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LXD Style Guide

iPD’s Guide for Course Design & Development

Brightspace

Unit Checklists

Plus courses will include a unit checklist that provides all graded assessment names, points, and aligned objectives. Each checklist will be titled “Unit X Checklist.” Within the checklist, the category will be titled “Unit X Assignments.” Within each category, the items will be called “X.1 X: Title.” The number of points and the objectives the assignment aligns with will be included in each item description.

Gradebook Progress Checks

Plus courses include a progress check after each unit. The Progress Check should include all graded assessments up to the Progress Check. Ex. Progress Check Unit 2 includes all graded assessments from Getting Started, Unit 1, and Unit 2.

Discussions

The Discussion Board in Brightspace is used to build peer-to-peer discussion assignments. Discussions may not be used in unfacilitated rolling-enrollment courses.

Accommodated Quizzes

In order to comply with 504 or IEP accommodations that require a reduced graded quiz choice number, a second version of each quiz will need to be created in the Brightspace course. The Accommodated Version of each quiz should have one fewer distractor for Multiple Choice questions than the original version.

Rubrics

Teacher-graded assessments need to include scoring rubrics. Rubrics should be attached to the assignment for grading purposes and available for students to review before assignment submission.