New 5-Minute D2L Brightspace Tip: Semester Start Tips for D2L Courses
Prepare your courses for the new semester! In Semester Start Tips for D2L Courses, MSU IT recommends some actions to take to get your courses ready for students. This video includes instructions for making your course active, creating a development course to test out D2L features, copying and merging courses, updating the syllabus, bulk offsetting dates, enrolling TAs, adding accommodations, and previewing your course using a demo student.
For more 5-minute D2L Brightspace tips, visit the Instructional Technology and Development MediaSpace channel. Topics include learning about impersonating the demo student, uploading grades, and using grade schemes to save time and efficiently manage courses. Throughout the year, MSU IT will release more videos about incorporating educational technology tools into your courses.
Certification Pathways
The Certification Pathways D2L Brightspace course is a professional development opportunity for MSU instructors, teaching assistants, instructional designers, and instructional support staff, that will guide you through a series of workshops to enhance your pedagogical skills, explore best practices, and more effectively integrate technology into your teaching.
You can earn a badge for each session that you attend either synchronously or asynchronously in which you watch the interactive recording included in this course. Badges are released after taking a brief D2L Brightspace quiz accompanying each video. Certificates for each pathway are released when you have completed all workshops and/or recordings and their accompanying quizzes in the pathway.
As a participant in these pathways, you can expect to:
- Gain skills that will not only make your courses more engaging and accessible to students, but more efficient for you!
- Familiarize yourself with technology tools used and supported by MSU for both faculty and students.
- Become a resource for your department and your colleagues.
- Share your badges and certificates on LinkedIn to update your professional network on your professional development.
- Utilize best practices to craft well-designed content and courses that best serve MSU students.
Certification Pathways consists of five tracks that are available for you to complete now. The pathways are:
- Crafting Your Course Content
- Designing a Course at MSU
- Creating and Tracking Assessments
- Engaging Students in Your Course
- Providing an Accessible and Inclusive Environment for Learning
Self-enroll for the Certification Pathways today!
New: Educational Technology Events Calendar
Instructional Technology and Development has partnered with the MSU Libraries and the Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI) to use their calendar system for our upcoming events. This will provide the MSU community with a more seamless registration experience when registering for Instructional Technology and Development workshops and sessions.
Check out the new Educational Technology Events Calendar and register today!
AI Commons
MSU IT Instructional Technology and Development has contributed to the AI Commons, which is a collaborative hub for the MSU community to contribute, discuss, and explore the evolving role of generative AI in higher education. Leveraging the power of shared interests and individual experiences to shape the use of generative AI in higher education instruction, this space will help ensure that the academic goals and values of our institution continue to be at the core as we shape the future of generative AI in education. Have a story to share about AI? Email it to aicommons@msu.edu.
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