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  1. Set Up Email Notifications in D2L

    Published On: 05/31/2018 in Student Management
    Notification settings are found in the personal menu. The personal menu contains links to your profile, notification options, account settings, and log out. You must set up a contact method on the Notifications page to receive instant notificat...

  2. Use Instructional Technologies for Traditional Classroom Contingency Planning

    Published On: 05/31/2018 in Faculty Support & Services Campus Closure Preparedness
    Lone Star College (LSC) must be prepared to cope with possible campus closures in the event of natural disasters, communicable disease outbreaks, or other emergencies. Following are some suggestions for alternatives to lectures, homework, exams, c...

  3. Manage Your Course Files

    Published On: 05/31/2018 in Course Management and Administration
    The Manage Files tool is a file management system for your course. You can use this tool to organize and upload files associated with your course offering. We recommend that you organize your files into folders, creating a folder for each modu...

  4. Restore a Deleted Discussion Topic

    Published On: 05/31/2018 in Discussions
    You may find that you have deleted a discussion topic that you later decide you would like to restore. You can do this in the discussions tool as long as your settings allow for deleted posts to be displayed. Display Deleted Posts ...

  5. Create Student Inactivity Alerts

    Published On: 05/31/2018 in Student Management
    Intelligent agents may be created in D2L to alert instructors of student inactivity in the course. Show Video Walkthrough               View Full Webinar               Updating the "From" and "Reply-To"...

  6. Add and Edit Quiz Questions

    Published On: 05/31/2018 in Quizzes Quiz Questions
    NOTE: The following question types now automatically filters out JavaScript and non-standard HTML: Likert, Ordering, Matching, Fill in the Blanks, Short Answer, Multi-Short Answer, Arithmetic,  and Significant Figures . For existing ...

  7. View Class Progress

    Published On: 05/31/2018 in Course Data Analytics
    The Class Progress tool allows you to see statistics and details for the current students in a course. You can see student data for each course tool, such as discussions or quizzes, and for content, logins, and grades.  NOTE: Logins a...

  8. Using ReadSpeaker

    Published On: 05/31/2018 in Third-party Integrations
    ReadSpeaker is a bimodal content presentation tool designed to enhance student learning by reading text from pages within D2L. This technology also offers students the ability to download an audio version of the document as an .mp3 file for use ...

  9. Add McGraw-Hill Connect (LTI 1.3) to Your D2L Course

    Published On: 05/31/2018 in Third-party Integrations
    This is Connect’s recommended Instructor Workflow Video for upgrading to Connect 1.3 (this video is slow to load, please allow a minute or two for the video to fully load).   You can also provide the Student Workflow Video to you...

  10. If Students Cannot Access Quiz Through LockDown Browser

    Published On: 05/31/2018 in Proctoring Respondus Lockdown Browser & Monitor
    If students have trouble accessing your quiz using LockDown Browser, check the following: The current version of LockDown Browser will be listed on the LockDown Browser Version History page. Instruct students to contact the IT Service Desk if...