D2L

D2L is the online learning management system used by the University of Calgary. All courses automatically have sites created in D2L, but it’s up to individual instructors to activate and use the site for their course.

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Here you will find a list of best practices, tips and tricks, and extra information to help you create a powerful Quiz.

The banner can be customized by selecting an image from the D2L Library, or by uploading an image from your personal files.

The Quizzes tool enables you to create and manage quantifiable assessments.

There are two types of online discussions – synchronous and asynchronous. You could set up synchronous discussions via video-conferencing tools such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams to have a real–time discussion with your students or answer any questions that they may have. This replicates the classroom experience where a certain meeting time is established.

Release conditions in D2L allow you to create a custom learning path through the materials in your course.

rack views of the document to ensure that all students have seen it. This guide will show you how to update the course outline in your D2L course, and how to access the completion tracking data to identify any students that have not seen the updated document.

The Content tool is used to upload and organize files that you share with students. Content is organized in modules (folders) and files.

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To upload a file to your D2L course, follow the steps below.

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The navigation bar has been customized for your faculty to ensure a consistent user interface for students across campus.

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Maintaining a positive learning and work environment depends on the commitment of each user to engage in activities that are in accordance with relevant laws and University of Calgary policies and regulations. The statements below describe responsible use of information posted or accessed from D2L and responsible use of the D2L communication tools.

These instructions will help you enroll additional users in your D2L course, e.g. a teaching assistant (TA) or a second instructor.

In D2L, there are 12 different types of questions that can be created for use in Quizzes and Surveys.

Create and attach a Release Condition to your course material.

The discussion board is a virtual conversation space where students and instructors collaborate using short question answer style posts. The discussion board serves as a focal point for conversation in an online course. It is best to create discussion boards during the course setup.

The D2L Dropbox folder is an assignment submission folder where students upload completed assignments such as document, graphic, audio, and video, files.

There are multiple ways to send emails to users (e.g. Instructors, Students, TA’s, etc.) who are enrolled in your D2L course. This guide will show you several preferred methods.

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The Question Library is a central repository that stores and archives questions which you can reuse within a course.

Deleting a condition from a particular item in the course.

This page explains how to set up a gradebook in D2L.

If you would like to re-use materials from a course that you have taught previously, please follow these instructions.

Give each learner a random set of quiz questions. By doing so it can help reduce instances of cheating.

D2L allows you to customize the nav bar for your course.

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This tutorial explains how to set up the following types of assessment items: Weighted Assessment Item (percentile) and Letter Grade Assessment Item (requires Letter Grade Scheme)

D2L can automatically grade quizzes for you and send scores to the gradebook. By default, a quiz is not associated with the gradebook. You should create an association so scores will transfer from a quiz to a Grade Item.

Some quiz questions can be set up to be graded automatically by D2L, including multiple-choice, true/false, multi-select, and matching.

Using the Preview option, you can take the quiz as a student does to ensure the accuracy of content and grading before you release a quiz.

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Rubrics are a grading and feedback tool that specifies the assessment criteria and level of achievement of an assessment

In order for a rubric to be associated with a D2L assessment item, the rubric must be built using D2L rubric tools.

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An association is formed when a rubric is selected to be used by a tool.

Make copies of rubrics or delete rubrics you no longer need

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You can set your quizzes to provide feedback automatically as students complete quizzes.

User friendly, non-developer design templates with a variety of layout styles were developed to create clean-looking content pages. These templates are recommended for non-developers to improve the look and feel of their courses.

There are many setting options for quizzes in terms of access, timing and number of attempts. Find the most common ones listed here.

Special access can be assigned to students to provide academic accommodations and give them extended time limits for quizzes or other form of submissions based on need.

Setting up D2L groups, with associated dropbox folders and discussion topics, is a process that takes a few minutes and which requires completing several sequential steps. Please set aside a few minutes to complete the entire process.

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This page outlines how to retrieve assignment submissions from dropbox.

After groups have been created, it is possible to modify the group composition.

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These templates are recommended for advance users to improve the look and feel of their courses.

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A replacement string lets instructors customize course content and communications in the D2L Learning Environment by incorporating the intended reader’s personalized information, such as their name, automatically.

Individual users can set up Email and SMS notifications for all their courses (not course by course).

Timely feedback and assessment of discussion board participation throughout the semester ensures that students have the opportunity to fulfill discussion board criteria and assessment requirements.

This document shows you how to modify the answer after quizzes are completed.

The D2L ePortfolio document will walk you through a series of screenshots that will help you to build an ePortfolio in D2L, where you can begin to reflect on your learning journey over time.

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As instructor, you may provide feedback for submitted assignments in a Dropbox folder using the annotation tools.

We recommend creating a gradebook category for any assignment that is comprised of several, related assessment items.

By default, a simple Percentage scheme is visible under Schemes. It is suggested that you set up a letter grade scheme corresponding to what is outlined in your course syllabus.

The following information explains how to enter grades for a single assessment item.

If due to technical issues the student is unable to submit the quiz, the student’s quiz remains an Attempt in Progress and the system shows no submission or grade for that student.

Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights Clarification for Instructors using D2L and TopHat.

Some instructors may allow you to review your quiz answers. In some cases, the feedback or correct answers will be included. If your instructor has enabled these features, you can review your answers as follows.

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By default, final grades are not visible to students. This document explains how to release final grades to students.

This document outlines how to release final grades from D2L to PeopleSoft. Using the gradebook in D2L is optional.

This guide will show you how to set up student grades in Excel for import to D2L gradebook.

This tutorial provides instructions on how to manually download an Excel file from the D2L gradebook and format it before submitting to PeopleSoft (Faculty Centre) for final approval.

Theses videos show you how to adjust your grid view settings.

Student participation in online learning can be easily assessed using discussion forum assessment tools. The advantage with using this tool is that all comments in each topic from each student can be easily viewed in a list.

To re-order discussion forums, follow the steps below.

In the event that you accidentally delete discussion posts, those posts can be restored using the following procedure.

Track when students started a quiz and how many attempts they took per quiz.

To archive discussion threads or download them for offline viewing (as a pdf or printed copy), try the steps below.

This guide describes a workaround for associating one grade item for the grading of multiple quizzes on D2L as well as how to use one grade item for the same quiz available at different times for two sections of students.

Once you receive completed quizzes from students, you can view quiz statistics such as grade distribution, grade average, question statistics, and user statistics on the Statistics page.

Students can see the rubric associated with an activity from the Gradebook.

To manually enroll students in groups, modify group composition, and review group member lists.

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The Role Switch feature in D2L allows you to get an idea (to some degree) of how your course is viewed by students.

A D2L course needs to be made Active before students can view its content and access other course tools. Follow the steps below to make the course available to students.

A group or section membership list and class enrolment list, can be printed using the Export to Excel or CSV feature or be printed as a PDF file.

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The Classlist / Email feature is used by students and instructors to contact students in the class. You can hide the Classlist / Email feature to prevent students from accessing the student email address list without compromising instructor and TA access.

The homepage is the first page you see when you view the organization’s My Home page or enter a course.

Depending on your role or affiliation with the University of Calgary, the login URL and credentials required may be different.

Widgets are the building blocks of homepages. You can create, edit, delete, customize, and preview the widgets in your organization.

Here are some suggestions provided by Student Accessibility Services on how to modify the settings on your device to improve accessibility.

This document will help you understand how class sections are listed in PeopleSoft and how that information translates into a Course Offering Code in D2L.

Objects like media files, interactive animations (flash, HTML5), web pages, online forms & docs (Google, Microsoft or others), can be embedded into Content using the HTML Editor.

A Google Drive document can be embedded into Content using the HTML5 Editor. This instruction outlines how to embed a Google Drive document.