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Barry Dahl Senior Community Manager, Desire2Learn Five D2L Tools to Increase Student Engagement and Instructor Presence

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Slides from a webinar on Sept. 9, 2014; hosted by Barry Dahl of D2L

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Barry DahlSenior Community Manager, Desire2Learn

Five D2L Tools to Increase Student Engagement and Instructor Presence

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D2L Binder

Five D2L Tools to Increase Student Engagement and Instructor Presence

D2L Video Note Custom Widgets

D2L WiggioReplacement Strings

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What is Student Engagement?

Source: bit.ly/D2Lengage

•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.

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What is Instructor Presence?Based on Community of Inquiry Framework Theory, by Cleveland-Innes, Garrison & Vaughn (Athabasca U.)

Source:bit.ly/D2Lpresence

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A Tool for Students• D2L Binder• Free app for iPads,

Android tablets, Windows 8 tablets, or in a web browser

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Desire2Learn Binder• An extension of

Desire2Learn Learning Environment, Desire2Learn Binder provides learners with anytime, anywhere access to course content, personal learning objects and eTextbooks.

Personalized Mobile Content

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Keep Learners CONNECTED with all course content in one place

• Course content through Send to Binder

• Personal content via Fetch: Dropbox and Microsoft SkyDrive

• eTextbooks and more!

Desire2Learn Binder

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Gives learners an EDGE with annotation and organization tools

• Annotations (highlights, underline, text notes…)

• Prioritize• Tag• Archive• Email, print

Desire2Learn Binder

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Help learners stay PRODUCTIVE

Binder for iPad

Binder for Android

Binder for Web beta

Web and Mobile apps

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D2L Video Note• Integrated into the

Learning Environment• Use Insert Stuff or Video

Attachment menus

Promote social learning and increase engagement

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Custom Home Page Widgets•Customize the information on your course home page

•Lots of info available at Widget Central in the Brightspace Community

•Short URL

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Three Contest Entries

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Three Embedded Polls

Replace strings

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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

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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

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Personalized Text with StringsNot 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

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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

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News Item – with Replace String

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News Item – with Replace String

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In Quiz Introduction

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In Quiz Introduction

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In Quiz Introduction

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In Quiz Footer

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In Quiz Footer

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In Quiz Footer

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In Quiz Questions

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In Quiz Questions

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Group Collaboration with D2L WiggioWiggio is an easy-to-use web app that facilitates student collaboration and working together in groups.(WIG stands for Working In Groups!)

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Wiggio Versions Wiggio LE Integration

Features• Single Sign On with LE

Credentials• Classlist pass through for

creating new groups• Custom branding and URL• Sits on a private web

domain

•Wiggio Free•Lightweight version of Wiggio•Open to anyone

•Wiggio Premium•Includes custom URL •Custom Branding •Administrative Analytics•Integrated with the D2L Learning Environment

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Wiggio is different

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Student Collaboration with Wiggio

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Wiggio News Feed

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Wiggio Shared Documents

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Wiggio Event Scheduling

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Wiggio Virtual Meetings

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Wiggio Polling

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community.brightspace.com

Introducing the Brightspace Community