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Quicktipps

TIPP 1: RULES FOR TOOLS

Tell the students at the beginning of the lesson what they may and may not do.

TIPP 2: Select MEDIA according to USE!

What is the benefit of the tool? If it has no benefit/added value, then it should not be used!

Change the Moodle icon

Here is a brief description of how to change an icon in the Moodle course section.

 

Playlists available for Moodle beginners to experts

Click here for the Moodle playlists for beginners/experts and experts.

Curriculum support, analyses and quality assurance

Here you will find “Curriculum help and analysis” from the MoodleMootDach 2024.

Interested in Moodle plugins? If so, write to us!

Here you can find the possibilities offered by BookWidgets. Or via Github or directly at Moodle.


REMEMBER: What is the benefit of the tool? If it has no benefit/added value, then don't use it!

 

 

Tool list

FeedbackR: Audience Response System (Tu Graz), easy to use https://www.feedbackr.io

Pingo: Free survey tool developed at the University of Paderborn to activate students in large groups, easy to use, clearly laid out, you can also insert previously created questions into the “session” via the question catalog. If you want, you can make questions public and of course also use public questions https://pingo.coactum.de/

Surveymonkey: Popular, widely applicable survey tool. Limited free version https://www.surveymonkey.de/

Kahoot! Free: single choice, true-false; other question types: Premium version. https://kahoot.com is well received by students

Mentimeter: e.g. word clouds, queries, surveys, ratings (free, very easy to use; unlimited number of mentimeters in the free version) https://www.mentimeter.com

Answergarden: https://answergarden.ch/

Padlet: Very easy to use: e.g. create a “wall” together and rate/comment, simply share a link, in the free version: 4 padlets. https://de.padlet.com for Moodle E-tivity 4

Etherpad: for collaborative writing (= shared notes at BBB). Click on 'https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/' to open the resource.

Yopad: https://yopad.eu/; pads are automatically deleted after a freely selectable period of inactivity.

Flinga: Collaborative tool. Flinga Whiteboard. Flinga Wall: Click on https://flinga.fi/. Fully GDPR compliant

Ayoa: Create mind maps collaboratively (free of charge). https://www.ayoa.com/

Conceptboard: very versatile and structured collaborative work, fully GDPR-compliant, free basic version https://conceptboard.com/

Miro Whiteboard: for collaborative work: very diverse and structured tasks/display forms, free version: 3 boards for free. https://miro.com

Mural: for collaborative work, versatile, first 30 days free trial https://www.mural.com/

Cacoo: for collaborative work: Mindmaps etc. (free trial). https://cacoo.com/

Discord: for structured communication. https://discord.com/

Learning Apps: Many interactive task types (for individual learners and group mode; free of charge; easy to use); 'https://learningapps.org

Wonder me: https://www.wonder.me/ Virtual meetings/events/parties

Gathertown: https://gather.town/ Virtual meetings/events/parties, max. 25 participants, data protection ?

Learningsnacks.de: Chatbot, cloze text, DnD... Chatbot e.g. for quotes

Addpuzzle - open questions and cut video (like h5p)

Quizizz: also live whiteboard possible, students can be chosen randomly.

Quizlet: live game

Fobizz.com: AI assistant, where knowledge is stored beforehand. Studies can then be looked up there

AI TOOLS

The following table lists a selection of recommended AI tools sorted by category. As the market for AI tools is very volatile, this list can only be truly up-to-date at the time of compilation (August 2024). However, it provides an initial overview and can be used for further research.  

 

Option #1

Option #2

Option #3

ChatbotsChatGPTGeminiCoPilot
PräsentationenGamma MagicSlidesTome
Teaching AssistantsMagicSchool AIEduGPTAlmanack
KurserstellungLearningStudioCourseboxSC Training
ContenterstellungChatGPTGeminiCopy.ai
BildgeneratorCanva AIMidjourneyBing Image Creator
BildbearbeitungClipdropPixelcutRemove.bg
AnimationenAnimated DrawingsScribble DiffusionCapCut
VideoerstellungPictoryD-IDDeepBrain AI
Talking Head VideosD-IDSynthesiaHeyGen
Video EditingLumen5DescriptPictory
ResearchChatPDFCoPilotHumataAI
Audio EditingAdobe Podcast EnhanceAudiocraftCleanvoice
Text-to-SpeechSpeechifyElevenlabs IOSynthesis IO
ProductivityPerplexityYouTube SummaryNotion

 

RULES FOR TOOLS tell students at the beginning what they may and may not do.

We need to teach Media competence 

AI: Fobizz, camtasia, uniGPT