Faculty can easily create pages/files in Content in D2L Brightspace course sites by using premade templates. Using templates provides a great way to layout instructions for activities, give an introduction to a unit/chapter/module, provide additional content or information around a video, add some visual flare around your course, and much...
As you are preparing your courses for fall, it is important to keep in mind the usability and universal design of online courses. One aspect of this is having online videos be accessible by ensuring they include captions. When you are presenting a video in an online course, it’s always...
Stay on top of your meetings and easily launch them directly from the Zoom desktop application by linking your calendar with Zoom! In your Profile: https://minnstate.zoom.us/. Click the Connect to Calendar and Contact Service button under the 'Calendar and Contact Integration' section. Click the Office 365 option when you 'Select...
On July 1st, D2L will purge courses from Spring 2018 A course purge means that courses are permanently deleted from the system. D2L only keeps course courses that are from the past six semesters. However, if you want to keep your courses intact for future use you can. Keeping your...
You have the ability to customize the homepage of your course site within Brightspace with your own unique widgets. This is great for personalizing your course site for your course's benefit. A "widget" is simply a digital box that you can display information in. Our default course homepage actually has...
With the summer semester approaching, I would like to use this tech tip as a reminder of the usefulness of coping courses. You can copy course(s) from previous semesters to upcoming summer 2020 semester. This will save you time as you prepare your materials. Please find the documentation for copying...
A recent update to our Kaltura Mediaspace - D2L Brightspace integration has given faculty and students to more easily record video and or audio content and add it directly into a D2L Brightspace course. Faculty and students can now open the My Media section under Insert Stuff within the HTML...
Brightspace users can now listen to documents in D2L through “ReadSpeaker TextAid”. Users can access ReadSpeaker TextAid trough the navigation bar inside their D2L class site by clicking “Resources” and then “ReadSpeaker TextAid”. A few benefits to this technology are: Users can listen to the documents audibly Users can follow...
This long awaited, and commonly asked for, feature is finally here for D2L Brightspace! You can now take your entire course site within D2L Brightspace and easily copy it over to another institution without having to download, re-upload, or lose any features within your course site. Now we can directly...
