This tech tip is about setting a synchronous quiz. A synchronous quiz allows all students to start and finish a quiz at the same time. The timer will end the quiz at the deadline, regardless of when the student logged in. For example, when you schedule a one-hour quiz starting...
This Tech tip shows you how to change the text in your course homepage banner. This can serve as a tool for engaging students’ attention whenever they log in to the course. Changing the text of the homepage banner will not affect the title of the course since the title...
This tech tip will explain how you can easily access your courses and pin them to your D2L Brightspace homepage. If you do not see your course on your D2L homepage, you may need to search for it. 1. Click on the course selector icon at the top of the...
The purpose of this tech tip is to demonstrate how a student can change their preferred name in eServices. This is the responsibility of the student. Once the student changes their preferred name in eServices, the change will take effect in D2L Brightspace 1. Go to the college website For...
This tech tip demonstrates how to ensure that your students are enrolled in the proper discussion group. To ensure that students see the correct discussions, please do the following: 1. From your course navigation bar, click “Communication” then select “Groups”: 2. From the “View Categories” dropdown menu, ensure that the...
When you are working with content within a D2L Brightspace course, you may want to delete a topic. Since there are associated files within D2l Brightspace, it's important that you only delete the topic from the content view and not the associated files (such as quizzes, discussions, etc.). From the...
In the new quiz experience, the timing on new quizzes will default to “No Time Limit”. Along with this option, you have “Recommended Time Limit” and “Enforced Time Limit”. Recommended Time Limit means that you can enter how many minutes students have to take the quiz. Enforced Time limit means...
From the classlist in D2L Brightspace, you can now identify the groups and sections that a specific student belongs to. This will be helpful if you have had your course sections combined and or have created multiple groups in your course. 1. From the classlist, click the down arrow beside...
Creating an Instructor Bio widget on your D2L Brightspace homepage is an easy way to connect with your students. This allows your students to know how to contact you right away when they log in to your course homepage. In the widget, you can include your picture as well as...
The purpose of this tech tip is to explain the process of requesting a publisher integration for your online course. An LTI integration is used when you want your students to access another piece of software as part of your course, without logging out of D2L Brightspace. The following is...
