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How to Delete Unwanted Grade Items from your Gradebook
If you would like to delete a grade item from your gradebook, please do the following: From the course navigation bar, click Assessment > Grades: Click “Manage Grades”: Select the grade item: Scroll up and click “More Actions” and click “Delete”: Select the item again Scroll down and click the “Delete” button: Click […]
Faculty Resource Bulletin
Highlights of this week’s Bulletin include: CTL Events and Calendar: Upcoming Trainings Mentoring Groups and Faculty Support TILT Community of Practice Conversations with Colleagues: Guiding Difficult Conversations Minnesota State Spring Educational Development More Events and Development Opportunities Minnesota State highlight: Discipline-Specific Faculty Learning Communities Vendor highlight: LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor | multiple dates CTL […]
Restoring Deleted Discussion Posts
The purpose of this tech tip is to demonstrate how you can restore discussion threads that may have been deleted. From the discussion tool with in your D2L course site, click the “More Actions” button, and choose “Restore”: Click the “Restore” button next the deleted discussion thread: If you delete an entire forum, you can […]
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Accessibility
Accessibility is an important consideration in all aspects of teaching and learning, and especially critical online in learning environments. Check out these tutorials to assist you in your efforts to make your courses accessible to all students.
Learn about AccessibilityCourse Design
We are happy to meet with faculty who are interested in building a new course, revising an existing course, or want to discuss ways to integrate new technology into their teaching practice.
View Course Design ResourcesBrightspace Learning Opportunities
Our staff facilitate in-person Brightspace trainings on campus every semester, including summer. See the Events and News page for a full schedule of these learning opportunities.
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Resources to help you move course content and student engagement to an online environment.
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Faculty development programs and services include those coordinated by the Director of Teaching and Learning and D2L site administrators and programs coordinated directly by college faculty.
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We provide eLearning support for D2L Resources, Course Design, Academic Technology, MediaSpace, Zoom Web Conferencing, Respondus Quiz Generator, D2L Quiz Conversion Tool, ReadSpeaker/TextAid, eBooks and Direct Digital Materials, Accessibility Resources, Open Educational Resources and much more!
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This collection of resources and the support efforts of our staff are aligned with our college values, especially: Excellence: Focus on quality in programs and services, Innovation: Encourage and reward new ideas, proactive thinking and use of evolving technology, and Accountability: Maintain effective and efficient programs and services.
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