Open-Courseware, MAJNET and the New General Service List

In this video, I introduce the Moodle Association of Japan's new MoodleNet instance along with some materials I have shared on that platform based on the New General Service List Project wordlists. A must-see for English Language teachers.

1:00 Introducing MAJNET - Moodle Association of Japan MoodleNet instance
3:10 Background info about the NGSL Project Collection in MAJNET
8:11 Demonstration of the activities
8:45 Glossary autolinking
11:20 Enabling glossary autolinking filter (also needs to be enabled by site admin)
13:15 Random Glossary Entry block
14:41 Converting Glossary entries to matching quiz questions

17:10 NGSL question banks
18:15 Looking at the question banks
19:33 Seeing the questions in a quiz
21:11 Previewing the quiz
23:27 Looking at the matching/drag'n'drop quiz made automatically from glossary entries

27:38 Activities using 3rd party plugins (need to be installed to the Moodle)

Quizventure
27:45 Quizventure Really REALLY fun! (and a bit louder than I expected... sorry)
29:08 Levelling up with Quizventure
29:49 Quizventure Level 2
30:34 Quizventure Level 3
32:05 How hard (easy) is it to setup Quizventure?

Game module
34:04 Crossword game
37:59 Cryptex
39:40 These are also PRINTABLE
40:04 Millionaire
42:09 Snakes and Ladders

Using this content in YOUR Moodle
46:40 Making a new course to add the materials to (brand new Moodle)

NGSL Glossary entries
47:25 Creating a glossary
47:52 Licencing - Creative Commons BY SA (Always cite the source!)
49:48 Making sure glossary autolinking is set to 'yes'
50:07 Importing the glossary entries
50:50 Me messing up importing the glossary entries hehehe
51:15 Me actually getting it right
52:00 Testing Glossary autolinking (fails of course)
52:35 How to fix glossary autolinking (need site admin help)
53:50 How the teacher can switchi autolinking on for a course (after enabled by a site admin)

Question bank questions
54:30 Downloading the question bank file
55:10 Importing questions into the question bank (from Moodle XML file)
55:42 Going with the ULTIMATE question bank I remember at the last minute to increase my Moodle's memory limit
56:50 Bonus factoid (tangent) what happens if your Moodle server runs out of RAM (not fun)
57:15 Finishing up importing questions into the question bank (it takes a while 17,202 questions)
59:00 Import completes (Yay!)

1:00:10 Adding a quiz using the newly imported questions
1:02:13 Adding questions to the quiz
1:04:01 Me messing up the adding of random questions to the quiz (go on, laugh)
1:04:23 The quiz bugs out because I stuffed up... Oops!
1:05:02 Explaining what I did wrong (and immediately clicking the wrong option again!)
1:06:01 Finally, I get it right.
1:06:15 Previewing the quiz and noticing that autolinking is enabled course-wide)
1:08:02 Duplicating the quiz to make one quiz available each week (it takes some time...)
1:09:51 Setting up the second-week quiz based on the first
1:10:35 While waiting for another quiz duplication, a note on how Moodle chooses "random" questions
1:11:31 Previewing the third copy of the quiz (and turning off autolinking for that quiz only)

1:12:40 Final summary... phew!

LINKS

NGSL Collection on MAJNET - Moodle Association of Japan MoodleNet instance
https://majnet.moodlejapan.org/collec...

Glossary export to quiz
https://moodle.org/plugins/block_glos...

Quizventure (the space shooter game)
https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_quizgame

Game mod (Crossword, cryptex, snakes and ladders etc.)
https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_game

For more information on the NGSL 1.2 and other lists:
Browne, C., Culligan, B. & Phillips, J. (2013). The New General Service List. Retrieved from https://www.newgeneralservicelist.org.