Awards Tool – Badging and Certificates

ObjectiveIdentify which of these innovative Brightspace tools or features that you think will be most impactful at increasing engagement in your programs and briefly explain why you think so.

Write down your thoughts on actual pen and paper.

1 participant receives D2L swag!

Agenda

• Awards – Badges and Certificates • Adventure Pack

• Story Builder• Game Based Learning• Interactive Assessments

Increase learner engagement by rewarding your learners with Badges and Certificates to recognize their achievements.

Badging and Certificates can be implemented by using the Awards Tool in the Brightspace Learning Environment.

Badging and Certificates

Reward learners with Badges and Certificates to recognize the knowledge that they have gained.

Learners can see the awards that they have already earned, as well as those that they have yet to earn.

Learners can let others know what they have earned by sharing their awards to their learner profile or to social media by using Mozilla® Backpack.

Motivate your Learners

Reward your learners with Badges and Certificates immediately when they earn them.

Release Conditions can be used so that learners receive Badges and Certificates automatically without the Instructor having to manually reward them.

Instant Gratification

Create Awards that are unique and meaningful to your learners.

You can leverage default icons in the image library, or upload your own images.

Customize your Awards

• Create a badge

• Add a badge to a course with achievement method

• Manually award a badge

• Revoke a badge

• Automatically awarding a badge

• Awards notifications

• Awards expiry

• Sharing badges in my Brightspace profile

• Sharing badges with Mozilla Backpack via OpenBadges

• View My Awards

• View Available Awards

• Notifications for Issue and Expiry

• Manage Icon Library

• Manage Certificate Templates

Features

• Available as part of the core Learning Environment in 10.5.2 and above.

• Before Instructors can use this tool, it must be configured by an Administrator. They do this by going to Tools, then Organization Tools and enabling the Awards tool. Once the tool is on, they can add it to their Nav Bar, then configure the permissions.

• Visit the Brightspace Community for more detailed steps and a video on how to create a Badge: https://community.brightspace.com/resources/videos/videos/awards_create_a_badge_instructor

How do I get it?

Adventure Pack Learning as Fun and Games

Available Now

‘Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World’, Jane McGonigal

Game-Based Learning Service

Game design

Development

Integration

Story Builder

Games, or storyboards can be created to tell a story that really drives the point home

Interactive Assessment Tools

Give learners immediate feedback as they develop new skills and knowledge

Learners can apply their knowledge on the spot with fun, interactive assessments

Formative Assessment Tools

• Inline Quiz• Image Hotspot• Matching/Categorization• Sequencing• Graphic Multi-Select

RESULTS

Driving student engagement at UW

Student posts increased by 290-938% and there was an 80-248% increase in downloads of slides per lecture

‘Improving Participation and Learning with Gamification’, Gabriel Barata, University of Waterloo, Stratford Campus, Jan 29, 2014, www.youtube.com/watch?v+dOSf8SeNILQ

RESULTS

Lakeland students are thriving online

Enrolment doubling year over year

94% retention rate amongst students participating in online classes with virtual simulations

http://www.d2l.com/success-stories/lakeland-college/

Adventure PackLive Demo

Student Experience

ObjectiveIdentify which of these innovative Brightspace tools or features that you think will be most impactful at increasing engagement in your programs and briefly explain why you think so.

Write down your thoughts on actual pen and paper.

1 participant receives D2L swag!