Blended learning is an oft-used term that can mean many different things to various people. RRC’s Nursing Faculty is coming to grips with those meanings as they embark on an ambitious initiative to transform their program delivery into a blended model. Read More →

Release Conditions Introduction (Brightspace Community Video)

Please note that the instructor and student view in this video are using an old version of Brightspace (LEARN) on another institutions system.  The layout of course content may seem unfamiliar.

Attaching a Release Condition to a Quiz

(Brightspace Community Video)

Release conditions allow you to create a custom learning path through the materials in your course. When you attach a release condition to an item, users cannot see that item until they meet the associated condition. For example, you could attach a release condition to the second topic in your course’s content area that would hide that topic until users viewed the topic before it. Or you could create a condition that required users to view a content topic before gaining access to a quiz, or one that required them to post to a discussion topic before they could see a content module.

If you attach multiple conditions to an item, users must meet all conditions before they can access the item. For example, you could require users to visit the first three content topics in a unit before gaining access to an associated quiz.

More information available from the d2l Resource Centre:  https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/Release%20Conditions

Intelligent Agents Video (Brightspace Community Video)

Log in Criteria + Release condition Intelligent Agents (Brightspace Community Videos)

Intelligent agents monitor an org unit (course) to find activity that matches criteria that you set. The criteria that the agents search for are login activity, course activity, and release conditions in Learning Environment.

Example uses for intelligent agents include:

• Emailing users with grades below a certain level.
• Checking for users that have not logged in within a specific number of days.
• Checking for users that view a specific content topic.

Detailed instructions available through d2l Resource Centre: https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/Intelligent%20Agents

Tagged in: LEARN, How to Videos

Description: This video shows how to register your i>Clicker in a LEARN course when enabled by the instructor.

Tagged in: LEARN, How to Videos

Description:

You can import CSV files into Respondus, but please keep in mind that it does not support the import of Excel “.xls”/”.xlsx” file formats.

In order to make Respondus work with CSV files, you need to create CSV document in a specific format so that Respondus can accept it and create a quiz.

Please note that CSV only supports the five common question types:

MC = Multiple Choice
TF = True or False
MR = Multiple Response (Multi-Select)
FB = Fill in the Blank (Short Answer)
ES = Essay (Long Answer)

You will need to use the Respondus Standard Format for importing the other supported question types.

Importing the CSV File Into Respondus

1. In Excel, save the .CSV file and then close file in excel.
2. Open Respondus
3. Click “Import Questions”
   
4. Change the “Type of file” to “Tab/Comma Deliminated” and then click “Browse”
5. Select the file and click Open.
6. Next, leave all the default settings and click “Preview” (this is where you may get an error if you haven’t closed the file in excel) *optionally you can indicate it should skip the first row.  In your CSV that row is not actually questions.  If you don’t do this step you will simply get a warning later.
   
7. Click OK if everything is looking good.
8. Next you have to name it, click Preview again, and then Finish.  *make sure to review the warnings and notes. In the example below, all of the warnings are from not telling it to skip rows up on step #6.
   
9. Confirm everything looks good in Repsondus, and you’re good to go!

For more information about how to import CSV file into Respondus click here: Importing CSV Files, or contact LEARN Support at learn@rrc.ca

Windows includes a free, easy to use utility to capture an image of anything your desktop: Snipping Tool. It allows you to snip a rectangular section of the screen or even draw a freehand outline that you can then annotate, save, or e-mail right from the Snipping Tool window. Read More →

These are our English pluralization rules:

1. For nouns ending in a consonant, add the letter s to make the noun plural (e.g., books).
2. For nouns ending in ch, x, s, and s-like sounds, add es (e.g., witches).
3. For items ending in y, change the y to an i and add es (e.g., supplies).
4. For some nouns, use the irregular plural form (e.g., children).
5. For Latin and Greek nouns, use their respective plural forms (e.g., syllabi).
6. For acronyms, add an s (e.g., NGOs).
7. For years, add an s (e.g., the 1980s).
8. For credentials, add an s (e.g., PhDs)
9. For profession acronyms, add an s (e.g., MDs)
10. For single alphabet letters, use an apostrophe  + s (e.g., She got four A’s and two B’s.)
11. For reference to plural words, use an apostrophe + s (e.g., The sentence has too many and’s.)

Read More →

Colleague is Red River Colleges SIS. It does many things in the College that handle day to day duties such as handle budgeting, assign students to courses and programs and many other tasks. LEARN takes advantage of this and uses some of the data from Colleague to build Course Offerings and handle all of the enrolments automatically to LEARN. Below is a list of the times users are actively enrolled in their courses: Read More →