Feedback is genuinely essential for students to grow. I have found as a student myself how...
Feedback is genuinely essential for students to grow. I have found as a student myself how important it is. I tried to encourage my faculty to provide good feedback by showing them how easy it can be to use Brightspace.
Break the Silence: Effective Feedback Using D2L Brightspace
Providing detailed feedback is an absolute must for effective online teaching. Feedback is a tool for instructors to communicate course content, guide, and lead students toward a growth mindset. One of the biggest influences on students' work is good feedback. Without good feedback, students cannot improve their work and can impede future learning.
Feedback for learning in higher education highlights many studies demonstrating technology’s ability to boost student engagement with feedback. What D2L tools can faculty use for giving and personalizing feedback?
Rubrics
D2L Rubrics can be created to evaluate activities in Assignments, Discussions, and the Grade tools with a predefined set of criteria. You can add additional feedback in a rubric as you are using it to grade an activity. You can leave comments at the Criteria level by clicking on the Add Feedback link.
Leaving feedback in the Assignment Tool
Besides adding feedback to a rubric, there are several other ways you can leave feedback in the Assignment tool. You can leave feedback in the feedback box, upload a commented file, or leave audio and video feedback.
Three different areas where an instructor can leave. The first is feedback for the entire quiz attempt.
The second area is feedback for the quiz section or category.
Finally, feedback can be left for specific questions.
Feedback Can Be Left Directly in the Grade Book
Feedback can also be left directly in the grade book. You can leave feedback through a category or per grade item. To leave feedback for students using a grade item, go Enter Grades, select the drop-down menu next to the grade item, and select Enter Grades. Scroll down, so you see the students’ names. Click on the pencil icon on the Feedback column.
The Grade, Feedback page enters the desired feedback in the text box. When completed, click the Save button. There is also an option to leave private feedback/messages for other graders.
As you can see their various types of feedback that can be left for students in D2L Brightspace. Several resource articles give ideas to faculty for leaving feedback. I have found a few pieces that I hope will be of assistance for leaving good feedback.
- Feedback: It's How We Learn.
- How to Give Your Students Better Feedback in Less Time.
- How to Give Your Students Better Feedback with Technology.
- How to Give Effective Feedback to Students.
Comments
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You are so right, Nancy! Thanks for highlighting the multiple places Brightspace provides for feedback. In the rush to get things online, feedback is often overlooked as a crucial learning tool. Knowing I did something wrong is a step in the right direction. Knowing WHY will help me not do it again.
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I just love this focus on Feedback @Nancy Evans! In your experience have you found that your Learners have a preference in the location of the feedback that you provide ex. Grade feedback page vs. Assignment?
Love your Blog on Communities of Practice- grateful for the kindly shoutout to this one as well!
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@Nancy Evans Thank you for sharing this information. Specific feedback is so critical to learner growth, but many people don't realize their feedback is too vague. Your infographic is really helpful!
@Stefanie Baldwin I'm intrigued by the mention of a blog on Communities of Practice ^^. Do you have a link? I'm working on a CoP course currently - any and all resources on the topic are appreciated!!
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Hi Lynsey,
Here is the link to my blog, Musings of an Instructional Design Specialist. I try to write articles as much as possible. It is not as often as I would like. I am working on one about ADDIE right now. I hope to complete it soon.
Best,
Nancy
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@Lynsey Duncan This is the link specifically to the Community of Practice Article, love the whole blog @Nancy Evans !
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@Nancy Evans Thanks for sharing your blog! You've got a lot of great sounding articles on there that I'm excited to read!
