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System Widget: Learner Awards - Best Practices
What is it? Figure: The Available Awards tab for the Learner Awards widget. Challenge your users to compete against themselves. The Learner Awards widget will show learners the badges they’ve already earned, and, more importantly, the badges that are available that they haven’t earned yet. Users can gauge their progress…
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System Widget: Multi-Profile Widget
What is it? Figure: An example of the Multi-Profile widget. The Multi-Profile Widget provides a flexible, dynamic homepage solution that allows multiple roles and functions to be presented directly to learners on a course homepage. Drawing on Classlists and User Profiles, the Multi-Profile Widget automatically pulls in the…
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System Widget: Content Navigator - Best Practices
What is it? Figure: An example of the Content Navigator widget. The Content Navigator is a streamlined widget that gives users quick access to course topics. Users can select to move from module, to submodule, to content for more direct access. This widget tracks and displays navigational history and allows one-click…
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Custom Widget: Content Navigator - Best Practices
Custom Widget: Content Navigator - Best Practices What is it? The Content Navigator is a streamlined widget that gives users quick access to course topics. Users can select to drill down from module, to submodule, to content for more direct access. This widget tracks and displays navigational history and allows one-click…
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3 Quick Tools To Get You Teaching a Course in D2L’s Brightspace
1. Add Announcements TEST Have to post an announcement for your course? Don’t be stressed- you can do this! Follow along with this video, and post your first Announcement in less than 2 minutes. Does your class use Activity Feed instead of Announcements? No sweat- We have an Activity Feed Tutorial too! 2. Add Content Need…
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Custom Widget: Welcome Window - Best Practices
Custom Widget: Welcome Window - Best Practices What is it? The first time a user logs into a course, the Welcome Window widget will display a pop-up message. This message can include text, images, and even short videos! Course creators and administrators can easily edit and update the content in the pop-up message, and you…
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Custom Widget: Visual Table of Contents - Best Practices
Custom Widget: Visual Table of Contents - Best Practices What is it? This widget is an information, navigation powerhouse. The Visual Table of Contents creates a card in the widget for every module created in the course. The card contains a unique image for each module; and pulls in the description and number of topics for…
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Custom Widget: Learner Awards - Best Practices
Custom Widget: Learner Awards - Best Practices What is it? Challenge your users to compete against themselves. The Learner Awards widget will show learners the badges they’ve already earned, and, more importantly, the badges that are available that they haven’t earned yet. Users can gauge their progress and push themselves…
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Custom Widget: Slim Announcements - Best Practices
Custom Widget: Slim Announcements - Best Practices What is it? The Slim Announcements widget presents a simplified, unified view of announcements, by trimming the display to a single image and a set length of text. The widget allows learners to read more with a click and presents a slimmed-down streamlined display to avoid…
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Custom Widget: K12 Footer - Best Practices
Custom Widget: K12 Footer - Best Practices What is it? The K12 Footer displays a decorative footer on the homepage. Designed specifically for the K12 audience, the K12 Footer offers a choice of four thematic styles. Use this widget when… …your homepage needs to visually engage Use a K12 footer theme to add style and flair…