Online Course Peer Review

While at the RSP/ITeach conference this weekend, I attended a session by Jeannette Brewer of Desire2Learn.  She provided some fun tidbits of information that most of there had not been aware of.  Here’s one of them:

By inserting {firstname} into any HTML spot in your courses (news, content, release conditions, etc), D2L automatically places your students’ first names into your message.  This just adds an element of personalization to your class.  This also works if you’d like a student’s last name or username inserted — {lastname} or {username}.

I also learned a good deal about using release conditions to provide feedback.  I’ll present a “Learn from Each Other” session about that topic soon.