Stream Your Films for Your Students

Many of you are considering assigning an activity that involves your students watching film-length films outside of the class. One option to increase the effectiveness of this type of an activity is to make the film available to your students by streaming. This means that your students can access the film via the internet and watch it in the convenience of their own home.

To stream your videos through D2L, contact Nikolas.Hunnicutt [at] colorado.edu, the Media Production Manager for Continuing Education. He can put your DVD into the Kaltura streaming system and then, through D2L, you can add the Kaltura tool to your D2L page and students can access your video at home, any time. The instructions for accessing your video once it is in Kaltura can be found here.

The next step, would be to create a D2L quiz as a comprehension follow-up to the video. Come see me for help!

Keeping Your Students Organized: The "Checklist" Tool in D2L

In the online environment, it is absolutely pivotal that the instructor be clear about assignments, deadlines, and the general expectations that they have of their students. One way to effectively communicate a set of tasks to your student population is through a checklist. D2L has a tool that allows the instructor to create and categorize checklists and then link steps within each checklist to external websites or to other tools within D2L.

Say you want your students to read an entry in their textbook, then watch a YouTube clip, then contribute to the discussion board; then you want to encourage those who need extra practice to watch a follow-up tutorial. You want to be sure that the order of all of these steps is clear and you want to add deadlines to different steps as well.  Make a checklist!

Come visit Courtney and we can plan dynamic lessons that are easily executed by students using this D2L tool.