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INTEGRATING D2L APPLICATIONS INTO YOUR COURSE

Mary BohmanNorb Thomes, Ph.D. Winona State University

QUESTIONS WE WILL ADDRESS…

What applications are available?

What do they do for me?

Where do I get them and how do I set them up?

WINONA STATE UNIVERSITY

Fall of 2014 all students, staff and faculty

received a tablet as a part of the e-Warrior Program at

WSU.

WHAT APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE?

D2L Binder• Collect, organize and annotate content from

D2L courses• Supports highlighting & written annotation• Saves documents to the application (access

material offline)

D2L Assignment Grader• Connects to the D2L Dropbox• Allows for offline grading, and provides audio/

video feedback options• Syncs grades to D2L Grades when back online

EDUDENTITY ACCOUNT

• Create EduDentity account to access all annotation options

• One account for both applications

• Best practices is to create an account before accessing either application

WHAT IS D2L BINDER?

Manually select specific content from D2L courses and store within the application

Organize and annotate material to customize studying

Provides a variety of annotations options

Export documents and store within the app.

D2L BINDER INTERFACE

Use Fetch to retrieve documents from the courses in which you are enrolled

Use My Binder to access documents you have downloaded onto your tablet

BinderFetch

ANNOTATION OPTIONS

D2L BINDER DEMO

EXAMPLES OF CLASSROOM INTEGRATION

Annotate and review Powerpoint presentations

Draw on worksheets

Read and annotate articles

Save paper by going digital

At this point in time, Binder is download only.

Any uploads are done through the browser interface.

WHAT IS D2L ASSIGNMENT GRADER?

Connects to your D2L Dropbox

Access student submissions

Score and sync to D2L gradebook

Annotate student submissions

Provide written, audio and video feedback

NAVIGATION

FEEDBACKOPTIONS

D2L ASSIGNMENT GRADER DEMO

INCORPORATING INTO GRADING

• Grade anywhere anytime

(Download documents and grade offline)

• Save time and reduce amount of typing

(Speech to text, audio or video)

• Create personal and engaging feedback(Online course / Office meeting)

GRADING USING HIGHLIGHTING

• Create a color coding system (general or specific)

• Highlight (no written feedback

just highlighting)

• Provide video feedback

(verbally give an overview of the

paper)

WHERE CAN I FIND BINDER AND GRADER?

D2L Binder• D2L Binder can be downloaded from the iOS

App Store, from the Google Play Store or the Windows Store

D2L Assignment Grader• D2L Assignment Grader can be downloaded

from the iOS App Store (for iPad)• There are currently no Android or Windows

versions

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