{"id":11304,"date":"2020-06-26T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T09:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/?p=11304"},"modified":"2020-07-06T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:33:27","slug":"brightspace-lessons-tool-pilot-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2020\/06\/26\/brightspace-lessons-tool-pilot-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace Lessons Tool &#8211; pilot review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11357\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2020\/06\/LessonsScreenShot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11357\" class=\"wp-image-11357 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2020\/06\/LessonsScreenShot-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"Lessons (Version 1) Screenshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2020\/06\/LessonsScreenShot-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2020\/06\/LessonsScreenShot-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2020\/06\/LessonsScreenShot.jpg 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lessons (Version 1) Screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Overview<\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Lessons<\/strong> is an alternative way for staff and students to experience the Content tool in Brightspace. It provides a simplified approach to organising and viewing content, including colour-coded navigation in the left-hand column where each section can be expanded independently. This helps students move between different content areas without losing their place.<\/p>\n<p>The Lessons feature was piloted successfully during the last academic year (2018\/19) for one unit. In Semester 1 (2019\/20), the pilot was opened up to any unit leaders who were interested in trying it out.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 options when choosing Lessons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lessons v1<\/strong> provides a simplified colour coded left hand menu which shows all content modules. <a href=\"https:\/\/bournemouth.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=f9710d3d-27a6-466c-abff-aaa401113acb\">View a short demo of Lessons v1.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lessons v2<\/strong>\u00a0provides the same experience for staff as Lesson v1 but the student view is more focused on specific content modules.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bournemouth.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=152d6443-e382-4ec0-8c91-aaa401173738\">View a short demo of Lessons v2.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brightspace.bournemouth.ac.uk\/d2l\/le\/content\/18315\/viewContent\/1056755\/View\">Further information on the Lessons Experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Results<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The recent pilot took place in Semester 1 of 2019\/20 across 34 units and all faculties. The majority of participants opted to use Lessons version 1. Evaluation of the pilot was a mix of Brightspace unit data and a survey of the staff and student participants.\u00a0Overall, Lessons was received positively with the majority of participants, both students and staff, keen to have more engagement with the tool. It was found to be intuitive and easy to use for both faculty and cohort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over <strong>90% of staff<\/strong> would like to continue using Lessons beyond the scope of the pilot. And over <strong>84% of students<\/strong> would prefer to see Lessons used in more of their units.<\/p>\n<p>For further information view the <a href=\"https:\/\/intranetsp.bournemouth.ac.uk\/documentsrep\/Lessons%20Tool%20Pilot%20-%20Feedback%20Poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lessons Pilot 19\/20 Summary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080\">Get Involved<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you are interested in adopting the Lessons Tool on your unit, or would just like to try it out in your sandbox, then we would love to hear from you.\u00a0 Just get in touch with your Faculty Lead Learning Technologist:<\/p>\n<p><b>Faculty of Health &amp; Social <\/b><b>Sciences:<\/b> <b>\u00a0 <\/b>\u00a0 <u><a href=\"mailto:hsslearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk?subject=Using%20Lessons%20in%20Brightspace\">hsslearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p><b>Bournemouth University Business School:<\/b><b>\u00a0 <\/b><u><a href=\"mailto:bubslearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk?subject=Using%20Lessons%20in%20Brightspace\">bubslearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p><b>Faculty <\/b><b>of Media &amp;<\/b> <b>Communication:<\/b><b>\u00a0 <\/b>\u00a0 <u><a href=\"mailto:fmclearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk?subject=Using%20Lessons%20in%20Brightspace\">fmclearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p><b>Faculty <\/b><b>of Science &amp; <\/b><b>Technology<\/b>: \u00a0 <u><a href=\"mailto:scitechlearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk?subject=Using%20Lessons%20in%20Brightspace\">scitechlearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p><b>Doctoral College:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 <u><a href=\"mailto:pgrlearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk?subject=Using%20Lessons%20in%20Brightspace\">pgrlearningtechnology@bournemouth.ac.uk<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Lessons is an alternative way for staff and students to experience the Content tool in Brightspace. It provides a simplified approach to organising and viewing content, including colour-coded navigation in the left-hand column where each section can be expanded independently. This helps students move between different content areas without losing their place. The Lessons&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2020\/06\/26\/brightspace-lessons-tool-pilot-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Brightspace Lessons Tool &#8211; pilot review<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":11166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,704,343],"tags":[449,1205,1206],"class_list":["post-11304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brightspace","category-teaching-and-learning","category-vle","tag-brightspace","tag-lessons-tool","tag-pilot"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11304"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11380,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions\/11380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}