We got an update to #D2L over the weekend. It was already acting squirrelly since the middle of last week but boy howdy is it a hot mess now.

Anybody else having more trouble with it than usual or is it just me?

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I don't know why I've been so slow coming to this but the utility of group feedback in online assignments only just clicked for me today and oh. My. God. I probably just clicked paste on "please see group feedback" 30 or so times instead of writing the same comments over and over and swear to Betsy it cut my grading in half.

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I read How Learning Works (Ambrose et al.) over the break and took a crash course.

Breaking down my rubric into component parts, focusing only on meeting LOs, grading lightly. . . I just got through the first sets of their exercises in probably half the time it usually takes me.

My own little twist? I set gradeability criteria, so some people's I didn't even bother with because they hadn't actually done the thing yet. Just sent 'em back to the drawing board lol

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D2L is going to be the death of me.

I have my modules set up so that students are forced to work their way through them from top to bottom (lots of Release Conditions lol) and D2L reset one of the release conditions over the weekend, in effect hiding all of the lectures from some of my students.

I know it wasn't me because up through Saturday afternoon students were accessing them just fine, thank you very much.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2020/06/28/online-college-classes-should-have-no-more-than-12-students/?sh=47dc05c23179

Well I'm f***** then because I have 60 in one section and 55 in the other.

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Student, joining class on 5th day: "I just got here. Did I miss anything?"
Me: "It's asynchronous--you can start at the top of the module page and work your way through it until you're caught up."

It's what I love, love, love about #TeachingOnline asynchronous. If this were a F2F class, he'd have missed two entire meetings and getting him caught up would be a hecking nightmare.

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It's Friday of the first week of the semester, and fully 25% of my students haven't even entered the course yet (we're #asynchronous #online). Is that similar to what others of you experience? It's Intro to #Psych, if that matters, a #GenEd requirement filled mostly with #college #freshmen and #HighSchool students.

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So I screwed up the access conditions for one of my assignments last week and nobody could see it. I fixed it. It's got 50+ submissions in it now. Today, a student trying to catch up on some late work tells me he can't see the damn thing: I go to look and

. . . #D2L has reverted to the incorrect version of the access conditions. How does that even happen???

Whatever. It's fixed now. Again.

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#GhostInTheMachine

So I screwed up the access conditions for one of my assignments last week and nobody could see it. I fixed it. It's got 50+ submissions in it now. Today, a student trying to catch up on some late work tells me he can't see the damn thing: I go to look and

. . . #D2L has reverted to the incorrect version of the access conditions. How does that even happen???

Whatever. It's fixed now. Again.

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Y'all, I am so tickled with myself this morning!

I just figured out a cute way to create a virtual bulletin board for my online, asynchronous psychology classes! I made this in padlet. Students can comment, ❤️, or add items of their own.

I can embed it at the top of every module so it's on their current course page every week--like a real one at the front of a F2F classroom.

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