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1. OnEdu Learning Environment
Creating and Editing eLearning Courses
October 2015
In English (in Swedish, in Estonian)
Matleena Laakso
Twitter: @matleenalaakso
Blog: www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/in-english.html
Slides: www.slideshare.net/MatleenaLaakso
Photos and screenshots are not CC
licensed. Most of them are from the
web pages of Mobie Ltd and OnEdu

2. eSmart: online learning
centre for Empower
• Learning Environment: compulsory and optional online courses,
introductory materials for personell and customer trainings
– eLearning materials for work safety and for managers
– Complements face to face learning
– Embedding/linking materials (your own/internet)
– Tasks and tests with automatic checking
– Discussion areas and social media
– Individual learning paths
• Zine publications
• Forms and polls
empower.onedu.fi/fi
empower.onedu.fi/sv
empower.onedu.fi/et

3. What is OnEdu?
• Cloud service that includes a large number of easy solutions
developed for companies and educational institutions.
• Can be used on any device or operating system
• Works online and offline
– Zine publication: you can choose whether you publish also offline
– Learning Environment: offline with Mobie Touch Tablets
• Based on WordPress
• Developed by Mobie Ltd, Finland
• www.onedu.fi/en

4. Content
1. Introduction to OnEdu eLearning opportunities
– Pedagogy, eLearning trends and tools
– Dashboard
– Your profile
1. Structure of the course
– Adding a new course
– Adding lessons and topics
– Uploading assignments
1. Creating content for the online course
– Toolbar
– Embedding content
– Finding pictures and uploading them
– Two kind of groups
1. Quizzes
– Different kind of tasks

5. OnEdu slides
Learning Environment, Forms and Zine publications
www.matleenalaakso.fi  in English
www.slideshare.net/MatleenaLaakso/onedu-learning-environment

6. Some trends from
The BETT Show 2015, London
• Collaborative learning using ICT
• Online learning environments
• Full services for institutions
• Flipped classroom
• Mobile learning
• Google and Microsoft: new solutions
• 3D printing, modelling and scanning
• Augmented reality
• Games and gamification

7. Shared and longterm development of solutions
and outputs
– Primary focus on practices of building knowledge
Discussion and interaction between the participans
– Primary focus on communication skills
Communication and sharing ideas and learning outcomes
– Primary focus on the content and performing knowledge
Communication is between the teacher/trainer and participants
– Primary focus on content
No co-operation – environment is about sharing materials
– Primary focus on content
Steps of co-operation
in online learning environments
Minna Lakkala, University of Helsinki (2008)

8. Learning environments today
Häkkinen & Viteli (ed.) Pilvilinnoja ja palomuureja – tulevaisuuden oppimisen ja työnteon tilat, 2014
Physical and virtual
Personal
and
shared
Formal,
informal
and non-formal
Global and local Picture of a puzzle: Kimhunghan, CC BY-SA

9. 1. Twitter
2. YouTube
3. Google Search
4. Google Docs/Drive
5. PowerPoint
6. Dropbox
7. Facebook
8. WordPress
9. Skype
10. Evernote
Top Tools for Learning 2015 List
Jane Hart: c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools
TOOL: “any software or online tool or service that can be used for your own personal learning or for teaching or training”

10. 1. Twitter
2. YouTube
3. Google Search
4. Google Docs/Drive
5. PowerPoint
6. Dropbox
7. Facebook
8. WordPress
9. Skype
10. Evernote
Top Tools for Learning 2015 List
Jane Hart: c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools
”ICT enables new and
creative ways of working,
advances co-operation
and makes everyday
life easier”
Opetusteknologa koulun arjessa,
ed. Kankaanranta 2011
TOOL: “any software or online tool or service that can be used for your own personal learning or for teaching or training”

11. 10 Trends for Workplace Learning
Jane Hart: www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2015/10/02/10-trends
1. E-Learning content is becoming more appealing
2. 2015 is the year of video
3. There is an emerging shift from course management to course
networking
4. Classroom interaction tools are on the rise
5. MOOC platforms now being used as a part of a corporate
training offering
6. Professional networking still leads the way
7. Ad hoc problem solving remains vital
8. Sharing is the new saving
9. Connecting and collaborating are king
10. The iPad is the device of the year

12. Main ways that we learn
in the modern workplace
Jane Hart: www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2015/10/02/10-trends
1. from courses (instruction) – in the classroom, online courses or
on-the-job programmes.
2. from a variety of resources (performance support) – which we
access to support our productivity or job performance.
3. through social collaboration – daily working with others, work
teams and other social groups. Social technologies are often used.
4. through personal daily experiences at work, as well as through
planned, self-improvement activities.

13. One address for each (online) course

14. Things to consider when
planning an (online) course
• Do you know your students/participants and what they know
already and what they are motivated to learn?
• Do the participant know each other?
• Rules and deadlines
• Online and/or face-to-face
• Learning goals
• Assesment, evaluation, feedback
• How many hours/weeks/months?
• How much instruction and when?
• If you have questions…

15. Types of OnEdu courses
OnEdu Course (without Zine publication)
•Learning materials are part of the online course
OnEdu Course and Zine
•Zine includes the texts, embedded content like
videos or slides and links to the course environment
where you can find discussion area, assignments
and tests.
Combination of the two above

16. eSmart: Open and
Login: empower.onedu.fi/sv or empower.onedu.fi/et

17. Find the Dashboard (Panel, Töölaud)
If you have access to other countries’ eSmart environments, you will
find them from my sites (Mina webbplatser, Minu veebilehet).

18. Dashboard
Add and edit users and
create and edit online courses,
Zine publications and forms.
eSmart
•From the dashboard you can
choose which language your
want to use.
•Each country has its own
OnEdu environment (previous
slide).

19. Edit your profile
Dashboard  Users  Your Profile
Panel  Användare  Din profil, Töölaud  Kasutajad  Sinu profil
PROFILE
•You can change your color scheme, add your web site and biographical info.
EXTENDED PROFILE
•Profile photo
You will find more
settings from the upper
right corner: Click your
name  Settings

20. 2. Structure of the course
• Adding a new course
• Adding lessons and topics
• Uploading assignments

21. OnEdu Course Structure
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFUJHFRORLE

22. Plan the structure of the course
before creating it!

23. When adding lessons & topics
(1.) associate them to course (lesson) and
(2.) add order of each lesson/topic

24. An example

25. Add a course
Dashboard  Courses  Courses  Add New
Panel  Kurser  Kurser  Lägg till ny
Töölaud  Courses  Kursused  Lisa uus
Choose ADD NEW
•Enter title
•Choose/add category (general, safety,
leadership, practice,..)
•Settings (in the bottom of the page)  see
the next slide
eSmart: Add
categories to
courses and
pictures!

26. • COURSE PRICE TYPE: Closed
– Your can only add people with eSmart
account
• SHORT LESSON BY: Menu order
• SHORT LESSON DIRECTION:
Ascending
• DISABLE LESSON
PROGRESSION: Disable the feature
that allows completing lessons only in
allowed order.
– It is easier to edit the course content
when you choose this. You can
change it before adding the learners.
More information
about the choices.
Settings in English/Swedish,
next slide in Estonian
Change later

27. • COURSE PRICE TYPE: Closed
– Your can only add people with eSmart
account
• SHORT LESSON BY: Menu order
• SHORT LESSON DIRECTION:
Ascending
• DISABLE LESSON
PROGRESSION: Disable the feature that
allows completing lessons only in allowed
order.
– It is easier to edit the course content
when you choose this. You can change it
before adding the learners.
More information
about the choices.
Settings in English/Estonian
Change later

28. Publish and edit
1. Publish your course and view it. Other trainers and learners you
add to the course can view it.
2. Return to edit the course.
3. Write a short introduction to learners
– Welcome
– Short indroduction & learning goals
– To whom?
– How many hours/weeks?
– If you have questions…
– Picture

29. Add the first lessons
Connect them to the course and add order

30. Adding a lesson
Courses  Lessons  Add new
Kurser  Kapitet  Lägg till ny
Töölaud  Courses  Peatükid  Lisa uus
1. Enter the title (Inledning, Sisesta siia pealkiri)
2. ASSOCIATED COURSE (Lägg till i kursen, Seotud
kursusega): choose from the menu
3. ATTRIBUTES – ORDER (Attribut - Ordning, Omadused -
Järjestus): Give the order of this lesson (1, 2,..)
4. If you wish you can spesify the visibility and the publishing
time of a lesson.
If you allow the comments they can be viewed only from this lesson.
Usally it is better to have a discussion for the course.

31. Other settings in English/Swedish,
next slide in Estonian
FORCED LESSON TIME (seconds)
UPLOAD ASSIGNMENT
•Write the instructions to the lesson/topic.
•If you choose to autoapprove them, the learner can
continue the course immediately.
•Find assignments: Courses  Assignments
SAMPLE LESSON
•The lesson is visible to everyone.
•Needed for example when making forms for those
who do not have an eSmart user account.

32. Other settings in English/Estonian
FORCED LESSON TIME (seconds)
UPLOAD ASSIGNMENT
•Write the instructions to the lesson/topic.
•If you choose to autoapprove them, the learner can
continue the course immediately.
•Find assignments: Courses  Tagastatavad
ülesanded
SAMPLE LESSO, Näidis peatükk
•The lesson is visible to everyone.
•Needed for example when making forms for those
who do not have an eSmart user account.
Näidispeatükk

33. Add the first topics
Connect them to the course and to the lessons and add order

34. Adding a topic
Courses  Topics  Add new
Kurser  Avsnitt  Lägg till ny
Töölaud  Courses  Osad  Lisa uus
1. Enter title (Inledning, Sisesta siia pelkiri)
2. ASSOCIATED COURSE (Lägg till i kursen,
Seotud kursusega): choose from the menu
3. ASSOCIATED LESSON (Lägg till i kapitel,
Seotud peatükida): choose from the menu
4. ORDER (Ordning, Järjestus): Give the order of
this topic (in this lesson).
5. If you wish you can specify the visibility or
publishing time of a topic.

35. To do next
Create the structure of your course by adding the lessons and
topics. You can add only one uploading assignment or quiz to
one lesson/topic.

36. 3. Creating content
for the online course
• Toolbar
• Embedding content
• Finding pictures and uploading them
• Two kind of groups

37. Toolbar
You can start with basic tools:
When you want to create more diverse and visual content,
open the toolbar icon.

38. Toolbox – special tools
• Add List
• Add Quote
• Message Box
• Toggle Box
• Add Accordion

39. How to embed videos or slides
1. Copy the embed code from YouTube, Vimeo, SlideShare,..
2. Open the TEXT tab
3. Paste the embed code and replace width with 100%
<iframe width="100%" height="360" src="https://www.youtube... >

40. How to get embed code from YouTube
1. SHARE
2. EMBED
3. COPY THIS CODE

41. How to get embed code from SlideShare
Copy the
embed code
SHARE

42. Where to find pictures?
• Use the library or bring your own pictures.
• Other pictures require a permisson (if newer than 50 years).
• There are a lots of free Creative Commons licensed pictures and
other content on the internet.
Picture: stateof.creativecommons.org/ (CC BY)

43. International and non-commercial
Creative Commons licenses are the
standard for sharing free content online.
CC is the most used license in the world.
•creativecommons.org
• www.creativecommons.se
• www.creativecommons.ee
Picture: creativecommons.org/licenses, CC BY

44. This slide is a variation from Tarmo Toikkanen tarmo.fi CC BY-SA –licensed content: Tekijänoikeudet ja Creative Commons datan avaajille:
www.slideshare.net/tarmot/tekijanoikeudet-ja-creative-commons-datan-avaajalle
Creative Commons -terms
By combining these terms you get the licenses on the following slide

45. CC-licenses

46. pixabay.com: CC0-lisenced pictures
• Over 470 000 free photos, vectors and art illustrations.
• Sponsored images are shown to finance Pixabay. Those images are
marked with the Shutterstock logo.

47. How to add media
Add media to Library (Bibliotek, Mediateek)
• Save pictures, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF-files to
Dashboard  Media  Library and link or embed them to your
courses or Zine publications.
• You can easily upload files (Ladda up filer, Lisa uus).
When adding new pictures to library
• Add one or several categories
• Add a caption and tell the photographer, source and license
if needed.
• Description can contain also other information (location, year etc.).

48. How to get the picture width 100 %
• Use ADD FRAME
• You will get a code like this:
– [frame src="IMAGE_SRC" width="IMAGE_WIDTH"
height="IMAGE_HEIGHT" lightbox="on"
title="IMAGE_TITLE" align="left" ]
• Replace IMAGE_SRC with a link you find from Library
• Chance the width this way: width=“100%“
• Replace IMAGE_TITLE with your title

49. Add learners to courses
by adding a LearnDash Group
Courses  Groups  Add new
Courses  Grupper  Lägg till ny; Courses  Rühmad  Lisa uus
• Add a title to a new learndash
group
• Enroll (unenroll) a course
• Add group leaders
• Choose users from the list OR
import users from the CSV file.

50. Create a discussion group
in English/Swedish, next slide in English/Estonian
• Click your name on the upper right side: Groups 
Create a group (Grupper  Skapa en grupp)
• Choose the two alternatives (screenshots below) to
have forums for discussion and to let learners to share
their pictures or other attachments.
• Link the group/forum to your course/lesson/topic.
• Dashboard  Forums  Groups
(Add new members; they
need not to be your friends)
Discussion group can
belong to a course or can
be used for teams etc.

51. Create a discussion group
in English/Estonian
• Click your name on the upper right side:
Rühmad  Loo rühm
• Choose the two alternatives (screenshots below) to
have forums for discussion and to let learners to share
their pictures or other attachments.
• Link the group/forum to your course/
lesson/topic.
• Töölaud  Forums  Groups
You can add new members;
they need not to be your friends.
Discussion group can
belong to a course or can
be used for teams etc.

52. 4. Quizzes
• Different kind of tasks
• Adding your template
• Adding quizzes and questions

53. Quizzes, exercises and exams
• Uploading assignments: only the teacher can view them, add
from the settings of a lesson/topic
• Exams: Seven types of automatically corrected quizzes. They can
be used as exams or revision exersices. The learner can get
automatic feedback after answering the questions.
• Discussion groups
• Forms
• Internet/ICT/Social media: Any web content (acknowledging
copyright) can be linked or embedded to any course or Zine

54. Add Quiz
Dashboard  Courses  Quizzes
Panel  Kurser  Tester; Töölaud  Courses  Eksamid

55. Good to know
DO NOT
CHANGE THESE
– or you change the
settings of all users
Import/Export quizzes from
other OnEdus (eSmarts in
different countries)
View the
next slides
View the results here

56. Quiz settings 1/4
Name the quiz and edit the settings as shown in the next slides.
QUIZ (TEST, EKSAM)
•Choose the associated
course
•Choose the associated
lesson
•(Choose the associated
topic)

57. Quiz settings 2/4
OPTIONS (ALTERNATIV, VALOKUD)
•Statistics: Activate
•Prerequisites: Activate
•Question overview: Activate
•Only registered users are allowed to start the quiz: Activate
•If you wish you can choose these
– Display question randomly
– Display answers randomly
– Show only specific number of questions (e.g. you can choose five random
questions out of twenty questions)
QUESTION-OPTIONS (FRÅGEALTERNATIV, KÜSIMUSE
SUVANDID)
•Show points: Activate
•Number answers: Activate
•If you wish you can choose these
– Hide correct- and incorrect message
– Correct and incorrect answer mark
Other choices
are optional!

58. Quiz settings 3/4
RESULT OPTIONS (RESULTATALTERNATIV. TULEMUSE
SUVANDID)
•Show average points: Activate
QUIZ MODE (TEST LÄGE, KÜSITLUSREZIIM) (table)
•Questions below each other: Activate (8 questions/page)
LEADERBOARD (RESULTATTAVLA, EDETABEL)
•Leaderboard: Activate
•Who can sign up to the list: Registered users only
•Insert automatically: Activate
•Automatically display leaderboard in quiz result: Below the "result text"
CUSTOM FIELDS (ANPASSADE FÄLT, KOHANDATUD VÄLJAD)
•Custom fields enable: Activate
RESULTS TEXT (RESULTATTEXT, TULEMUSTE
•Activate graduation TEKST)
By adding graduations
you can create individual
paths according to
performance in quiz.

59. Quiz settings 4/4
Name (e.g. your own name) and save your template.

60. Create a test on your own template
Quizzes  Add New (Eksamid  Lisa uus)
•Name the Quiz
•Choose the course, lesson and/or topic it is associated to

The quiz is public but if you wish you can hide it with password or keep
private until you wish to use it.


61. Add one question at a time.
Read the intructions – you can do it!
Adding questions

62. Points
• Different scores for each answer -choice is useful in multible
choice tasks etc. Otherwise you will get four point if all four option are
right or zero points if you have even one mistake.
• Check the amount of total points from the Question overview
• A good way to check your
quizz is to do it youself!

63. Matleena Laakso’s slides:
www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/in-
english.html
Empower Group/eSmart:
HR-Coordinator
Ms. Sanna Pirhonen, Helsinki
Any questions?
Picture: Made by Matleena Laakso at Notegraphy.com

64. Licensed under Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0
International License (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Photos and screenshots are not CC licensed.
Most of them are from the web pages of Mobie Ltd and OnEdu.
• CC-licensies: creativecommons.org
• CC BY-SA (these slides):
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
• These slides are based on the materials by Mobie Ltd/Mr. Kari Vatanen: OnEdu Learning
Environment: koulutus.onedu.fi/onedu. The materials are in Finnish and only OnEdu users have
access to them.
• You can contact http://www.matleenalaakso.fi/p/in-english.html
to get more rights.