Archive of ‘Desire2Learn (D2L)’ category

Use of Respondus to convert your MS Word quizzes into D2L

Update Aug 14, 2015

Institution Name: MnSCU
Local Support Contact(s): Karen.Wenz@so.mnscu.edu
Installation Password/License Key: ZR621353036-172435226

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If you are considering populating your quizzes with material in MS Word (.docx or doc) format, please download the Respondus software from this location:

http://web.stcloudstate.edu/gsjorgensen/respondus4campuswide.zip

If you need help installing Respondus on your computer, please let us know: d2L@stcloudstate.edu. Respondus is installed in the Professional Development Room (PDR) in Miller center. PDR is also known as MC 205 in Miller Center. Here are directions how to get to the room: http://www.stcloudstate.edu/campusmap/building.asp?bldgAbbr=MC

Institution Name: MnSCU

Local Support Contact(s):  Karen.Wenz@so.mnscu.edu or Chuck.Morris@so.mnscu.edu

Installation Password: ZR328351167-172435226

License Key: ZR528352413-172435226

Basic information is available in this PDF document: http://web.stcloudstate.edu/informedia/d2l/respondus_standard_formatting.pdf.

Please email d2L@stcloudstate.edu if you need more help.

Your suggestions and ideas are always welcome

Please consider your D2L Respondus sessions; sign in at: https://secure.mnsu.edu/mnscupd/login/default.asp?campusid=0073

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rubrics in D2L: from students’ standpoint

One of the difficulties working with D2L as an instructor is the inability to “see” what “students” see. Indeed D2L has the students role, but…

If you are working with rubrics and advertising this feature to your students (pls share with us your rubrics!!!) and your students are perplexed that they don’t see rubrics under

Assessment

Rubrics

as you do, please keep in mind that you need to “connect” your rubrics (click on “Add Rubrics” under Assessment/Dropbox/Properties/Rubrics) with the dropbox. Students will be able to see the rubric only after the dropbox is “open”

Please let us know, if you need more information

d2l@stcloudstate.edu

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D2L: Course Builder, Course Design Accelerator, Learning Activity Library…

Are you a user of Course Builder, Course Design Accelerator, Learning Activity Library…

Ken Miller (kwmiller@stcloudstate.edu) and I sat today as part of our Technology Week gatherings and were wondering how faculty is using these tools.

We won’t to hear other faculty how they integrate Learning Objectives and Outcomes through the process of building a D2L Course using Course Builder.

D2L Week: January 14-18

D2L Week:  January 14-18

Monday, January 14, 1-2PM

Introduction and Orientation

Tuesday, January 15, 1-2PM
Course Builder

Wednesday, January 16, 1-2PM
Discussions

Thursday, January 17, 1-2PM
D2L and Pedagogy: A Practical Guide for Learning and Teaching

Friday, January 18, 1-2PM
News, LOR, Rubrics: Improved teaching and learning

Limited space; please consider registering at:  https://secure.mnsu.edu/mnscupd/login/default.asp?campusid=0073

For any questions, recommendations, suggestions, please use the following contact:

Plamen Miltenoff
320-308-3072 | pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu

 

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D2L camp Wednesday January 9, 2013

D2L: SHARING PRACTICES IN LEARNING AND TEACHING

– mostly it is visual changes. D2L is now using a lot of collapsing / scroll down bars to navigate. it is more compact
– changes and improvements in different tools: e.g. discussion, rubrics, grades (e.g.  export straight to Excel), pager etc
– faculty cannot add tools to the default navbar, but can email d2l@stcloudstate.edu and request a tool to be added. Faculty CAN take off tool; don;t forget to save
– must post first in discussion

  • 10:00-10:30am: Make D2L work for you: discussions and grades in D2L . Dr. David Switzer, Economics

– grades, how to streamline them. copying again and again in D2L can be too timeconsuming. exxporting to Excel, calculating and importing back is easier. Remeber to export a blank D2L grading item, so the template can be set. q/n: when final grades will be able to export straight from D2L to R&R
-use subscription on discussion
-show students in class that surveys are anonimous indeed

– who to turn for help and ideas: colleagues, tech support, tech insrtruct people, students
– how to organize lectures’ content and put it online, D2L in particular
– F2F, hybrid and online. how do we choose and discriminate?

– online learning, disruptive technology. touched on MOOC, student-center edlearning
Camtasia. free version of the C Studio 8.0 for Win and Mac. Shareware (30 days). for every min of recorded lecture, will take 5 to 10 min to record it, edit it and prepared it.
Adobe Captivate. use it through the virtual lab. it is not that connvenient. $30 per year for the key server version
-Blue Berry is superior to Camtesia by allowing to draw
Jing. Free
Screencast. bandwidh restriction. means that too many students cannot view simultanously the lecture video.  Flash-based and this is not compatible with Apple products.
– Mediaserver (media4.stcloudstate.edu) upload zipped folder (SCORM compliant). Need an account, request from Greg Jorgenson.
— Mike from the Adobe Connect participants shared ” I’ve used Screenhunter to captures images (jpg), which is a free software”
– multimedia formats: video, audio, images, animations
– differences between raster and vector graphics. Camtasia will accept only JPG, PNG formats, but not vectorgraphics

  • 11:30-12:00pm: Open time for individual projects and problem solving.

Lunch Break

– Steve: rubrics and grading. D2L is not flexible and we need to adapt our assessment to the D2L capabilities.
– homework and papers, holistic and analytic.
Amazon Kindle much better for grading online then iPAD.
– separate criteria did not work for Steve, but Ken has his rubrics in different criteria. KISS rule. Properly defines students’ expecations.  Create a grid of the rubrics and then cut and paste into the D2L rubrics. Also go over with students over the rubrics details.
– Ken: have several levels in rubrics. New Rubric must be “published” and not a “draft” otherwise cannot be linked to grades.

– calibrated peer review.
another way of using rubrics. potential advantage of using this app is to do automated blind peer review. D2L cannot do it that well as this app. handy for large classes and short writing assignments. Contact Joe Melcher (jmmelcher@stcloudstate.edu) for an account to be created.
crowd control versus really learning the content. The software gives a good feedback what students have actually done (student progress tab).
export callibrated results to D2L

  • 2:00-3:00pm: Open time for individual projects and problem solving.

 

You can also join us via virtual synchronous connection through Adobe Connect at:
http://media4.stcloudstate.edu/d2lworkshop/

Limited space; please consider registering at:  https://secure.mnsu.edu/mnscupd/login/default.asp?campusid=0073

We would like similar event during the Spring 2013 semester? Please share with us your preference for day/time, as well as topics of interest.

For any questions, recommendations, suggestions, please use the following contact:

Plamen Miltenoff
320-308-3072
pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu

 

 

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