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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

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.

NEW: Assignment Feedback Notifications for Students in D2L!

You’ve been asking for it, and D2L has listened! Students can now sign up for notifications (email or instant message) of released and updated Dropbox (soon to be called Assignments) feedback!

To sign up for these (and other) notifications:

Log into D2L.
Click your name (at the top right).
Click Notifications.
Scroll down and select the Email box (or the SMS box if you have registered your mobile number) for Dropbox – assignment feedback released and/or Dropbox – assignment feedback updated. Click Save.

Note that next month (May), the Dropbox tool will be renamed Assignments.

NEW: Assignment Feedback Notifications for Students in D2L!

To sign up for these (and other) notifications:

Log into D2L.
Click your name (at the top right).
Click Notifications.
Scroll down and select the Email box (or the SMS box if you have registered your mobile number) for Dropbox – assignment feedback released and/or Dropbox – assignment feedback updated. Click Save.

Note that next month (May), the Dropbox tool will be renamed Assignments.

Upcoming eLearning Workshops

Well, we made it – it’s Spring Workshop time!! So, every Monday I will be letting you know what is coming up in the next couple of weeks for eLearning workshops. You can register at https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/B7KYD8P If you have any questions, email me, Emily, at schudele@camosun.ca.

Hope to see you!

Lansdowne Workshops

What’s new in D2L: Monday, May 6, 10:00-11:30am, Room Ewing 110

Designed for instructors who have previously taught with D2L, this workshop will focus on the new features available in the recent upgrade. This session will focus on new functionality and some of the benefits for faculty and learners.

Introducing D2L to your Students: Tuesday, May 7, 10:00-11:30am, Room Ewing 110

Using D2L, but not sure how comfortable your students are with it? Come and find out what other faculty at Camosun are doing to introduce D2L to their students.

Interurban D2L Workshops

Getting Started with D2L (New Instructors): Friday, May 3, 10:00-11:30am, LACC235

This workshop will provide you with an overview of the essential teaching tools available in our learning management system, D2L. Participants will be able to take away a practical, course development checklist to assist with learning D2L. Whether you are looking to supplement your face-to-face classes, transition from using a basic course website or simply want to learn more about how to enhance your current teaching methodologies with using D2L, this workshop has a little something for everyone. Come explore the possibilities!

What’s New in D2L (for instructors with D2L experience): Friday, May 3, 1:30-3:00pm, LACC235

Designed for instructors who have previously taught with D2L, this workshop will focus on the new features available in D2L. This session will focus on new functionality and some of the benefits for faculty and learners.

Introduction to Kaltura (Streaming Media at Camosun): Information Session: Monday, May 6, 10:30-11:30am, LACC235

Kaltura is a streaming media tool that is coming to Camosun. This means faculty and students will now have a place to create, edit, and house their course-related videos. Kaltura also integrates with D2L. Come find out more about what Kaltura is, what it can do, how you can use it for your courses and when it will be available.

Course Spring Cleaning: Thursday, May 9, 10:00-11:30am, LACC235

This workshop will focus on setting up (or refining) your course homepage, widgets, navigation and themes. We’ll also show you some best practices surrounding course maintenance (cleaning up manage files & question libraries) and how to manage release dates associated with your course from one central location in D2L (saving you time!).

Working with Master Courses and Development Sites: Friday, May 10, 10:00-11:30am, LACC235

This workshop will highlight various models and collaboration strategies used by faculty to support the development, use and maintenance of master courses and development sites in D2L. Come learn how master courses are being used to share content, resources, teaching strategies, activities and assessments.

Upcoming eLearning Workshops

Hope to see you!

Lansdowne Workshops

What’s new in D2L: Monday, May 6, 10:00-11:30am, Room Ewing 110

Designed for instructors who have previously taught with D2L, this workshop will focus on the new features available in the recent upgrade. This session will focus on new functionality and some of the benefits for faculty and learners.

Introducing D2L to your Students: Tuesday, May 7, 10:00-11:30am, Room Ewing 110

Using D2L, but not sure how comfortable your students are with it? Come and find out what other faculty at Camosun are doing to introduce D2L to their students.

Interurban D2L Workshops

Getting Started with D2L (New Instructors): Friday, May 3, 10:00-11:30am, LACC235

This workshop will provide you with an overview of the essential teaching tools available in our learning management system, D2L. Participants will be able to take away a practical, course development checklist to assist with learning D2L. Whether you are looking to supplement your face-to-face classes, transition from using a basic course website or simply want to learn more about how to enhance your current teaching methodologies with using D2L, this workshop has a little something for everyone. Come explore the possibilities!

What’s New in D2L (for instructors with D2L experience): Friday, May 3, 1:30-3:00pm, LACC235

Designed for instructors who have previously taught with D2L, this workshop will focus on the new features available in D2L. This session will focus on new functionality and some of the benefits for faculty and learners.

Introduction to Kaltura (Streaming Media at Camosun): Information Session: Monday, May 6, 10:30-11:30am, LACC235

Kaltura is a streaming media tool that is coming to Camosun. This means faculty and students will now have a place to create, edit, and house their course-related videos. Kaltura also integrates with D2L. Come find out more about what Kaltura is, what it can do, how you can use it for your courses and when it will be available.

Course Spring Cleaning: Thursday, May 9, 10:00-11:30am, LACC235

This workshop will focus on setting up (or refining) your course homepage, widgets, navigation and themes. We’ll also show you some best practices surrounding course maintenance (cleaning up manage files & question libraries) and how to manage release dates associated with your course from one central location in D2L (saving you time!).

Working with Master Courses and Development Sites: Friday, May 10, 10:00-11:30am, LACC235

This workshop will highlight various models and collaboration strategies used by faculty to support the development, use and maintenance of master courses and development sites in D2L. Come learn how master courses are being used to share content, resources, teaching strategies, activities and assessments.

Educational Technology User Group’s 25th Anniversary Conference!

Another re-blog for you, this time about the Educational Technology User Group’s (ETUG’s) 25th Anniversary Conference “Back to the Future” which will take place at Thomson Rivers University in Kamloops, June 20 and 21. Check it out and register soon – hope to see you there!

ETUG 25th Anniversary Conference