Animated interactive materials can help bring your courses to life by making complex topics easier to understand and more engaging for your students. Versatile and dynamic tools like H5P and Articulate Storyline allow us to build engaging content while also providing an alternative to the typical recorded video lectures. Tools like these can encourage critical thinking and problem-solving while allowing your students to revisit challenging topics whenever they need to. For instructors, these materials can boost student participation and provide valuable insights and feedback, making your course more effective and enjoyable.
As we have a few different examples on this page, please feel free to use the index below to quickly navigate between the different tools and courses showcased on this page.
EOTL104 – Creating DIY Multimedia to Enhance Learning (Articulate Storyline)
The Creating DIY Multimedia to Enhance Learning faculty development course facilitated by ITDS empowers faculty with the skillset to configure their recording environment and produce academic multimedia content at home. This interactive learning asset, produced in Articulate Storyline, demonstrates how a content-heavy, dense Canvas content page on configuring an at-home recording environment can be converted into an interactive, visually engaging lesson. One objective of the learning module in which this asset resides is to walk faculty through specific steps on how to set up their recording environment, and Articulate Storyline facilitated this objective by making the learning experience more immersive and engaging.
Articulate Storyline is an authoring tool which enables instructional designers to build interactive activities and lessons. While traditionally used to build self-paced courses, Articulate Storyline can be used to translate dense content pages in Canvas into engaging, interactive activities.
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PSYC301 – Experimental Psychology (H5P)
Jennifer Yang is using the H5P interactive book tool in Experimental Psychology (PSYC301) as a means of introducing the research process through an interactive Lab talk component. The Lab Research Proposal Assignment integrates the interactive book with video elements, hotspots, and brief assessments in order to prepare students for the weekly lab assignments. Students move through the presentation using hotspots and short quizzes to better understand how to create a video of their research article review.
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