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  1. Change Preview Pane Settings in D2L Email

    The preview pane settings allow you to view your emails in a new window or in a preview pane at the bottom of the message list. The preview pane is the default setting in D2L.  To Turn Off the Preview Pane Click Collaboration on the navbar...
  2. Restore Deleted Assignment Submissions

    Faculty members can track when an assignment submission was deleted and who deleted it. They can also restore those deleted submissions. Click Course Activities on the navbar, then select Assignments . Click the title of the assignment that co...
  3. Restore a Deleted Assignment

    The Assignment Event log enables you to view information on specific activity for assignment submission folders. The event log tracks when users create, delete, and restore assignment submission folders. Once an action is taken, the event log record...
  4. Enter Attendance

    Click on Course Activities on the navbar and choose Attendance . Click on the name of the Attendance Register. Click on the Enter Attendance Data icon to for a class session to enter attendance for that session. Use the Attendance Status dro...
  5. Survey Reports & Statistics

    The Survey tool is useful for getting feedback about your course and your students. This information can be used to help improve your course and allows you to keep a record of students’ opinions or keep them anonymous. One way to summarize you...
  6. Use Instructional Technologies for Traditional Classroom Contingency Planning

    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, cla...
  7. Create Student Inactivity Alerts

    Intelligent agents may be created in D2L to alert instructors of student inactivity in the course. Show Video Walkthrough   View Full Webinar   Updating the the "From" and "Reply-To" Fields in S...
  8. Track Receipt of Sent Email

    D2L enables you to determine whether an email you sent to another D2L user has been read. This works for both individual and group emails. To do this, you must turn on the tracking feature.  Turn on the Tracking Feature Go to Collaboration ...
  9. View Student Photos - Advisor or Student Services View

    Student Photos Student photos are loaded into i Star and are available for view once a student obtains a student ID. The student’s photo can be viewed individually in the student record or through the ‘Advisor Center’ in My Advis...
  10. Move Your Face-to-Face or Hybrid Course Online

    Steps for Maintaining Instructional Continuity Circumstances may arise that require Lone Star College to move many courses to an online format via D2L (Brightspace by Desire2Learn). We understand that emergency situations are not ideal circumstance...