Tutorials and technical support
Guides
The following guides have been developed to organize important sets of support resources:
- Using D2L Brightspace to keep your class running – New!
- This guide will help you put course materials online as an academic continuity option.
- 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.
Individual support resources
Or, jump to exactly the resource you need:
Assignments
- About Assignments
- Creating an Assignment
- Setting due dates and late submission dates for an Assignment
- Submit an Assignment on student’s behalf
- Grading Assignments and leaving feedback
- Time extensions and special release criteria
Content
- About Content
- Adding release conditions
- Adding modules and topics to content
- Copy content from another course
- 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 CaptureSpace
- 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 your videos in My Media
- Caption a video in My Media
- Share your course content with others
- Web accessibility guidelines for online classes
Discussions
- About Discussions
- Adding new topics and forums
- Setting start and end dates
- Locking a discussion topic
- Adding a graded discussion topic
- Grading discussion posts
- View student discussion participation
- User must compose before participating
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
- Importing and exporting grades to a spreadsheet
- 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 assignment by group
Homepages and widgets
- About Homepages
- Creating and activating your course homepage
- Modify the homepage
- Creating and activating your navigation bar (navbar)
- Using the Activity Feed
- Create a widget
Intelligent Agents
Managing Dates
Mobile
Online Rooms (Zoom)
Quizzes
- About Quizzes
- Adding special access to a quiz
- About the Question Library
- Creating quizzes
- Creating quiz questions
- Creating questions in the Question Library
- Adding enumeration to quiz questions
- Managing questions in the Question Library
- Creating a quiz with questions from the Question Library
- Importing questions to the Question Library from an existing quiz
- Creating sections in the Question Library
- Creating random sections in quizzes
- Submitting a quiz in progress
- Regrade a quiz after changing a question
- Release a quiz score after end date
- Resetting a quiz attempt
- Changing an automatically graded quiz answer
- Printing a quiz
- Correcting scores after a quiz has ended
- Manually grading a quiz question
Quiz Utilities
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