Best Practices
- Introduction to the Best Practices Guide
- Gamification, Not Gradification: Use Yellowdig to Motivate Rather than Assess Student Learning
- 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