Instructor Presence in Online Discussions within D2L Brightspace

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This is a long-form video designed for educators preparing to teach from a prebuilt course. Rather than focusing on discussion creation, it is focused on how to participate educatively within a threaded discussion. It is also included as part of an interactive video quiz experience within our TE125 Teach: introduction to Online Pedagogy course. • VIDEO TABLE OF CONTENTS • 00:00 Introduction, Scenario and Guiding Questions • 01:15 A Tour of D2L's Discussion Tool overviewing multiple ways that this threaded experience is used for social learning and beyond. • 02:43 How to Find Prebuilt D2L Discussions • 03:30 D2L Forums (folders) and Topics (prompts), Hidden Folders and Discussion Groups • 04:04 How Can we Personalize Settings in D2L Discussions to Match Our Pedagogy? Includes a closer look at how to show the discussions search bar within the D2L Discussions experience, how to subscribe by default to threads you create, and how to enable upvoting including. • 5:15 Enabling Upvoting: Some Pedagogical Considerations. This also shows how to enable the up-vote-only rating scheme, and how to adjust individual topics to allow learners to rate posts - as well as considerations on the importance of instructors up-voting posts that have received no replies or up-votes. • 06:35 Scenario A: Posts and Ghosts. When Instructors Make the First Post to Spark the Conversation - and model expectations. Also shows how to pin threads, subscribe to threads, add attachments, add Quicklinks as well as images with ALT text using D2L's text editor, the HTML Editor. • 9:17: Scenario B: Duly Noted. The Benefits of Quick Replies to Recognize Early Exemplary Posts in D2L Brightspace. This includes pining threads or doing quick replies with catchy titles in that thread that highlight that specific post. • 10:59 Can We @Mention or Tag Students in D2L Discussions? Yes. Thanks D2L! Here's how. • 11:45 Adjusting Notifications To Included Mentioned in a Discussion. • 12:05 Quiet Approaches to Student Recognition: The D2L Badge. How to award and include brief evidence for why this badge was awarded. • 12:34 Kudos and Shout-Outs from D2L Announcements - and how to include direct content links that help students jump right into the D2L Discussion using the Insert Quicklinks button. • 12:50 Scenario C: Portals to Deeper Inquiry: Extension Questions for the Whole Class. Also shows what Notifications look like within D2L Pulse app. Includes a brief note on creating ungraded badges. Then focuses on how to advance a deep-dive, extended thread - promoting peer sharing and upvoting that advances text-to-self connections. • 14:15 Scenario D: The Benevolent Nudge: Quick Messages to Non-Participants using the D2L Grades tool. • 14:54 Closing Caveats Connected with the D2L Discussions Experience • 15:01 No Live Mode Yet. No Live Video Meeting or Back-channel with Others In Room • 15:24 Managing Microaggressions: Encourage Students to Reach Out • 16:02 What to do about emerging AI misuse - • 16:29 Conferring One-to-One: Use Your Widgets! • 16:45 D2L Leads to D2L: Guide Your Students on How to Access 3rd Party Discussion Tools • 17:29 A Note on the Use of Generative AI in this Recording. • - • Authorship Production Note: This script was written by Reed Dickson and recorded in February of 2023. The audio was generated using his digital voice print and Eleven Labs AI.

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