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Article Type: General Information
Question:
- What can I do in D2L Brightspace?
Answer:
- Accessibility
- Courses should be constructed with accessibility in mind.
- Links
- Announcements
- The announcements tool enables you to create news items that help communicate course updates, changes, and new information to your students quickly and effectively. Since Course Home is the first page that students see when they access their courses, the Announcement widget is a good area for displaying important information. Announcements items appear in the Announcements widget, but you can also receive instant notifications through email, SMS, and RSS feeds.
- Create an Announcement video link
- Additional links
- Content
- The content tool is used to create, edit, and organize course materials such as syllabi, lecture notes, video, audio, and readings. The content tool allows users to navigate through course content and activities
- Add a Module video link
- Create a file and insert stuff video link
- Additional links
- Discussions
- The Discussions tool provides an area for collaboration and communication, allowing students to post, read, and reply to messages on different topics, share thoughts about course materials, ask questions, share files, and work with peers or instructor. Private discussions also allow a faculty member to keep all communications within the classroom, i.e., email is then discouraged as faculty can require all correspondence for the course to take place in the discussion board. There are two parts to discussions; a Forum and a Topic - if you do not have one of each, students will not be able to participate.
- Create a Forum video link
- Create a Topic video link
- Additional links
- Assignments
- The Assignments tool enables faculty to collect and assess assignment files in D2L. The Assignment tool also incorporates Turnitin®, a plagiarism detection tool.
- Create an Assignment video link
- Create an Assignment with Turnitin® video link
- Additional links
- Quizzes
- The Quizzes tool allows faculty to create and manage points-measured assessments. Quizzes can be automatically linked with the Grades tool. There are multiple setup options to control number of attempts, security, and more.
- Create a Quiz video link
- Create an imported Quiz video link
- Create a new Quiz with randomized questions video link
- Additional links
- Gradebook
- Students use the Grades tool to check grades on assignments. Students can see their individual grades and comments, as well as feedback. They can also view their final grade and teh grade formula used to evaluate them when the grades are released. Instructors can set up grade books that reflect their approach to evaluation. You control the grading formula used to calculate grades and what projects, assignments, tests, etc are graded; how grade items are associated with other tools, and when grades are released to users and what information they see. A gradebook is a list of items on which you evaluate student's performance. Grade items can include assigments, tests, discussion p[osts, participation, and so on. Together, the items in a grade book represent all the work that you evaluate users on in a course. One cvopmment that has been consistent for years from students is thier desire to see their grades - to know where they stand in the course at any moment in time.
- Create Grade items video link
- Associate Grade items to Activities video link
- Related links
- Third-Party Considerations
- Zoom
- Zoom is a web conference solution provided by Minnesota State for use by faculty, staff, and students. This tool is simple to use and works well at delivering features that faculty wish to use in an online collaborative solution. Zoom has the ability to record the session. Through an integration with Kaltura MediaSpace, students can revisit the recording of a lecture or collaboration session.
- Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Online Meetings, Screen Sharing - Zoom
- Kaltura MediaSpace
Summary:
D2L Brightspace is a learning environment engineered with learning in mind. Faculty can supplement their in-class courses or use it to deliver 100% of their course online.