Best Practices
- Gamification, Not Gradification: Use Yellowdig to Motivate Rather than Assess Student Learning
- STEM Best Practices
- Corporate Best Practices
- Introduction to the Best Practices Guide
- Do This #1: Set up points
- Do This #2: Make grading low-stakes, and enable grade passback
- Do This #3: Use our help resources, and share them with your students
- Do This #4: Set a generous point buffer
- Do This #5: Use accolades judiciously
- Do This #6: Require topics for posts and create them before the course starts
- Do This #7: Be the model for your learning community
- Do This #8: Introduce yourself
- Do This #9: Use "Pin to Top" on your posts
- Do This #10: Gamify your participation
- Avoid This #1: Do NOT make weekly Yellowdig assignment links in your LMS
- Avoid This #2: Don't constrain participation with narrow requirements
- Avoid This #3: Don't delete topics
- Avoid This #4: Don't expect disruptive behavior
- Avoid This #5: Don't micromanage
- Save Time #1: Encourage class-related questions
- Save Time #2: Quickly give good feedback