By registering to use the site and app you are confirming that you are at least 18 years of age and are accepting the following Content Sharing and Data Collection policies, and are agreeing to abide by the following Code of Conduct.

Content Sharing

By registering on the site you accept that any ENACT activities you author may be 'remixed' by other community members and transformed into new activities of their own. This includes reusing your images, video, audio, and text. Your content will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. If you use any materials from outwith our site, please ensure you respect the copyright associated with those materials.

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Data Collection

By registering on this site you acknowledge that you are participating in the Communities, Languages, and Activities App (ENACT) research project co-funded by the Erasmus programme of the European Union and led by Newcastle University. The content you create (published or unpublished), comments you leave, your quiz scores, and the ways you interact with the site (app usage logs) will be recorded and analysed by the research team. The researchers may use your data in anonymised form within academic communications such as project reports, journal articles and conference presentations. Additionally, the research team may contact you to invite you to complete a survey or attend an interview. Participation in the survey and interview is optional. If you have any future questions regarding this project or if you would like a copy of the research report, please do not hesitate to contact: Dr Müge Satar, Email: muge.satar@newcastle.ac.uk
Phone: 0191 208 7797

Completed digital artefacts

We will collect completed activity artefacts, whether published unpublished. These could be analysed by experts within our team in relation to their mapping to task-based language learning pedagogy. We will also map content reuse from other activity artefacts.

Comments

The comments accompanying activity artefacts will give insight into how participants are engaging with the published content.

Quiz scores

Quiz scores are generated during the post-task section of an activity. We will relate these scores to each activity and each participant and report these anonymously. These may indicate information retention.

App usage

We will track users’ interactions with the app. Registered users' interactions will be associated with their username and email on the app, but will be tracked and reported anonymously once data is exported from the web app. This should give us a picture of how people are using the app. Analysis of interactions with the authoring features should provide insight into the authoring experience and would allow us to answer questions such as the number of people who start authoring an activity but don’t complete the process.

Surveys

App users may be asked to complete a survey featuring close-ended questions. The first 10 questions will be based on the well established System Usability Scale, where users respond to questions such as “I felt very confident using the system” on a likert scale from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree.

The second set of questions will focus on evaluating the app’s design in relation to the goals of helping users learn about language and culture. For example, we will ask users to reflect on their experience as a content viewer and rate the effectiveness of pre-task, main task, and post task content; ask them to rate the various media types used. Also to reflect on their experience as content authors and rate the complexity of the authoring stages and content types.

Interviews

All registered app users may be invited to participate in an interview. The interviews could help us discover the app’s impact upon users. Did it cause reflection on their own cultural practices, or action in the form of trying out activities, authoring original content or reusing existing content? Also, we hope to gain insight into common challenges/issues/concerns of participants, as well as their perceptions of the app’s strengths. We will ask questions probing their experience as app content viewers, such as which app stage (pre-task, main task, post task) and which media types they found most/least helpful. We will also ask questions probing their experiences as app content creators focussing on what aspects of the authoring process they may have found the most confusing or arduous.

Deleting your account and data

You have the right to withdraw your participation in the research project, and you can do so by following these steps to delete your account:

1. Ensure you are logged into the site,
2. Select the 'My account' link at the top of the screen,
3. Click the 'edit' tab (located below your username),
4. At the bottom of the page click the 'cancel account' button and subsequent confirmation button to complete the process.

This will delete your account and any data you created whilst using the site.

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Code of Conduct

Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

Our Standards

Examples of behaviour that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:

• Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people
• Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
• Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback
• Accepting responsibility and apologising to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
• Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community

Examples of unacceptable behaviour include:

• The use of sexualised language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
• Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
• Public or private harassment
• Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
• Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

Enforcement Responsibilities

Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behaviour that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Community leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject enact activities, comments, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behaviour may be reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement by using the 'report' links associated with each content item, or by emailing enacteuropa@newcastle.ac.uk. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.

Enforcement Guidelines

Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:

1. Correction

Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behaviour deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.

Consequence: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behaviour was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.

2. Warning

Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued behaviour. No interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

3. Temporary Ban

Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behaviour.

Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.

4. Permanent Ban

Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behaviour, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within
the community.

Attribution

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