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  1.  Set Up a Weighted Gradebook

    A weighted gradebook calculates grade items as a percentage of a final grade worth 100%. The maximum points you assign to individual grade items can be any value, but their contribution towards the category they belong to and the final grade is the ...
  2. D2L Course Calendar Basics

    Accessing the D2L Calendar Click on the drop-down arrow to the right of Calendar . Click [Go to Calendar] from the Calendar widget drop-down menu. Changing Calendar Color Click the drop-down arrow next to [All Calendars] and click t...
  3. Grade a Discussion With or Without a Rubric

    See Connect a Rubric to a Discussion Topic , for information on how to connect a rubric to your discussion. Go to [Collaboration]  -> [Discussions]. Click the dropdown arrow next to the topic to access the context menu, and click on [Ass...
  4. Associate Assignment Folders with Learning Objectives

    By associating an assignment folder with a learning objective, you can tie the assignment to a competency you want students to master. This association can be a basic association or an association with a rubric-based assessment. Associate an assign...
  5. View Course as a Student

    You can temporarily switch your role by using the personal menu under your name on any homepage in D2L. Switching your role provides a generic view of the course using the role you select. Switching Your Role Click on your name in the Miniba...
  6. Calculation Methods for Assessing Individual Discussion Posts

    You can evaluate the individual posts of a student and have D2L calculate the topic score for each student, or you can directly assign the student a single score for each topic. If you choose to assess individual posts, you can specify how the syste...
  7. Enroll in a Quality Matters Training Session

    Quality Matters offers several professional development opportunities as webinars and/or workshops. Under the guidance of Quality Matters, the Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR)  workshop is being offered periodically within the system ...
  8.  Connect a Rubric to an Assignment

    Show Video Walkthrough                                                 From the Navbar , select [ Course Activities] followed by [ Assignments] . Click   the [Dropdown arrow]  ...
  9. Set Availability and Due Dates for an Assignment

    Instructors have the option to hide assignment folders from students. If you select the Hide  from Users  checkbox, the assignment will not be visible from content pages or on the Assignment folders list page. You can also limit access to an assig...
  10. Manage Your Course Files

    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...