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Denver,Colorado
Communications Buffet
• Three Quick Ways to Increase Engagement 1. Custom home page widgets2. Personalizing the Learning Space3. Utilizing Intelligent Agents
Effectively
Widget-based Home Pages
• Before you begin setting up your course home page, consider the needs of your students:– What information is most relevant to them as
students in your course? – What course materials and supplementary
materials will they need?– How can you maximize your course home page to
include relevant information?
Widget-based Home Pages
• At-a-glance, what do you want students to see?– Course news and updates– Important dates and reminders– Links to course content– Links to supplementary materials– Relevant RSS feeds
9.4.1 Standard Home Page with News & Widgets
V10 Widget Layout Options• Suggestions:
– Maximize the use of screen space
– Don’t repeat things in widgets and nav bars
– Encourage your students to enter course through home page, as much as possible
8 Layout Choices
Two Equal Widget Columns
Large Column on Left
Three Column Layout
Three Contest Entries
Three Embedded Polls
Replace strings
Building Custom Widgets
Laura Gibbs - OU
Full Custom Home Pages
• Any webpage/site can be used as a custom home page in D2L.
• Examples:– Course blog– RSS aggregator– Any course-specific web page
Custom Page Example
Personalizing theLearning Space
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.
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
News Item – without Replace String
News Item – without Replace String
News Item – with Replace String
News Item – with Replace String
News Item – with Replace String
In Quiz Introduction
In Quiz Introduction
In Quiz Introduction
In Quiz Footer
In Quiz Footer
In Quiz Footer
In Quiz Questions
In Quiz Questions
Example from CU Boulder
Assignment Feedback
assett.colorado.edu/d2l/replace-strings
In Custom Widgets
In Custom Widgets
Intelligent Agents
What’s an Intelligent Agent?
Definition:Intelligent Agents can assist instructors, administrators, and students by providing a quick and automated notification when defined activity occurs in a course or when there is a lack of login or course entry.
How do They Work?
•For each agent you need to determine:• what criteria it is looking for• how often it looks for those criteria• What the email should say and who
should receive it when the criteria are met
Client Use Cases in T & L• Automatic reminders to students:
– Not logging in to D2L– Not entering a specific course
• Message after poor performance: – Get their attention and encourage
them to seek extra help• Message after good performance
Advantages of Using Agents
1. Increases communication between instructor and student
2. Personalized message, doesn’t look like a canned response.
3. Send links to other resources, tutorials, tutoring center, etc.
Possible Disadvantages
1. Need to manage the agents effectively to ensure effective communications.
2. If students receive too many of these messages they’ll know they are automatically sent (not personal).
3. Something could break.
Go to Edit Course
Determine Criteria
You can do both
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