Where can I find my courses in D2L Brightspace?
What are the new and updated features for Instructors in the July 2025 D2L Brightspace release?
What are the new and updated features for instructors in the June 2025 D2L Brightspace release?
How do I use the 'Instructor Profile’ widget that is available on my D2L Brightspace course homepage?
Where can I access the Email tool in my course? How can I get to my email signature?
How do I review my class calendar in D2L Brightspace? Can I review upcoming events from the Calendar tool?
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?
How do I access my personal account settings in D2L Brightspace? Where can I set my pronouns that display in the course Classlist?
When do start, due, and end dates show up in the D2L Brightspace course Calendar?
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?
How can I add learning materials in Content in D2L Brightspace? Can I upload documents and media as topic pages?
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?
How do I add a link, image, or media in the HTML editor? What is the accessibility checker?
What are release conditions in D2L Brightspace? Where can I attach release conditions to items? Are there best practices for release conditions?
How can I use replacement strings to personalize content? What tools can I use replacement strings 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?
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?
How can I manage enrollment requests for a discover course 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?
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?
Where can I assess student attempts at a quiz? Can I update all students’ scores after editing or deleting a quiz question?
What is the Quick Eval tool? How can I access students using the Quick Eval dashboards?
Where can I assess student work using a rubric? What happens if I remove a rubric from a learning activity or assessment item?
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?
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?
How do I create a grade item for an LTI or SCORM content topic in D2L Brightspace prior to students using the activity?
What is the Automatic Zero for Missing Submissions setting in the Grades tool?
What is Bongo Virtual Classroom? What is Bongo Video Assignment?
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?
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?
How can I caption media in D2L’s Media Library?
How do students and instructors login to the Minnesota State continuing education and continuing training D2L Brightspace site?
I need to access a class in D2L Brightspace that is now closed. How do I gain access to it?
What are the differences between the Competencies and Learning Outcomes tools in D2L Brightspace? Are there are limitations to the Learning Outcomes tool?
Where can I view statistics on student visits to a content topic? Are there limitations to the content statistical information in D2L Brightspace?
How can I take questions from a word document and add to a quiz in D2L Brightspace?
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?
How do I use the “Course Access’ widget that is available on my D2L Brightspace course homepage?
What is Checklists? How do I create a checklist? What's the difference between a category and an item?
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?
What is Quizzes? How do I create a quiz, test, or exam 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?
What is Announcements? How can I quickly create an announcement for my D2L Brightspace course?
What is Assignments? How do I quickly set up an assignment in D2L Brightspace?
What is the Groups tool? How do I create groups and enroll students in them?
What is the Awards tool? How can I create an award badge or certificate in my D2L Brightspace course?
How do I create a scheme for my course grade book? What are some sample grade schemes?
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?
How do I organize my grade book with categories of grades? What difference type of grades are there?
When creating a new discussion topic, where can I connect the groups? How can I setup multiple group discussions using one discussion topic?
What are Intelligent Agents? How do I create an intelligent agent?
What question types can I create for a quiz, survey, or self assessment?
What is Rubrics? How do I create a rubric? Can I review where a rubric is linked to an assessment item in my course?
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?
What were the student and instructor features released in the January through December 2025 updates for 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?
How can I make my online course more accessible for all my students?
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?
What is Classlist? How can I quickly send an email to all my students in my course in D2L Brightspace?
What is the ePortfolio tool 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?
How would I export my D2L Brightspace course? Can I share course materials in a package?
How do I fix the orange border around an image in my content? Where can I find the original image to re-upload it?
What is Grades? How do I get started with my grade book options and create my grade items 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?
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?
How does my institution start using D2L Brightspace Learning Outcomes to report on institution, program, or course outcomes?
How do I set up my D2L Brightspace grade book to import student final grades into the Grade and LDA Entry app?
What is the Question Library tab in the Quizzes tool? How can I import questions in the Question Library?
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?
What are the ISRS semester codes? What does the year term mean in the semester codes?
How do I use the remove my course from D2L Brightspace? How do I merge course sections in D2L Brightspace?
When are courses and user accounts created in D2L Brightspace?
How do I manually transfer the scores for a video quiz in Kaltura to Brightspace?
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?
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?
How can I log into the Microsoft 365 widget 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?
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?
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?
What is the Media Library tool in D2L Brightspace? How do I access audio or video files that I recorded in D2L Brightspace?
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?
How can I review my course from a student's perspective? How can I preview a quiz, grades, and assignments 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?
In my online classes, how can I quickly create a MediaSpace video and add it to my discussion post?
How do I add information to my Profile page in Brightspace? Can I upload a profile picture?
How do I record scores in my gradebook 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?
How do I reopen a quiz attempt to allow a student to continue their attempt?
What is the Request Help widget in D2L Brightspace?
How can I, as an instructor, reset (delete) a student's attempt at a survey?
What is the Respondus LockDown Browser? How can I report an issue with the LockDown Browser to Respondus support?
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?
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?
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?
How do I find broken links within my D2L Brightspace course? How do I use the Broken Links viewer tool?
What is the Tools page 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?
How can I review grades for a student who was unenrolled from my D2L Brightspace course?
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?
What is the Discover tool? How do I self-enroll or request to be enrolled in a non-academic course in D2L Brightspace?
How can I set up my non-academic course to allow for self-registration?
Why is the maximum number of students limited to 10 or 20 per page in the gradebook (Enter Grades screen)?
How can I submit a quiz attempt if a student was unable to complete the submission?
How can I setup email notifications to receive for my D2L Brightspace classes?
What browsers are supported 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?