Presentation by Denise Huff of Spartanburg Community College at the D2L Connection: South Carolina Edition on October 28, 2022 at Piedmont Technical College in Newberry.

1. Don’t Tell Me…Show
Me!
Increasing engagement and learning outcomes
using GoReact and D2L

2. What’s
Your
Content?
• Where this works:
• Languages
• Communication
• Nursing
• Performing Arts
• Teacher Education
• Skills-based courses

3. Engaging
our
students
• “Formative assessment is
relational and can itself serve as
a basis for building relationship
and community in a course”
(Formative, 2021).

4. Lynch, 2018

5. What’s the drawback
to these assessments?

6. What if you could make it easier
and less time-consuming?

7. Authentic Assessments

8. Simple
Administration
• Choose from a range of
options:
• Type of prompt
• Who sees or provides
feedback
• Grading options: rubrics,
points, or no grade
• Let’s set up an assignment

9. Personalized Feedback

10. Involve Students
• Ongoing, explicit feedback that is
formative, engages students, and is feed-
forward rather than feedback are the
aspects of effective learning for students
(Evans, 2013).
• GoReact allows:
• Group presentations
• Self-reflection
• Peer Reviews

11. Faster Grading
GRADING
MARKERS/STAMPS
COPY/PASTE
COMMENTS FOR
LONGER FEEDBACK
INSERT VIDEO,
AUDIO, OR TYPED
COMMENTS
INSERT LINKS RUBRICS

12. Citations
Evans, C. (2013). Making Sense of Assessment Feedback in
Higher Education. Review of Educational Research, 83(1), 70–
120. https://doi.org/10.3102/0034654312474350
Formative assessment and scaffolding online learning. (2021).
New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education, 2021(169), 51–
60. https://doi.org/10.1002/ace.20413
Lynch, M. (2018, April 15). How to use Bloom’s digital taxonomy.
The Edvocate, https://www.theedadvocate.org/how-to-use-
blooms-digital-taxonomy/