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Hey Community friends! I don’t know about you, but what I love about being an ID is solving...
Hey Community friends! I don’t know about you, but what I love about being an ID is solving complex problems on a regular basis. Lately, I’ve been solving for a large scale corporate leadership course, which presented two main challenges for me to work out/learn how to do in Brightspace: design a competency-based course;…
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Tomorrow we will officially be two months away from the start of September. Over the next few...
Tomorrow we will officially be two months away from the start of September. Over the next few weeks, many of us will be working on lesson planning for the start of school or will be helping faculty to lesson plan or build courses to start in the Fall. I recently discovered an online tool called Genial.ly. It's a platform…
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I’ve come to appreciate how useful and important release conditions are. As so many of us have...
I’ve come to appreciate how useful and important release conditions are. As so many of us have experienced in the past year or two, online learning has gone from being an interesting alternative to an absolute necessity for most schools and businesses. The result is that more recently, I’ve spent a lot of time with…
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Happy Friday, everyone! One of our colleagues, Andrew Dair, did this 30-minute webinar on...
Happy Friday, everyone! One of our colleagues, Andrew Dair, did this 30-minute webinar on Instructional Design tips and tricks in case you missed it. He walks us through a course that he created and the strategies he implemented and a ton of level-up tips! Definitely don't want to miss this, even if Andrew likes pineapple…
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Hi everyone! I'm working on designing a course right now that was originally an in-class...
Hi everyone! I'm working on designing a course right now that was originally an in-class course. Normally, in class, the course was intended to be very discussion-heavy, almost like a workshop, where the instructor would act more as a facilitator and the discussions would be very student-led. When the course is developed…
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I feel like I am missing something when it comes to using the online recorder when creating an...
I feel like I am missing something when it comes to using the online recorder when creating an assignment. First of all, only an instructor (not a student) appears to be able to use the inline audio recorder to add an audio attachment to an assignment. Is this the case? And second, the workflow (attached here) does not…
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Hey Friends,We just posted a new FREE course in the Brightspace Learning Center! 3 Keys to More...
Hey Friends, We just posted a new FREE course in the Brightspace Learning Center! 3 Keys to More Accessible Written Communications is designed to teach you 3 quick ways you can improve the accessibility of your Learning Material! Each tip is a lesson no longer than 3.5 minutes and can be implemented immediately with no…
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XPosting for @Stephanie Hill "I am asking specifically about the New Content Experience vs....
XPosting for @Stephanie Hill "I am asking specifically about the New Content Experience vs. Classic Content Experience. We found that some features used in classic are not available in the New Content Experience. This prompted us to wonder if other users switched back to Classic and if they did switch back, could they let…
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With many schools, institutions and companies continuing to deliver courses online to remote...
With many schools, institutions and companies continuing to deliver courses online to remote audiences, course creators need to consider how to accommodate international learners. When preparing a course, a new set of questions have become part of the needs analysis. Consider the following questions as you create your own…
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Hi,Meredith Stewart suggested to get in touch with you lovely people in this group. Maybe you...
Hi, Meredith Stewart suggested to get in touch with you lovely people in this group. Maybe you have a suggestion for what I am trying to do. I co-teach a course and wanted to add two profile card widgets for each of us instructors. Not so much as an About Me type info (I do have a Meet_Facilitator page with info for both…
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Start your engines, Scavenger Hunters! The 10 Moose Badges have now been hidden on 10 different...
Start your engines, Scavenger Hunters! The 10 Moose Badges have now been hidden on 10 different Community articles and are waiting for you to find them by solving the clues in this post. When you've found the right Community article to solve a clue, the Moose Badge number on the page will match the clue number. Then, copy…
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Cross posting for @Jacqueline Fluent Downs who asked what considerations others might have...
Cross posting for @Jacqueline Fluent Downs who asked what considerations others might have when placing content at the org level for all users to access. One consideration we discussed was permissions (who can edit). What others might this group consider?
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Similar to last week’s post on the Discussion tool, a few IDs got together to offer their...
Similar to last week’s post on the Discussion tool, a few IDs got together to offer their tips/tricks for using Intelligent Agents in Brightspace. Darcy – Intelligent Agents are a great way to personalize the course experience and motivate learners to engage with content. A few of my top uses of this tool are to encourage…
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This week we’re doing things a bit differently. Our D2L IDs have brought together their best...
This week we’re doing things a bit differently. Our D2L IDs have brought together their best practices and most creative use of the Discussion tool in Brightspace, as well as tips and tricks for using this tool. Have some of your own tips or best practices, or see something that helps you? Reply to this post and let us…
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I'm a life-long learner (I think most IDs would say they are) who has fully jumped aboard the...
I'm a life-long learner (I think most IDs would say they are) who has fully jumped aboard the podcast train - I really enjoy learning from listening to others talk and share their experiences and lessons learned, but only recently did it occur to me that there must be some ID-related podcasts out there, and I've probably…
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Hello my friends! This Thursday, let's learn a bit about personas and how we can use them to...
Hello my friends! This Thursday, let's learn a bit about personas and how we can use them to design great learning experiences for our learners. Let me know if you've used personas before, and how you built them! Creating Personas Creating personas will help us keep a single person in mind while we’re designing training,…
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We would love to hear from our Group members! What do you think is the best way to get your...
We would love to hear from our Group members! What do you think is the best way to get your learners engaged with content in your course? Select one from the list of Brightspace tool options. If you use multiple tools, let us know in the comments!
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As an Instructional Designer, I'm often thinking of equal access to information; about how I can...
As an Instructional Designer, I'm often thinking of equal access to information; about how I can have empathy for the many learners I'll help to support. Often, I see memes, infographics, and other demonstrative images that require alt text, long descriptions, or downloadable text-only versions to be made available. These…
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Hello everyone! Joined this group because I just started working at D2L. While exploring...
Hello everyone! Joined this group because I just started working at D2L. While exploring Brightspace, I saw this group was relevant to my most recent graduate course where we summarized online instructional design principles. The summaries are available at https://elearning-essentials-2020.weebly.com/ and can be downloaded…
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Cross posting for @Pamela Sweetser to hopefully get instructional design input around best...
Cross posting for @Pamela Sweetser to hopefully get instructional design input around best practices for student experience on this question.
