This tech tip features information about the Network of Educational Development, also known as the NED. The NED resources site looks like the following: The NED has a number of resources instructors can use for their courses. These include the following: Webinars Short Courses Long Courses Faculty Learning Communities Conferences...
The Completion Summary is a feature of the New Content Experience, allowing faculty to immediately review how students are performing on that activity. There are no options to remove or hide the completion summary by default. There are two components that help keep the private data private when presenting in...
This tech tip will highlight four articles from the Minnstate System Office. Please feel free to use these as reference for creating and editing course materials: Create an Announcement in D2L Brightspace New Content Experience for Instructors in D2L Brightspace Create a Quiz in D2L Brightspace Create an Assignment in...
As we prepare for fall semester, this tech tip points out the semester start up widget on the D2L Brightspace homepages. The widget is located in the upper right portion of the D2L Brightspace homepage: Direct links to each D2L Brightspace Homepage are as follows: Inver: https://inverhills.learn.minnstate.edu/ DCTC: https://dctc.learn.minnstate.edu/
This Tech tip is to highlight resources that will assist faculty with reaching the ADA Compliance deadline of Accessibility Compliance in their courses. All Minnesota State employee electronic documents and course materials must adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standards by April 24, 2027. These guidelines...
You can use the arrow keys on the keyboard to position the piece of content where you need it to be. Click on the grab handle so it is highlighted: Press Enter, a tip menu will appear: Use arrow keys on your keyboard to put the piece of content where...
This tech tip is to emphasize the best way for a student to contact their instructor. One of the best ways for students to contact is to let them know your availability. The instructor profile widget is a great way to do this. The following are some facts about the...
This tech tip provides instructions on how instructors can turn on tools that have been turned off in their courses. Tools that have been turned off by default in the May release include: Course Builder FAQ Glossary Instruction Design Wizard * Learning Activity Library * (* = listed as “Accelerator”...
This tech tip will serve as a quick reference guide to show the content structure in the new content experience. In the previous content experience, there were modules and topics. In the new content experience, there are units and lessons. Simply put what was called a module, is now...
This week’s tech tip contains four articles that are useful for wrapping up the semester: Create custom Grade schemes in D2L Brightspace How to Request a D2L Extension for a Student Import D2L Brightspace final grades into eServices Release final Grades to students in D2L Brightspace These articles are also...
