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Yellowdig - Social Learning/Discussion Platform (Overview)

What is Yellowdig?

Yellowdig is a student engagement tool or "social learning platform" that can be added to your course. It is a discussion forum with added social media conventions that allows students and instructors to easily share articles, web sites, even relevant videos that relate to their course content.

How can Yellowdig be used?

Yellowdig is commonly used in ASU Online courses in the place of a discussion board. Instructors can pin articles, links, videos, prompts, topics, etc. and automatically assign points to students based on word count, number of responses, and so on. Yellowdig integrates with the Canvas gradebook. From YD:

"As information is increasingly digitized and widely available, reading textbooks and memorizing facts is no longer the primary way to drive learning. And collaborative interactions with professors and peers are an increasingly valuable part of the learning experience. Yellowdig provides an easy means for learners and other users to communicate and collaborate about class content and share a broad array of timely and relevant learning resources from the wider world (e.g., videos, news articles, blogs and more).

The beauty of Yellowdig for this purpose is in its simplicity. It uses conventions from social media, which the majority of learners are very familiar and enjoy. This simple design combined with gamification and feedback that the platform provides helps students and instructors quickly and easily build collaborative learning communities."

How to get access to Yellowdig

Yellowdig has been installed at the root ASUO account level and is available to deploy in the course navigation menu or through an assignment for grade passback.

If a unit outside of ASUO wants to use Yellowdig they will want to reach out to UTO to see if it has been installed in their unit's Canvas subaccount. Units can request YD be installed using this form, https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfB7BUPOM6gdSSYdn_IZ6QI5ZMPeF8rv8YTxmBCKbezKiO-ow/viewform.

Yellowdig pricing information

The university has purchased a license for the academic enterprise. There is no additional cost to use Yellowdig.

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