There’s No Place Like Home: Widgets and Themes and More… Oh My!

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.

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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

•Twitter

•Links

•Facebook

•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