Poodll ReadAloud
Certified Integration
Maintained by
Justin Hunt
ReadAloud measures reading speed and accuracy without creating extra work for teachers. AI auto-grading and robust HTML5 recording allows teachers to collect reading fluency data quickly and easily.
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We are using read aloud in primary school to train the fluency in french as a foreign language. We provide a model reading of the entire passage using the description area by recording ourselves (thanks to PoodLL in atto), and for the practice we sometimes use a PoodLL widget (the audio recorder you can see in the screenshot).
As you can see in the screenshot, our "problem" mainly comes from the presentation of activities in moodle: the Read Aloud activity is not easy to spot for young users (as of any other moodle activity) therefore I link most of the activities to a picture (the red button bellow).
I cannot thank Justin enough for his plugins, and I guess it's a bit late for a change, however I suppose that a more visible logo-design for the RA activity could be helpfull.
PS: TTS is not available on our moodle 2.9.5
PS2: Once open, the activity is modifying elements of my theme (mostly from the header menu)
I will copy this post to the forum with screenshots,
Sorry to be late to the party. I'm very happy to see that people are so interested in ReadAloud. I want to thank Justin who has taken on a lot of extra work by making this plugin available to the community. Although I am not the programming genius behind this plugin, I am very interested in hearing ideas about how ReadAloud might be improved for users and teachers. Concerning Benjamin's ideas, Justin did some work with the text-to-speech api that allowed learners to access proper pronunciation of the words in the text. Changes to the api meant that this feature was not available on all versions. Perhaps Justin can comment on the current state of this feature. I think providing a model reading of the entire passage is also a good idea. I will take some time to figure out the best way to encorporate this functionality into the existing plugin.
I've been testing this plugin and I really like it a lot. I thought there could be one further useful addition to this plugin and that is a way to give oral feedback to the fluency activity. It's great to highlight the words that students might need some work on but how would the learner know what is the right pronunciation of these words? So if the teacher could record a sound file as a model via the Poodll recorder for the student, the the student could use that feedback to refine and practice the difficult words. That would be really beneficial.
Another way to help with the students' production of incorrectly pronounced words would be to embed the original passage as a reference at the top of this activity?. I think that could be done now via the Atto editor using Poodll when setting up the activity to include the original sound file. This that possible?
It is difficult to post screenshots or keep track of longer conversations here.
Michell: perhaps you could post a screenshot of the situation to the forum? The recording of "school and name" is just to set up the mic. You should press done after a few seconds.
Hakan: Please send me admin details via a "message" here on Moodle.org. I am very keen to fix these issues.
The PHP version I use is 5.5. About half an hour ago, I upgraded Moodle to 3.0.2. I removed all additional plugins - except for PoodLL filter and PoodLL questions. I upgraded these two plugins (and I registered for the filter). I installed the Read Aloud plugin, created an activity with it, clicked "Save and display" and I have once again the good old 500 error. Debugging is set for "Developer" but there is no message on the screen. Since this is a test website, I can provide you with the admin account details if you wish to see the issue.
Regards.