Welcome to the D2L Customer Success Monthly Newsletter for February 2024!
Events and Webinars
Recognize a peer who’s transforming learning
Excellence Awards Submission deadline: Friday, March 8, 2024
Do you know someone who’s making an incredible contribution to learning? We want to hear about it!
The Excellence Awards honor the innovation, progress and betterment of learning in the communities we serve. Award nominations are open to everyone who uses D2L solutions. You can nominate an individual, a team or even an entire organization.
Nominations are now open for the 2024 D2L Excellence Awards.
Memberwise Webcast: How to increase your association’s ROI through learning with D2L Brightspace
February 20th, 11:00 GMT / 12:00 CET (Virtual)
Is digitization the path to an increased ROI? Is member engagement the path to unlocking higher financial returns? Can you measure the ways your association impacts your profession’s future?
In our live demo, which will be followed by a Q&A, we will use best-in-class technologies to show you how you can improve fragmented learning and CPD journeys, enhance the experience, and add value for your members, thus improving your association’s ROI.
Diving into Creator+
February 13th 12PM EST (Virtual)
Hey Brightspace Community👋 Come get creative with us! 🎨 Join the Community Team, Creator + experts Kathleen Murphy and Joey Stapleton, and Leticia Velasquez from Southern Illinois University, for a Creator + focused event that's sure to leave you inspired!
What to Expect❓
🙋♀️Addressing FAQ's
🔨Demonstration of Creator + tools, based on client feedback
🔦Spotlighting the work of Leticia Velasquez and highlighting her brand new Learning Center resource
Can't wait to see you there😀
Release Notes Highlights
Highlights from the January release:
- Awards: Export earned Awards in standards-compliant format using the new Export Digitial Credential Option.
- Brightspace Editor: Insert Stuff uses new file picker when uploading from users' computer
- Quizzes: Written response questions remain as pending evaluation until being manually graded
Visit the Brightspace Community for the full list of Release Notes from January and view the updates that will be coming to your instance in February. For a look at our long-term plans, check out the Product Roadmap to see what is on the horizon and keep an eye on the high-impact changes timeline for upcoming changes to default Brightspace behavior.
Success Stories
Boosting learner engagement with an interactive interview simulation – 2023 Excellence Award Winner
Rising rates of students studying online, part-time and from abroad are challenging educators to create more equitable learning opportunities. The online interview simulation is an equitable access resource that helps learners practice skills and receive high-quality feedback. It presents students with a virtual interviewee and has them navigate the role of interviewer by selecting questions to ask, and formative feedback is delivered in real-time. There has been a more than 40% rise in students accessing D2L resources to help with their interviewing skills.
Read the Story.
Tackling Inequities in Public Education
A quality K-12 education can, and should be, accessible to all children in the U.S. For more than 20 years, New Leaders has equipped equity-minded education leaders to be powerful and positive forces for change, especially in the most marginalized communities. Their online and in-person leadership development trainings develop leaders at every level, from teacher leaders to superintendents. This comprehensive approach empowers education leaders by affording them the expertise and insights required to ensure that every student has an equal chance at success.
Read the Story.
Widening Access to Maths Learning in South Africa
The Capitec Foundation champions maths education in South Africa through digitally enabled learning and tracks outcomes through powerful analytics. In April 2023, it implemented D2L Brightspace to deliver blended learning and development programmes in maths for students, pre-service teachers, in-services teachers and school leadership.
Read the Story.
Boosting learner engagement with an interactive interview simulation – 2023 Excellence Award Winner
Rising rates of students studying online, part-time and from abroad are challenging educators to create more equitable learning opportunities. The online interview simulation is an equitable access resource that helps learners practice skills and receive high-quality feedback. It presents students with a virtual interviewee and has them navigate the role of interviewer by selecting questions to ask, and formative feedback is delivered in real-time. There has been a more than 40% rise in students accessing D2L resources to help with their interviewing skills.
Read the Story.
ISIMA: Comunicación ágil, retención y crecimiento de matrículas con Brightspace.
Después de más de tres años de colaboración cercana y fructífera, es justo reconocer y evaluar el proceso ejemplar que ISIMA ha tenido de la mano de D2L en la implementación de Brightspace para todos los usuarios de la institución. Nos centraremos en los beneficios a corto, mediano y largo plazo, así como las ventajas que la institución ha encontrado en el uso de la analítica de datos, el diseño de estrategias para mitigar la deserción y la expansión de las matrículas.
Read the Story.
If you would like to be featured in a future success story, please reach out to your CSM.
Community Corner
Welcome to the Community Corner!
We are excited to announce two new courses in the Brightspace Learning Center. These courses were built with the dedication and expertise of D2Lers Amanda Darling and Kristina Beifuss.
Learning through Branching Scenarios demonstrates how to incorporate scenario-based learning in your courses.
📖 Learn what branching scenarios are and how different types of branching scenarios will empower you!
🛠️ This course provides templates, linked resources and step-by-step guidance to create branching scenarios for your courses.
📹 You can also check out our On Demand recording of our Convos with Community: Learning Through Story that features the companion course as well as a brief look into Branching Scenarios.
Getting Started with Brightspace Portfolio is built for educators who are looking to collect and manage classroom evidence to assess student outcomes. This course features:
🔨Overview of the Portfolio tools and key features
🚶♀️Walk-through of classroom set up
✅Strategies for assessing, evaluating, and providing feedback on Portfolio artifacts
Keep an eye out for our future event about Brightspace Portfolio!
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