It is important that students know how they are progressing in a course, and that we submit our ICCB and Federal reports on time. These things are not possible without timely data entry by the instructor. Late reporting leads to potential grade appeals by students, and fines for the college. If you have any questions regarding due dates or the submission process, please do not hesitate to reach out to your department, Dean, or the Teaching and Learning Center.
1. Login into D2L Brightspace at https://d2l.ssc.edu and navigate to your section.
2. Click on “Colleague Gradebook” from the blue navigation bar.
3. Click the appropriate tab for your data submission: “10th Day Attendance, Active Pursuit, Midterm Grade or Final Grade“.
10th DAY ATTENDNANCE: Enter either a capital S for satisfactory or a capital NS for not satisfactory. If entering a NS, for 10th Day Attendance you should also place a checkmark in the “Never Attended” box. This is the only time during the semester when you should mark a student as “Never Attended”.
ACTIVE PURSUIT: Enter either a capital S to verify that the student is still regularly attending your course or a capital NS if they are not. If you mark a student as NS, you should also enter the date that the student Stopped Attending class.
MIDTERM GRADE: Active Pursuit and Midterm Grades are to be submitted at the same time. Credit Midterm grades are A-F. Non-credit are P or V.
FINAL GRADE: Credit Final grades are A-F. Non-credit are P or V.
4. Click “Submit“. Be sure to verify that there are no errors after the data is processed. Please contact ssconline@ssc.edu with any questions.
Above is a recording of this SSC Online Workshop presented by math instructor, Jennifer Medlen.
Original Workshop description:
See how a math instructor at SSC easily aligned the online scoring of a Kahoot! quiz to the SSC Critical Thinking Rubric for general education assessment. Ideas will be discussed for creating a similar type of alignment with other College rubrics.
Cengage Unlimited textbooks and learning content integrates with D2L Brightspace courses. Students must access their Cengage material through their SSC D2L courses.
Instructors and students can follow these easy directions should they have any trouble.
OER stands for “Open Education Resources” and is linked to an educational movement that began about 20 years ago and has become a global educational movement. Instructors who use OER course material in their courses are using freely available, high-quality educational resources in order to bring textbook costs down for students. OER, in essence, are freely available, openly licensed resources such as textbooks, media, videos, articles and more – that are useful for teaching, learning and accessing as well as for research purposes.
Interested in trying out Open Education Resources in your course? Follow these easy steps to begin:
Step 1: Understanding the Benefits of Open Education Resources
Using Open Education Resources in your course provides many benefits, but here are just a few to consider:
Equity to Students: Students will have access to quality learning materials that can be accessed repeatedly without any access roadblocks.
Saves Money: Students may save on the purchase of textbooks or course materials.
Scalability: Instructors can easily adopt OER material that can be distributed widely with little or no cost.
Enhancement of regular course content: multimedia, images and other resources allow for students to receive content in different formats that match with their learning styles.
Step 2: Become Familiar with OER Licensing
Before finding OER material for your course, step two is becoming familiar with OER licensing and terminology, as faculty will have to cite the OER material and license used in their courses. The person who creates OER content decides how the content they created can be used by other educators. For example, they decide the following:
Content can only be Adopted = the OER resource can only be used “as-is”
Content can be Adapted = the OER resource can be revised, updated, and converted as long as the original source is cited.
Want to share your content with other educators? Faculty can create their own OER material and share with other educators. In doing so, they would select how they wish to license their OER content (Adopted or Adapted). Instructors can contact the Teaching and Learning Center or the SSC library to obtain a list of free OER platforms to publish shareable content.
When selecting an OER resource: Faculty must make sure the license for that content also allows for the use, modifications, and distribution. These are commonly known as the 5Rs – Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute.
Retain – allows instructors to make, own, and control a copy of the OER resource (e.g., download and keep your own copy)
Revise – allows instructors to edit, adapt, and modify a copy of the OER resource (e.g., translate into another language)
Remix – allows instructors to combine OER content (include their own creation) to create something new (e.g., make a mashup)
Reuse – allows instructors to use original, revised, or remixed copy of the resource publicly (e.g., on a website, in a presentation, in a class)
Redistribute – allows instructors to share copies of original, revised, or remixed copy of the OER resource with others (e.g., post a copy online or give one to a friend)
Watch a short video explaining:
“OER Bootcamp 0: What OER’s are and why they are important” video by Sarah Morehead on YouTube and licensed under CC BY 4.0 .
Step 3: Find a free OER resource to use in your course
There are a variety of OER repositories, collections, and directories and the list is endless. Often the trouble lies with locating content that fits precisely with what the instructor is seeking.
Below are just a few resources to get instructor’s started.
Need help citing the OER source you plan to use? If instructors use OER resources, make sure to properly cite your source. Visit the free Attribution Builder – enter the source and license to generate an OER cite to post with your course material.
Step 4: Calculate cost savings to your students?
If you are an instructor at SSC and plan to use Open Education Resources in your course, let the Teaching and Learning Center and SSC Library know by completing this short 4-question form. Completing this form will allow us to calculate cost savings to students.
Complete OER Usage Form (Login using SSC username and password)
Need more assistance in getting started? Make an appointment with the Teaching and Learning Center and SSC Library by emailing ssconlne@ssc.edu.
Announcements posted in D2L courses are an effective way to communicate with your students. Students will receive the announcement in their D2L course, in their Alerts (bell next to their profile name) and if they have downloaded the D2L Pulse mobile app, they will receive a text-like message.
Posting an Announcement
Enter your D2L course
Scroll down to the Announcement Widget
In the drop down arrow, select New Announcement
Complete the Headline and Content
Select a Start Date, add a file (optional) and select Publish
Your Announcement will now appear in your D2L course shell
Note: Announcements can also be found in a D2L course under More, Course Admin
Under Communication, select Announcements
Creating an Announcement through the Course Admin, allows instructors the extra feature of Pinning the Announcement to always appear at the top
