This tech tip shows how to use the Dev Course Request Tool to create your own dev shells: 1. From your course navigation bar, click the Resources menu, then select the Dev Course Request Tool: 2. Click the menu icon: 3. Select Dev Course Request: 4. Click the plus (+)...
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...
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...
Beginning on Thursday, November 17, you will be able to edit text in rubrics that have been used to evaluate student work. The purpose of this feature is to correct spelling and grammatical errors and clarify expectations. These minor changes will not impact the academic integrity of a rubric. To...
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...
This tech tip shows how to restore a quiz that was deleted from a course in D2L Brightspace. From your course homepage navigation bar: 1. Click Assessments > from the dropdown menu select Quizzes 2. Ensure Manage Quizzes is selected: 3. Click More Actions, then select Restore 4. From the...
