July 8

FREE Webinars on Using Brightspace by D2L!!!

The Academic Technologies Team recommends these free webinars for instructors who are new to D2L Brightspace.

For more information, view the PDF: D2LGettingStartedWebinars

Photo credit: www.brightspace.com

The MnSCU Special Interest Group: Learning Spaces & Instructional Technologies will be holding a series of free 1-hour webinars to get faculty who are new to D2L Brightspace up and running. Internet access available from home or campus – whichever works for you. Session size is limited!

The following sessions will be held July 27 thru August 31:

  • Organize Your Content (Content & Course Builder Tools)
  • Using Respondus Quiz Tool
  • D2L Brightspace Quiz Tool
  • News, Classlist and Email
  • D2L Brightspace Discussion Board Tool
  • Points Based Gradebook
  • D2L Brightspace Dropbox

For full description, dates and registration: https://mnquality.eventbrite.com

 

July 5

“Building a Game Plan”

 

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By Paul Keyworth

Following on from my last article on game-based learning, below is a link to a useful handout from Heidi Jung and Cheryl Bosarge’s presentation on “Gamification” at last month’s Brightspace Fusion 2015 Global eLearning Conference. They propose a five-step plan for gamifying your courses within a learner management system such as D2L.

Here is the link:

Building a Game Plan

Jung and Bosarge are gamification designers at Southern Illinois University’s Center for Teaching Excellence.