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  1. Add VHL Vista Higher Learning Material to Your D2L Course

    LSC-Online does not have access to your VHL Vista Higher Learning  account. For integration issues or questions, please submit a request to the  VHL support center . Getting Your Course Set Up  Send an email to VTAC@lonestar...
  2. Math Questions

    Math Question Workaround Using the Arithmetic or Significant Figures  question types has proved daunting for many instructors. Some of our Math instructors use the following workarounds. By using D2L Quizzes, they can use pooling to rand...
  3. Gradebook Options for Student and Instructor Views

    On the gradebook settings, you can control the following display options to offer different views for instructors (under "Personal Display Options" tab) and students (under "Org Unit Display Options" tab). These will determine how grade information ...
  4. Use Intelligent Agents for Early Alerts

    Intelligent Agents are tools that can be used to track certain student behaviors. You can use these agents to identify students who are not actively participating in the course, who have missed important assignments, or whose scores on quizzes o...
  5. Quiz Statistics - Insights Portal

    The Faculty Assessment Quality dashboard provides a visualization to help faculty understand the quality of assessments using quiz and question statistics for quiz and question types, such as: Reliability Average grade Discrimination index Poin...
  6. Copy an Assignment

    Copy an Assignment D2L allows faculty to copy assignment folders within a course. This feature copies over most of the original folder's settings, but does not include gradebook associations or Turnitin settings. Click the [Course Activities]  m...
  7. Approved Instructional Technologies

    To request that an existing integration (in the list below) to be enabled in your course, email VTAC@lonestar.edu . To ensure that your request is completed in a timely manner, be sure to include course numbers, all section numbers, and semes...
  8. Course Design Checklist & Syllabus Template

    The Syllabus Template and the Online course development Checklist can be used to assist you in building a quality online course. Click on the link provided to download each resource. The Online Course Development Checklist is to aid you in creati...
  9. Create a Question Pool

    Question Pools allow instructors to give students a set number of randomly selected questions from a larger pool of questions. For instance, the questions for a 25-question quiz can be arranged to be randomly selected from a pool of 50 questions. To...
  10. Online Assessments

    LSC-Online has composed a white paper showcasing proctorless assessments. This white paper provides faculty with a perspective on optional methods of assessment. Download the white paper: An Appraisal of Proctorless Assessments: A Higher Educ...