May 2019 – Page 2 – eLearning blog at Camosun College

D2L Dropbox now called Assignments!

Looking for the Dropbox in D2L and not sure where it went? Well, with the latest upgrade, it has been renamed Assignments. We have posted a News item on the main D2L page for all faculty so you can let your students know. The tool works the same, it’s just the name that has changed.

If you want to keep the name Dropbox, you can change the name of the tool as it appears on your Navbar or My Tools drop-down menu NOT in the tool itself (which will still be named Assignments) through the following steps:

Click Edit Course.
Click Tools (under Administration in the Category view).
Type a new name in the box next to Assignments and hit Enter. The name will change automatically wherever it appears on your Navbar once you go back to your course homepage.

If you have any questions, let us know at desupport@camosun.ca.

D2L Dropbox now called Assignments!

Click Edit Course.
Click Tools (under Administration in the Category view).
Type a new name in the box next to Assignments and hit Enter. The name will change automatically wherever it appears on your Navbar once you go back to your course homepage.

If you have any questions, let us know at desupport@camosun.ca.

Two Additional Kaltura Workshops Added to our Workshop Schedule!

By popular demand, we are adding two additional Kaltura workshops to our schedule. These workshops will take place at Interurban. Please register at https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/B7KYD8P

Title: Kaltura 1: Getting Started with Kaltura
Time: 1:30-3:30
Date: May 16, 2019
Location: LACC 235

Description: Kaltura is Camosun’s a streaming media tool (we sometimes call it Camosun’s YouTube). This means faculty and students now have a place to create, edit, and house their course-related videos. Kaltura also integrates with D2L. Come to this hands-on session to find out more about what Kaltura is, what it can do, and learn how you can use it for your courses.

Title: Kaltura 2: Creating Media Magic Using Kaltura Capture
Time: 1:30-3:30
Date: June 6, 2019
Location: LACC 235

Description: Are you interested in creating engaging media pieces for your courses in D2L? Not sure where to begin? Join Bob Preston for this hands-on workshop on Kaltura Capture. Learn the basics of creating and chaptering basic screencasts, PowerPoint presentations with voiceover, as well as creating video quizzes that you can link to the gradebook.

If you have a laptop, please bring it to the session.

Questions? Email Emily Schudel at schudele@camosun.ca

Two Additional Kaltura Workshops Added to our Workshop Schedule!

By popular demand, we are adding two additional Kaltura workshops to our schedule. These workshops will take place at Interurban. Please register at https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/B7KYD8P

Title: Kaltura 1: Getting Started with Kaltura
Time: 1:30-3:30
Date: May 16, 2019
Location: LACC 235

Title: Kaltura 2: Creating Media Magic Using Kaltura Capture
Time: 1:30-3:30
Date: June 6, 2019
Location: LACC 235

If you have a laptop, please bring it to the session.

Questions? Email Emily Schudel at schudele@camosun.ca

A New Final Grade Scheme in D2L

There is a “new” Grade Scheme available for you to apply to your Final Grades in D2L.

Well, “new” in that it was there before, but no one knew what it was. It’s now called Camosun Standard Grading Scheme, and you will have to apply it to your Final Calculated Grade in order to activate it. Camosun Standard Grading Scheme rounds up your final calculated grade percentages and applies a letter grade to them according to Camosun’s grading matrix.

Here’s how to apply this scheme to your Final Calculated Grade.

Go to the Grades tool in your D2L course.
From Enter Grades, or from Manage Grades, click on the down-arrow next to Final Calculated Grade (we will do this in the Enter Grades area), and select Edit.
In the Grade Scheme drop-down menu, select Camosun Standard Grading Scheme, then click Save and Close.

Things to Remember

If you have a Grade Scheme already applied to your Final Calculated Grade which says ERROR, you will need to change it to the Camosun Standard Grading Scheme.

If you are not happy with the rounding as applied by this scheme, you can change individual students’ grades in the Final Adjusted Grades column. See the tutorial Releasing Final (Adjusted) Grades in the On-Demand Training course for more information.

If you have any questions, contact desupport@camosun.ca.

eLearning Workshops Week of May 13th

And now, here is a list of the workshops we are offering next week. You can register for these, and all our workshops, at https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/B7KYD8P If you have any questions, email me, Emily, at schudele@camosun.ca.

Lansdowne Workshops

D2L Quizzes – How, Why, and the Daylight Experience: Monday, May 13, 2:00-4:00pm, Room Ewing 110

This hands-on workshop will cover creating, managing, and grading quizzes and the question library in the new version of D2L, Daylight Experience. Basic familiarity with D2L is recommended for participants interested in this workshop.

Facilitating Discussions and Collaborative Work in D2L: Tuesday, May 14, 10:00-11:30am, Room Ewing 110

In this workshop we will examine a variety of online communication tools within D2L, and discuss various facilitation techniques that you can use to engage learners and promote collaboration online.

Fun with Rubrics: Friday, May 17, 9:00am-12:00pm, Room Ewing 110

This hands-on workshop will discuss best practices around designing a variety of rubrics and integrating them into your assessment, participation, and feedback strategies. Note that we will set up a simple rubric during the session to practice using the tool, but participants are encouraged to bring their own rubrics for discussion with the group. Basic familiarity with D2L is recommended for participants interested in this workshop.

Interurban Workshops

Open Education Resources: What, Why and How: Wednesday, May 15. 1:00-2:30pm, CBA210

At the heart of the Open Education movement lies the idea that publicly-funded knowledge and knowledge products (textbooks, curricula, lecture notes, tests, assignments, video, images) should be made freely available to the public (including students). As educators dedicated to the creation and transfer of knowledge this idea is appealing. But how does it work? What constitutes Open Education Resources (OER)? How are they licensed? Where can you find them? What are the best ways to use them? In this workshop we will explore how to use Open Education Resources to remove barriers to education.

Designing for Engagement: Moving beyond Text and Images: Thursday, May 16, 10:00-11:30am, LACC135

Come learn how to transform your content to accommodate a variety of learning styles and abilities. We’ll begin with an overview of the content tool and its functionality to get you started with building content. We’ll then explore how you can transform various types of content including (but not limited to): PDFs, PPT and Word documents to a web-accessible format that improves the teaching and learning experience.

Introduction to Blackboard Collaborate Ultra: Information Session: Friday, May 17, 10:30-11:30am, LACC235

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is a synchronous classroom tool that is coming to Camosun. This means that faculty now have an online tool with audio, video, chat, and whiteboard/desktop sharing capabilities to support their teaching in real-time. Come find out more about Blackboard Collaborate and how it can be used, as well as when it will be available.

eLearning Workshops Week of May 13th

Lansdowne Workshops

D2L Quizzes – How, Why, and the Daylight Experience: Monday, May 13, 2:00-4:00pm, Room Ewing 110

This hands-on workshop will cover creating, managing, and grading quizzes and the question library in the new version of D2L, Daylight Experience. Basic familiarity with D2L is recommended for participants interested in this workshop.

Facilitating Discussions and Collaborative Work in D2L: Tuesday, May 14, 10:00-11:30am, Room Ewing 110

In this workshop we will examine a variety of online communication tools within D2L, and discuss various facilitation techniques that you can use to engage learners and promote collaboration online.

Fun with Rubrics: Friday, May 17, 9:00am-12:00pm, Room Ewing 110

This hands-on workshop will discuss best practices around designing a variety of rubrics and integrating them into your assessment, participation, and feedback strategies. Note that we will set up a simple rubric during the session to practice using the tool, but participants are encouraged to bring their own rubrics for discussion with the group. Basic familiarity with D2L is recommended for participants interested in this workshop.

Interurban Workshops

Open Education Resources: What, Why and How: Wednesday, May 15. 1:00-2:30pm, CBA210

At the heart of the Open Education movement lies the idea that publicly-funded knowledge and knowledge products (textbooks, curricula, lecture notes, tests, assignments, video, images) should be made freely available to the public (including students). As educators dedicated to the creation and transfer of knowledge this idea is appealing. But how does it work? What constitutes Open Education Resources (OER)? How are they licensed? Where can you find them? What are the best ways to use them? In this workshop we will explore how to use Open Education Resources to remove barriers to education.

Designing for Engagement: Moving beyond Text and Images: Thursday, May 16, 10:00-11:30am, LACC135

Come learn how to transform your content to accommodate a variety of learning styles and abilities. We’ll begin with an overview of the content tool and its functionality to get you started with building content. We’ll then explore how you can transform various types of content including (but not limited to): PDFs, PPT and Word documents to a web-accessible format that improves the teaching and learning experience.

Introduction to Blackboard Collaborate Ultra: Information Session: Friday, May 17, 10:30-11:30am, LACC235

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is a synchronous classroom tool that is coming to Camosun. This means that faculty now have an online tool with audio, video, chat, and whiteboard/desktop sharing capabilities to support their teaching in real-time. Come find out more about Blackboard Collaborate and how it can be used, as well as when it will be available.

Cleaning Out Your D2L Course Site

For some of you, getting your D2L course ready for the next term means copying the latest version of the course into your Master or DEV course. But before you copy, make sure your Master or DEV course site is cleaned out, because if you copy duplicate content, quizzes, etc., D2L will duplicate all of those items, NOT write over them.

So, to prep your Master or DEV course site for copying back from the latest live course, follow the steps in this tutorial post for how to delete material from the various tools in D2L. Note that you cannot “delete all” in a course in one step – you will need to delete the content/activities in each tool used in the course separately. We recommend that you do not delete everything in course site that has student data in it (i.e., a course site for a past offering). It is better to do this in a DEV or MASTER course site only.

If the course you are deleting from also has custom homepages or navigation bars, or incorporates tools beyond the list below (for example the Glossary or Survey tools), you will need to delete content contained in those tools as well. If you are unsure of how to delete content from homepages, navigation bars or other tools not included in this tutorial, contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Deleting Content and Files in File Manager

Go to the Content tool in your course

Deleting Quizzes

Go to the Quizzes tool in your course.

Deleting Dropbox Activities

Go to the Dropbox tool in your course

Deleting Gradebook Items

Go to the Grades tool in your course

Deleting Discussion Forums and Topics

Go to the Discussions tool in your course.

Deleting News Items

Go to your Course Home.

Things to Remember

Note that even if you delete Discussion Forums and Topics, you can restore them at any time (they are never really gone). This is the same for Dropbox activities.