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...
You can now pin an announcement to the top of your Announcements widget. Pinning an announcement keeps important information visible to students throughout the semester. Multiple announcements can be pinned, but the most recently pinned message will appear at the top of your list. From the Announcements widget: Select the...
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...
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...
