Comments on: Send a Course Progress Notification (CPN)

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 03 May 2018 01:01:33 +0000

I was an early adopter of CPNs, but I stopped using them. Initially, the student responded to a CPN. It was as if he or she sat up straight in the chair, but then within a minute or two, slumped backed over, drooling. I couldn’t get a change in behavior beyond the “OMG” moment.

I can often, though, get a change if I am in e-mail contact with the student over the course of the term.

For example, if there’s an assignment that’s due on a Friday, I’ll check Saturday morning to see who has completed it and who hasn’t. Then I’ll send a very light “check in” e-mail saying I hadn’t see a posting or a paper assignment from them. The key is to keep it light and open. 80% of the time, they respond or don’t — but do work towards completing the late assignment.

bryan

By: Will Mahoney-Watson

Will Mahoney-Watson — Wed, 02 May 2018 18:08:28 +0000

CPN is an excellent tool for the students, but it works poorly. The inability to accept single or double quotes means that contractions like “can’t” can’t be used.

Also when you click Preview Message, there is no way to go back and fix a simple error without starting over completely. If you have written a detailed message to the student, it’s completely lost (unless you copy it first).

By: Andy Freed

Andy Freed — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:25:10 +0000

Hi Nanci,

Sadly, there isn’t a good connection between D2L and the CPN tool currently. We would love to explore this though because you get such a great overview in the D2L User Progress tool. The CPN tool is aging (though still effective), but many of us in student services areas are asking for a more modern tool that would connect to our various systems.

By: Nanci Leiton

Nanci Leiton — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 19:45:21 +0000

Is it possible to connect the Progress stats from D2L to CPNs in Banweb? Or is there an alternative notification process in D2L?

I’m finding that I can do most everything in D2L and don’t visit Banweb much at all after the first week or so of term.

Thanks, Nanci

By: Debbie austin

Debbie austin — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 19:05:27 +0000

About a year ago I started sending CPN’s to all students in my classes two times during the term; after week 4 grading is complete and again after week 7 grading is complete. I have realized several benefits from this and am amazed by the positive responses I get from students every term. It gives me another opportunity to connect with every student, even the great students. The students who are performing well love the positive encouragement and the students who are not performing well like the additional support it provides them. The CPN tool is so easy to use that it doesn’t take a lot of time to quickly send notes to every student.