D2L ePortfolio Colalboration & Sharing

Collaborative Learning
Develops higher level thinking skills
Increases student retention
Develops oral communication skills
Develops social interaction skills
sets high expectations for students and teachers
development of empathy (add emotion and subjective experience to the meaning and learning)
Development of empathy
Classroom resembles real life social and employment situations

From 44 benefits of collaborative Learning

Sharing to different groups for different reasons could be everyone or anyone


Sharing thoughts, ideas, multiple presentations, artifacts, reflections anything part of our learning experiene

giving the learner their own voice

feedback
engagement
group work
develop analysis and evaluation skills
improved reflection
learners see and compare different styles and approaches

Students shared efolio with each other and learned and reflected on how stories were told and how it related to them

ePortfolio discussions
peer review
group work
social networks
community
presentation

The ePortfolio is the how not the why

Top 10 ePortfolio Sharing Tips & Tricks
10.Viewing and Commenting
sharing with individuals
* seach by course
* search by user
Allow commenting--Create Discussion

Admin Setting up Role Permissions (slightly different than other role admin)


9.Using Rubrics for Structured Feedback
Solcit Structured Feedback
* Define a Rubric
* Set ePortfolio Item Permissions
* Set ePortfolio User Permissions

(Rubric can be submitted to a dropbox)

You have to define the rubric
Enable the assessment
Set privileges

8. Edit Permissions for Colalborative Activities
Allows others to edit your ePortfolio materials
Might see some changes in this function as the tool is worked on more

7. Using Invites
Several ways to take advantage of Invites to Enhance Sharing
* Rss Feeds
* External Mail invites
* Personalized message with inviet
* Dashboard notifications

6. Presentations Feedback by Section
Allows users to provide feedback on specific aspects of a presentation
* Page level feedback
* Artifact level feedack

*****Go to the presentation ePortfolio as a tool for Engagement from learning site, then copy it to your desktop and then you can copy the template ??

5. Permission Profiles
User and org unit permission profiels to make sharing faster
* Course or groups for sharing
* Defined set of peers
* common people shared to
* define once

4. Presentations: Public Availability

3. Presentations: External Users
grant external users reviewing privileges in addition to view
sends email and creates temp user

2. Collections to Auto-Share
Share a Collections
* Iems added to the collection manually automatically shared as part of the collection
* Dynamic Collections
**Created based on tags
**Tag items--automatically added to collection & automatically shared

1. Forced Permission Profiles
Automatic Sharing