LSC-Online Technologists and Instructional Designers are available to assist faculty with their D2L courses. Appointments with a technologist or designer can be scheduled during business hours.
- Technologists support:
- D2L questions
- Integrated and licensed instructional software (e.g., Respondus, YuJa Media, SoftChalk, or Linking to a Publisher content)
- LSC-Online D2L forms (e.g., Course Merge, Verify Roster, Extend Access)
- A variety of other specialized, third-party integrations
- Individual and group training requests and facilitation
- Designers support:
- Online course design
- Course building
- A variety of other specialized, one-on-one strategies
- Group training requests and facilitation
The chart below lists specific tasks and whom best to approach for assistance with these tasks.
Semester Start |
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Course Access and Set-up |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Add Missing D2L Courses |
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Provide Early Access to Course/Change Start Date for course |
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Activate Course |
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Add Users to a Course |
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Merge Course Rosters |
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Reconcile Course Rosters |
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Restore an archived course |
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Copy Course Components |
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Add Publisher Content to Course |
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Offset Course Dates |
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Add/Sync Third-Party Integration to a Course |
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Course Design & Development |
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Syllabus, Learning Goals and Course Structure |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Review and edit the Course Syllabus |
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Align Program Goals, Course goals, Lesson Objectives, Course Activities, and/or Assessments with expected Learning Outcomes |
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Review and modify the content organization and course structure |
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Source and review instructional materials (online materials from publishers, OER, etc.) for the course |
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Define and set up competencies and objectives for the course |
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Accessibility |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Run a Blackboard Ally check |
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Review and edit content to ensure adherence to accessibility guidelines |
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Make content (images, videos, audios, etc.) accessible |
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Resolve errors highlighted by BlackBoard Ally |
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Assignments |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Determine/Review assessment strategy for Assignments and Quizzes |
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Align assignments with Learning Objectives and Outcomes |
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Identify/specify alternate ways of assessment |
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Design/Compose a Rubric for assignments |
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Specify instructions for online assignment folders |
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Create Groups for assignments |
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Enabling Turnitin for assignments |
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Generating Turnitin Reports |
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Create individual and/or group assignments |
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Attach Rubrics to assignments |
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Associate Assignment with existing grade item in the grade-book |
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Provide links to existing assignments from Content |
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Define and set release conditions for an assignment |
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Content |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Compose Module descriptions |
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Use supported third-party tools to create course materials and activities |
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Define and include checklists in content modules |
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Add pre-recorded lectures, content, audio, or videos to modules/topics |
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Delete all content from a course |
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Import zipped content |
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Set Release conditions for modules and topics |
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Discussions |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Compose prompts for discussions |
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Create Discussion Forums and Topics |
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Design/Compose a Rubric for discussions |
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Attach existing rubrics to discussion forums/topics |
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Create grade items for discussion topics |
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Provide a link to the discussion topic from Content |
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Specify grading criteria for individual posts |
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Grades |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Determine/Review grading strategy (points, weighted averages, bonus, etc.) |
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Build/Set up a Gradebook |
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Add a curve using Adjusted Grade |
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Create and edit grade schemes |
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Import grades from an external source |
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Mark grade as Exempt |
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Instructional Software/Course Technologies |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Create Softchalk activities |
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Create/Add Yuja videos to the course |
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Create quizzes/upload questions from Word documents using Respondus |
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Schedule online synchronous meetings using Webex/Zoom |
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Add link to Webex meeting in the Content area |
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Set up Webex Appointment Booking |
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Add Brainfuse Dashboard to the course |
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Add StudyMate Campus activities |
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Quizzes |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Create Quizzes |
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Outline/Specify proctoring and testing options for quizzes |
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Load questions from the publisher into Quiz Question Library |
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Create and publish quizzes from Word documents |
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Write quiz questions directly in D2L’s Question Library |
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Create grade item for quiz |
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Provide the link to the existing quiz from Content |
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Setup special access to quizzes |
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Reset Quiz attempt |
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Submit a Quiz stuck “in progress” |
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Set up proctoring (Lockdown browser, ProctorU, etc.) for a quiz |
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Create Bonus Questions |
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Course Personalization/Customization |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Customize Course Image and Banner |
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Customize content and communication (announcements, emails, etc.) using replacement strings |
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Define and create Intelligent Agents for early alerts, student inactivity, etc. |
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Create awards for a course |
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Add existing awards to the course |
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Issue/Revoke awards |
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Set release conditions for modules, topics, quizzes, discussion topics, awards, etc. |
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Set up and use Qwickly Attendance |
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Develop Course Templates |
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Create Surveys |
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Student Engagement/Success |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Identify and implement student engagement strategies for your course |
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Define criteria and milestones to gauge and measure student learning/success |
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Identifying and providing/including active learning opportunities |
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Establish and set up office hours in Webex |
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Course Quality |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Conduct Student-Centered Course Reviews |
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Review course based on Quality Matters Rubric |
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Semester End |
Technologist |
Designer |
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Export D2L Gradebook |
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Export attendance data |
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Save/Print Copy of Final Exam |
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Extend Course Access for Students with Incomplete |
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