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I will start by introducing our D2L training.
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D2L, for those who have not yet heard that,
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Desire2Learn, is Brightspace's parent company.
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We welcome Jackie Nelles
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to our virtual workshop this afternoon.
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Jackie has been with us, boy,
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since beginning of September
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and helping us learn the Brightspace interface
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and all the features and functionalities of Brightspace.
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And today's session is focusing on discussions and groups.
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This session will be recorded so that we have
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access to it for later viewing.
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You are welcome to enter your questions in chat.
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We will address as many as we can.
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We'll pause along the way
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so you don't have to feel like you
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have to hold your questions to the end
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because we know that sometimes it's best
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just to ask as you go.
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So we'll wait till we have a little bit of a critical mass
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of questions and then we'll ask Jackie to pause
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and take some questions.
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So as I mentioned,
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Jackie is our trainer from Desire2Learn.
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She has over 15 years of experience in adult education
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working in both higher ed and corporate training.
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And so we've been really thankful to have Jackie join us
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and guide us through learning Brightspace.
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And so Jackie, whenever you are ready.
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And you're muted. (laughs)
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Welcome everyone
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to Professional Brightspace Training environment.
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It's nice to be here. Thank you Wendy, for the introduction.
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I will likely turn off my camera
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so that does not distract you,
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but very excited to share with you
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discussions and groups today.
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It is a fantastic feature that allows students
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to have a space to have a voice.
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We'll talk about that as we go through.
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We will be sharing a brief PowerPoint
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at the beginning of our session
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and then we're just gonna jump right into the environment.
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So with that being said, we do encourage you,
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as Wendy said, to jump into the environment with us
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where you can poke around and try things out
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as we go through.
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As always, please feel free to ask questions in chat
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and Wendy will let me know that you have questions
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and she'll stop us or pause us
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or I will take a brief pause to ensure
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we're answering those.
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Because we are recording,
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we do have to display our legal disclaimer,
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which just means that we ask that you don't share out
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any of our recordings to the world.
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As exciting as this is,
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we are sharing private and confidential information
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within your UVM site.
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So again, please do not share it out to the world
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without someone's permission for that matter.
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Please feel free to log into your environment.
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This is a webinar, although I'll be talking a lot,
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I do encourage you to jump in and try these things out
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as you move through.
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It always helps to click into things
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while we're in training, so we want you to try that.
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Our agenda today is discussions and groups.
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So setting up the discussions.
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What are discussions?
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Comparing Blackboard terminology
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to Brightspace in discussions.
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Although Blackboard and Brightspace are similar
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in some fashion, there are some very big differences.
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The functionalities are very similar.
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It's just a matter of where to find the same resources
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and the same functionality in Brightspace
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that you may be familiar with in Blackboard.
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So I just wanna draw attention to some of the things
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that are available and where to find those.
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We also wanna talk a little bit about a private discussion
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for journaling inside of Brightspace.
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You can utilize journaling,
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individual messaging between student and instructor
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using the discussion tool.
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There are many ways in which you can
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use discussions in Brightspace.
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You can use them for individual activities
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as we talked about with this journaling,
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but you can also use them for group activities
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where groups are just linked to specific forums
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and topics to work within
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or as a general discussion within your course.
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It is a way for students to have their own voice.
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It is a two-way communication within the LMS system.
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Now we're gonna look at the statistics
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inside of Brightspace, in discussions particularly.
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Statistics are built inside of the discussions area
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inside of a course.
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So you don't have to be an administrator
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to view how students are faring with the discussion topics
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and replies and how much time they're spending
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in there doing the work.
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With discussions, we look at these
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as sort of a social interaction with the class,
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unless of course you're just using
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discussions for journaling.
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So we wanna see, are students replying?
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Are they actually active with other students
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inside of the course?
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So we have these statistics.
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Not only can we view the statistics
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inside of the discussion tool, but we can also monitor
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individual activity in the discussions
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using the class progress tool.
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Now we can set up groups today as well.
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I wanna show you how that works.
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Groups can also be used in discussions,
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but in assignments or other activities in Brightspace,
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but they're built the same way.
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So I'll show you how that works.
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That's the agenda.
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We only have a short hour today, so there's a lot to cover.
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One of the things we just wanted to address
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as we get started is you are very familiar
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with Blackboard and how discussions work in Blackboard.
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With Blackboard, it has similar settings
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that we do in Brightspace.
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So I just wanna talk a little bit to that.
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When you build a discussion in Blackboard,
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you have similar options.
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They're mostly in one or two screens in Blackboard,
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whereas in Brightspace they're in different screens,
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but the purposes are still very similar.
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Some things that are in Blackboard are already
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built in Brightspace and vice versa.
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It's just really about navigating
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and finding these different components.
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With Brightspace, we have a hierarchical structure
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when it comes to building our discussions.
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The hierarchical structure is a way in which
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for an instructor to organize how the discussions
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are displayed and workable within a course.
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So in Brightspace we use this hierarchical structure
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and we start with a forum.
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From the forum, which is a non-gradable activity,
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instructors will then create a topic.
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The topic is where all of the gradable activities
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can be placed and students will reply to a topic
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using a thread.
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Once the students reply to a thread,
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other students or instructors can reply to the thread
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using what we call a reply.
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So this hierarchical structure just helps us organize
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inside of the Brightspace environment.
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In Blackboard, it is a bit different
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and, again, some of the features and functionalities
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are found differently in Blackboard.
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Now they're not identical, we're not perfect,
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but it is a very easy way to build discussions
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and utilize discussions in your course.
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Now as we talked about this hierarchal structure
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in Brightspace, we'd start with a forum.
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Now a forum is used to organize.
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It's like a folder of sorts.
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With forums in Brightspace,
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you must have a forum to build your topic within.
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A forum is equivalent to a folder,
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and it contains a collection or just one individual topic.
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You can choose how you want this managed within your course.
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Once we have our topics in place,
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then we can post the discussion topics and each post is
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within a topic called a thread.
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So as I mentioned with that hierarchical structure.
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Now topics are where users post and reply and read.
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We can monitor how many students are actually reading posts,
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replying to posts, and replying to the threads.
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This helps us with our statistics to ensure
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that the students are resonating with the discussion topics
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and also helps us in grading.
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Now, when we look at a difference between Blackboard
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and Brightspace, grading is very different in discussions.
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So in Blackboard you can set up a grade
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for each individual topic or forum,
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where in Brightspace it's set up slightly differently
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but it can perform in the same manner.
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We'll get there I promise.
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Now in Brightspace moderating discussions again
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is one of those places where students have a voice
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and you could break them up where they can talk
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to each other in groups with peers,
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where you can do single journaling
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where it's just a conversation between an instructor
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and an individual student.
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But it also functions as an assessment tool
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where we can evaluate.
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Now if you've been with us before in training,
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we've talked about the grade book where we can set up
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grading items for discussions and you can grade
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an individual discussion versus an entire topic.
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But in the discussion tool as well,
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you can choose the type of assessment you want to use.
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So there's a lot of different components
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that we're gonna talk about
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and we're gonna break it down for you.
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One of the reasons we like to use the discussion tool,
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apart from what I've already mentioned,
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is it really does increase communication and collaboration.
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It does provide a space for group work.
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So you can assign a topic to a group
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and send your students off to work together.
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When they work together, we can give them a space
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called a locker where they can share documents,
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collaborate together on things,
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and they can also work outside of that group area.
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But you can set it up where the group will submit
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as a group inside of Brightspace.
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As we mentioned, you can use this in single journaling
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and we can track it.
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So there's a lot of great components
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as to why we use discussions.
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When we create discussions, we have to start with a forum,
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as I mentioned.
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We can set up a forum and we can have one forum
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for the entire course, or we can have different forums
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for different topic matter
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or subject matter within that course.
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So you can decide and you can build as you go
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or you can build them all at the beginning.
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When we build a forum, we can set specific options,
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but we can also set individual options per topic.
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So just having that forum or folder can categorize
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how the topics are within.
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And then inside of those topics we can set things
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like restrictions, availability.
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We can set different grading.
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We can set different components for the topics individually
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versus the entire forum.
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When it comes to availability for discussions,
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we have some restrictions that are specific
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to the discussion tool.
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So we can choose when the discussion will be visible,
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when students can submit and when we can restrict
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or hide those discussion activities.
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This is a bit different than the restrictions you would see
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in the quiz tool or assignments tool in Brightspace.
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So I just wanted to provide you with a bit of a description
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of what some of these availability settings are.
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I will show you in the environment,
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but just to share with you,
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we can also share this PowerPoint with you,
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but with discussions,
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you can make a discussion available to students
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when you start the course right until the end of the course,
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or you can make it visible
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with access restricted, which means
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the topic is visible to the learners
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before or after the start or end date,
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but they can't access it.
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So it's sitting in their content, they know it's there,
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they know when it's going to start based on their calendar,
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but they can't actually access it.
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We can also choose visible with submission restricted
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before start or end.
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So in this manner it is visible to the learners
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before or after; they can access it,
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but they cannot post to either the class
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or to the instructor until the start date commences.
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Finally, we can make it hidden.
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So that means they don't see anything until we've decided
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which the start date is
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and when it disappears with the end date.
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So availability is a little bit more specific in discussions
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than it is with our assignments or quiz tool.
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Now we also wanted to draw attention
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to groups in Brightspace and today we're gonna demonstrate
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how to build groups and connect those groups
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to the discussions.
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But you can use groups in other activities in Brightspace.
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Just to share with you with the groups tool,
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you can have a maximum enrollment of 200 users
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in an individual group.
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If you have a course with more than 200 users,
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then you can create different groups or new group categories
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and there's no limit to the number of categories
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you have in a course.
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So very similar to the discussion
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where we need a forum or folder to categorize.
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In groups, we build categories to sort of organize
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how our users are within those group categories.
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Now we also have something called group types
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where you can decide what group type
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are you going to build for the functions within that tool.
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So I just wanted to break some of these down for you
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because it can get a little overwhelming.
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Now when we have different group types,
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the first one we can utilize
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is number of groups, no auto enrollment.
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In this group type, you can choose how many groups
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you want and create which users you want in each group.
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No auto enrollment means you the instructor
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are going to place the students in a particular group.
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If you see no auto enrollment,
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it means you are going to organize that
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versus auto enrollment when the Brightspace system
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will automatically put users into groups
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depending on the parameters.
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Now we've mentioned this a couple of times,
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but single user member specific groups
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is when you create a group with a single user,
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the group name for the single user
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will be their first name and last name,
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but this allows for that individual creativity
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between instructor and individual learner.
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It can be used for journaling.
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It can be used for teacher conferences or conversations,
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and it's very, very specific to that person
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and the instructor.
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Now we have some more group types,
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so I just wanted to describe these to you.
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Groups of number.
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This group type creates a minimum number of groups
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needed to place users in groups of a specified size.
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So more groups can be created as you accommodate more users
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coming into your course.
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But we would set an extra parameter saying auto enroll,
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which means if we need to add groups here
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to this particular group type, if we choose auto enroll,
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then the system will automatically enroll any new students
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coming into the course.
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Opposite to that, we have a number of groups,
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which is we use this type when you know how many groups
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you wanna create, but you want the system
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to automatically place them into the group
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without having to choose auto-enroll.
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So different options for different purposes
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within the groups tool.
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We also have self-enrollment group types.
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Now there are three self-enrollment group types.
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I'm displaying two for you.
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Groups of numbers self-enrollment, and again,
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self-enrollment means that the students are accountable
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to self-enroll themselves into a group.
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We use these for various purposes.
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One purpose may be that students know each other
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and want to be in a group with others
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that they've already been in a class with
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or geological placement.
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That would be number of groups self enrollment.
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The other one groups of number self enrollment
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may be used if you have
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a specified maximum size that's automatic.
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The nice thing with self enrollment,
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we are asking the students to take accountability
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to get themselves into a group,
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but we can also set a parameter where there's a due date.
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So they have to self enroll themselves into a group
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by a specific date, and if they don't,
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then either the system will enroll them in a group
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or we can bump them out.
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So again, it's really about accountability
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using this group type.
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Now again, we can provide you with these descriptions
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if you need them.
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It is a little overwhelming at first,
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but once you get comfortable, it's quite easy.
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This now brings us to grading discussions.
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Grading discussions in Brightspace is slightly different
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than grading discussions in Blackboard.
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In Blackboard, you can choose which discussions
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are gradable activities, right in the forum screen.
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In Brightspace, we set up the grade book
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in accordance to the discussions.
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We can also choose parameters such as,
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do you want to add a rubric to a discussion?
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You can also choose a grade item to connect it to,
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and you can also choose
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how you want to assess individual posts.
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In this manner, the system,
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if you so choose to select that option,
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can grade the students on an individual post,
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via highest grade for that post,
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lowest grade for that post, average score for that post.
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And you can include also within that grading
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any unassessed posts that have been added.
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So it's a little different to grade discussions,
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but you can still have the same result.
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Now, another tool that we wanna discuss
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is the calendar tool and sort of connecting
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your students with the discussions
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because if you're doing a group activity
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and you have certain parameters
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or you're doing discussions where you have timelines,
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you can add that timeline to their calendar
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to remind them, "Hey, by the way,
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you need to connect with this discussion and reply by Sunday
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and reply to two other classmates by Wednesday."
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So in that manner we can connect the students
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to that activity by reminding them
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through their calendar events.
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And I can show you how to do that as well.
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So that's the end of the fun PowerPoint presentation.
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Bear with me as I switch screens for a moment.
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Any thoughts so far? Just let us know in the chat.
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I don't see anything so far.
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All right, so again,
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I encourage you to jump in and use your course
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that you have assigned to you.
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I'm going to be using my sandbox,
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so I'm just going to go to the course selector
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and jump into my JN Train sandbox here.
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Now discussions can be found inside of a course,
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jumping into this course tools dropdown.
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So if you have this on your nav bar,
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you can certainly find discussions here.
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When we first enter the discussions tool,
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we're going to come into this area
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where we can choose a number of different parameters.
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By default, the first thing we see as an instructor
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is the discussions list,
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and this will list for you any discussions
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that are already built or within your course.
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You'll notice in my discussions list, if I scroll down,
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I have a couple of different forums.
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Now, forums again are a way for us
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to categorize the topics within.
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I have a forum called general questions,
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general questions and answers.
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And if I scroll down,
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I have another forum called teams and self reflections.
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Again, the forums are not the gradable item.
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The topics that are within the forums are gradable.
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Now with the topic,
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I've added some instructions in the topic
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and this is what the students will see
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and be able to respond to in a thread and a reply.
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Typically, when I build a topic,
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I will put instructions on how best to reply to this
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or what the expectations are for the student.
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Now the next item we see here is subscriptions.
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This tab inside of the discussion tool
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is also seen by the students.
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When you select subscriptions,
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you can choose to subscribe...
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I'm gonna have trouble with this word,
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overall, which is when I click this tab,
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it'll allow me to choose,
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am I subscribing to all forums, all topics,
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or all threads only?
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Now what I'm subscribing to is an alert,
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and that alert will come to me
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using the double bubble alert in the mini nav bar.
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So if I have subscribed to a particular area
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of my discussions and there's activity within that area,
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I will receive an orange dot here
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above my subscription alert,
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and I can click into it to see what alert that pertains to.
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This is only one way that I can subscribe.
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I can choose how I want to receive my subscriptions,
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as we shared with you in the mini bar only,
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but I can also send myself an instant notification
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or through a summary of activity.
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Now a summary of activity is sent
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through the notifications tab
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when I click on my profile card and go to notifications.
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Here I can set whether I wanna receive
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a summary of activity for a day or every week.
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Now I can also subscribe to each individual reply,
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each individual thread,
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each individual topic as I need to
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and as I progress through my discussions.
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I do not have to subscribe to everything.
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Also to note we can describe to the students
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and inform them on how to subscribe,
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but it is their accountability to do so.
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Now the next area is group and section restrictions,
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which we're going to build shortly,
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but we also have the statistics.
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Now this is one way to manage and monitor the statistics
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of how your discussions are doing within a course.
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So when I select onto the statistics tab,
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it brings me to this screen for an instructor view.
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From here I can review all of the users in my course
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and how they're doing with the threads, replies,
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how many posts they've read,
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how many of them that I need to approve,
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and we'll talk about that
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and how many I've actually graded
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for the individual students.
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So scored means it's been graded.
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Now, I can also flip to this forums and topics area.
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So when I select on the words forums and topics,
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it breaks it down, not by student,
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but by the individual forums and topics within my course.
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This provides me with statistics
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in terms of how many threads
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is this particular topic receiving?
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How many students have replied to the threads,
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how many students have pinned this particular topic
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to the top of their list?
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Again, we can approve anonymous posts,
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which is what I'll see here in this unapproved column,
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and I can see which of these threads and topics and forums
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that need to be graded.
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Just like Blackboard,
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we can provide students with the option
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to rate a post using a five star system.
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And in discussions,
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we can also allow students to vote up and down
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or vote up only.
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Voting up and down means that they're going to be able
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to push that reply to the top of the list to be seen first.
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So in this statistics view,
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I can see of any of these topics,
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how many students have voted up,
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have given them a star rating or voted down.
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So this is one way to see how your students are faring with
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the forums and topics within your course in discussions.
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There is another way through the class progress tool,
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which we'll look at later.
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Now, before we start to build discussions,
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I wanna jump into the group and section area.
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We do recommend that you build groups first.
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The reason we recommend that is so that you can organize
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the groups first before you build your discussions
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and then connect the groups to the discussions you build.
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You don't have to do it this way,
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but it's the easiest workflow that we have found.
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So I'm gonna go to course tools and click on groups.
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This brings me to the groups tool.
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Now, if I don't have course tools or groups on my nav bar,
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I can always access it by clicking course admin.
533
00:24:43.020 --> 00:24:45.180
Now here's where we can build the groups
534
00:24:45.180 --> 00:24:47.700
and we mentioned categories in our PowerPoint.
535
00:24:47.700 --> 00:24:49.290
So I can click new category
536
00:24:49.290 --> 00:24:51.873
and start to build a new group category.
537
00:24:53.220 --> 00:24:54.630
Now I would need to give it a name.
538
00:24:54.630 --> 00:24:56.560
So I might say discussion
539
00:25:00.690 --> 00:25:02.460
group work
540
00:25:02.460 --> 00:25:04.890
and naming conventions is completely up to you
541
00:25:04.890 --> 00:25:09.030
as per subject matter, as per topic, as per timeframe.
542
00:25:09.030 --> 00:25:11.340
It's really, again, up to you.
543
00:25:11.340 --> 00:25:13.110
Fix my spelling error
544
00:25:13.110 --> 00:25:16.920
and now I can give this group category a description.
545
00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:18.810
Now a description is not required.
546
00:25:18.810 --> 00:25:20.190
You can share it with the students
547
00:25:20.190 --> 00:25:21.720
or hide it from the students,
548
00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:23.940
but it's really just for you behind the scenes
549
00:25:23.940 --> 00:25:27.003
to manage what this group category entails.
550
00:25:28.620 --> 00:25:30.480
Now, those group types we talked about,
551
00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:33.390
here's where I can add a different group type.
552
00:25:33.390 --> 00:25:35.880
So dependent on the group type I wanna build,
553
00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:39.570
we can just select it and build out that group type.
554
00:25:39.570 --> 00:25:41.280
I'm gonna stick with our first one,
555
00:25:41.280 --> 00:25:43.770
number of groups no auto enrollments,
556
00:25:43.770 --> 00:25:46.140
and that again means that I, the instructor,
557
00:25:46.140 --> 00:25:48.573
will enroll my students manually.
558
00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:51.240
Now I can choose the number of groups
559
00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:53.400
within this group category.
560
00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:55.440
So for fun, I'm just gonna say two
561
00:25:55.440 --> 00:25:58.620
'cause I only actually have two students in this course.
562
00:25:58.620 --> 00:26:01.020
But for larger students, of course,
563
00:26:01.020 --> 00:26:02.940
you can choose different number of groups
564
00:26:02.940 --> 00:26:04.923
and you can always add on to this.
565
00:26:06.300 --> 00:26:10.110
Group prefix is a short name or a nickname of the group
566
00:26:10.110 --> 00:26:12.723
that you want to utilize for this category name.
567
00:26:13.830 --> 00:26:15.720
Again, under advanced properties,
568
00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:19.650
you can choose, am I sharing this category description
569
00:26:19.650 --> 00:26:22.263
and group name with the students in this group?
570
00:26:24.300 --> 00:26:26.100
Finally, from this area,
571
00:26:26.100 --> 00:26:29.730
you can create your discussion or your assignment directly
572
00:26:29.730 --> 00:26:31.053
from your groups tool.
573
00:26:31.890 --> 00:26:35.040
So I can select, set up a group discussion area,
574
00:26:35.040 --> 00:26:37.470
and I can choose something that's already created
575
00:26:37.470 --> 00:26:40.560
within my course, or I can begin to build
576
00:26:40.560 --> 00:26:42.933
a new discussion just from this groups tool.
577
00:26:45.150 --> 00:26:48.150
I can also do the same for assignments.
578
00:26:48.150 --> 00:26:51.123
Now there's another feature here called set up lockers.
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00:26:52.050 --> 00:26:55.590
Lockers are individual spaces for each group.
580
00:26:55.590 --> 00:26:58.350
So depending on the group type, each group you give,
581
00:26:58.350 --> 00:27:00.813
will receive their own locker to work within.
582
00:27:01.650 --> 00:27:04.533
If you are setting up a locker for an individual student,
583
00:27:04.533 --> 00:27:08.070
they will have their own locker space to work within
584
00:27:08.070 --> 00:27:10.350
and the instructor and the student will be able
585
00:27:10.350 --> 00:27:13.050
to see the contents of that locker.
586
00:27:13.050 --> 00:27:16.050
If you're building a locker for a group as we are,
587
00:27:16.050 --> 00:27:18.630
each group will have access to this locker,
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00:27:18.630 --> 00:27:20.820
but only the group members and the instructor
589
00:27:20.820 --> 00:27:23.820
will be able to access the documents within.
590
00:27:23.820 --> 00:27:26.010
But lockers are a great space for students
591
00:27:26.010 --> 00:27:27.690
to be able to collaborate together,
592
00:27:27.690 --> 00:27:30.813
share and build folders and add documents.
593
00:27:31.770 --> 00:27:32.760
Jackie, this is Wendy.
594
00:27:32.760 --> 00:27:34.110
I have a clarifying question
595
00:27:34.110 --> 00:27:36.821
about lockers and collaboration.
596
00:27:36.821 --> 00:27:39.483
You said that they're able to share files.
597
00:27:40.350 --> 00:27:42.813
Are they able to collaboratively edit?
598
00:27:45.090 --> 00:27:46.950
Sorry, I was taking a sip of coffee.
599
00:27:46.950 --> 00:27:50.070
So depending on the configuration variables
600
00:27:50.070 --> 00:27:52.410
and the permissions, yes, they should.
601
00:27:52.410 --> 00:27:54.240
So if I were to put a Word document
602
00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:58.260
inside of the group locker and all permissions were okay,
603
00:27:58.260 --> 00:28:01.440
another student could come and edit.
604
00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:02.430
But again, we'll have to check
605
00:28:02.430 --> 00:28:04.230
with our implementation teams to see
606
00:28:04.230 --> 00:28:07.500
about those permissions and configurations.
607
00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:08.850
Great, thank you.
608
00:28:11.667 --> 00:28:14.700
Cheryl asked about a file size limit.
609
00:28:14.700 --> 00:28:17.310
I believe it's two gigabytes per file
610
00:28:17.310 --> 00:28:20.703
as if we were putting in content.
611
00:28:21.540 --> 00:28:23.013
So I believe it's the same,
612
00:28:27.900 --> 00:28:29.490
and uploading is the same.
613
00:28:29.490 --> 00:28:31.500
They can drag and drop.
614
00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:34.980
They can use insert stuff if that permission is turned on
615
00:28:34.980 --> 00:28:38.283
for them and they can work within their locker.
616
00:28:40.260 --> 00:28:42.360
So I've now created my group.
617
00:28:42.360 --> 00:28:46.770
I can just review what I've done and click save.
618
00:28:46.770 --> 00:28:49.470
The system because it's a non-auto enroll
619
00:28:49.470 --> 00:28:51.390
is going to create the groups for me
620
00:28:51.390 --> 00:28:54.390
and then I can go in and enroll my students.
621
00:28:54.390 --> 00:28:57.120
So I've created two groups and I've created two lockers
622
00:28:57.120 --> 00:28:59.433
within this discussion group category.
623
00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:04.770
If I need to, I can scroll up to the top of my screen
624
00:29:04.770 --> 00:29:05.910
and add another group.
625
00:29:05.910 --> 00:29:08.730
As my course enrollment grows
626
00:29:08.730 --> 00:29:11.970
or if I didn't build enough groups,
627
00:29:11.970 --> 00:29:14.403
I can always click and add new group.
628
00:29:16.620 --> 00:29:18.210
Again, I get a review,
629
00:29:18.210 --> 00:29:21.180
I can see existing lockers that I've built
630
00:29:21.180 --> 00:29:23.580
and I can click into each of these group titles
631
00:29:23.580 --> 00:29:25.260
to access the locker,
632
00:29:25.260 --> 00:29:27.483
but it's not the only space I can do so.
633
00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:30.060
Now that I've reviewed and created,
634
00:29:30.060 --> 00:29:32.100
I'm gonna click save again.
635
00:29:32.100 --> 00:29:36.003
And from here it brings me to my group discussion category.
636
00:29:36.870 --> 00:29:39.210
You'll notice because it's a non-auto enroll,
637
00:29:39.210 --> 00:29:42.960
I have no members but can see group files.
638
00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:45.690
So if I select in here as the instructor,
639
00:29:45.690 --> 00:29:47.943
I can see the locker for the group.
640
00:29:49.110 --> 00:29:50.521
So they could upload-
641
00:29:50.521 --> 00:29:52.080
I'm sorry, Jackie, this is Wendy again.
642
00:29:52.080 --> 00:29:54.060
Before you move on from lockers,
643
00:29:54.060 --> 00:29:55.800
Laura asks the question,
644
00:29:55.800 --> 00:29:58.620
asking if you want to have a whole class collaborate
645
00:29:58.620 --> 00:30:01.860
in Brightspace, is there a way to create a locker
646
00:30:01.860 --> 00:30:03.930
everyone can see?
647
00:30:03.930 --> 00:30:05.493
Or is there a different way?
648
00:30:07.410 --> 00:30:08.250
That's a great question.
649
00:30:08.250 --> 00:30:10.020
I've never been asked that question.
650
00:30:10.020 --> 00:30:12.690
We'll have to check with our team.
651
00:30:12.690 --> 00:30:14.937
I don't wanna say yes if the answer is no
652
00:30:14.937 --> 00:30:17.220
and I don't wanna say no if the answer is yes,
653
00:30:17.220 --> 00:30:18.900
if that makes any sense.
654
00:30:18.900 --> 00:30:22.353
Essentially you could create a group category,
655
00:30:24.360 --> 00:30:28.800
create a locker, everybody can share within that space,
656
00:30:28.800 --> 00:30:31.110
but they can also share in the discussions.
657
00:30:31.110 --> 00:30:33.090
So if it's a group discussion,
658
00:30:33.090 --> 00:30:34.833
everyone can sort of share there.
659
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:41.313
So we'll check. That's a great question, a class locker.
660
00:30:42.870 --> 00:30:45.033
Now once I create a locker,
661
00:30:47.370 --> 00:30:50.910
each individual student has their own locker as well.
662
00:30:50.910 --> 00:30:53.340
What's great about the group locker is as students
663
00:30:53.340 --> 00:30:56.220
are working within their group in their locker,
664
00:30:56.220 --> 00:30:58.170
they could email the group members
665
00:30:58.170 --> 00:31:00.483
so they could have that open conversation.
666
00:31:01.740 --> 00:31:04.680
In terms of permissions, I am a part of a course
667
00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:07.380
that I'm taking in higher education currently,
668
00:31:07.380 --> 00:31:11.280
and we use groups and my professor has turned off
669
00:31:11.280 --> 00:31:13.470
the collaboration or group sharing.
670
00:31:13.470 --> 00:31:16.590
So we have to actually go outside of Brightspace
671
00:31:16.590 --> 00:31:18.780
to be able to collaborate on a document.
672
00:31:18.780 --> 00:31:22.560
So I will check on that for you, but again,
673
00:31:22.560 --> 00:31:25.980
I can upload files, create a new file, create a new folder,
674
00:31:25.980 --> 00:31:28.263
and email the group members within my group.
675
00:31:29.340 --> 00:31:30.660
When we create a group,
676
00:31:30.660 --> 00:31:33.330
it will also provide a group area
677
00:31:33.330 --> 00:31:36.120
so that users don't have to come into the locker
678
00:31:36.120 --> 00:31:40.230
to be able to email their groups or their group members.
679
00:31:40.230 --> 00:31:42.240
They will be able to see that in their course admin
680
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:43.920
if they have access to that.
681
00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:48.180
Or we may put a groups tab available for students
682
00:31:48.180 --> 00:31:50.790
in the nav bar and when they click on groups,
683
00:31:50.790 --> 00:31:53.790
they'll see the groups in the course and they can access
684
00:31:53.790 --> 00:31:56.400
their own group and email or communicate
685
00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:58.683
with the members in their group only.
686
00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:02.283
So great question.
687
00:32:04.950 --> 00:32:07.890
Alex, TeamSpace, yes,
688
00:32:07.890 --> 00:32:09.900
I believe that's a great space to collaborate.
689
00:32:09.900 --> 00:32:12.300
I don't know if that's why you're mentioning it,
690
00:32:16.320 --> 00:32:21.320
but yeah, TeamSpace is great space to meet.
691
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:25.953
Go ahead. Yeah, absolutely.
692
00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:28.020
I'm on two devices,
693
00:32:28.020 --> 00:32:30.123
so I think I'm going to get feedback.
694
00:32:31.470 --> 00:32:33.450
I'll type my answer in the chat.
695
00:32:33.450 --> 00:32:35.350
Okay, thanks so much, Alex.
696
00:32:36.780 --> 00:32:40.404
Now when you go into the individual groups,
697
00:32:40.404 --> 00:32:42.204
I'm gonna go back to my groups tool.
698
00:32:44.610 --> 00:32:48.750
I can click on or select an individual group and once I do,
699
00:32:48.750 --> 00:32:50.190
I can enroll users.
700
00:32:50.190 --> 00:32:51.810
I can create a separate description
701
00:32:51.810 --> 00:32:53.790
for this particular group
702
00:32:53.790 --> 00:32:56.550
and I can view who's in this group already.
703
00:32:56.550 --> 00:33:00.180
So if it's an auto enroll or I'm non auto enrolling them
704
00:33:00.180 --> 00:33:03.363
or enrolling them manually, I can view who's already here.
705
00:33:05.010 --> 00:33:06.510
Description is not required,
706
00:33:06.510 --> 00:33:08.970
but you may have a description for students
707
00:33:08.970 --> 00:33:10.800
within the groups.
708
00:33:10.800 --> 00:33:12.300
You are within group one.
709
00:33:12.300 --> 00:33:15.000
Your level of subject matter will be this
710
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.073
or whatever description you require.
711
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:19.770
When you create groups,
712
00:33:19.770 --> 00:33:21.870
each group has their own code
713
00:33:21.870 --> 00:33:24.813
and that is an identifier for administrators.
714
00:33:25.950 --> 00:33:27.630
Now I can click enroll users
715
00:33:27.630 --> 00:33:30.210
and, again, it would give me a list of all users
716
00:33:30.210 --> 00:33:32.160
for me to manually enroll them,
717
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:35.130
or I can look to see where Brightspace has enrolled
718
00:33:35.130 --> 00:33:36.813
the students within the groups.
719
00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:42.450
So I can put Jackie Learner in group one.
720
00:33:42.450 --> 00:33:47.450
I can put my demo learner in group two
721
00:33:48.420 --> 00:33:49.653
just to display that.
722
00:33:51.570 --> 00:33:53.970
Now if I have multiple groups within my course
723
00:33:53.970 --> 00:33:57.150
and I come into my course tools groups tool,
724
00:33:57.150 --> 00:33:59.010
I can navigate to the different groups
725
00:33:59.010 --> 00:34:01.800
within the group tool itself.
726
00:34:01.800 --> 00:34:04.530
So I can check between the different groups.
727
00:34:04.530 --> 00:34:06.510
Also for each of the areas,
728
00:34:06.510 --> 00:34:08.340
I will see how many members are in the group
729
00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:10.260
and when I click onto the number one here,
730
00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:13.950
it will display which members are within that group.
731
00:34:13.950 --> 00:34:16.890
If I have groups assigned to assignments and discussions,
732
00:34:16.890 --> 00:34:20.010
it will tell me exactly which assignment or which discussion
733
00:34:20.010 --> 00:34:21.783
this group is assigned to.
734
00:34:23.430 --> 00:34:27.270
Creating a single user journal type of group,
735
00:34:27.270 --> 00:34:30.090
you may go into the groups category
736
00:34:30.090 --> 00:34:31.713
and create a new category.
737
00:34:34.020 --> 00:34:36.300
I'm just gonna call it journal entry.
738
00:34:36.300 --> 00:34:38.070
I would then come to my enrollment type
739
00:34:38.070 --> 00:34:40.893
and go single user member specific group.
740
00:34:43.470 --> 00:34:46.830
When you build groups, you can restrict different groups
741
00:34:46.830 --> 00:34:49.500
so they do not get to do other activities.
742
00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:53.460
So for example, you may have a group category
743
00:34:53.460 --> 00:34:55.740
that is limited to a specific activity
744
00:34:55.740 --> 00:34:57.840
and then you restrict a different group
745
00:34:57.840 --> 00:34:59.673
from entering that activity.
746
00:35:04.530 --> 00:35:05.970
I'm not gonna set up lockers,
747
00:35:05.970 --> 00:35:09.390
so I just chose single user member specific groups.
748
00:35:09.390 --> 00:35:12.526
And for each member in the class,
749
00:35:12.526 --> 00:35:14.583
they will have their own group.
750
00:35:25.350 --> 00:35:29.010
And then each person will be listed in my groups category.
751
00:35:29.010 --> 00:35:31.440
So demo learner is number one,
752
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:33.210
and Jackie Learner is number one.
753
00:35:33.210 --> 00:35:35.550
If you have 50 students or 200 students,
754
00:35:35.550 --> 00:35:39.060
each one will be listed as an individual group
755
00:35:39.060 --> 00:35:42.573
so that you and that student will only be involved.
756
00:35:48.970 --> 00:35:50.583
Okay, Carolyn. Thank you.
757
00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:55.260
All right, so that's creating groups.
758
00:35:55.260 --> 00:35:58.620
Now I wanna return back to my discussion area
759
00:35:58.620 --> 00:36:01.800
and now I can start to build.
760
00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:03.750
As mentioned, in the discussion area,
761
00:36:03.750 --> 00:36:07.170
we wanna create a new forum and then a topic within.
762
00:36:07.170 --> 00:36:10.320
And, again, we would start with the shiny blue button,
763
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:13.170
new forum, and click new forum.
764
00:36:13.170 --> 00:36:14.520
With a new forum, again,
765
00:36:14.520 --> 00:36:18.090
you need a forum or folder to put the topics within.
766
00:36:18.090 --> 00:36:20.070
It is non gradable.
767
00:36:20.070 --> 00:36:22.413
It is just a way for you to categorize.
768
00:36:23.700 --> 00:36:26.040
For a forum, I can give it a title.
769
00:36:26.040 --> 00:36:30.163
So I may suggest that this is discussions.
770
00:36:35.100 --> 00:36:38.910
And then I can create a topic that is attached to this forum
771
00:36:38.910 --> 00:36:40.290
with the exact same title.
772
00:36:40.290 --> 00:36:42.090
So you don't have to create a separate title
773
00:36:42.090 --> 00:36:45.090
that is different from the forum title if you choose not to.
774
00:36:46.020 --> 00:36:48.990
My description again is just for me to understand
775
00:36:48.990 --> 00:36:51.003
what this particular forum is about.
776
00:36:52.740 --> 00:36:54.030
It's not required.
777
00:36:54.030 --> 00:36:57.240
You do have full use of your editor if you so choose,
778
00:36:57.240 --> 00:36:58.680
but this is just the forum.
779
00:36:58.680 --> 00:37:01.623
It's not where the work might happen for the students.
780
00:37:02.700 --> 00:37:05.370
Now I can choose options.
781
00:37:05.370 --> 00:37:08.130
When I choose options at the forum level,
782
00:37:08.130 --> 00:37:11.070
this is the highest level of that hierarchal structure.
783
00:37:11.070 --> 00:37:14.400
So what that means is if I choose options for the forum,
784
00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:17.460
all topics within this forum will have the same parameters
785
00:37:17.460 --> 00:37:19.113
I've set at the forum level.
786
00:37:19.980 --> 00:37:24.330
So for example, I can choose allow anonymous posts.
787
00:37:24.330 --> 00:37:26.760
Any topic I place into this forum
788
00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:29.550
will allow for anonymous posts.
789
00:37:29.550 --> 00:37:32.580
I typically don't put any parameters at the forum level.
790
00:37:32.580 --> 00:37:34.800
I wait until I get to the topic level,
791
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:37.620
which gives me the flexibility to have different topics
792
00:37:37.620 --> 00:37:39.693
in the forum with different parameters.
793
00:37:40.950 --> 00:37:43.140
I can set restrictions to a forum.
794
00:37:43.140 --> 00:37:45.270
So if I come to the top of my screen
795
00:37:45.270 --> 00:37:46.950
and select restrictions,
796
00:37:46.950 --> 00:37:50.040
it does allow me to hide from users
797
00:37:50.040 --> 00:37:51.930
and this just means it's not visible
798
00:37:51.930 --> 00:37:55.530
in the course at all until I make it visible.
799
00:37:55.530 --> 00:37:57.990
I can choose those availability statuses.
800
00:37:57.990 --> 00:38:00.930
Now again, I am building a forum.
801
00:38:00.930 --> 00:38:03.660
So if I choose availability status here
802
00:38:03.660 --> 00:38:05.520
at this level of my structure,
803
00:38:05.520 --> 00:38:09.630
it's going to go across the entire folder or forum.
804
00:38:09.630 --> 00:38:11.880
I can choose restrictions by topic,
805
00:38:11.880 --> 00:38:13.920
which is typically what I prefer to do.
806
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:15.390
But again, it is available
807
00:38:15.390 --> 00:38:17.733
if you want to restrict the entire forum.
808
00:38:19.350 --> 00:38:21.090
For now, I'm just gonna save and close
809
00:38:21.090 --> 00:38:23.673
or I could save and add topic if I decide.
810
00:38:28.402 --> 00:38:31.530
And now I'm gonna go in and create a new topic.
811
00:38:31.530 --> 00:38:33.540
So I can click new
812
00:38:33.540 --> 00:38:35.763
and this time select new topic.
813
00:38:40.170 --> 00:38:43.260
Now here I can attach it to the forum I've created
814
00:38:43.260 --> 00:38:46.500
or another forum within my course.
815
00:38:46.500 --> 00:38:49.410
So I'm just gonna go and click on discussions.
816
00:38:49.410 --> 00:38:51.450
If I don't have a forum and I wanna jump in
817
00:38:51.450 --> 00:38:53.580
and build a topic, I can create a new forum
818
00:38:53.580 --> 00:38:56.763
after the fact, if I choose, by just selecting new forum.
819
00:38:58.110 --> 00:38:59.550
At this point, I can choose,
820
00:38:59.550 --> 00:39:01.290
is this going to be an open topic
821
00:39:01.290 --> 00:39:03.900
where everybody in the course can work within it
822
00:39:03.900 --> 00:39:06.453
or is this going to be restricted to a group?
823
00:39:08.670 --> 00:39:12.150
I would give a title to my new discussion forum.
824
00:39:12.150 --> 00:39:13.360
So I might say
825
00:39:17.040 --> 00:39:18.903
discussion activity one.
826
00:39:21.660 --> 00:39:25.830
And now I also have a description availability in a topic.
827
00:39:25.830 --> 00:39:29.490
This is where you want to put the actionable steps,
828
00:39:29.490 --> 00:39:31.800
the instructions, what is required,
829
00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:34.920
the expectations within this description.
830
00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:36.930
The reason for that is this is where the students
831
00:39:36.930 --> 00:39:39.390
will be responding to.
832
00:39:39.390 --> 00:39:41.520
So although the discussion description
833
00:39:41.520 --> 00:39:45.870
did not really matter as much in the forum,
834
00:39:45.870 --> 00:39:48.123
it really does matter in the topic area.
835
00:39:49.050 --> 00:39:50.520
So for ease of time,
836
00:39:50.520 --> 00:39:52.050
I'm just gonna copy and paste something
837
00:39:52.050 --> 00:39:53.193
I've already typed up.
838
00:39:54.270 --> 00:39:57.003
And here I'm just adding expectations.
839
00:39:57.990 --> 00:40:00.600
I like to add the expectations in the description
840
00:40:00.600 --> 00:40:03.810
so students are very aware of how this discussion tool works
841
00:40:03.810 --> 00:40:05.583
and what I'm expecting from them.
842
00:40:06.930 --> 00:40:09.420
More so more expectations in the beginning
843
00:40:09.420 --> 00:40:11.160
of starting the discussions.
844
00:40:11.160 --> 00:40:13.590
Once the students are acclimated to it,
845
00:40:13.590 --> 00:40:16.590
it makes it very easy for them to just work within the tool.
846
00:40:18.750 --> 00:40:22.050
Now you can add a topic matter, you can add a video,
847
00:40:22.050 --> 00:40:24.060
you can add more instructions,
848
00:40:24.060 --> 00:40:26.880
you can even go to insert stuff, add something
849
00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:31.590
from OneDrive, my computer, record a video,
850
00:40:31.590 --> 00:40:34.350
my library, embed code.
851
00:40:34.350 --> 00:40:36.480
Students will also have the availability
852
00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:39.600
to add their own videos as well as links
853
00:40:39.600 --> 00:40:42.813
and images if permissions are turned on for them.
854
00:40:43.680 --> 00:40:47.220
So they can get really collaborative here,
855
00:40:47.220 --> 00:40:51.150
very creative, I guess, is the better word
856
00:40:51.150 --> 00:40:53.550
when they respond to these,
857
00:40:53.550 --> 00:40:54.753
but we're not there yet.
858
00:40:56.580 --> 00:40:58.020
Jackie, before you leave this screen,
859
00:40:58.020 --> 00:41:00.480
I do have a question about topic type,
860
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:03.063
but you can just go on with the other options.
861
00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:06.090
Oh no, go ahead.
862
00:41:06.090 --> 00:41:09.330
Okay, so let's say I have 50 groups
863
00:41:09.330 --> 00:41:12.603
and I want all my groups to answer the same question.
864
00:41:14.550 --> 00:41:16.833
Under topic type, I would choose group.
865
00:41:17.790 --> 00:41:19.770
Everyone can access this topic,
866
00:41:19.770 --> 00:41:23.370
but only students can see the threads from their own group.
867
00:41:23.370 --> 00:41:24.480
Is that right?
868
00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:28.980
That would save me copying a question
869
00:41:28.980 --> 00:41:31.200
in the group discussion?
870
00:41:31.200 --> 00:41:34.563
Yes, so if I choose group or section,
871
00:41:36.480 --> 00:41:38.400
everybody in the class can see it.
872
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:41.790
But when we've assigned a group to it,
873
00:41:41.790 --> 00:41:45.300
so if I say this is gonna go to discussion group work,
874
00:41:45.300 --> 00:41:49.500
I know I have two groups within this group work category.
875
00:41:49.500 --> 00:41:52.020
So those two groups will be separated,
876
00:41:52.020 --> 00:41:53.640
they'll each get the same discussion
877
00:41:53.640 --> 00:41:54.990
as everybody else in the class,
878
00:41:54.990 --> 00:41:56.940
but they'll only be able to see the threads
879
00:41:56.940 --> 00:41:58.623
from the group members.
880
00:41:59.580 --> 00:42:01.470
So no, you do not have to recopy
881
00:42:01.470 --> 00:42:05.070
and recreate two separate groups
882
00:42:05.070 --> 00:42:08.610
and then attach them to the persons or members of the group.
883
00:42:08.610 --> 00:42:09.660
This does it for you.
884
00:42:10.650 --> 00:42:11.483
Great, thank you.
885
00:42:11.483 --> 00:42:13.670
That's a much different workflow than Blackboard.
886
00:42:15.120 --> 00:42:17.940
I'm not a very good expert on Blackboard,
887
00:42:17.940 --> 00:42:20.163
but that for me is good to know.
888
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:26.010
So yes, if you have 50 groups within your course
889
00:42:26.010 --> 00:42:29.220
and you've set up that category in your groups tool as such,
890
00:42:29.220 --> 00:42:31.290
once you assign that group category
891
00:42:31.290 --> 00:42:33.780
to this particular discussion topic,
892
00:42:33.780 --> 00:42:36.183
the system will break it into those groups.
893
00:42:38.670 --> 00:42:40.740
And again, students within that group
894
00:42:40.740 --> 00:42:43.050
can collaborate together or talk together
895
00:42:43.050 --> 00:42:44.400
within that discussion,
896
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:47.640
but they cannot see the rest of the class' threads
897
00:42:47.640 --> 00:42:49.293
or replies with other groups.
898
00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:52.743
So great question.
899
00:42:54.090 --> 00:42:58.080
Now we've set up our groups description.
900
00:42:58.080 --> 00:42:59.970
We've set up with a group and a topic.
901
00:42:59.970 --> 00:43:04.230
Now, for this individual topic, I can choose parameters,
902
00:43:04.230 --> 00:43:06.090
I can allow anonymous posts,
903
00:43:06.090 --> 00:43:08.490
which means that anyone can post
904
00:43:08.490 --> 00:43:11.223
and we will not see the name of that person.
905
00:43:12.540 --> 00:43:15.390
If I choose to use allowing anonymous posts,
906
00:43:15.390 --> 00:43:19.200
I do want to perhaps consider attaching a moderator
907
00:43:19.200 --> 00:43:21.510
to this discussion topic.
908
00:43:21.510 --> 00:43:23.160
A moderator can be a TA.
909
00:43:23.160 --> 00:43:27.720
It can be someone, administrator, it can be an instructor,
910
00:43:27.720 --> 00:43:29.700
but a moderator will review the posts
911
00:43:29.700 --> 00:43:32.760
that have been posted anonymously first
912
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:35.343
before they go to the class.
913
00:43:36.540 --> 00:43:41.163
Now we utilize anonymous posts more often in peer review,
914
00:43:42.660 --> 00:43:44.703
but it can be used for many things.
915
00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:49.200
We can also choose a user must start a thread
916
00:43:49.200 --> 00:43:51.510
before they can read and reply to others.
917
00:43:51.510 --> 00:43:54.570
So in this manner, even if it's a group,
918
00:43:54.570 --> 00:43:59.130
a student must reply to their instructor
919
00:43:59.130 --> 00:44:01.680
or to the topic first before they can see
920
00:44:01.680 --> 00:44:03.690
what others have posted.
921
00:44:03.690 --> 00:44:05.640
Whether it's a general discussion area
922
00:44:05.640 --> 00:44:07.830
or whether it's a group discussion area,
923
00:44:07.830 --> 00:44:10.170
the student will not see any other details
924
00:44:10.170 --> 00:44:12.813
until they post their own reply.
925
00:44:13.980 --> 00:44:16.440
We typically use this to gather, you know,
926
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:18.900
the details and the knowledge from the student first
927
00:44:18.900 --> 00:44:20.820
before they can form an opinion
928
00:44:20.820 --> 00:44:23.640
based on others discussion posts.
929
00:44:23.640 --> 00:44:26.643
So it is available. It's a cool thing to utilize.
930
00:44:27.870 --> 00:44:29.730
When we're building our topic here,
931
00:44:29.730 --> 00:44:31.140
this is where we can choose,
932
00:44:31.140 --> 00:44:34.410
do we want this to be a rating scale of one to five,
933
00:44:34.410 --> 00:44:35.760
one being not so great,
934
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:38.760
one being awesome or fabulous?
935
00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:42.510
And we can choose vote up or down, or vote up only.
936
00:44:42.510 --> 00:44:44.790
Again, vote up and down means that they're pinning it
937
00:44:44.790 --> 00:44:48.660
to the top as per, you know, this is a great post,
938
00:44:48.660 --> 00:44:50.283
I'm gonna push it up to the top.
939
00:44:51.990 --> 00:44:53.550
Now we're not done there yet.
940
00:44:53.550 --> 00:44:56.220
So once we've created our discussion topic,
941
00:44:56.220 --> 00:44:58.020
we can then go to the top of the screen
942
00:44:58.020 --> 00:44:59.820
and select restrictions.
943
00:44:59.820 --> 00:45:03.120
Restrictions allow us to then choose, is it hidden?
944
00:45:03.120 --> 00:45:06.333
When is the availability for this particular discussion?
945
00:45:07.170 --> 00:45:09.420
So I can choose a start date or I can just have
946
00:45:09.420 --> 00:45:11.730
no availability and have it in the course
947
00:45:11.730 --> 00:45:14.820
for the entire length of the course if I choose.
948
00:45:14.820 --> 00:45:17.490
But with the availability a little bit more detailed
949
00:45:17.490 --> 00:45:19.080
than the assignments and quizzes,
950
00:45:19.080 --> 00:45:23.760
I can share that this is visible with access restricted.
951
00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:26.044
So it's in the course, they can see it,
952
00:45:26.044 --> 00:45:27.810
they cannot respond to it,
953
00:45:27.810 --> 00:45:31.140
they cannot click into it and they cannot post to it.
954
00:45:31.140 --> 00:45:34.260
Versus they can go into it, they can see it,
955
00:45:34.260 --> 00:45:35.370
they can work on it,
956
00:45:35.370 --> 00:45:38.160
but they cannot post until the start date.
957
00:45:38.160 --> 00:45:40.260
And finally, you can choose hidden,
958
00:45:40.260 --> 00:45:42.993
so it's completely hidden before the start date.
959
00:45:43.950 --> 00:45:46.980
Now you can have different parameters for the end result,
960
00:45:46.980 --> 00:45:48.990
so you can make it visible
961
00:45:48.990 --> 00:45:51.540
with access restricted after the end.
962
00:45:51.540 --> 00:45:52.380
It's still there.
963
00:45:52.380 --> 00:45:53.820
They can see all of the comments
964
00:45:53.820 --> 00:45:57.993
from the rest of the students, but they can't access it.
965
00:45:58.860 --> 00:46:03.210
Or you can restrict it to the point where they still see it,
966
00:46:03.210 --> 00:46:06.960
but they can't submit for a gradable activity
967
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:09.390
after the end date.
968
00:46:09.390 --> 00:46:11.040
And you can toggle between these.
969
00:46:11.040 --> 00:46:12.750
You don't have to choose the exact same
970
00:46:12.750 --> 00:46:15.003
for each start date and end date.
971
00:46:15.870 --> 00:46:18.630
You can also even set further parameters
972
00:46:18.630 --> 00:46:20.070
using release conditions
973
00:46:20.070 --> 00:46:23.040
or just use release conditions without dates.
974
00:46:23.040 --> 00:46:25.200
It's really, again, up to you.
975
00:46:25.200 --> 00:46:28.560
Just know that release conditions will outweigh the dates,
976
00:46:28.560 --> 00:46:31.644
meaning if a student does not meet the criteria first
977
00:46:31.644 --> 00:46:35.280
before the end date appears, they will never see it.
978
00:46:35.280 --> 00:46:36.753
So just so you're aware.
979
00:46:38.220 --> 00:46:41.520
But with release conditions, again, they must visit a topic.
980
00:46:41.520 --> 00:46:44.100
You may suggest that they have to post
981
00:46:44.100 --> 00:46:46.920
their own authored topic before they can enter
982
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:48.573
this particular discussion.
983
00:46:51.150 --> 00:46:54.063
Again, lots of flexibility in how this is displayed.
984
00:46:55.380 --> 00:46:58.410
Finally, assessment, when we go into assessment,
985
00:46:58.410 --> 00:47:01.260
here's where we can start to assess this topic.
986
00:47:01.260 --> 00:47:03.870
Now again, we're at the topic level.
987
00:47:03.870 --> 00:47:06.510
So here, this is where I can be very specific
988
00:47:06.510 --> 00:47:08.313
with how this is going to be graded.
989
00:47:09.150 --> 00:47:12.390
I can choose a grade item, which means in Brightspace,
990
00:47:12.390 --> 00:47:15.870
you could create different items for each topic.
991
00:47:15.870 --> 00:47:18.180
It could be a group topic and you can assess
992
00:47:18.180 --> 00:47:20.580
individual posts, or it could be
993
00:47:20.580 --> 00:47:22.573
an individual topic response.
994
00:47:22.573 --> 00:47:26.100
It is set up a bit differently in Brightspace.
995
00:47:26.100 --> 00:47:28.560
In Blackboard, I know you can choose an item
996
00:47:28.560 --> 00:47:31.650
to be graded and it connects with your grade center,
997
00:47:31.650 --> 00:47:33.700
but in Brightspace, it's a bit different.
998
00:47:35.190 --> 00:47:37.860
So you could create or choose a grade item,
999
00:47:37.860 --> 00:47:39.960
attach that to the grade book.
1000
00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:41.460
You could give it a score.
1001
00:47:41.460 --> 00:47:43.620
Again, for the individual topic,
1002
00:47:43.620 --> 00:47:48.060
you can add a rubric to this topic and you can choose
1003
00:47:48.060 --> 00:47:52.110
how is this post for this topic going to be assessed.
1004
00:47:52.110 --> 00:47:56.490
So I can select, allow an assessment of individual posts,
1005
00:47:56.490 --> 00:47:57.990
and then I can choose the method
1006
00:47:57.990 --> 00:48:00.033
of how I'm grading this topic.
1007
00:48:01.410 --> 00:48:04.170
If it's a group, I can average the post score,
1008
00:48:04.170 --> 00:48:05.310
or if it's an individual
1009
00:48:05.310 --> 00:48:10.050
and they're very conversational in discussions,
1010
00:48:10.050 --> 00:48:11.790
I can choose a maximum post score,
1011
00:48:11.790 --> 00:48:15.480
minimum mode, which is highest on the multiple replies
1012
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:17.120
or lowest on multiple replies.
1013
00:48:17.120 --> 00:48:21.813
Or I could choose to assess this by a sum of post scores.
1014
00:48:23.160 --> 00:48:25.620
I can also include unassessed posts
1015
00:48:25.620 --> 00:48:28.530
in the calculated topic score as zero.
1016
00:48:28.530 --> 00:48:30.600
So again, this connects to the grade book
1017
00:48:30.600 --> 00:48:33.753
where you have final grade calculation.
1018
00:48:36.810 --> 00:48:40.263
Now, you ready? You can save and close.
1019
00:48:41.490 --> 00:48:42.940
Oh, I didn't give it a score.
1020
00:48:44.730 --> 00:48:46.503
I'm gonna say 20.
1021
00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:52.870
I don't have a grade item, so I could choose to create one.
1022
00:48:54.510 --> 00:48:57.850
Now you could create a category in your grade book
1023
00:48:59.490 --> 00:49:02.460
and have different items for each topic
1024
00:49:02.460 --> 00:49:05.580
and connect this topic to the grade item
1025
00:49:05.580 --> 00:49:06.660
in the grade book.
1026
00:49:06.660 --> 00:49:08.400
You could do it that way.
1027
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:10.800
There's various ways in which you could do that.
1028
00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:14.400
I don't have the category yet,
1029
00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:16.203
so I'll build one at a later time.
1030
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:21.510
So that's the essentials when you're building
1031
00:49:21.510 --> 00:49:24.000
a discussion topic in forum.
1032
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:28.287
So you can see here I have my new forum discussion
1033
00:49:28.287 --> 00:49:29.733
and my topic within.
1034
00:49:30.720 --> 00:49:32.610
Again, you can create different forums
1035
00:49:32.610 --> 00:49:33.750
for different topic matter,
1036
00:49:33.750 --> 00:49:36.443
different timeframes, different group activities.
1037
00:49:36.443 --> 00:49:39.180
Just a general forum as I have here
1038
00:49:39.180 --> 00:49:41.010
where it's an introduce yourself.
1039
00:49:41.010 --> 00:49:43.680
I have an availability date with access restricted
1040
00:49:43.680 --> 00:49:45.450
after a specific time,
1041
00:49:45.450 --> 00:49:49.080
I provide some things that I would like them to consider,
1042
00:49:49.080 --> 00:49:52.623
how they could respond, all of the bells and whistles here.
1043
00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:55.440
For a student view,
1044
00:49:55.440 --> 00:49:57.360
when they come into their discussion feed,
1045
00:49:57.360 --> 00:49:59.520
they see what we've allowed them to see.
1046
00:49:59.520 --> 00:50:01.620
They would simply click into a topic
1047
00:50:01.620 --> 00:50:03.993
and they could start to respond to that.
1048
00:50:05.100 --> 00:50:06.480
They could start a new thread,
1049
00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:09.030
which means they're going to respond to this topic.
1050
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:21.090
Now they have access to the full HTML editor.
1051
00:50:21.090 --> 00:50:24.573
So again, they can add a video, a link,
1052
00:50:26.640 --> 00:50:28.413
see if that pops up.
1053
00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:33.630
In some circumstances you can use an @ mention,
1054
00:50:33.630 --> 00:50:35.790
I'm not sure if it's turned on,
1055
00:50:35.790 --> 00:50:39.870
but you would simply do @ and if this was turned on,
1056
00:50:39.870 --> 00:50:43.410
I don't think it is, but a name list would pop up
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00:50:43.410 --> 00:50:47.550
of the students that you have access to within the course.
1058
00:50:47.550 --> 00:50:50.370
You can also use this for a word count.
1059
00:50:50.370 --> 00:50:53.220
So for example, if you're suggesting that students
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00:50:53.220 --> 00:50:56.250
must reply with minimal of 250 words,
1061
00:50:56.250 --> 00:50:57.843
it does do a word count.
1062
00:51:02.550 --> 00:51:05.013
So as I'm typing, it starts to count the words.
1063
00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:14.940
It has spell check.
1064
00:51:14.940 --> 00:51:17.580
Students have the availability to edit their posts
1065
00:51:17.580 --> 00:51:20.880
once they post it to the group or to the class.
1066
00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:23.460
They cannot edit anyone else's just their own.
1067
00:51:23.460 --> 00:51:24.570
And that's built in.
1068
00:51:24.570 --> 00:51:27.030
So I don't have a click of a button
1069
00:51:27.030 --> 00:51:29.310
where I can say cannot edit.
1070
00:51:29.310 --> 00:51:31.773
It's just built into the discussion tool.
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00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:34.950
They can pin the thread, which means it's going to
1072
00:51:34.950 --> 00:51:38.140
go to the top of their pinned list.
1073
00:51:38.140 --> 00:51:40.950
Or if we have allowed that when we built our topic,
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00:51:40.950 --> 00:51:44.700
they can pin it by vote up or vote down.
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00:51:44.700 --> 00:51:45.960
And as I mentioned,
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00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:48.780
they can subscribe to an individual thread,
1077
00:51:48.780 --> 00:51:50.610
they can subscribe to a topic.
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00:51:50.610 --> 00:51:52.350
You'll see the subscribe tab.
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00:51:52.350 --> 00:51:54.780
They can subscribe to an individual reply.
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00:51:54.780 --> 00:51:57.060
So maybe they're monitoring or following someone
1081
00:51:57.060 --> 00:51:59.160
who's responding to them.
1082
00:51:59.160 --> 00:52:00.900
They can add an attachment here.
1083
00:52:00.900 --> 00:52:02.700
So if they wanted to add an attachment
1084
00:52:02.700 --> 00:52:04.650
as proof of learning or what have you.
1085
00:52:04.650 --> 00:52:07.980
And they can also post to another topic
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00:52:07.980 --> 00:52:10.290
within their discussions.
1087
00:52:10.290 --> 00:52:15.240
So I could post to add a topic if I so chose.
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00:52:15.240 --> 00:52:17.013
And when I'm ready, I can post.
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00:52:18.600 --> 00:52:20.060
Once they post...
1090
00:52:20.940 --> 00:52:22.230
Yeah, go ahead.
1091
00:52:22.230 --> 00:52:23.400
Oh, there's a lot of chatter
1092
00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:25.110
going on, Jackie, in the chat.
1093
00:52:25.110 --> 00:52:27.621
Uh-oh, I better turn on that.
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00:52:27.621 --> 00:52:28.920
(laughs) A lot about grading,
1095
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:31.500
but before we get into the grading question,
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00:52:31.500 --> 00:52:33.780
there was a question way back
1097
00:52:33.780 --> 00:52:38.280
at 3:17, let me read it, from Jennifer.
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00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:42.900
Jennifer asks, "How is restricted access different
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00:52:42.900 --> 00:52:45.630
from restricted submission?"
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00:52:45.630 --> 00:52:47.433
That one has not been addressed yet.
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00:52:50.730 --> 00:52:53.280
All right, so I'm gonna go to this
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00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:56.223
introduce yourself and I'm gonna click edit topic.
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00:52:57.077 --> 00:53:00.840
Again, you can edit the topic at any time as the instructor.
1104
00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:03.660
And I'm gonna go to restrictions.
1105
00:53:03.660 --> 00:53:06.423
So to clarify, is this what you mean, Jennifer?
1106
00:53:10.980 --> 00:53:11.813
If not...
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00:53:11.813 --> 00:53:13.770
Yes. Yes, that's it.
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00:53:13.770 --> 00:53:15.180
'Cause I understand.
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00:53:15.180 --> 00:53:17.700
I guess it's because they're visible in both cases
1110
00:53:17.700 --> 00:53:19.650
and I could see how you could see something
1111
00:53:19.650 --> 00:53:21.150
and not be able to submit.
1112
00:53:21.150 --> 00:53:23.850
But I don't understand what seeing something
1113
00:53:23.850 --> 00:53:26.550
and not having access means.
1114
00:53:26.550 --> 00:53:28.080
So you could see it, it's grayed out,
1115
00:53:28.080 --> 00:53:30.166
you cannot click it.
1116
00:53:30.166 --> 00:53:33.240
It's there but you can't click it versus you can see it,
1117
00:53:33.240 --> 00:53:35.940
you can click it, you can actually do a draft
1118
00:53:35.940 --> 00:53:37.353
before you submit.
1119
00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:40.260
So I don't know if that helps.
1120
00:53:42.538 --> 00:53:45.450
I guess it was the after restrictions.
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00:53:45.450 --> 00:53:50.040
So down underneath the end date where I was confused,
1122
00:53:50.040 --> 00:53:52.540
like I'm wondering if it's possible to have
1123
00:53:53.502 --> 00:53:57.270
like a discussion situation that ends
1124
00:53:57.270 --> 00:53:59.580
at a particular set date
1125
00:53:59.580 --> 00:54:04.470
and have it be that students can no longer engage
1126
00:54:04.470 --> 00:54:06.300
in that discussion because it's over,
1127
00:54:06.300 --> 00:54:11.070
but they can still go back and read it.
1128
00:54:11.070 --> 00:54:12.660
Yeah, so that one you would choose
1129
00:54:12.660 --> 00:54:15.330
probably the second one here.
1130
00:54:15.330 --> 00:54:16.260
Okay.
1131
00:54:16.260 --> 00:54:18.960
So visible with submission restricted after end,
1132
00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:22.230
which means the student can no longer submit any comments
1133
00:54:22.230 --> 00:54:25.050
toward that topic, but they will still see it
1134
00:54:25.050 --> 00:54:25.883
within the course.
1135
00:54:25.883 --> 00:54:28.950
They can still see their group's activities.
1136
00:54:28.950 --> 00:54:31.560
They can still see what everybody else had said,
1137
00:54:31.560 --> 00:54:35.163
but they can't post to it anymore, it's done.
1138
00:54:36.580 --> 00:54:38.040
Okay, and what would visible
1139
00:54:38.040 --> 00:54:42.987
with access restricted after end be by contrast?
1140
00:54:42.987 --> 00:54:44.594
I believe it's the same,
1141
00:54:44.594 --> 00:54:48.060
but I don't think they can see
1142
00:54:48.060 --> 00:54:51.030
all of the discussion topic replies.
1143
00:54:51.030 --> 00:54:53.850
Okay, so we would wanna do that second option
1144
00:54:53.850 --> 00:54:55.770
that you've got highlighted right now.
1145
00:54:55.770 --> 00:54:58.470
Yes.
Got it. Thank you.
1146
00:54:58.470 --> 00:55:01.860
And before we jump into the grading questions,
1147
00:55:01.860 --> 00:55:03.530
'cause there are a few of them,
1148
00:55:03.530 --> 00:55:07.470
there was a comment and a question about that
1149
00:55:07.470 --> 00:55:11.580
students have the ability to edit their posts.
1150
00:55:11.580 --> 00:55:14.930
It sounds as if that's not an instructor setting.
1151
00:55:14.930 --> 00:55:18.030
That is how the tool functions.
1152
00:55:18.030 --> 00:55:21.360
That students at any time, and correct me if I misheard,
1153
00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:24.630
but students at any time could edit their posts
1154
00:55:24.630 --> 00:55:28.297
and if that is true, can faculty see?
1155
00:55:28.297 --> 00:55:30.330
Is there some kind of version control?
1156
00:55:30.330 --> 00:55:33.993
Can faculty see if the students have edited after posting?
1157
00:55:34.860 --> 00:55:36.060
I believe in the data hub,
1158
00:55:36.060 --> 00:55:38.040
they could pull that type of data,
1159
00:55:38.040 --> 00:55:41.553
but that's not an instructor functionality.
1160
00:55:42.600 --> 00:55:45.300
For an instructor, I don't know if there's a tool
1161
00:55:45.300 --> 00:55:48.990
they could see edits, but they can see activity
1162
00:55:48.990 --> 00:55:51.990
such as, you know, how many threads,
1163
00:55:51.990 --> 00:55:54.303
how many replies, how many read,
1164
00:55:55.290 --> 00:55:56.883
but edit, I'm not quite sure.
1165
00:56:01.050 --> 00:56:05.280
Now you can go to the discussions area and go to settings.
1166
00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:09.030
Instructors have settings in the settings tab
1167
00:56:09.030 --> 00:56:11.940
and students have settings if it's turned on for them
1168
00:56:11.940 --> 00:56:13.890
to be able to go into.
1169
00:56:13.890 --> 00:56:17.010
So with this settings tab as an instructor
1170
00:56:17.010 --> 00:56:18.790
you can display
1171
00:56:21.780 --> 00:56:23.340
deleted posts.
1172
00:56:23.340 --> 00:56:26.280
Now there's another tool to this where you can restore
1173
00:56:26.280 --> 00:56:28.290
a deleted post that you yourself
1174
00:56:28.290 --> 00:56:29.640
as an instructor has deleted.
1175
00:56:29.640 --> 00:56:33.003
Students cannot delete in discussions.
1176
00:56:37.650 --> 00:56:41.463
So I don't know if there's... no, there is not.
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00:56:42.600 --> 00:56:44.040
So we'll have to check on that.
1178
00:56:44.040 --> 00:56:45.900
But students also have the availability
1179
00:56:45.900 --> 00:56:48.330
to see settings and those settings mean,
1180
00:56:48.330 --> 00:56:53.330
does my original post show with my actual post?
1181
00:56:53.490 --> 00:56:54.330
So things like that.
1182
00:56:54.330 --> 00:56:58.710
But we'll have to investigate if there is an instructor view
1183
00:56:58.710 --> 00:57:00.630
to see who's edited what.
1184
00:57:00.630 --> 00:57:02.010
They can only edit their own.
1185
00:57:02.010 --> 00:57:04.623
They cannot edit any other discussion.
1186
00:57:06.780 --> 00:57:08.823
Oops, I went right outta there. Sorry.
1187
00:57:16.830 --> 00:57:18.210
I'm just writing a note.
1188
00:57:18.210 --> 00:57:19.710
So there are some questions
1189
00:57:19.710 --> 00:57:23.460
about grading discussions.
1190
00:57:23.460 --> 00:57:28.460
Say if you wanted it to be scored as complete or incomplete
1191
00:57:28.770 --> 00:57:31.353
and with no numeric value attached.
1192
00:57:32.910 --> 00:57:35.670
And Jennifer asked again,
1193
00:57:35.670 --> 00:57:37.650
what if you wanna use the discussion feature
1194
00:57:37.650 --> 00:57:39.840
but not have it graded,
1195
00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:42.150
just graded up based on whether it's done or not?
1196
00:57:42.150 --> 00:57:45.333
So yeah, it's that same complete or incomplete question.
1197
00:57:47.130 --> 00:57:51.390
So the way the grading and discussions may work,
1198
00:57:51.390 --> 00:57:54.900
there are different ways to do this is you can set up inside
1199
00:57:54.900 --> 00:57:58.590
of your grade book a category for discussions
1200
00:57:58.590 --> 00:58:01.770
and an item or different items.
1201
00:58:01.770 --> 00:58:05.010
When you do that, when you set up an item,
1202
00:58:05.010 --> 00:58:08.640
so let's say I'm gonna go to manage grades,
1203
00:58:08.640 --> 00:58:13.640
I'm in the grade area and I wanna create a discussion item.
1204
00:58:15.420 --> 00:58:18.450
So I would create this item in the grade book.
1205
00:58:18.450 --> 00:58:21.720
And when I create my discussion under the assessment tab,
1206
00:58:21.720 --> 00:58:24.960
I would choose the point value this grade item
1207
00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:28.770
or this discussion topic would be in points.
1208
00:58:28.770 --> 00:58:31.477
Then I would come to the grade book and I would say,
1209
00:58:31.477 --> 00:58:33.870
"Okay, I'm going to make this grade item
1210
00:58:33.870 --> 00:58:36.780
for a discussion topic in my course
1211
00:58:36.780 --> 00:58:40.197
and I'm just gonna go to numeric and choose that."
1212
00:58:41.100 --> 00:58:45.907
Now I can say this is discussion topic one.
1213
00:58:49.170 --> 00:58:52.110
Let's just say that I'm going to grade discussion topic one
1214
00:58:52.110 --> 00:58:53.703
within my discussion forum.
1215
00:58:55.230 --> 00:58:57.750
I could choose this into the discussions category
1216
00:58:57.750 --> 00:58:59.073
if I had one, I don't.
1217
00:59:00.150 --> 00:59:02.280
I could say, "Okay, in my discussions
1218
00:59:02.280 --> 00:59:04.560
when I set up my discussion, I said this was
1219
00:59:04.560 --> 00:59:07.797
a maximum points value of let's say 20."
1220
00:59:09.870 --> 00:59:11.670
Now as I scroll down,
1221
00:59:11.670 --> 00:59:16.096
when I'm building my grade item for this discussion thread
1222
00:59:16.096 --> 00:59:18.363
or a topic, I can choose a grade scheme.
1223
00:59:20.040 --> 00:59:24.240
I can build a grade scheme that is complete or incomplete,
1224
00:59:24.240 --> 00:59:26.970
pass, fail, participate, non participate,
1225
00:59:26.970 --> 00:59:29.760
percentage point value, letter, grade,
1226
00:59:29.760 --> 00:59:31.863
whatever I choose my scheme to be.
1227
00:59:32.850 --> 00:59:37.110
If I choose a scheme such as participate or not participate,
1228
00:59:37.110 --> 00:59:41.640
then I build a scale with a point value to that.
1229
00:59:41.640 --> 00:59:43.500
It then converts the point value
1230
00:59:43.500 --> 00:59:47.670
that the student receives into that scale.
1231
00:59:47.670 --> 00:59:49.830
And whatever the result the student received,
1232
00:59:49.830 --> 00:59:52.740
they will receive in their book, pass/fail
1233
00:59:52.740 --> 00:59:54.780
an incomplete or complete, a letter grade,
1234
00:59:54.780 --> 00:59:57.570
depending on how the calculation worked.
1235
00:59:57.570 --> 01:00:01.020
Now I know that's extremely broad and very quick,
1236
01:00:01.020 --> 01:00:04.710
but when you're managing grading discussions,
1237
01:00:04.710 --> 01:00:06.780
you have to use the combination of the grade book
1238
01:00:06.780 --> 01:00:09.780
and the discussion tool to set up the specifics
1239
01:00:09.780 --> 01:00:11.340
that you're asking for.
1240
01:00:11.340 --> 01:00:13.710
It's doable, it's a different workflow
1241
01:00:13.710 --> 01:00:14.960
than what you're used to,
1242
01:00:16.650 --> 01:00:18.753
but it does allow for that flexibility.
1243
01:00:20.370 --> 01:00:22.450
So if I were to save and close this
1244
01:00:23.910 --> 01:00:26.133
and go to my enter grades,
1245
01:00:27.450 --> 01:00:29.790
I could go to my category or what have you
1246
01:00:29.790 --> 01:00:33.210
and it would say, although it's worth 20 points,
1247
01:00:33.210 --> 01:00:36.000
it's going to convert to a pass/fail.
1248
01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:38.280
So the student would see either the pass/fail,
1249
01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:41.133
they would not necessarily see the points.
1250
01:00:44.910 --> 01:00:46.560
So Jennifer, I don't know if that answers
1251
01:00:46.560 --> 01:00:47.703
your question or not.
1252
01:00:49.500 --> 01:00:50.410
This is Wendy again.
1253
01:00:50.410 --> 01:00:51.810
I had a clarifying question
1254
01:00:51.810 --> 01:00:55.920
'cause I thought there was a text when you were setting up
1255
01:00:55.920 --> 01:00:58.560
an item in the grades area.
1256
01:00:58.560 --> 01:01:00.270
I thought there was an option for text
1257
01:01:00.270 --> 01:01:01.953
that you could enter text.
1258
01:01:03.240 --> 01:01:04.800
In the grade book?
1259
01:01:04.800 --> 01:01:06.300
Yeah.
1260
01:01:06.300 --> 01:01:09.210
So there is, there's a feedback area.
1261
01:01:09.210 --> 01:01:12.630
If I go to this discussion, part one item,
1262
01:01:12.630 --> 01:01:14.160
I can enter grades.
1263
01:01:14.160 --> 01:01:17.040
So I'm just going to this discussion and there's an area
1264
01:01:17.040 --> 01:01:19.800
where I can add a text response.
1265
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:21.600
Yeah, yeah, that's not what I meant, Jackie,
1266
01:01:21.600 --> 01:01:25.530
I'm sorry and I don't wanna derail the conversation.
1267
01:01:25.530 --> 01:01:27.903
I'll do some digging around.
1268
01:01:29.310 --> 01:01:32.040
So another way is a rubric with a text response.
1269
01:01:32.040 --> 01:01:33.480
You could do that.
1270
01:01:33.480 --> 01:01:38.400
And grading discussions is a different area as well.
1271
01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:42.750
So with discussions when I'm grading something
1272
01:01:42.750 --> 01:01:45.720
or assessing this, so I'm just gonna go here
1273
01:01:45.720 --> 01:01:47.250
to this working together,
1274
01:01:47.250 --> 01:01:52.050
I would click assess topic, in the assessment screen,
1275
01:01:52.050 --> 01:01:55.770
I can just go to a student.
1276
01:01:55.770 --> 01:01:58.590
Here is where I can add whatever feedback I need.
1277
01:01:58.590 --> 01:02:01.230
So when you're assessing this particular discussion,
1278
01:02:01.230 --> 01:02:02.610
you're not going to the grade book
1279
01:02:02.610 --> 01:02:04.830
to provide the grade value.
1280
01:02:04.830 --> 01:02:07.230
You're going to the assessment screen.
1281
01:02:07.230 --> 01:02:11.100
All of the discussions linked to that topic will be listed
1282
01:02:11.100 --> 01:02:15.570
here on this screen so you can view all of that activity.
1283
01:02:15.570 --> 01:02:19.170
You can add your overall grade here and the point value.
1284
01:02:19.170 --> 01:02:22.170
You can add your text feedback here
1285
01:02:22.170 --> 01:02:25.020
or grade from the discussion rubric.
1286
01:02:25.020 --> 01:02:26.520
And then once you publish,
1287
01:02:26.520 --> 01:02:28.800
it will then go to the grade book.
1288
01:02:28.800 --> 01:02:30.420
So you don't have to go to the grade book
1289
01:02:30.420 --> 01:02:32.790
and manually enter this if you've connected
1290
01:02:32.790 --> 01:02:35.043
the discussion to the grades.
1291
01:02:35.940 --> 01:02:38.442
So I'm sorry if I confused that,
1292
01:02:38.442 --> 01:02:40.320
but assessing and adding feedback
1293
01:02:40.320 --> 01:02:42.360
you can do from the discussions
1294
01:02:42.360 --> 01:02:45.000
and it connects automatically to the grade book,
1295
01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:47.133
and then converts it to the grade value.
1296
01:02:49.800 --> 01:02:50.900
Does that help, Wendy?
1297
01:02:51.960 --> 01:02:53.760
Is that what you meant? Let me know.
1298
01:03:02.220 --> 01:03:03.750
I'm muted. I'm sorry.
1299
01:03:03.750 --> 01:03:05.520
I had a slightly different question than that,
1300
01:03:05.520 --> 01:03:08.970
but we can follow up at another time
1301
01:03:08.970 --> 01:03:11.070
'cause I know that we are at time
1302
01:03:11.070 --> 01:03:12.600
and I wanted to just to make sure
1303
01:03:12.600 --> 01:03:16.110
that no one else had any final questions
1304
01:03:16.110 --> 01:03:19.773
before we signed off for the afternoon.
1305
01:03:29.490 --> 01:03:31.050
Well, thank you so much, Jackie.
1306
01:03:31.050 --> 01:03:32.850
Really appreciate your time.
1307
01:03:32.850 --> 01:03:34.630
We covered a lot of ground
1308
01:03:35.790 --> 01:03:39.180
and I know that it'll be super helpful
1309
01:03:39.180 --> 01:03:41.802
to go back and review this recording
1310
01:03:41.802 --> 01:03:43.830
to pick up on some of the pieces
1311
01:03:43.830 --> 01:03:45.210
that we might have missed.
1312
01:03:45.210 --> 01:03:49.166
So thanks again and thank you all UVM faculty and staff
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for showing up this afternoon.
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I appreciate your time.