Providing information about supported learning technologies at uWaterloo. Our primary learning system, Waterloo LEARN, receives monthly system updates from our vendor, D2L. Highlights of those updates will be posted here.
Welcome back for the Winter semester!
What's New?
Video Recordings in Discussions and Quizzes
Students can now add video recordings in discussion posts and in written response quiz questions!
Turnitin is being upgraded to Turnitin Feedback Studio for the Winter 2017 semester. This new version provides the same functionality, but uses an updated look and feel. Once you open the Originality Report you will see two tool bars on the right hand side. The blue one contains the GradeMark functionality and the red one contains the Originality Report functionality. There is also an option to return to the Turnitin Classic View.
What's New:
Some new look and feel changes to the Quizzing tool have been introduced to Waterloo LEARN. The next time you create a multiple choice question you will be given the opportunity to opt-in or out of the design changes. Once you opt-in, however, you won't be able to opt-out again. Similar changes will coming to other question types in future updates.
Welcome back for the Fall semester. Over the summer months, there were a few system updates to note.
What's New?
Discussions:
New for the Fall 2016 term!
D2L has introduced some new terminology which Waterloo LEARN will be adopting. The most significant changes that will impact instructors and students are the following:
What's New:
A new Group Enrolment Type has been introduced, called 'Single user, member-specific groups'. This group category will create a group for each student and use the first and last name of the student as the group name. It will also automatically create a new group when a new student is enrolled in the course. The Single-user group enrolment type would primarily be used for journalling activities in Discussions.
Fixes:
What's New?
D2L continues to improve their functionality using Rubrics with Discussions. The Overall Score from the Rubric will now automatically transfer to the Topic Score of the Discussion. Before, it was necessary to manually transfer the grade over.
Instructors now have the ability to override the number of quiz attempts allowed for an individual student through Special Access.
Fixes:
When marking in a Dropbox, if draft feedback was saved, the date/timestamp wasn't updated when the Publish Feedback icon was clicked. The date/timestamp will now update as expected.
Requesting single section courses can be done by logging into Waterloo LEARN and clicking the Request a Course link found in the Instructor Tools widget. Once you have submitted the request we will approve it as quickly as possible and in most cases the course will be available after 9:00 am the next day.
