{"id":44588,"date":"2021-01-04T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T09:49:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-04T10:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T09:49:31","slug":"how-to-develop-a-chatbot-to-support-your-educators-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/education\/2021\/01\/04\/how-to-develop-a-chatbot-to-support-your-educators-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"How to develop a chatbot to support your educators and students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ever-growing potential of chatbots in education is now being explored and evaluated across the sector. Given the accessibility of Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents and App Studio, it is no longer necessary to learn how to code to get started with creating your first chatbot in Microsoft Teams.<\/p>\n<p>Following our simulated hospital event at UCLan in May 2020, I built a selection of chatbots using Power Apps. These were developed with the primary purpose of increasing fidelity within online simulation for our health and social care students. I wanted to explore how to automate and standardise parts of the simulation, to help with quality and control from the facilitator&#8217;s perspective.<\/p>\n<h2>Creating and developing a chatbot<\/h2>\n<p>To create a chatbot, I used Power Apps. I first selected <strong>Create<\/strong> under the left hand<strong> Chatbots<\/strong> heading, and then worked on developing the language behind the bot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full webp-format aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Creating-and-publishing-a-chatbot.png\" alt=\"graphical user interface, application, website\" width=\"478\" height=\"280\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Creating-and-publishing-a-chatbot.png 938w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Creating-and-publishing-a-chatbot-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Creating-and-publishing-a-chatbot-768x450.png 768w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Creating-and-publishing-a-chatbot-330x193.png 330w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Creating-and-publishing-a-chatbot-800x469.png 800w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Creating-and-publishing-a-chatbot-400x235.png 400w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Creating-and-publishing-a-chatbot.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To get started I&#8217;d recommend using Microsoft Whiteboard or some paper to map out the language according to what you want the bot to ask and respond with. Try to draw on the direction of the conversation, and how you want it to start and end. Spend some time exploring existing tutorials found in Power Apps, Power Virtual Agents, Azure, and LinkedIn Learning.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not sure where the bot will be deployed just yet, consider starting in Power Apps. This will make it possible to save it and then \u2018sideload\u2019 into a Team, or to embed the bot into another web site or resource. <span style=\"font-size: 1.4rem\">Follow the <\/span><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;font-size: 1.4rem\" href=\"https:\/\/powerusers.microsoft.com\/t5\/Power-Apps-Community\/ct-p\/PowerApps1\">Microsoft Power Apps Community<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1.4rem\"> for Q&amp;A and problem solving tips to help you along the way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Once created, you can proceed to <strong>Publish<\/strong> the chatbot, following any further instructions.<\/p>\n<h2>Taking a student-centric approach<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s also important to consider the different types of chatbot that can be created when looking to develop your own. In our case, this helped shape how the bots would be used and where they would ultimately be deployed. Here are three different types of chatbots and examples of how we have used them at UCLan.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>1- Repetitive prompter chatbot<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Within one online OSCE for our MSc Occupational Therapy students, there are four tasks. The elements of each task became the most asked question, both across the module and leading up to the OSCE. Students understood the tasks but often couldn\u2019t retain which order they were in, and whether these were live or recorded. I created a \u2018repetitive prompter\u2019 style chatbot for the module, and we have had real success embedding and deploying it within the assessment space. This is quite an exciting development for me, as it reinforces the benefits of investing in time in chatbots \u2013 particularly due to the potential of them being embedded within other Virtual Learning Environments. You can also lift this type of chatbot and place it within your Microsoft Teams space.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full webp-format aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Repetitive-prompter.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of a repetitive prompter style chatbot at UCLan\" width=\"697\" height=\"556\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Repetitive-prompter.png 774w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Repetitive-prompter-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Repetitive-prompter-768x612.png 768w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Repetitive-prompter-314x250.png 314w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Repetitive-prompter-330x263.png 330w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Repetitive-prompter-400x319.png 400w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Repetitive-prompter.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>2- Reflective prompter chatbot<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Our debrief chatbot for IPE online simulation was a collaboration between my colleague Abhi and I. Abhi came up with the language for the chatbot, and I then programmed and published it in Power Apps, using the demo link as a <strong>Website<\/strong> tab in Microsoft Teams. This was for a large-scale simulation, with 300+ people within three Teams environments on the one day. This was the first cross-faculty IPE event which had been run online whilst students were studying from home. Subsequent feedback from students and staff has since provided valuable insight into further development for future events. With growing interest in online simulation, we created a Team purely for staff to collaborate around simulation ideas. This has proved really useful, as the bots are now becoming shareable assets across our wider organisation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full webp-format aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Reflective-prompter.png\" alt=\"graphical user interface, text, application, chat or text message\" width=\"363\" height=\"519\" data-orig-srcset=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Reflective-prompter.png 492w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Reflective-prompter-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Reflective-prompter-175x250.png 175w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Reflective-prompter-245x350.png 245w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Reflective-prompter-400x572.png 400w\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/industry\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2020\/12\/Reflective-prompter.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>3 &#8211; Role-specific chatbot<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Development of role-specific chatbots started from reflections about how to part-automate online simulation, and also the possibility of deploying a series of chatbots within an online simulation to work as simulated characters within the Microsoft Teams environment. I created a couple of \u2018patient\u2019 chatbots, including \u2018George\u2019- who needs the toilet. If you don\u2019t respond appropriately, he (understandably) becomes very angry, upset and intends on placing a complaint. I am currently developing another simulated hospital event for 2021 and intend for this to be an IPE activity.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of a nurse chatbot which we deployed into a large-scale IPE simulation for a colleague.<\/p>\n<h2>Looking ahead<\/h2>\n<p>Having successfully deployed chatbots at a local level, we are now looking at the possibility of wider publishing to the organisations app catalogue in Microsoft Teams. Bots could then be selected by other users, and once deployed, would appear as 1:1 chats.<\/p>\n<p>We have no doubt that 2021 and beyond will highlight an increased appetite in the part-automation of a number of day-to-day tasks undertaken by educators, and this is something we will continue to both explore and evaluate.<\/p>\n<h2>Find out more<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wke.lt\/w\/s\/RE2BVv\">Chatbots for TEL<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PpfyfChsXkk\">Creating chatbots for online simulation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/powerappsbot\/\">Power Apps<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoftteams\/platform\/bots\/how-to\/create-a-bot-for-teams\">App Studio: Creating chatbots in Microsoft Teams<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/powervirtualagents.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\">Power Virtual Agents<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/learning\/learning-microsoft-powerapps-3\/create-powerful-business-apps?u=42775724\">Learning Microsoft Power Apps<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-gb\/industry\/blog\/education\/\">Read more education blogs\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>About the author<\/h2>\n<p>Sam Pywell is a Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at the University of Central Lancashire, and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Sam has recently led development of chatbots in online simulation for health and social care students using Microsoft Teams. She is an MIE Expert, DigiLearn Champion and Key Contributor to the DigiLearn Sector community. You can follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smileyfacehalo\">@smileyfacehalo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ever-growing potential of chatbots in education is now being explored and evaluated across the sector. 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