ENHANCING STUDENT EXPERIENCES WITH D2L BRIGHTSPACE'S CALENDAR,
CHECKLISTS, AND QUICKLINKSDr. Deb McManimon
Riverland Community College
Introduction• Dr. Deb McManimon
• Business Faculty
• Riverland Community College
• Email: [email protected]
• Sections • Part I: Explanation/Information
• Quality Matters Connection
• Part II: Hands-on
Explanation/Information
• Embed links to internal and external items within courseQuicklinks
• Add when creating activities in D2LCalendar
• One stop spot for students in tracking assignmentsChecklists
Why Use Quicklinks?
•Ease of use for students
•Multiple ways to get to activities
•Efficient and consistent
•Student feedback
Quicklinks
Can be used in multiple areas
•News Items
•Course Material
•Dropbox
•Discussion
•Checklist
Why Use Calendar?
• Alerts to items due
• Ease of use in setup of activities
• Help students track across multiple classes
• Allows quick visual for instructor
Why Use Checklist?
• Organize by sections or units
• Easy to see list of items for unit
• Students track completed items
• Helps to visually see - TTD list
Rubric item 1.1
Instructions make clear how to get started and where to find various course components.
•Quicklinks
•Course calendar
•Checklist
Rubrics item 1.2
Students are introduced to the purpose and structure of the course
•Course calendar
•Checklist
Ease of Navigation for Students
Students can easily find and navigate to needed items
Homepage give alerts to upcoming due dates
Helps keep track of things to do
Calendar –Quiz Item• Assessments
• Quiz• Sample Quiz
• Restrictions tab
• Active
• Choose end date
• Display in Calendar
Calendar –Discussion Item• Communication
• Discussion• New Forum –
Discussion
• New Topic-Sample Discussion
• Scroll down
• Availability
• Locking options
• Display in Calendar
Step 2-Create New Checklist (cont)
•Name your checklist•Example-Opening,
closing, Unit names
• Include description
•Click to open in new window
•Save
Checklist- Step 3 Create Category
• Create Categories• Choose New Category• Include name
• (I choose same name as checklist)
• Optional description• (I leave blank)
• Save
Step 4 (cont)Choose Due date
Calendar option
• Use this option if not calendared item (xx.- responding to email)
Save
• One item
Save and New
• Multiple items
Checklist- Student view
• (a)-checklist view- click on checklist link
• (b)- Opening activities list student view
• Students can link from list
• Items can be checked when completed
(a)
(b)
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