Goal: to offer learning materials in multiple languages in one and the same course environment.

In ULearning it is possible to build a course in multiple languages.

So you can place both Dutch and English text in the course environment. Depending on the user’s language setting, they will see the Dutch or English text. It is important that the course itself does not impose any language.

Operation

To indicate which sentences contain Dutch text and which sentences contain English text, you must indicate this using codes before and after the sentences. Place the texts you want to use between the correct curly braces to indicate whether they should be shown in the Dutch or, for example, English language setting.

Dutch text: {mlang nl} text text text {mlang}

English text: {mlang en} text text text {mlang}

Text that does not need to be translated and can always be shown does not need to be placed between the ‘code mlang’ / curly brackets.

 

Example:

Within a course this looks like this:

Example of entered text with code for language difference.

Dutch:

Example text in Dutch

English:

Sample text in English

It works everywhere you use the text editor.

It doesn’t work everywhere where text is shown. It does work in activity titles shown in the course overview, even though no text editor is available here.

Conditions

Course:

To use the multilingual course as a participant, it is important that you, as a teacher, set the language setting of the course to ‘Do not force’. You can find this setting here in the course.

Course settings –> Appearance –> Force language –> Do not force.

 

Participant:

In addition, the participant must decide for himself in which language he/she wants to view the course. The participant then sets the desired language via his own personal menu.

News in toolbar changes to a forum activity in the course called Announcements.

There may be several announcements after the release. These become visible because the course has been copied multiple times in the past. In the old theme these forums were hidden, that is the reasons they come available now.

The top Announcements is the original News. The other announcements can be removed without any problems.

Full name of the course

This is the name of the course. This appears as a link on course lists on the homepage, dashboard, and in reports. When a course is taught multiple times on the ULeanring platform, make sure that the name of each course is distinctive from the other courses.

Short name of the course

If the course is available in Osiris, please enter the Osiris code here. If the course does not appear in Osiris, choose a logical code/abbreviation. So that a distinction can be made between courses with the same content that are taught multiple times (per year or every year) on ULearning.

Course category

This shows which course the category falls into. Does the course belong to Science? Then the Science category is shown here.

Course visibility

This setting determines whether a course appears in the list of courses and whether a student can access it. If you set this to “Hide”, access will be limited to users who have the ability to see hidden courses (such as teachers). Students/Participants will no longer see the course once it is ‘hide’.

Start date of the course

This setting determines the start of the first week for a weekly format course. It also determines the earliest date for which logs for this course will be available. If the course is reset and the course start date changes, all dates in the course will be moved relative to the new start date. The start date does not determine when a participant sees the course. As soon as the course is not set on ‘Hide’, the course is visible, even if the start date has not yet occurred.

End date of the course

After reaching the end date of the course, it will still be shown to participants in the ‘Dashboard’ and also in ‘My courses’. Unless the student uses certain filters, such as ‘Future’, ‘In progress’, ‘Past’. Courses can be filtered based on this and the start and end dates are used for this.

The course end date is also used to calculate the retention period before data is deleted. It can also be used by a custom report, for example to report activities over the course duration. The course will be offered for deletion 2 years after the end date.

Users can still enter the course after the end date; the date does not restrict access.

Preparation: 

Preparing a video in the Video Platform before it can be posted on the ULearning and Inovate Platform: 

To the right of the video, click Edit: 

 

Click parameters and set to Published: 

 

 

In order to show users without a Solis ID the video, it is also necessary to adjust the Permissions. Go to Permissions and change Non-authenticated users to ‘Acces’ to ‘Yes”.  

 

Users with a solis-id can also view the video embedded on the Moodle platform. 

 

Please note! If you want to prevent the video from being shared, it is important to turn off the Share options. 

 

Go to Communities: 

Turn off the Display Sharing section. 

 

Users cannot easily share the video in this way. 

 

 

 

 

 

Embedden on the Moodle Platform: 

Go to the appropriate course environment and add the Page activity. 

Open the arrow next to Page content and choose the html option: 

The HTML option appears, here you can place the link of the video platform. 

 

Go to the video platform à Communities and copy the link under Embed this media: 

 

Paste this link under the HTML code of the page contect.  

Save the page. 

 

The video is now embedded on the platform: 

 

In the old theme, you can add the ‘Discuss’ component via the settings of the activity. This activity will be listed under the activity.

This part has been discontinued. Instead, you add a new block to the activity, namely the block ‘Social comments’.

1. Go to the activity within the course where you want students to say something about this activity.

2. Enable Edit mode in the course.

Figure 10. Edit mode in an activity.

3. The ‘block drawer’ appears on the right side of the screen. Open the block drawer by clicking on the arrow.

figure 10. OPen the block drawerp

4. Click on ‘Add a block’.

 

Figure 11. Add a block.

5. Choose the block called ‘Social comments’.

Figure 12. Add Social comments block.

6. The Social comments block has now been added to the course. Turn off Edit Mode.

Figure 13. Social comments block added at activity.

7. When a student enters the course for the first time, the ‘block drawer’ is shown knocked out, so that the block is visible for the relevant activity.

After the release there is no completion progress visible per learning unit. As an alternative there is an completion progress bar available that covers the progress over the whole course.

As teacher you have to add this progress bar to youre course.  Here you find the instructions how to do this.

1. Go to the relevant course.

2. Enable Edit mode in the course.

Figure 6. Enable the Edit mode in the course. 

3. You can add a Block at the top of the course.

Figure 7. Add a block on top of the Course Overview.

4. Click on ‘Add a block’.

6. 5. Choose the block called ‘Completion progress’.

Figure 8. Add Completion Progress block. 

7. The block has been added. The Progressbar is now visible on the top of the page.

Figure 9. Completion Progress bar added to the course.

8. If you click on the gear in the top right corner, the progress bar can be slightly adjusted.

9. If you click on the Overview of Students you can see the progresso of every student in the course.

The schedule as it was in the old theme in the taskbar is no longer available. This can be added as a block to the course.

Here are the instructions for adding the Block schedule to the course:

1. Go to the relevant course.

2. Enable Edit mode in the course.

Figure 1. Turn Edit Mode on and open the Block drawer with the arrow on the right.

3. The ‘block drawer’ appears on the right side of the screen.

4. Click on ‘Add a block’.

Figure 2. Add Block

5. Choose the block called ‘Calendar’.

Figure 3. Add the Calender block.

6. The Calender block has been added to the course. Turn off Edit Mode.

Figure 4. Calender is visible in the course for the students.

7. When a student enters the course for the first time, the ‘block drawer’ is shown unfolded so that the calender and other added blocks are visible for the students.