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
- Using Creator+
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
Checklist
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
- Setting up a grade book with the Grades Setup Wizard
- Using weighted grade items and categories
- Enable Automatic Zero for Missing Submissions in D2L Brightspace
- 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
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