Online Assessment That Helps: A Closer Look at the D2L Grades Tool
This long-form video is designed to provide a comprehensive view for educators teaching from prebuilt courses of the D2L Grades tool and connected assessment practices. This video is also included as an interactive video quiz within TE125 TEACH.
OUTLINE OF VIDEO CONTENT
PART 1: Intro Video
00:00 Introduction to Online Assessment that Helps with framing scenario, video overview and broader inquiry question: what online assessment practices help or hinder?
PART 2: Features & Limitations
1:13 Key Features: Live Gradebooks, Whole-Class Comparative View, Color-Coded, Quick Scores Export, Multiselect Emails
4:06 Caveats & Limitations
PART 3: AT PIMA
06:09 Assessment Design at PimaOnline: Low-Stakes Formative Assessments and some Summative Assessment
PART 4: A D2L GRADEBOOK WALKTHROUGH
07:20 Assessing from the D2L Grades Tool: A Walkthrough
07:40 D2L’s Class Progress Tool
08:40 Grading Individual Items from the D2L Grades Tool
09:43 A Closer Look at the Grading and Rubrics Experience
10:10 Using Rubrics to Assign Point Values with Automated Custom Feedback by Criteria
10:55 Seeing the Full Rubric from Course View (and how to print out from your computer or as a PDF)
11:48 Scoring & Providing Feedback from D2L Grades
12:39 Grading All Items from the D2L Grades Tool
13:00 Sharing Whole Class Feedback for a D2L Grade Item
PART 5 SCENARIOS
PART 5A: ZILCH
13:22 Scenario “Zilch”
14:00 Using the “Select All” Checkbox within D2L Grade Item and Deselecting
14:24 What Helps or Hurts with Written Feedback? Sample “Placeholder Grade” Feedback.
15:24 What Helps or Hurts When it Comes to Scoring: On Zeros and Fs.
PART 5B: THE SEEDLING
15:58 Scenario: The Seedling
16:20 Set Your Grades View: A Time Saving Tip
17:32 Using Spreadsheet view: Pros & Cons
18:43 Lets Look Closer at that Submission: How Download or Open within D2L’s Document Viewer, Full Screen and Highlight or Add Feedback and Further Annotate in the Margins
20:28 Responding to the Seedling Scenario
20:39 Feedback Sample #1: Accountable but Flexible (Partial Credit)
21:39 Feedback Sample #: A Generous Guide (Full points with first assignment; expectation setting for next)
PART 6 ACTIONABLE FEEDBACK
22:05 Actionable Feedback for Revision referencing what specifically to revise.
22:42 Actionable Feedback for the Next Assignment
23:00 Where to Provide Feedback: Overall or Within Rubric Criteria?
23:21 Actionable Links and Resources We Can Provide as Instructors (Including D2L Content quick links)
24:52 Adding Feedback Within Linked Rubric Criterion Rows s (And a Look at automated feedback)
25:49 The Hunky Dory Question: What Happens When Students View Scores First?
26:02 Adding Audio Feedback to Share Your Encouraging Tone of Voice
26:16 Stringent from the Start or Being Flexible at the Outset
PART 7 FINAL CAVEATS, PRACTICES & RESOURCES
26:43 Final Caveats and Workarounds:
26:56 PBL and Project Tracking
27:31 Reflective Practitioners: Student & Teacher Artifact Bulk Downloads,
28:08 Autograding, Autofeedback & Completion Grading in Quizzes vs. Discussions or Assignments
28:27 Completion Grading and AI Review, Survey Grades, vs self-assessment D2L Quizzes
28:45: One-to-One Links vs Multilinks,
29:18: Student Tailoring Gradebook Views (switching from project to category)
29:45 Automated Nudges vs Personalized Grade-Lift Nudges
30:15 Flexibility & Support Strategies: Dropping Lowest Grades or Setting Up D2L “Intelligent Agents” as Reminders
30:27 In-App Guidance for Pedagogical Experience vs Linking Out to the PimaOnline Student Guide or Using our Faculty Quicklinks Widget
PART 8 FINAL TIPS
31:19 Jargon: “Final Calculated Grade” = Current Overall Grade. How do we ensure current overall grades are visible to all students.
33:29 Release Grades to Make Grades Visible: For Individual Students & For All Students.
34:19 For Further Learning: TE125, TE150 and LEAD 180 Rethinking Rubrics
34:35 Connected Videos at D2L’s YouTube Channel
authored by Reed Dickson