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)
Mobile
Online Rooms (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
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