D2L Pre-Course Copy Checklist
As you prepare to copy courses over for the summer and fall, use this short checklist to make sure your course is ready for a clean, updated copy! We are also providing you with your own copy of the Pre-Course Copy Checklist to review your courses.
D2L Pulse App
Notifications for upcoming quizzes & assignments
Learners receive a notification in the D2L Pulse app under the following conditions:
- If the assignment or quiz has a due date, the learner is notified two days before the due date.
- If the assignment or quiz has no due date, but has an end date, the learner is notified two days before the end date.
Learners do not receive a notification in the D2L Pulse app under the following conditions:
- Learner completed the assignment by submitting to the assignment folder.
- Learner completed the quiz according to the defined completion criteria (attempt submitted or score threshold achieved).
- The assignment or quiz has no dates attached.
- The assignment or quiz includes only a start date.
Technology Resource Template Update
There has been a change to one of the links in the Technology Resources page. If you have already linked to this in your course, you will need to update the template per the below instructions.
To update the template:
- Open the Technology Resources template in your course.
- Enter the HTML editor.
- Click the ‘Select a Document Template’ drop down menu.
- Go to Browse for a Template –>Shared Files –> HTML v4. Templates –> 02 – Getting Started.
- Select the ‘09 -Technology Resources template’.
- Click ‘Save & Close’.
Check out the video below to learn more about the resource templates.
Course Design Institute
The Center for Creative Instruction & Technology invites faculty to apply to its Course Design Institute (CDI), an online experience intended to help prepare faculty to design high-quality distance education courses. The CDI will be offered during the Summer of 2021.
Designing distance education courses requires intentional and informed planning. We are offering the CDI as a structured professional development opportunity for faculty to learn about effective practices in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality distance education and providing an opportunity to develop upcoming courses.
Participants will receive $2,000 to complete the CDI and build a course that meets the College’s quality standards for distance education.
Edit Images Online
IMGonline is a free online tool that makes it easy to modify images for your course content. Some of the image editor features include layering, cropping images to 100+ shapes, and adding various color and after effects to your images. There is quite a selection of tools to choose from to enhance your photos. We’d love to see what you create with this fun, free tool!
Going All in on OERs
Open Educational Resources (OERs) have become a hot topic at educational institutions across the country. OERs allow instructors to provide high quality instruction while reducing the financial burden on students. As more institutions are adopting these practices, we can leverage the available resources as well as create and share our own.
New Infographic Tool
There are many different infographic tools out there for creating engaging content for your students: Canva, Infogr.am, and Piktochart, to name a few. So why do we need a new one? Icograms has templates and click-and-drag icons that set it apart from all the rest. There are images of buildings, construction sites, sports arenas, and more to represent your industry or content area.
Sign up for a free account to see all of the amazing designs you or your students can create!
