Authored by Customer Success at D2L.
STEP TWO: Create a Personalized Plan
Download the attached workbook to walk you through all the steps required to build your personalized plan, including: building a team, setting goals, communication planning, and change management strategy.
STEP THREE: ‘How-To'
Information for content creators and system administrators:
| ‘How-To’ Information for Content Creators | Technical Details for System Administrators |
| My Courses Widget |
Task: Widgets are typically set up by your system administrators and added to your organization’s homepage – as opposed to the homepage of a course that you are creating the content for. As a content creator you do not have to do anything to make sure your courses appear in a user’s “my courses” widget.
User Resources: Add widgets to a homepage tutorial (video), Customize the My Courses Widget tutorial (video), About the My Courses Widget (print-based resource)
Supplemental Resources: Set up and deliver a course - Brightspace Help (online resource) | Availability: This feature is available to all customers.
To enable: Make sure you have permissions turned on for the my courses widget. D2L recommends that you turn on the d2l.Tools.MyCoursesWidget.UpdatedSortLogic configuration variable. Use the Customize this Widget option to configure the My Courses widget to display tabs that organize courses by Semester Name, Department, or Role for the Org.
User Resources: Add widgets to a homepage tutorial (video), Customize the My Courses Widget tutorial (video), About the My Courses Widget (print-based resource)
Supplemental Resources: [BROKEN LINK]Common Learner Course Access Role Properties & My Courses Widget Configurations (online resource). [BROKEN LINK]Auto-Pinning in the My Courses Widget (online resource) |
| Intelligent Agents |
Task: Chose the criteria that will trigger an intelligent agent to send an automatic message to learners - Ex/ course activity or login activity. Set the message learners will receive and schedule your intelligent agent to run automatically at the frequency that suits your needs (daily, weekly, monthly, annually).
User Resources: [BROKEN LINK]Intelligent Agents quick reference guide (print-based resource), Intelligent Agents for Instructors tutorial (video), [BROKEN LINK]Intelligent Agents (webinar)
Supplemental Resources: Brightspace Help (online resource), Getting Started for Instructors tutorial (video) | Availability: This tool is available to all customers.
To enable: Make sure you have permissions enabled for the employees who will be setting up this feature in your compliance courses.
User Resources: [BROKEN LINK]Intelligent Agents Templates: Increase Instructor to Learner Engagement (print-based resource)
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| Awards Tool |
Task: Create badges and certificates to reflect the achievement of different milestones within a course offering and upon course completion.
User Resources: [BROKEN LINK]Awards tool quick reference guide (print-based resource), Awards Tool for instructors tutorial (video), Awards – Create a Badge (video)
Supplemental Resources: [BROKEN LINK]Awards: Creating a Custom Certificate (print-based resource), [BROKEN LINK]5 Bright Uses of Awards Tool (Community article) , [BROKEN LINK]Game Mechanics at Play: Getting Ready to Gamify (Community article) [BROKEN LINK]Game Mechanics at Play Part 1 and [BROKEN LINK]Part 2 (Community articles) | Availability: This feature is available to all clients.
To enable: Make sure the roles assigned to faculty/instructors have permissions to use and make changes to either the announcements tool or the activity feed widget.
User Resources: [BROKEN LINK]How to get started with Awards API (print-based resource), Awards Tool Brightspace Help Guide (print-based resource)
Supplemental Resources: For more information, refer to the Fundamentals for Administrators (tutorial video playlist) |
WHAT'S NEXT?
Select the option that matches how you’re feeling:
I’m ready to build my personalized adoption play, take me to the workbook! – Compliance Training Workbook
I would like to learn more about change management before getting started on the workbook and personalizing this play – [BROKEN LINK]Adoption Change Management Strategy Guide for Corporate
Using this play and the attached workbook along with the change management strategy guide, will walk you through building your own personalized adoption play from start to finish.
Don’t forget to refer to the Corporate Adoption Playbook often to check out what other plays are available or in progress!
Not a Corporate Customer?
If you are or a Higher Education customer or a K-12 customer, we have an Adoption Playbook just for you!
