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  1. Yellowdig
  2. For Instructors and Teaching Assistants
  3. Best Practices

Best Practices

  • Introduction to the Best Practices Guide
  • Gamification, Not Gradification: Use Yellowdig to Motivate Rather than Assess Student Learning
  • STEM Best Practices
  • Corporate Best Practices
  • Do This #1: Use the Help button, and direct students to it
  • Do This #2: Make grading low stakes, but enable grade passback
  • Do This #3: Set up points
  • Do This #4: Use the weekly points maximum with a 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
  • Save Time #3: Again, don’t constrain participation with strict requirements