Week 3

IDL-7140

LMS Evaluation Introduction

Hello, Members of the Board,

I am here today to share the findings from this week's evaluation of D2L Brightspace and Google Classroom.

The Gradebook tools allow the teacher to integrate assignment drop off spaces, quizzes, and rubrics. The plagiarism tools are helpful to students (they can see where they should paraphrase). Teachers can use the tools like Turnitin.com to teach students about the importance of intellectual properties.

The five tools I will cover are as follows:

Change "GradeBook" settings. Create Electronic Gradebook Categories & Items (Integrated with Dropbox, Quiz, and Rubric)
Create Dropbox Assignments, Turnitin.com, and Grading Rubric
Create Quiz Questions in Question Library
Create Electronic Grades for Quizzes, Create Quiz, Modify Quiz Settings, and Add Randomizing Question Set to Quiz
Conduct Quality Check (Demo Student Drop Off Assignment and Instructor Grade Assignments)

D2L LMS Evaluation

CHANGE "GRADEBOOK" SETTINGS, CREATE ELECTRONIC GRADEBOOK CATEGORIES & ITEMS (INTEGRATED WITH DROPBOX, QUIZ, AND RUBRIC

Here is how to change the electronic gradebook settings in D2L.

Go to Grades

Click Settings

Select Personal Display Options tab

Under Grade Details:

Points grade, Grades scheme symbol, Grade scheme color

Repeat Final Grades select both options

Under the Start Page select Manage Grades

Click save

CREATE DROPBOX ASSIGNMENTS, TURNITIN.COM, AND GRADING RUBRIC

Teachers can enable 3rd party tools like Turnitin.com to D2L . Also, the rubric tools allow for ease in grading.

Assessment

Dropbox

Name the Dropbox (Week #1 Dropbox

20 points for the "out of"

Check the originality check

Under Show advanced originality checking options

Display select "allow submitters to see originality reports"

Save and close

CREATE QUIZ QUESTIONS IN QUESTION LIBRARY

Create five questions for the Quiz library.

Assessment

Quizzes and Exams

New

Select the question type (5 different types)

Save

CREATE ELECTRONIC GRADES FOR QUIZZES, CREATE QUIZ, MODIFY QUIZ SETTINGS, AND ADD RANDOMIZING QUESTION SET TO QUIZ

Change the settings in D2L Gradebook for:

Properties (Quiz name, Auto Export to Grades, Auto Grade)

Restrictions (Active quiz, set dates, time for 90 minutes, Select auto-Submit Attempt)

Attempts (Unlimited Attempts, Averageof all attempts calculation)

Submissions (Show questions is "No," Select "Show attempt score and overall score)

CONDUCT QUALITY CHECK (DEMO STUDENT DROP OFF ASSIGNMENT AND INSTRUCTOR GRADE ASSIGNMENTS)

Google Classroom LMS Evaluation

CHANGE "GRADEBOOK" SETTINGS, CREATE ELECTRONIC GRADEBOOK CATEGORIES & ITEMS (INTEGRATED WITH DROPBOX, QUIZ, AND RUBRIC)

Select Grades

Click Student name
View details
Click on assignment
Grades/Point value (right side)
Add Private comment (right side)
Comment directly on document
Click return (to student)

CREATE DROPBOX ASSIGNMENTS, TURNITIN.COM, AND GRADING RUBRIC

Select an Assignment

Activate originality reports

Click run

Originality report, generates

Can click on the hypertext originality report.

CREATE QUIZ QUESTIONS IN QUESTION LIBRARY

Under Classwork

Create

Quiz Assignments

Create a quiz

Select 5 different types of quiz questions

Assign quiz

CREATE ELECTRONIC GRADES FOR QUIZZES, CREATE QUIZ, MODIFY QUIZ SETTINGS, AND ADD RANDOMIZING QUESTION SET TO QUIZ

Go to Classwork tab

Select Assignment

View Assignment

Click on a student's name

Right side-assign grade to quiz

Grade

Return graded assignment to student

CONDUCT QUALITY CHECK (DEMO STUDENT DROP OFF ASSIGNMENT AND INSTRUCTOR GRADE ASSIGNMENTS)

Demo student

Recommendation

This week D2L Brightspace was the most complete with tutorials and very detailed instructions to follow to setup gradebook and make changes. Although the setup in D2L is very heavy loaded, once the tools are created the implementation should save time. Google Classroom's limitations included:

You must have Google Education in order to use the originality check as a student. I was not able to integrate a trial Turnitin.com account. This limited what I could test for the originality report.

Overall, D2L Brightspace is the most comprehensive and this is important when grades are concerned.

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