YellowDig

What Is It?

Yellowdig is a social pin-board for teams that lets you quickly share items of interest, assess student participation, and drive class discussions within your private community. Integrated into Blackboard Learn, Yellowdig helps to turn your course into a social learning community. Students have a familiar looking site similar to other social networks with the ability to post and share content. Faculty are capable of setting up a point system to rate the quality of content posted which in turn can be published back to the Blackboard gradebook and used as a participation score. 

• Short Video Overview of Yellowdig (3 minutes)
• To get started:
  • View an video overview of Yellowdig Engage (10 minutes)
    
  • View our Quick-Start Guide for Yellowdig to learn how to add Yellowdig to your Blackboard course
    
  • View a presentation Yellowdig provided to Villanova Faculty on how Yellowdig works (65 minutes)
  • More info available at Yellowdig Getting Started. 

Enhancing Student Engagement with Yellowdig

Watch how faculty can utilize Yellowdig to enhance student engagement and communication their courses

2023 Yellowdig Mini-Workshops

• Workshop #1: Motivation (Watch)
• Workshop #2: Course Relevance (Watch)
  
• Workshop #3: Instructor Presence (Watch)
• Workshop #4: Data to Inform (Watch)

Click here to watch 2018 panel event with Villanova faculty, University of California instructor, and Yellowdig representative.

• 2018 Event: Improve Student Engagement and Communication, an Introduction to "Yellowdig", held on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 (Noon-1:30PM) Bartley 1011.

Yellowdig is a social learning platform integrated within the Blackboard LMS. Faculty and students are able to share their own content, drop links to videos, articles, photos and more -- while others are able to like, comment and leave feedback on posts -- creating media-rich, engaging discussions online. Yellowdig offers a point system, to motivate student participation, and to provide data to faculty on each student's participation and engagement in courses.  This event was facilitated by Yellowdig representatives. Additionally Villanova instructors, as well as a professor from another institution, were present to share their experiences and answer questions about the platform.

Click here to watch 2017 panel event with Villanova faculty and Yellowdig representative.

• “Yellowdig Introduction and Roundtable With Villanova Faculty Members” held on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 (12-1:30PM) Bartley 1011.

Yellowdig representatives introduced the Yellowdig product, a social learning network, and the rest of the event had Villanova faculty panel sharing how they use Yellowdig in their courses.  Yellowdig is a social learning network integrated into Blackboard, helping to turn courses into a social learning community.  With a look familiar to popular social networks (Facebook), Yellowdig allows faculty to quickly share items of interest, assess student participation, and drive class discussions within your private community.  Faculty can even setup a point system to rate the quality of content posted and published it back to the Blackboard gradebook.

Please direct any questions to support@villanova.edu