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Pinned Article Instructors: Access your classes in D2L Brightspace

Where can I find my courses in D2L Brightspace?

Access Email to 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?

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?

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?

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 and manage Intelligent Agents in D2L Brightspace

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

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 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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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 Homepage, Navbar, 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?

Reset a student's Survey attempt in D2L Brightspace

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

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

How do I reset (delete) an attempt at a quiz for a student?

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 course Tools in D2L Brightspace

What is the Tools page in D2L Brightspace?

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?

SMS (text) Notifications - end of life - for D2L Brightspace

D2L has announced to customers that they will no longer send SMS (text) notifications from Brightspace beginning July 1, 2024. To continue receiving Brightspace course notifications on a mobile device, we recommend using the Brightspace Pulse mobile app, available on Android or iOS devices.  Alternatively, you may also configure notifications be sent to your email address.

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?

Transfer and release final Grades in D2L Brightspace

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