Yellowdig is a dynamic social learning tool that greatly improves on Canvas's built-in Discussion tool for student engagement and interaction. From Yellowdig's introductory resource:
Yellowdig is an online learning platform that leverages an understanding of human behavior and gameful technology to build healthy online learning communities. Yellowdig is primarily used in curricular settings, but also works great to build co-curricular, faculty or other specialized communities.
Yellowdig is available to all courses through a student-pay model. If you plan to use Yellowdig in your course, please use the following language for any courses that will use Yellowdig:
You will be asked to pay for Yellowdig for this course. The following information may be helpful:
- Cost: $9.95 for the term per course.
- How to Pay:
- When you access your course in Canvas for the first time, you will see a link to Yellowdig within the course navigation.
- Upon launching the tool for the first time, you will see a payment window asking for credit card information, which will be collected through a reputable online payment site called Stripe.
- After processing payment, you will be given unlimited access to Yellowdig for our course for the duration of the academic term.
- If you have questions/issues while making your payment, please contact Yellowdig Support or by emailing [email protected].
- If you are experiencing financial hardship and are unable to purchase access to Yellowdig for our course, please reach out to me via email, and I will do my best to accommodate you.
Instructor resources
- Instructor Certification Course (takes approximately 1 hour)
We strongly recommend completing the main certification course, as well as any optional modules that might be relevant to you and your course (e.g., network administration, co-curricular use cases, STEM use cases). Other benefits of this course include:- The Files tab contains helpful resources, including instructor case studies and email/syllabus templates.
- In-course sidebar links to Yellowdig's Knowledge Base, YouTube Channel, Blog, and website status page.
- Getting Started
- Creating a Community
- Points and Accolades
- Navigation