TL;DR We are looking for instructors and faculty to participate in research on assessment...
TL;DR We are looking for instructors and faculty to participate in research on assessment workflows. Instructors can sign up here: D2L.com/UXResearch
As part of our product development process at D2L, we regularly consult with clients and non-clients to inform our product decisions. On our Product Design team, this takes the form of user experience research, where we talk to Brightspace end users in structured research sessions.
As our Product Design team works to craft workflows to increase flexibility in options for assessing student work, we will be conducting a series of research projects.
Because D2L’s initial focus is on single marker and multi-marker workflows, research starting this month will focus on better understanding how these workflows are currently managed and challenges faced with that, as well as expectations for how these would be set up in Brightspace.
Later research will include getting feedback directly on proposed workflow designs for single marker and multi-marker, and later will focus on additional assessment use cases.
We would like to invite faculty, lecturers, instructors, and anyone else who is directly involved in assessing student work to participate in our research sessions.
To get involved, instructors can complete the sign-up form: D2L.com/UXResearch
We ask instructors for contact information and a few details about their work. Then we’ll contact them periodically to volunteer to participate in a particular study. Sessions are usually an hour long, and we offer a reward for your participation as a token of our appreciation. Currently, our sessions are run in English by a team in North America; we do our best to accommodate time changes.
We know this work is important to our clients in EMEA and we are keen to include perspectives from faculty from multiple clients in our research.
If you have any questions about our research process or our research program related to assessing student work, please don’t hesitate to contact me.