D2L Mini-Conference

April 1, 2022

Videos for recorded sessions are now available below.

Supporting At-Risk Students Through Brightspace
9:30am–10:30am
This session will highlight in-tool student data, communication tools and design best practices that you can use to identify and support at-risk students. We will touch on User Progress, Intelligent Agents and replace strings, Course Overview Widget, Work-To-Do Widget, Calendar and Pulse app. 
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Open Q&A  
10:30–11am
Open to all to discuss other areas of D2L.

Break & Lunch 
11am–12:30pm
Zoom session will remain open and any question that comes through chat during break will be answered individually by email or through chat. 

Instructor Tips + Tricks  
12:30–1:30pm
This session will run through several tools and techniques that will help you save time and use the learning environment more effectively. We will discuss Quick Eval, Annotations, Video/Audio Note, Assessment Tools, Gradebook linking and Release Conditions.
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Open Q&A  
1:30–2pm
Open to all to discuss other areas of D2L.

Building Rubrics
2–2:30pm
Working from real examples, we’ll discuss strategies to help you transform your paper rubrics and grading keys into online rubrics in Brightspace. Along the way we will highlight features that will help make rubric building easier and grading with rubrics more effective. 
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Introducing Outcomes and Mastery-Gradebook
2:30–3:30pm
This session will provide some background on outcomes-based assessment. Then we’ll walk through the Outcomes and Mastery-Gradebook tools to see how they can be used to easily record and track outcomes achieved within your courses.