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Providing alternative learning materials
To improve student engagement, one of the most effective course design decisions you can make is to offer course materials and assignments that appeal to more than one sense. For example, the same material can have an audio, video, and text component. This type of redundancy helps engage students with different learning…
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Recommendations for Effective Course Moderation
Originally Published October 28, 2019 A common question we receive in Learning and Creative Services when helping clients build their courses is how to manage discussions. Having gone through online courses as both instructor and learner, a few debatable areas have surfaced about how involved an instructor should be in the…
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Microlearning: What It Is and Isn’t
Written by Devin Sherman, an Instructional Designer in D2L's Learning and Creative ServicesDescribing Microlearning - or Micro credentials - is not as simple as one might think. There is a common misconception that the strategy begins and ends with the digitization of traditional learning practices into sets of 4–5-minute…
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URL change Requests
URL Changes - FAQ What is a URL? A website URL is the address of a specific website on the internet. For your Brightspace learning environment, this is the web address users will see when logged in. How many URLs can be in used to access a single Brightspace learning environment? One URL (primary URL) is supported for site…
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Supporting Assignment Grading in Courses with Multiple Instructors
Written by Petter Gibbon, Instructional Designer in D2L's Learning and Creative Services Scenario Some Brightspace users gravitate toward a self-driven, ongoing-enrollment model for courses. They may not necessarily view a Brightspace course shell as a good place to rally participants from disparate places or organizations…
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Alternative End-of-Year Assessment Strategies
Alternative End-of-year Assessment Strategies As Education communities around the world shift into distance learning models to accommodate physical distancing, educators and administrators are looking for alternative assessment methods that maintain academic integrity and can be completed by learners at a distance. In…
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Achieve Business Goals with Accurate, Meaningful Learning Objectives
Originally published March 19, 2019 Innovative training and development initiatives no longer teach employees “what to know”. They teach staff new strategies and behaviours to help them achieve business goals. Creating such initiatives comes from writing accurate and measurable learning objectives. Precise Learning…
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Learning Strategy Roadmap
Learning Strategy Roadmap.pdf Originally published December 18, 2019 D2L has prepared a standard Learning Strategy Roadmap that provides a sample vision, purpose, and path for your organization to drive adoption of your new learning platform, Brightspace. The map includes recommended KPIs and actions throughout each stage…
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Building Effective Onboarding Practices
Originally published May 17, 2019 In the modern workplace, employees are encouraged to learn quickly and apply new information efficiently to solve problems. However, traditional onboarding practices are still a part of the organizations where employees work. These traditional methods vary from multi-day in-person sessions…
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Tips for moving your in-person class online and still have an awesome student learning experience
By: Holly Whitaker Learning Strategy Consultant Face-to-face course learning experiences can work differently than online learning experiences, but both have the same desired result – which is that students walk away with a specific knowledge base, a set of skills and attitudes as a result of that learning experience.…