Modify the homepages
The homepage is the first page you see when enter your course. The typical homepage contains various widgets. Widgets are sections of content that provide information and links to tools, courses, and personal settings. You can customize the layout and appearance of your homepage by creating a custom homepage.
- Who is this for: Online Instructors
- What is required: A D2L course and custom widgets
Steps
View the Desire2Learn documentation: Adding and moving widgets on your homepages.
Tutorials and technical support
- About the Hybrid Template
- Accessing D2L Brightspace
- Activate My Course
- Activity Feed Guide
- Adding someone to your course
- Assignment Annotations
- Changing course start and end dates
- Create a Checklist
- Creating a Quiz Report
- Delete a grade item or category
- Exclude a grade from total
- Import a course
- Importing ExamView quizzes into D2L Brightspace
- Link a D2L activity to a grade item
- Manage Dates
- Navigating D2L Brightspace
- Quick Eval
- Sharing your course content
- Using Attendance in D2L Brightspace
- Using the Announcements
- View my course as a student
- What’s New in D2L Brightspace?
- Adding release conditions
- Uploading media to our streaming server – My Media/Kaltura
- Creating random sections in quizzes
- About Content
- About Grades
- About homepages
- About Question Library
- About Quizzes
- About widgets
- Adding enumeration to quiz questions
- Adding modules and topics to content
- Adding special access to a quiz
- Adding video or other media to your course
- Adjust course access dates
- Awarding extra credit or bonus points
- Changing an automatically graded quiz answer
- Copy course content to a new course
- Correcting Quiz scores
- Create a course backup or export a course
- Creating a grade book with the Grades Setup Wizard
- Creating a grade scheme
- Creating a new HTML file based on an existing file
- Creating a quiz with questions from the Question Library
- Creating and activating your course homepage
- Creating questions in the Question Library
- Creating quizzes
- Creating, editing, and activating your navigation bar
- Enable WeBWorK integration with D2L
- Importing and exporting grades
- Importing Captivate activities as SCORM objects in to D2L
- Importing questions to the Question Library from an existing quiz
- Manually grading a quiz question
- Modify the homepages
- Printing a quiz
- Recommended Grades settings
- Regrade a quiz after changing a question
- Releasing final grades to students
- Releasing quiz results to students
- Remove all content in your D2L course
- Resetting a quiz attempt
- Submitting a quiz in progress
- Understanding final grade calculations
- Understanding grade schemes
- Using completion tracking
- Using weighted grade items and categories
- Web accessibility for online class
- Record a screen capture using Kaltura Capture
- Understanding how groups are set up
- About discussions
- About Groups
- About Intelligent Agents
- About Rubrics
- About the Email tool
- Adding a graded discussion topic
- Adding new topics and forums
- Creating a Group
- Creating and running an intelligent agent
- Creating groups with discussions/assignments at one time
- Creating time extensions and special release criteria for Assignments
- Enrolling users in groups
- Getting updates and notifications on your mobile device
- Grading assignments and leaving feedback
- Grading discussion posts
- Importing TestGen quizzes into D2L Brightspace
- Linking rubrics to assignments and discussions
- Locking a discussion topic
- Managing Rubrics
- Monitoring class and tracking User Progress
- Restricting access to discussion and/or assignment by group
- Seeing student view of the completed Rubric
- Setting due dates and late submission dates for an assignment
- Setting release dates and restrictions for content
- Setting start and end dates for discussions
- Student must post before participating
- Using a rubric to grade an assignment or a discussion
- Using respondus to create quizzes
- View student discussion participation with View Topic Statistics tool
- Creating a Rubric
- Using the Classlist
- Guide: First time working with Desire2Learn?
- Guide: Getting your class ready at the start of each term
- Guide: End of the Term
- About Assignments
- Creating an assignment
- OER sharing guide
- Uploading files in D2L with WebDav
- Managing modules and topics in content
- Submit Assignment on student’s behalf
- Insert Films on Demand videos
- Grading discussion topics
- Adding a librarian to a D2L Brightspace course
- Download media and captions from Kaltura
- Create group discussions that use a single grade item
- Using Video Note in D2L Brightspace