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Changing Course Banner Text

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...

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Tech Tip: The New Discussion Experience

This tech tip highlights changes made to the layout of the discussion tool during the April 2023 D2L Brightspace release. These changes were made to bring consistency to the creation and editing experience of discussions. 1) Within the Discussion tool, you have the ability to toggle between the old and...

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Tech Tip: Sending a Chat in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a dynamic tool that combines file sharing, web conferencing, chat, and more. Faculty are beginning to use this tool as part of their online teaching strategy, especially in those disciplines that use a cohort model. You can even use Teams to collaborate with people outside of Minnesota...

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CTL Faculty Resource Bulletin

Faculty Resource Bulletin  Highlights of this week’s bulletin include:  Formalities  Opportunities for Faculty Support and Development  Faculty and Student Resources  Potpourri  Minnesota State Events and Development Opportunities  National and Vendor-Sponsored Events and Development Opportunities  Formalities  A Note from Fran Kennedy   Hi everyone! What a whirlwind the last few weeks have...

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Faculty Resource Bulletin

Highlights of this week’s bulletin include:  A Note from Fran Kennedy   A Message from the Information Technology Department   CTL Open Labs and Consultations  Tech Training – Upcoming sessions  Discipline-Specific Learning Communities DCTC Lunch n Learn  Accessing Articles from The Chronicle of Higher Education   CTL Resources to Support Students   ...

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