Active
Learning & Assessment Using D2L Email
The D2L EMAIL tool has the following
general uses:
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Teacher-Student Communication (responding
to student questions, establishing individual connections, broadcasting
common communication to all)
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Student-Student Communication
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Checking Understanding (Classroom Assessment
Techniques)
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Peer Feedback and Assessment
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Sending and Receiving Assignments (optional)
Specific Active Learning and Assessment Activities
1. Expectations
Near the beginning of the course,
ask students to send you an “expectations” email. Ask them to tell you
briefly what they expect to learn or do in the class, what they hope to
learn or do in the class, and what they fear they'll have to do or learn
in the class (and would rather not).
2. Muddiest Point
At the end of a Course Content
unit, ask each student to send an email to you that describes the “muddiest
point” (the concept or information from Course Content that is most unclear
to them after they've finished reviewing it).
3. Learning Note
After an assignment, ask students
to send you an email (sometimes called a “process memo”) briefly describing
what they learned from the assignment. A variation of this might be to
ask the students to connect the assignment with a course learning outcome
that the assignment helped them achieve.
4. Quiz Questions
Based on textbook materials or
Course Content, students write and submit potential questions, some of
which show up on their quizzes.
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Active
Learning & Assessment
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