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  1. If You Need Access to Another Faculty Member's Class

    If you need to access another faculty member's class for any reason, there are two ways you can accomplish that. Your division schedule builder (talk to your DOS to locate this person) can add you to the course in iStar in the appropriate role...
  2. When a Student Has Taken a Quiz with No Questions

    Occasionally, a quiz is published by mistake before questions have been added to the quiz. When students start that quiz, they will see no questions, simply the option to submit the quiz. As soon as the quiz has been started, there is no way for the...
  3. Add a Curve Using Adjusted Grade

    The Adjusted Final Grade column in a course's gradebook in D2L allows an instructor to modify a student's final average. Instructors can use this column to curve student averages as well.  Show Video Walkthrough Apply a Curve...
  4. View Qwickly Attendance Record Data

    Show Video Walkthrough Select Course Activities on the navbar and choose Qwickly Attendance . A new window will open for the Qwickly Attendance tool. Select Records  in the menu on the left-hand side of the page. You will see a...
  5. Take Attendance with Qwickly

    Show Video Walkthrough Select [Course Activities] on the navbar and choose [Qwickly Attendance] . A new window will open for the Qwickly Attendance tool. Select [Attendance]  in the menu on the left-hand side of the page to ch...
  6. Set Up Qwickly Attendance

    NOTE: If you are copying a course that has Qwickly already set up, you must delete the grade item in the new course before you enter settings for that course. If you don't, Qwickly will create a second grade item and you will be u...
  7. Make a Google Slides Presentation Accessible

    The goal of accessible learning is that a person with a disability will obtain the information as fully, equally, and independently as a person without a disability. When a learning setting is accessible, a person with a disability is afforded the o...
  8. Use Adjusted Final Grade

    Use Adjusted Final Grade. Click Grades from the Navbar. Click  Settings from the top right of the screen. Click the Calculation Options tab towards the top of the screen. In the area labeled "Final Grade Released", c...
  9. Remove Third-Party Integration Content and the Associated Grade Items

    Third-party Integration Content refers to certain publisher content, McGraw Hill videos, Cengage integrations, and other vendor content. ALERT :   If you remove a Third-party Integration item from a course without disassociating it from i...
  10. Create an Accessible PDF from a Microsoft Word Document

    The goal of accessible learning is that a person with a disability will obtain the information as fully, equally and independently as a person without a disability. When a learning setting is accessible, a person with a disability is afforded the op...