall we? So you see that there's a lot of activities in here. All these have activity completion turned on and they are marked. They, all of them are marked as completion relevant. That's how we call that, like completion relevant because they're selected as activity completion criteria for the calls. So if we look at the settings now o You'll see that in the course head section, the course progress is calculated based upon sections. And let me be clear, this has nothing to do with how course progress or course completion is actually determined. That's done with the course completion settings that we just looked at. This year's just about show, it's just about how to display it, how to communicate it, if that makes sense. And I can hearsay use all the completion criteria as, um, as the relevant criteria. This would include activity completion and the completion of other courses. So if you require your core, uh, your students to complete other courses, which we usually call prerequisites in designer terminology, um, then completion criteria would be the best for you. If you want the course progress to be determined by how many activities the student has completed that are completion relevant, then you choose this. If you want all activities to be, uh, used to calculate and display the course progress, then use all activities. And that means all activities that have completion configured, uh, 'cause otherwise they can't be included if completion is not configured. And if you want sections, then you choose Jackson sections For the section progress, we have a similar feature, uh, but you can only, uh, um, select relevant activities, which are all the activities that are marked as relevant in the course completion settings or all activities. So it really depends on how you want to use it. And as I mentioned previously, you can switch from donut to progress bar per section and you can do the same thing for the post progress.