These slides were used for an 8-minute video, rather than rescheduling the April 11, 2017 webinar for the Brightspace Teaching & Learning Community. The original webinar was canceled due to technical issues (lost Internet connection).

1. Teaching & Learning Community Webinar
April 18, 2017
Barry Dahl, D2L
Five Bright Ways to Use
Brightspace Awards

2. What this webinar is not about
Class-level awards for student achievements
These uses are what I would call the expected
or normal uses of the Awards tool.

3. What this webinar IS about
1. Ways to use Awards to reward student behaviors
2. Ways to use Awards to document employee
Professional Learning or mandatory training
3. Ways to use Awards for documenting off-transcript
student learning
4. Ways to use Awards for accomplishing goals
5. Ways to use Awards for the fun of it

4. Mozilla Backpack
• Open Badges enable you
to take your learning with
you, wherever you go,
building a rich picture of
your lifelong learning
journey.
• The Backpack lets you store the Open Badges you
earn, and share them between platforms, anywhere
on the web.

5. Add Existing Awards to Your Course
• Under the Course
Awards tab, you can
add any available
awards to your
class.
• This makes them
available for you to
then issue to your
students.

6. Creating Badges in D2L
• On the Course
Awards tab, click
the
• You now have the
option of creating
a new award, in
addition to issuing
an existing
award.

7. Create a New Badge
• If you choose to create a new badge, you can either upload your
badge image, or use the Badge Creator tool.
• There are 6 fields to
choose from:
• Curved text
• Badge Text (up to 3 lines)
• Icons (can also upload
your own)
• Inner shapes
• Shapes (overall or outer
shape of the badge)

8. Issue an Existing Award
• On the Classlist
Awards page, you
can easily see the
awards already
issued to each
student
• You can also
select students to
receive new
awards through
manual issue.

9. Issue to One or More Students
• Select which award
to issue
• Enter the evidence
or reason that they
earned the award.
This info carries
with the badge if
they export it.

10. Send a Badge from
Brightspace to Backpack
• After you’ve been awarded a
badge in Brightspace, you can
share that badge three different
ways:
• Send to D2L Profile
• Send to D2L ePortfolio
• Send to Mozilla Backpack

11. What this webinar IS about
1. Ways to use Awards to reward student behaviors
2. Ways to use Awards to document employee
Professional Learning or mandatory training
3. Ways to use Awards for documenting off-transcript
student learning
4. Ways to use Awards for accomplishing goals
5. Ways to use Awards for the fun of it

12. 1. Reward Student Behaviors
• Awards can be used to encourage
and reward student behaviors that
are desirable to the institution.
• In this example, a volunteer badge
can be awarded to students who
meet your criteria.
• Students can share this badge with
potential employers, or other
interested parties.

13. More Behavior Examples
• How about these ideas?
• Extra-curricular activities
• Attending Student Success
Days, or similar
• Course improvements
• Helping others

14. What this webinar IS about
1. Ways to use Awards to reward student behaviors
2. Ways to use Awards to document employee
Professional Learning or mandatory training
3. Ways to use Awards for documenting off-transcript
student learning
4. Ways to use Awards for accomplishing goals
5. Ways to use Awards for the fun of it

15. 2. Document Professional Learning
• Faculty workshops?
• Particular skills
learned:
• Accessibility
• Online Teaching
• Teaching with Technology
• Pedagogical techniques
• Etc, etc

16. Heads-up for Fusion
Jon Kruithof and Lavinia Oltean
of McMaster University
Badging Faculty: Does it Work?
10:30 AM – Wednesday, Day One of Fusion
This session will explore preliminary feedback from faculty who
received digital badges for training delivered on Brightspace. It will
walk through the design process, which McMaster used, design
thinking as a guiding principle and ultimately the feedback they
received on the badging process.

17. Encourage Continuous Learning
• Laddering works with students, and it can work with
employees also.

18. Employee Compliance Training
• With a range of laws that regulate
campus life almost as divergent as the
consumers they serve, it’s up to
educators to address the needs of all:
from diversity and harassment training,
Title IX, FERPA, violence against
women, child abuse prevention and
reporting, and so much more.
• Employee ePortfolios can be updated
with Awards to identify those receiving
training.

19. What this webinar IS about
1. Ways to use Awards to reward student behaviors
2. Ways to use Awards to document employee
Professional Learning or mandatory training
3. Ways to use Awards for documenting off-transcript
student learning
4. Ways to use Awards for accomplishing goals
5. Ways to use Awards for the fun of it

20. 3. Document off-transcript student learning
• Many things are not captured on a student transcript
• Consider badges and certificates for
• Soft skills
• Critical thinking
• Problem-solving
• Attention to detail
• Leadership or teamwork skills
• Technology skills
• Skills learned on internships
• Job shadowing

21. What this webinar IS about
1. Ways to use Awards to reward student behaviors
2. Ways to use Awards to document employee
Professional Learning or mandatory training
3. Ways to use Awards for documenting off-transcript
student learning
4. Ways to use Awards for accomplishing goals
5. Ways to use Awards for the fun of it

22. 4. Use Awards for Goals Accomplished

23. What this webinar IS about
1. Ways to use Awards to reward student behaviors
2. Ways to use Awards to document employee
Professional Learning or mandatory training
3. Ways to use Awards for documenting off-transcript
student learning
4. Ways to use Awards for accomplishing goals
5. Ways to use Awards for the fun of it

24. 5. Use Awards for Fun
• Maybe once in a while you just need to lighten up

25. Thanks for joining me today!
Please share your thoughts and ideas and
any questions in the comments below.