Teaching & Learning Community WebinarJanuary 24, 2017

Jennifer Hendryx and Brian LedwellUniversity of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Dressed to the Nines: Making Content Fashionable

Main conference: July 19-20 (Wed-Thu)

Post-conference: July 21

Fusion 2017

Brightspace Connections

Manitoba Connection• Friday, May 26

• Red River College

• Winnipeg, Manitoba

• Registration page coming soon

Minnesota Connection• Friday, April 21

• Normandale Community College

• Bloomington, MN

London Connection• Mid-May

• Details coming soon

www.d2l.com/events/regional/

Upcoming Webinars

Build Up Your (e)Portfolio: Getting Students Using Digital Portfolios to Invest in Their Future

• Tuesday, January 31

• Amanda Keesee, University of Central Oklahoma

Feel the Love from Your Students: Brightspace Tools for Increasing End-of-Course Student Ratings

• Tuesday, February 7

• Thomas Tobin

www.d2l.com/resources/webinars/

bit.ly/TLCwebinars

Brightspace Teaching and

Learning Community (TLC)

Webinars

Dressed to the Nines:Making Content Fashionable

Jennifer Hendryx

Instructional Designer, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Brian Ledwell

Multi-Media Developer, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Why use Content Templates?

Consistency Flexibility Accessibility

More interesting

They look pretty!!!

My Criteria…

Cautionary Tales

Switching templates deletes page content

CSS Page layout can get messy

Keep an original CSS copy

Test pages in multiple browsers

CSS nav buttons don’t allow time on task tracking

Storing the files

Org level

• Organization Files

• System Admin

Course level

• Manage Files

• Course instructor

FileNaming

• Unique names

• Separate folders

Uploading and using content templates

Content Templates

https://goo.gl/KXd3oC https://goo.gl/UQsSm0

UWO D2L

https://brianledwell.com/d2ltemplates