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Pinned Article Instructors: Access your classes in D2L Brightspace

Where can I find my courses in D2L Brightspace?

Pinned Article What's New in D2L Brightspace: July 2025 for Instructors

What are the new and updated features for Instructors in the July 2025 D2L Brightspace release?

Pinned Article What's New in D2L Brightspace: June 2025 for Instructors

What are the new and updated features for instructors in the June 2025 D2L Brightspace release?

‘Instructor Profile’ widget in D2L Brightspace

How do I use the 'Instructor Profile’ widget that is available on my D2L Brightspace course homepage?

Access Email tool and Adjust email signature in D2L Brightspace

Where can I access the Email tool in my course? How can I get to my email signature?

Access your class Calendar in D2L Brightspace

How do I review my class calendar in D2L Brightspace? Can I review upcoming events from the Calendar tool?

Accommodations feature in D2L Brightspace

Where is the accommodations feature in D2L Brightspace? How can I accommodate a student to grant alternative time extensions to all quizzes in a course?

Account Settings in D2L Brightspace

How do I access my personal account settings in D2L Brightspace? Where can I set my pronouns that display in the course Classlist?

Add course dates to show up in D2L Brightspace course Calendar

When do start, due, and end dates show up in the D2L Brightspace course Calendar?

Add course dates to show up in D2L Brightspace Pulse App

How can I optimize my D2L Brightspace course assessment dates, so that students can review the course dates in the Brightspace Pulse App? What assessment item start dates, due dates, and end dates show up in the Brightspace Pulse App for students?

Add course materials in Content in D2L Brightspace

How can I add learning materials in Content in D2L Brightspace? Can I upload documents and media as topic pages?

Add Kaltura Media as an Instructor in D2L Brightspace

How can I access a video or audio file that I have in my MediaSpace account from within D2L Brightspace? Can I share a Kaltura Media file with my students in my online course?

Add links, images, and media using the HTML Editor in D2L Brightspace

How do I add a link, image, or media in the HTML editor? What is the accessibility checker?

Add Release Conditions on items in D2L Brightspace

What are release conditions in D2L Brightspace? Where can I attach release conditions to items? Are there best practices for release conditions?

Add Replace Strings to personalize text in D2L Brightspace

How can I use replacement strings to personalize content? What tools can I use replacement strings in D2L Brightspace?

Add SCORM in Content in D2L Brightspace

How do I upload, publish, link to, or update a SCORM package? Can I import a Captivate file as SCORM into D2L Brightspace?

Align Learning Outcomes to learning activities or rubrics in D2L Brightspace

How could I add learning outcomes to assess and track student learning in my courses? How do I add an institution or program outcome to a student learning activity in my course? What types of student learning activities in D2L Brightspace can be associated with a learning outcome?

Approve self-enrollment requests from Discover in D2L Brightspace

How can I manage enrollment requests for a discover course in D2L Brightspace?

Assess student work in Assignments in D2L Brightspace

How can I add feedback or annotate my students’ assignment submissions? I accidentally deleted an individual student’s submission – can I restore it?

Assess student work in Discussion topics in D2L Brightspace

How can I score (evaluate) a student’s work in discussion topics? Can I evaluate a student who didn’t complete the work in a discussion?

Assess student work in Quizzes in D2L Brightspace

Where can I assess student attempts at a quiz? Can I update all students’ scores after editing or deleting a quiz question?

Assess student work using Quick Eval screens in D2L Brightspace

What is the Quick Eval tool? How can I access students using the Quick Eval dashboards?

Assess student work using Rubrics in D2L Brightspace

Where can I assess student work using a rubric? What happens if I remove a rubric from a learning activity or assessment item?

Assess student work with Learning Outcomes in D2L Brightspace

How could I use learning outcomes to assess and track student learning in my course? What types of student work in D2L Brightspace can be assessing using a learning outcome?

Assess with audio or video feedback in D2L Brightspace

How can I leave audio or video feedback for one or more students in my courses? What is the ‘record audio’ and 'record video' feature in D2L Brightspace?

Assessing LTI & SCORM in Content in D2L Brightspace

How do I create a grade item for an LTI or SCORM content topic in D2L Brightspace prior to students using the activity?

Automatic zero grading for missing and late submissions in D2L Brightspace

What is the Automatic Zero for Missing Submissions setting in the Grades tool?

Bongo Virtual Classroom and Video Assignment in D2L Brightspace

What is Bongo Virtual Classroom? What is Bongo Video Assignment?

Bonus grade items in D2L Brightspace

How can I setup a bonus grade item in Grades? Why don't the bonus quiz scores show up in the bonus item in my grade book?

Bulk Group enrollment or unenrollment from CSV or TXT file in D2L Brightspace

What is the import option on the Groups page? Can I bulk enroll or unenroll my students in groups using a CSV or TXT file?

Captioning media in the Media Library in D2L Brightspace

How can I caption media in D2L’s Media Library?

CE/CT login for D2L Brightspace

How do students and instructors login to the Minnesota State continuing education and continuing training D2L Brightspace site?

Class is closed in D2L Brightspace

I need to access a class in D2L Brightspace that is now closed. How do I gain access to it?

Competencies compared to Learning Outcomes in D2L Brightspace

What are the differences between the Competencies and Learning Outcomes tools in D2L Brightspace? Are there are limitations to the Learning Outcomes tool?

Content completion and statistics in D2L Brightspace

Where can I view statistics on student visits to a content topic? Are there limitations to the content statistical information in D2L Brightspace?

Convert an exam from Word and import into Quizzes in D2L Brightspace

How can I take questions from a word document and add to a quiz in D2L Brightspace?

Copy a course into my D2L Brightspace course

What’s a quick way to copy or import course materials in to my course? I have a course package; how do I add it to my course?

'Course Access' widget in D2L Brightspace

How do I use the “Course Access’ widget that is available on my D2L Brightspace course homepage?

Create a Checklist in D2L Brightspace

What is Checklists? How do I create a checklist? What's the difference between a category and an item?

Create a Discussion topic in D2L Brightspace

What is Discussions? How can I quickly create a discussion board (topic) for my D2L Brightspace course? Can I create a private discussion with each student?

Create a Quiz in D2L Brightspace

What is Quizzes? How do I create a quiz, test, or exam in D2L Brightspace?

Create a Survey in D2L Brightspace

What is Surveys? How do I create a survey with student names with the responses or an anonymous survey? Where can I find results and statistics for a survey?

Create an Announcement in D2L Brightspace

What is Announcements? How can I quickly create an announcement for my D2L Brightspace course?

Create an Assignment in D2L Brightspace

What is Assignments? How do I quickly set up an assignment in D2L Brightspace?

Create and manage Groups in D2L Brightspace

What is the Groups tool? How do I create groups and enroll students in them?

Create Award badges and certificates in D2L Brightspace

What is the Awards tool? How can I create an award badge or certificate in my D2L Brightspace course?

Create custom Grade schemes in D2L Brightspace

How do I create a scheme for my course grade book? What are some sample grade schemes?

Create custom Quiz submission view in D2L Brightspace

What is a quiz submission view? How do I change the primary view options? What does a student have access to review after submitting a quiz attempt?

Create Grades in the grade book in D2L Brightspace

How do I organize my grade book with categories of grades? What difference type of grades are there?

Create Group Discussions in D2L Brightspace

When creating a new discussion topic, where can I connect the groups? How can I setup multiple group discussions using one discussion topic?

Create Intelligent Agents in D2L Brightspace

What are Intelligent Agents? How do I create an intelligent agent?

Create questions for Quizzes and Surveys in D2L Brightspace

What question types can I create for a quiz, survey, or self assessment?

Create Rubrics in D2L Brightspace

What is Rubrics? How do I create a rubric? Can I review where a rubric is linked to an assessment item in my course?

D2L Brightspace data retention schedule

How often do courses get purged in D2L Brightspace? How long will I have access to Brightspace courses? When do courses or users get removed from D2L Brightspace?

D2L Upgrades: Major Features from January to December 2025

What were the student and instructor features released in the January through December 2025 updates for D2L Brightspace?

Delete and restore a student's Quiz attempt in D2L Brightspace

How do I delete an attempt at a quiz for a student? Can I restore a student's attempt at a quiz that I deleted?

Design accessible online courses in D2L Brightspace

How can I make my online course more accessible for all my students?

Display the current course grade to students in Grades in D2L Brightspace

How can I display the current course grade to my students? What's the difference between the 'drop ungraded items' and the 'treat ungraded items as zero' options in grade settings?

Email my students from my D2L Brightspace course

What is Classlist? How can I quickly send an email to all my students in my course in D2L Brightspace?

ePortfolio for Instructors in D2L Brightspace

What is the ePortfolio tool in D2L Brightspace?

Export Group enrollment data to CSV in D2L Brightspace

What is the export option on the Groups page? Can I export my student classlist along with their group enrollments in one list?

Export my D2L Brightspace course into a package

How would I export my D2L Brightspace course? Can I share course materials in a package?

Fix orange border and warning message for images in D2L Brightspace

How do I fix the orange border around an image in my content? Where can I find the original image to re-upload it?

Getting started with Grades in D2L Brightspace

What is Grades? How do I get started with my grade book options and create my grade items in D2L Brightspace?

Grade item can't be deleted in D2L Brightspace

I am trying to delete grades associated with a learning activity, but the activity longer exists. How do I remove the activity's association so I can delete the grade item in Grades?

Grades export or import into D2L Brightspace

How do I import the grade book as a csv or text file? How do I export the grade book as a csv or excel file?

Implementing institution or program outcomes using D2L Brightspace Learning Outcomes

How does my institution start using D2L Brightspace Learning Outcomes to report on institution, program, or course outcomes?

Import D2L Brightspace final grades into eServices

How do I set up my D2L Brightspace grade book to import student final grades into the Grade and LDA Entry app?

Import questions in the Question Library in D2L Brightspace

What is the Question Library tab in the Quizzes tool? How can I import questions in the Question Library?

ISRS LDA and D2L Brightspace Unenrollment

How does the Last Date of Attendance (LDA) date entry for a student’s ISRS course record affect a student’s enrollment in the D2L Brightspace course?

ISRS Year/Term Semester Codes

What are the ISRS semester codes? What does the year term mean in the semester codes?

ISRS-Brightspace Courses - Instructor Self-Service

How do I use the remove my course from D2L Brightspace? How do I merge course sections in D2L Brightspace?

ISRS-Brightspace Integration

When are courses and user accounts created in D2L Brightspace?

Kaltura MediaSpace: Manually transfer grades to D2L Brightspace

How do I manually transfer the scores for a video quiz in Kaltura to Brightspace?

Kaltura Mediaspace: Migrate from legacy D2L Brightspace embed

My embedded Kaltura MediaSpace videos are displaying the message, “Unknown error. Ensure that all of your Kaltura config variables are properly set.” What should I do to fix the media so they display?

Kaltura MediaSpace: Videos don’t work after course copy or course export/import in D2L Brightspace

Why are my MediaSpace videos throwing a “page not found” error, after I copied them from another course or imported them from a course package in D2L Brightspace?

Log in to Microsoft 365 Widget in D2L Brightspace

How can I log into the Microsoft 365 widget in D2L Brightspace?

Manage course files in D2L Brightspace

How do I upload files a file into the course Manage Files? Can I rename a file or folder in my course files? What happens when I move or delete a file or folder?

Manage Dates in D2L Brightspace

What is the Manage Dates tool? How can I use bulk edit dates and bulk offset dates? Can I quickly remove dates from course items?

Manage Discussions in D2L Brightspace

What options do I have to copy a thread or post to another discussion? Can I delete a discussion thread or an individual post? How can I restore a deleted discussion?

Media Library in D2L Brightspace

What is the Media Library tool in D2L Brightspace? How do I access audio or video files that I recorded in D2L Brightspace?

Navigating D2L Brightspace using Homepages, Navbars, and Minibar

What is the difference between the My Home page and a course homepage? What is a navbar? What is the minibar? Where can I find my notifications alerts? Where do I log out of D2L Brightspace?

Navigating your D2L Brightspace class from a student's perspective

How can I review my course from a student's perspective? How can I preview a quiz, grades, and assignments in D2L Brightspace?

Post and reply to Discussions in D2L Brightspace

How do I read discussion posts and threads in D2L Brightspace? How do I start or reply to a discussion post? What does 'access restricted' or 'submission restricted' mean when I'm posting in Discussions?

Post video in Discussions in D2L Brightspace

In my online classes, how can I quickly create a MediaSpace video and add it to my discussion post?

Profile in D2L Brightspace

How do I add information to my Profile page in Brightspace? Can I upload a profile picture?

Record scores in Grades in D2L Brightspace

How do I record scores in my gradebook in D2L Brightspace?

Release final Grades to students in D2L Brightspace

How do I access student final grades? What’s the quickest way to release final grades to students? My students can’t access their final grade – what do I do?

Reopen a student's submitted quiz attempt

How do I reopen a quiz attempt to allow a student to continue their attempt?

Request Help widget in D2L Brightspace

What is the Request Help widget in D2L Brightspace?

Reset a student's Survey attempt in D2L Brightspace

How can I, as an instructor, reset (delete) a student's attempt at a survey?

Respondus LockDown Browser in D2L Brightspace

What is the Respondus LockDown Browser? How can I report an issue with the LockDown Browser to Respondus support?

Respondus Quiz Generator

What’s the difference between the Respondus campus-wide license and a single user license? What alternatives are available to convert a Word document of questions?

Restore deleted course files or activities in D2L Brightspace

What course files or activities can be recovered if items were deleted in a D2L Brightspace course? Can instructors restore course activities from within a D2L Brightspace course?

Review a student's last accessed date to a course in D2L Brightspace

How can I tell when was the last date a student accessed my course? Can I check when my students last logged in to my course in D2L Brightspace? How far back does this data go?

Review and find Broken Links in D2L Brightspace

How do I find broken links within my D2L Brightspace course? How do I use the Broken Links viewer tool?

Review course Tools in D2L Brightspace

What is the Tools page in D2L Brightspace?

Review student performance data using Class Progress in D2L Brightspace

What is the Class Progress tool? Where can I review student performance data for my course? Can I customize the settings for the Class Progress tool?

Review unenrolled student grades from Classlist in D2L Brightspace

How can I review grades for a student who was unenrolled from my D2L Brightspace course?

School Tabs in D2L Brightspace

Why do I have tabs with my school’s name or acronym in D2L Brightspace? How can I add or remove a school tab from D2L Brightspace?

Self-enroll in a non-academic course from Discover in D2L Brightspace

What is the Discover tool? How do I self-enroll or request to be enrolled in a non-academic course in D2L Brightspace?

Set up a non-academic course to allow self-registration

How can I set up my non-academic course to allow for self-registration?

Students per page in Grades is limited to 10 or 20 in D2L Brightspace

Why is the maximum number of students limited to 10 or 20 per page in the gradebook (Enter Grades screen)?

Submit a student's in-progress Quiz attempt in D2L Brightspace

How can I submit a quiz attempt if a student was unable to complete the submission?

Subscribe to class Notifications in D2L Brightspace

How can I setup email notifications to receive for my D2L Brightspace classes?

Supported browsers in D2L Brightspace

What browsers are supported in D2L Brightspace?

Track attendance with Attendance in D2L Brightspace

What is the Attendance tool? How can I create attendance sessions in D2L Brightspace? How do I set up a scheme for attendance?