Tech chat with Debbie Holley and Dave Hunt from BU - slides intended for internal staff for thinking about developing their Brightspace unit.

1. Dave and
Debbie tech
chat
Sharing and Inspiring
(and ginger cats)

2. Introduction
HISTORY OF GINGER CAT
APPRECIATION DAY

3. Topics
 HTML Templates
 Discussion forums
 MCQ’s
 Checklists
 Intelligent agents
 Awards: Badges and Certificates
 Release conditions

4. Templates
 How to use Brightspace HTML templates

5. Discussions forums and students working
together
The Discussions tool provides an area for collaboration allowing learners to
post, read, and reply to messages on different topics, share thoughts about
course materials, ask questions, share files, or work with their peers on
assignments.
Use the Discussions Tool in your unit to:
 Encourage users to share thoughts on course material with their peers
 Set up forums for users to ask questions (FAQ's)
 Pose a question for the class to debate
 Discuss the answers to an assignment
 Create forums for groups to work on group assignments

6. Automate for summative and formative
assessment (MCQs)
Brightspace quiz tool
 Multiple question types
 Auto-grading (MCQ & multi-select)
 Question library and sections
 Randomization of questions
 Feedback options

7. Checklists
Checklists (link here)
• Students track own progress
• Staff can check student progress
• Due dates create reminders to students
• Categorise into sections/tasks

8. Intelligent Agents
 Intelligent Agents IA
• Automate student monitoring
• Automatic emails
• Scheduling
• Personalise with replace strings

9. Get creative
and
innovative:
badges!
 Lots of evidence about how digital badges can motivate learners
 These have been used to 'badge' meaningful micro credentials &
recognition schemes
 Listen to leader Dr Doug Belshaws podcast
 Need careful consideration and design
 Use sparingly!
 Brightspace Link here
 Example from Association of learning technologists - I used some
of these to build my professional accreditation

10. Release conditions
Release conditions can be used to provide content to students
based on a selected condition or set of conditions
 Announcements
 Awards
 Content
 Remedial material for formative quizzes

11. Resources:
 Brightspace > Help > Brightspace Staff Resources
 https://brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk/d2l/home/18315
 Brightspace Online Training
 https://brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk/d2l/home/8962

12. References
 Clay, James Lost in translation: the lecture
https://elearningstuff.net/2020/04/23/lost-in-translation-the-lecture/
 Witthous, Gabi When the VLE becomes your campus: some thoughts on engaging learners online
https://altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2020/03/when-the-vle-becomes-your-campus-some-thoughts-on-engaging-
learners-online/
 Brian Robert Cook & Andrea Babon (2017) Active learning through online quizzes: better learning and less
(busy) work, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 41:1, 24-38, DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2016.1185772
 Mitchell Hughes, Yenna Salamonson, Lauren Metcalfe (2020) Student engagement using multiple-attempt
‘Weekly Participation Task’ quizzes with undergraduate nursing students, Nurse Education in Practice, 46,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102803
 Henry L Roediger III, and Jeffrey D. Karpicke (2006) The power of testing memory: Basic research and
implications for educational practice, Perspectives on psychological science, 1:3, 181-210. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00012.x