Do These 4 Things During Your Yellowdig Community
#1: Use accolades judiciously Accolades are awards for outstanding contributions. When a student receives an accolade for a post or comment, they receive a point bonus (depending on your point settings and on the student’s proximity to the periodic max). While accolades can help drive engagement and “gamify” the Community, accolades must be used judiciously […]
Telling Your Learners About Yellowdig [FOR INSTRUCTORS]
Use these customizable templates to introduce Yellowdig to your students. [Italicized & bracketed] text must be changed or reviewed. Additionally, if you don’t have all your point-earning categories enabled (such as points for reactions or comments on posts), you will need to revise the templates accordingly. For additional assistance introducing Yellowdig to your students, feel […]
Tuning Topics
Are you ready to create topic tags for a Yellowdig Community and don’t know where to start? Start by answering these questions. What do I want my learners to have conversations about in the Yellowdig Community? How do I make sure they are having conversations about course relevant topics without giving a prompt? First start […]
A Q & A on Shifting from Prompts to Topics
I worked as an instructor teaching online communication classes for more than a decade and can remember designing courses and putting in hours to come up with the “right” discussion question(s) each week that tied to weekly outcomes. I was creative and asked students to connect course ideas to their own personal examples. Through the […]