The Designer role enables you to create your themes (i.e. a theme is a set of skills, assessment questions and learning materials).
Discover here how to create a self-assessment theme to enable your learners to self-assess on a set of skills.
This article covers the following topics:
> Elements to fill in to create a theme
- Name of your topic
- Short description: this will be visible to your learners when they start their positioning on the theme
- Cover image: this image will be visible to other designers in the Designer index and to learners who will follow the topic - Format: ratio 1:1; JPEG or PNG
- Positioning type (here "self-positioning questions")
You can define a custom scale, reuse a scale created in a previous theme, or choose the standard scale with 5 levels.
> Create a new scale
- Give a title to your scale (this title will be visible only to the designers)
- Select the number of levels you want: the custom scale can have from 3 to 5 levels
- Customize the label of each level (optional)
> Use an existing scale
- Choose an existing scale
- Preview it
- Confirm your choice
> Modify or delete an existing scale
- Once created, a scale cannot be modified or deleted from the interface.
- Once your skills have been created in step 3, you will not be able to change the scale.
> Add skills
You have two options to add skills to your theme:
1. Click on "create a skill" to add a new skill manually.
2. Click on "from an existing skill" to add a skill already created in another theme.
- The name of the skill will be presented directly to the users during their self-positioning questionnaire so that they can select their current level of proficiency on the skill.
- An automatic question ("How would you rate your mastery of this skill?") will be associated with each of these skills to assess the learners' level of proficiency on them. You can personalize it.
> Delete skills
You can delete skills as long as the topic is not published.
> Add and edit an existing skill in another theme
You can use an existing skill in another theme if and only if the level scale is identical in the different themes.
If one or more skills are created in another theme from an existing skill, any change in one of them will affect the others, as they are assumed to be identical.
> The impact of using the same skill in several themes
Domoscio keeps track of your learners' data history.
This means that the theoretical mastery of a skill will be shared. If your learners have already been assessed on skill once and are assessed again on the same skill later on, Domoscio will only suggest the remaining learning material that are not yet recommended in order to enable the trainee to reach the expected level of proficiency.
> Number of skills to create in a theme
Domoscio recommends that you create 3 to 10 skills per theme.
The number of skills created will be the same as the number of questions asked to the learner.
> Use the captions
In the context of self-positioning, it is necessary to add additional information to the learners about the meaning of the levels for each skill.
This feature enables you to give illustrative examples. For example, the skill "English" at the "Beginner" level can have the caption "I can construct a verbal sentence". This way, learners will better understand the diagnosis they are given. This step is optional, you can easily skip it.
> Create captions
You have two options for creating captions:
1. Add your captions manually from the authoring tool
- Select the desired skill
- Add a description for each level of your scale
2. Integrate your captions in bulk via the import of an Excel file by clicking on the "import from a file" button
> Use cases of captions
It is mandatory to fill in captions when you want to create an auto-positioning theme.
> Types of content
- Self-positioning questions
- Learning materials
> Automatic addition of self-positioning questions
In the case of creating a self-positioning questionnaire, the positioning question related to each skill is unique and will be created automatically: How would you rate your proficiency in this skill?
> Modify the automatic self-positioning question
It is possible to modify the question according to your needs and context directly from the authoring tool for each skill of your theme.
To do so, choose the desired question from the drop-down menu and edit your self-positioning question. The question thumbnail allows you to edit and preview your question (you can only preview a question after saving the changes you have made).
NB: on this page, you will also find indications on the actions to be performed/underway (orange color code) and the completed actions (green color code).
> Media that can be integrated in the automatic question of self-positioning
It is possible to add media to the automatic self-positioning question. Below is a list of the media that can be used in Domoscio Hub:
- Visuals : you can add images in JPG or PNG format.
- Videos: you can add a video using an embed link. The video must first be uploaded to a video hosting site.
- The authoring tool also allows you to add hyperlinks, quotations, mathematical formulas or formatted text in html.
Once the self-positioning questions have been validated, you can add the learning resources associated with each skill.
> Types of resources to integrate
- Internal resources
- To host a resource from our editor (e.g.,PDF)
- External resources
- To add an existing resource via a URL (e.g., e-learning hosted on your LMS)
- Add an existing resource
- To retrieve a resource used in an existing theme
> Number of learning materials to create per skill
- It is necessary to create at least one resource per skill.
- For an optimal user experience, Domoscio recommends that you index one learning material per level of your scale.
- Make sure that you index a learning resource that is at least at the same level as the level of mastery to be achieved in the skill.
> Index multiple resources per level
When you index several learning materials for the same level of your scale, Domoscio will randomly suggest one resource to the user.
> Integrate your resources
You have two options to add your learning material :
- Manually add from the authoring tool
- Import your external resources via an Excel import template
> Add a resource manually from the authoring tool
- Select the corresponding difficulty level for the resource (i.e., the proficiency level of the skill that can be achieved by this training action).
- Add a title that will help you find it easily.
- Add a photo (optional).
- Add the corresponding URL (external resource) or upload the desired file (internal resource).
- Add a description (visible only for internal resources).
The thumbnail of the question allows you to edit or delete your resource. You can also change the difficulty level attached to your resource.
NB: on this page, you will also find indications on the actions to be performed/underway (orange color code) and the completed actions (green color code).
> Add specific URLs for one or more entities
When adding external resources, you have the possibility to add specific URLs for one or more entities.
In this case, the learners of a specific entity will access the resource associated with their group through the specific URL indicated.
Warning: it is necessary to fill in a default URL to fill in specific URLs. This will allow learners who do not have an entity to be offered a resource adapted to their context.
> The impact of using the same learning material for several skills
When you update a resource, the changes will be taken into account in all the themes using the resource.
Learners will be offered the resource only once for all skills associated with that single resource.
> Save a theme in progress (draft)
The modifications of your theme are automatically saved. However, a theme cannot be used by the Training Manager in an experience as long as it has not been published (i.e. theme remains in draft form).
> Publish a theme
Publication should only occur once your theme is ready and requires no further modifications.