there’s no place like home: widgets and themes and more… oh my!
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There's No Place Like Home:Widgets and Themes and More... Oh My!
MSU Faculty Learning Community: Learn2Design with Brightspace by D2L
Are you looking for the inspiration to make your LMS your own?
We’ll show you how we use D2L Brightspace tools like widgets, themes, and third-party apps
to transform our coursesfrom the monochromatic farmlands
to the glitz of the Emerald City.
The yellow-brick road leads to the Emerald City in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz." Turner Entertainment / Warner Bros.
Navigation
Need for standardizationMetacognitive skillAuthentic Assessment
Section 1Basic Course Customization
Audience: Student
Audience: Student
Audience: Faculty community
Audience: Faculty workflow
Audience: Faculty workflow
Challenges
Challenges
Challenges
Section 2Widgey Wizardry: FLC Personalized Home Pages
• From the D2L Resource Center:
“Custom widgets allow you to expand the functionality of available content in your homepages to suit your specific organizational and/or course needs. You can add custom HTML code to create a wide range of widgets. As an Instructor, you can create custom widgets for your courses, or use custom widgets shared to your course offerings from the organization, department, or semester level.
Create a custom widget
On the My Home or Course Home page, click Edit Course, then click Widgets.
Click Create Widget.
Enter a Name and Description for the widget.
Click Save and Close.”
https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/creating-custom-widgets
Widgets
•Links
•note privacy settings
Widget Examples
Section 3Health Psychology
What happens when you click on an icon?
More Checklist Items
More Orientation Checklist Hints
More checklist ideas!
FDR 1936
“We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will,
but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Address at Little Rock, Arkansas.," June 10, 1936. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15297.
Universal DesignWhen have you benefitted from something that was designed for accessibility?
Jack Fisher was born in 1918, in Kalamazoo
Close to graduate at Harvard Law School when WW II began; enlisted and was in a full body cast for months
Couldn’t find a job due to steel braces from hip to neck, returned to Harvard and came home after graduation
Took it upon himself to assist disabled veterans and help them become mobile through curb cuts
Accessibility approach
MSU online and blended courses need to meet WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0) standards
BTW: So do any online portions of Face2Face classes
Accessibility is an ongoing process of course design and the addition of new course materials
This is different than accommodations (which are based on accessibility)
Section 4R Essentials for Natural Resources Professionals
• Course design by Angie Leslie
• Unit: Fisheries & Wildlife
R Essentials for Natural Resources Professionals
• Wizard of Oz Jacket Copy. (n.d.) Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 17, 2015 from http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-off-to-see-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-001-photo.html
References