Communications Buffet: Three quick ways to increase engagement with BrightspaceSarah Nicholl, M.Ed.Senior Solutions Engineer, D2L

Agenda

• Engaging students in the learning process online• Demonstration:

1. Providing Audio and Video feedback2. Utilizing the D2L Intelligent Agents tool effectively3. Personalizing the learning space through replacement

strings• Activity: Small group discussion• Wrap up

• By the end of today’s interactive 1 hour session, through demonstration and interactive discussion, you will be introduced to Audio and Video feedback, Intelligent Agents and Replace Strings in Brightspace and their applicability to your professional practice.

Session Objective

We believe progressis about people.It’s about equipping a generation of

inventors, dreamers, and creators to

tackle new opportunities of the future.

• Turn to the person next to you and share:• Your name• Your role• What you’d like to get out of today’s

session

Introductions and Expectations

Personal: Built for the way teachers teach

• Customized settings to create a personalized experience

• Unique learning paths

• Advancing the learning experienceand outcomes with insights

• Flexibility to meet the unique needsof any course or instructor

• An engaged, collaborative community of users

Audio and Video Feedback

• Record audio or video for quick feedback• Available in grader app or within the Learning

Environment• Provides a quick way to give personalized

feedback

Audio and Video Feedback

Audio and Video feedback in Grader App

Audio and Video feedback in LE

Audio and Video Feedback

•Where can I find more information?

•https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/leaving-feedback-grading-dropbox-submissions

Intelligent Agents

Add alerts with Intelligent Agents

•Plan your alert by identifying:• Purpose

• Agent

• Audience

• For example:

• Purpose: To prompt a learner to reach out to instructor, and let the instructor know, when a learner is falling behind in a course.

• Agent: Notify the learner and instructor when a learner has not logged in for 5 days AND has not achieved a passing grade on his/her biodiversity assignment.

• Audience: Learner and Instructor

Let’s have a look…

Add alerts with Intelligent Agents

•Where can I find more information on how to use these features?

•Documentation site:• https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/Intelligent%20Agents

• https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/replace-strings-for-intelligent-agents

•Videos:

•Intelligent Agents - Introduction - Instructor•Intelligent Agents - Create New Agent (Part 1) - Instructor•Intelligent Agents - Create New Agent (Part 2) - Instructor

Replace Strings

Personalize with Replace Strings

•You can use replace strings to personalize the site and email messages for learners:

•For example:

{FirstName} First name of the user. {LastName} Last name of the user. {Email} User's internal email address.

Let’s have a look…

Personalize with replace strings

•Where can I find more information?• https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/Replace%20Strings

Activity

Small Group Discussion

In groups of three, number off and each take a sentence to share/discuss:

1. I will use audio and/or video feedback in my (subject/grade) course to help with …

2. I will set up an intelligent agent for ….. because ….

3. I will try out a (name a replace string) in my (subject/grade) course because …

Then we’ll come back together and share highlights

Wrap up