Five D2L Tools to Increase Student Engagement and Instructor Presence
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Presentation at Brightspace New Brunswick Connection, May 5, 2017 at University of New Brunswick. Five D2L Tools to Increase Student Engagement and Instructor Presence – Barry Dahl, D2L
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Five D2L Tools to Increase Student Engagement and Instructor Presence
- 1. Using Brightspace Tools to Increase Student Engagement and Instructor Presence Barry Dahl Senior Community Mgr. D2L
- 2. Pulse D2L Awards Custom Widgets ”NOT” Release ConditionsReplacement Strings Five D2L Tools
- 3. What is Student Engagement? • Stovall (2003) suggests that engagement is defined by a combination of students‟ time on task and their willingness to participate in activities. • Krause and Coates (2008) say that engagement is the quality of effort students themselves devote to educationally purposeful activities that contribute directly to desired outcomes. Source: bit.ly/D2Lengage
- 4. What is Instructor Presence? Based on Community of Inquiry Framework Theory, by Cleveland- Innes, Garrison & Vaughn (Athabasca U.) Source: bit.ly/D2Lpresence
- 5. Brightspace Mobile RESPONSIVE WEB The entire LMS, made available to everyone on every device NATIVE APPS Specific user workflows, made better on mobile
- 6. College students love their mobile tech… Sources: 1. http://www.informationweek.com/interop/bring-everything-byods-evolution-in-higher-education/d/d-id/1114042 2. http://www.tnsglobal.com/press-release/millennials-spend-one-day-a-week-on-their-phones 3.2+ hours per day on mobile phone2 2.7+ devices owned1
- 7. Mobile is (obviously) big… 23% 42% 60% 78% 84% 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015 84% of Campus Computing survey respondents have already activated mobile apps or intend to do so in the coming year at their institutions. Source: Campus Computing Survey, 2015
- 8. …but not everybody does it well 70% of CIOs and senior IT officers say mobile computing is a top institutional priority 17% currently rate mobile services at their institution as “excellent” but… Source: Campus Computing Survey, 2015
- 9. Source: Horizon Report, 2016 Higher Education Edition, http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2016-nmc-horizon-report-he-EN.pdf …today’s students expect to be able to use whatever devices they choose to access learning content, take notes, gather data, and communicate frequently with their peers and instructors - NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Higher Education Edition
- 10. There Should be an App for That!
- 11. There IS an App for That!
- 12. D2L Confidential Themes RoadmapD2L Confidential Pulse Helps students find out what’s new and what’s next across all their courses. • More time studying • Less time organizing • Always up to date
- 13. More functionality with Brightspace Pulse
- 14. D2L Confidential Themes RoadmapD2L Confidential Pulse – iOS and Android What is it? • Learners can see their course table of contents and content topics in Pulse, including PDF’s and MP4’s Why did we do it? • To allow students more flexibility on their mobile devices • Functionality added in January, 2017 release. January 2017
- 15. Brightspace Pulse Weekly calendar view shows upcoming readings, assignments, and tests to help students stay organized Real-time alerts help students stay up-to-date with course news, announcements, and grades Discussions tab allows students to read and reply to discussions right from the app
- 16. User Testimonial “I have to tell you that I absolutely love this app. I have been trying different ways to stay organized during the school year and have failed every time. This app is super awesome!!! Thank you so much!!!” Crissy, Student Brightspace Pulse User
- 17. Awards: Badging & Certifications Reward your learners with badges and certifications as they achieve milestones within Brightspace.
- 18. 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.
- 19. 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.
- 20. 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.
- 21. 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)
- 22. Badge Classlist
- 23. 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.
- 24. 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.
- 25. 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
- 26. 2. Document Professional Learning • Faculty workshops? • Particular skills learned: • Accessibility • Online Teaching • Teaching with Technology • Pedagogical techniques • Etc, etc
- 27. Encourage Continuous Learning • Laddering works with students, and it can work with employees also.
- 28. 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.
- 29. Custom Home Page Widgets •Customize the information on your course home page •Lots of info available at Widget Central in the Brightspace Community •bit.ly/D2Lwidgets
- 30. Custom Widget Contest Entries
- 31. Three Embedded Poll Options Three Embedded Polls Replace strings
- 32. Countdown Widget using a Spreadsheet Anything that you can build with an online spreadsheet could be made into a custom widget. Step-by-step instructions at Widget Central in Brightspace Community
- 33. Some Problems with Widgets • Mixed content blocking in most browsers – Check out the Firefox extension • Lack of “https:” embed code for widgets • Widget-building sites come and go: – Google Gadget – WidgetBox
- 34. Personalized Text with Replace Strings Not Personalized Learning That’s a big topic – a whole day by itself. Let’s look at how you can make the learning space feel a bit more personal to the students
- 35. Adding Names in the LE • {FirstName} – Each user’s first name • {LastName} – Each user’s last name • {OrgName} – College/District org name • {OrgUnitName} – Course name Tools where this works: • News: (Headline, content) • Discussions: (subject and message) • Content Topic: When you create a new file • Dropbox: Folder instructions & feedback • Quizzes: all custom boxes • Checklist: Name and Description • Groups: Description
- 36. News Item – with Replace String
- 37. News Item – with Replace String
- 41. In Quiz Footer
- 42. In Quiz Footer
- 43. In Quiz Footer
- 46. Release Conditions • Definition: Release conditions are conditional requirements that restrict access or visibility to specific content, resources or areas within the Brightspace Learning Environment. Users must satisfy the conditions before the restrictions are removed. • New! Additional release conditions have been added for students who have NOT satisfied certain restrictions.
- 47. Wait. What? • Starting with the February 2016 release (10.5.6), the new NOT release conditions are available to institutions on Continuous Delivery • Sorry, they won’t be available to users with older versions of the Learning Environment. • If you’re on Continuous Delivery (monthly updates), you won’t see the new conditions until your institution puts 10.5.6 into production. • New release conditions are ON by default.
- 48. Variables that can trigger the release of something else • Checklist completion • Checklist item • Classlist enrollment • Competencies •Including Learning Objectives • Content topics • Discussion topics • Dropbox • Grade items • Quizzes •Including score on specific questions • Rubric scores • Surveys
- 49. Items that can be released • Checklist • Content modules • Content topics • Custom widgets • Discussion forums • Discussion topics • Dropbox • Grade items • Grade categories • News items • Quizzes • Surveys
- 50. Example 1: News item for those students who didn’t view content
- 51. Example 1: Attaching release conditions to News item
- 52. Example 2: Extra Credit • Warning! You might not like this one. • Scenario: to encourage students to submit a survey, you give them 5 points of extra credit. • NOTE: survey cannot be anonymous for this to work. • Examples: demographics survey or technology usage/skills survey during first week of class.
- 53. Example 2: Take away bonus points for not completing survey • Research has shown that people can be more highly motivated at the prospect of losing something they already have, rather than getting something they don’t. • Give everyone 5 bonus points in advance, but tell them that you will take those points away of they don’t submit the survey. • Research source: http://bit.ly/minus5pts
- 54. Example 2: News item widget displays -5 point “badge”
- 55. Example 2: News item settings
Editor's Notes
- Before we get into it: consider this. Starbucks is often touted as the ‘gold standard’ of a successful mobile app. They’ve got both a responsive mobile website, and a native app. But the things you can do with the app are very different from the things you can do on their mobile site. And that is by design: the use-case and context for each one is different. It is NOT their intention to replicate the Starbucks Website experience on their mobile app. The app is built primarily to improve the most important workflow a customer is going to encounter at a Starbucks: ordering and paying for a drink. ----- We take a similar approach to Mobile at D2L. Responsive web makes the Brightspace Learning Environment available in full functionality, on all devices. And native apps for iOS and Android make specific workflows even better on mobile. We’ll talk about this in more detail later on.
- But first, let’s take a step back for a minute to talk about why any of this is important. We know that college students love their phones and mobile devices. Between laptops, smartphones, and tablets, the average college students owns two or three different devices. And millennials – many of whom are now in college – are on their smartphones almost three and a half hours per day.
- So mobile is obviously a big deal. And we see that reflected in Higher Ed industry surveys. In 2015, 84% of higher ed institutions surveyed in the Campus Computing survey indicated they’ve already activated mobile apps or intend to do so at their institution in the coming years. And you can see how that percentage has grown over the past several years.
- But the problem is – even though everyone “wants” mobile, a lot of institutions don’t seem to be doing a very good job at implementing it. 70% of CIOs and Senior IT officers say mobile is a top priority, but only 17% rate the current mobile services at their institutions as “excellent”.
- So here’s a quote from the 2016 NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education. Today’s students expect to be able to use whatever devices they choose – and I want to highlight that phrase: “whatever devices they choose” – to access learning content, take notes, gather data, and communicate with their peers and instructors. As we saw in the previous slides, a lot of institutions are actively pursuing mobile solutions for their students, but there seems to be a gap between what they’re doing, and what is needed. And that’s why the “whatever devices they choose” part of this quote is important. It’s what guides our mobile strategy at D2L, which is different than what many others in the industry are doing.
- http://www.d2l.com/products/pulse/
- Students can see their table of contents and course content from Pulse After logging in to Brightspace Pulse, a new Courses tab displays, listing courses the learner is currently enrolled in. After selecting a course, the learner can browse the course outline, choose a module, and then view a content topic. As well, when a learner receives a notification for a Grade item or announcement in Brightspace Pulse, the Open in Safari link now opens a responsive web page. If the Daylight Experience is not turned on, users see a full desktop page.
- F10951: Learners can see their course content (iOS) F10726: Learners can see the table of contents for their courses (iOS) F11411: Learners can see the table of contents and course content (Android)
- Pulse has a weekly calendar view that gives a visual representation of workload and key deadlines for students. It is integrated with the Brightspace Learning Environment, and pulls in information from all the courses the student is enrolled in. Pulse goes beyond just replicating the desktop LMS experience on a phone though. We have designed the user experience to recognize how students use the LMS specifically on the go. Features like notifications for news and announcements, and swipe-to-reveal gestures for grades make it a truly delightful experience. The swipe-to-reveal gesture, for instance, comes out of end-user research that showed some student anxiety around when and how they receive grades. Students don’t just want to be blasted with all their grades at once. So we listened, and we developed the app with that personal touch and specific understanding of student experience.
- And students love it. This piece of feedback submitted by a student through a feedback tool directly in the Pulse app. It was entirely unsolicited – she just felt the need to express her satisfaction with it. So that’s Brightspace Pulse. Designed to help students manage the day-to-day tasks and schedules associated with their learning journey.