Tutorials and technical support
D2L Brightspace Course Guides
The following guides have been developed to organize important sets of support resources:
- Using D2L Brightspace to keep your class running
This guide will help you put course materials online as an academic continuity option for 2020 and beyond. - Getting your class ready at the start of each term
This guide will help you prepare to teach a course in D2L Brightspace. - End of the Term
As you approach the end of the term, this guide will help you make sure you cover all the details for finishing up your course.
If you’re just getting started…
- Accessing D2L Brightspace: learn how to access your D2L Brightspace course
- Navigating D2L Brightspace: learn how to navigate within D2L Brightspace
- View my course as a student: a way for you to view your course from the student view
Tool specific:
- Announcements: Using the Announcements: post-course updates, changes, and new information to your students within your Course Homepage
- Content: post your course materials (e.g. syllabus, course calendar, etc.) (NEW –workshop video)
- Assignments: Creating an Assignment: a way for you to collect individual student’s assignment and organize it within your course, rather than cluttering your email (workshop video)
- Discussions: Adding new topics and forums: a way for you and your students to collaborate and discuss an assignment or course material together (New discussion experience workshop video)
- Quizzes: Creating quizzes: a way for you to assess your student or collect an assignment that can be auto-graded or manual grading by you
- Grades: Everything you could possibly want to know about Grades: your students can view their own grades and your feedback (workshop video)
- Online Rooms: Using Zoom – an instructor’s guide: create a virtual office hour or remote learning class time for you and your students (workshop video)
Overview Sessions
- Basics 1 – Navigation & Announcements: Learn how to navigate D2L Brightspace, post announcements, and send an email.
- Basics 2 – Adding Instructional Content: Learn how to add instructional materials to the content tool and set up a basic Zoom room.
- Basics 3 – Adding Graded Activities: Learn how to add basic assignments, discussions, and quizzes to your D2L Brightspace course.
- Accelerated Basics – Getting Started in Brightspace: These sessions cover Basics 1, 2, and 3 in a 90-minute session.
- Tour of the Assessment Tools in Brightspace: Learn about your assessment tool options in D2L Brightspace, including assignments, discussions, quizzes, as well as additional interactive tools such as Voicethread.
Individual D2L Brightspace Guides
Announcements & Activity Feed
Assignments
- About Assignments
- Creating an Assignment
- Setting due dates and late submission dates for an assignment
- Adding release conditions to an assignment
- Submit an assignment on student’s behalf
- Link an assignment to a grade item
- Grading Assignments and leaving feedback
- Adding annotations to a student’s submission
- Reviewing submissions with Quick Eval
- Time extensions and special release criteria
- Anonymous Marking Assignments
Content
- About Content
- Adding release conditions to a module/topic
- Adding modules and topics to Content
- Managing modules and topics in Content
- Setting release dates and restrictions for content
- Using completion tracking
- Uploading files with WebDAV in D2L
- Adding video and other media to your course
- Record a screen capture with Kaltura Capture
- Creating a new HTML file based on an existing file
- Upload media to our streaming server (Kaltura)
- Integrate WeBWorK with your D2L class
- Remove all content in your D2L course
- Insert Films on Demand video
- Managing & Editing your videos in My Media
- Download a video from Kaltura (My Media)
- Caption a video in My Media
- Share your course content with others
- OER sharing guide
- Using Video Note
- Web accessibility guidelines for online classes
Course Admin
Course Offering Information
- Changing course start and end dates
- Activate your course (campus course only)
Homepages
Navigation & Themes
Widgets
Import/Export/Copy Components
- Copy content from another course
- Create a course backup/ Export a course
- Import a course or course package
Manage Dates
Manage Files
Intelligent Agents
Discussions
- About Discussions
- Adding new topics and forums
- Setting start and end dates
- Adding a graded discussion topic
- Link a discussion to a grade item
- Adding release conditions to a discussion forum/topic
- Grading discussion posts
- Grading discussion threads with Quick Eval
- View student discussion participation
- Add Video to discussions with Video Note
- User must compose before participating
- Create group discussions that use a single grade item
Email & Classlist
Grades
- About Grades
- Everything you could possibly want to know about Grades
- Understanding final grade calculations
- Creating a grade book with the Grades Setup Wizard
- Using weighted grade items and categories
- Understanding grade schemes
- Creating a grade scheme
- Awarding extra credit (bonus) points
- Exclude a grade category or item from the final grade calculation
- Link a D2L activity (Assignment, Discussion, Quiz) to a grade item
- Deleting a grade item or category
- Importing and exporting grades
- Releasing final grades to students
Groups
- About Groups
- Understanding how groups are set up
- Creating a group
- Creating groups with discussions/assignments at one time
- Enrolling users in groups
- Restricting access to discussions and/or assignments by group
Miscellaneous
- Accessing D2L Brightspace
- Navigating D2L Brightspace
- View my course as a student
- Statistical tools in D2L (Content, Discussions, Quizzes, Rubrics, Grades)
- Change your pronoun in D2L to show up in Classlist
Mobile
Zoom
- Using Zoom – an instructor’s guide
- Move Zoom recordings to Kaltura for long term storage
- Managing unwanted guests: how to deal with problematic participants/ unwanted guests
- Zoom Client Guide
- Zoom Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Set Cloud Recording Playback Range
- Google Calendar appointment slots with Zoom meetings
Quizzes
- About Quizzes
- About the Question Library
- Creating quizzes
- Creating questions in the Question Library
- Adding enumeration to quiz questions
- Creating a quiz with questions from the Question Library
- Importing questions to the Question Library from an existing quiz
- Creating random sections in quizzes
- Creating a Quiz Report
- Adding special access to a quiz
- Adding release conditions to a quiz
- Submitting a quiz in progress
- Regrade a quiz after changing a question
- Release a quiz score & attempt result after end date
- Resetting a quiz attempt
- Changing an automatically graded quiz answer
- Printing a quiz
- Correcting scores after a quiz has ended
- Reviewing Quizzes with Quick Eval
- Link a quiz to a grade item
- Manually grading a quiz question
- Deciding Between Using Quizzes, Surveys, or Self Assessments
Quiz Utilities
- Using Respondus to create quizzes
- Importing TestGen quizzes into D2L
- Importing ExamView quizzes into D2L Brightspace
Rubrics
- About Rubrics
- Creating a rubric
- Managing rubrics
- Linking rubrics to assignments and discussions
- Using a rubric to grade an assignment or discussion
- Seeing student view of the completed rubric