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  1. Getting Started with SoftChalk

    SoftChalk Cloud is a program that allows faculty to easily create professional-looking, interactive lessons to upload into their online classes. SoftChalk Cloud content resides online in a SoftChalk Cloud account rather being uploaded into D2L. I...
  2. Create a Gradebook Category

    Create categories in the gradebook to organize different types of items such as quizzes, discussions, or assignments. The gradebook must match your syllabus as closely as possible. Before creating Categories determine which type of grade book you ne...
  3. Set Release Conditions for an Assignment

    Release conditions allow you to set requirements for access to an assignment folder based on multiple criteria, including completion of other items in D2L. For example, you can require that students visit a set of lecture notes in the Content tool b...
  4. Manage Calendar Events

    Create a general (content) event From your homepage in D2L, select the dropdown arrow next to Calendar  and select  [Go to Calendar] .   Using the calendar menu, select the course for which you want to create the event. Click the [Creat...
  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 your surv...
  6.  Print Grades

    Exporting grades to Excel allows you to print the Grades data legibly on as few pages as possible. There are various ways the grades export spreadsheet might be formatted. This article provides one example. Show Video Walkthrough ...
  7. Release Conditions - Best Practices

    Set up conditions before students access the course: Create all of your course materials and set up your release conditions before the course opens to students. This gives you a chance to check for mistakes in the conditions or for circular, cont...
  8. Correct Grading Errors on Quiz Questions

    The following instructions are for updating all student attempts on a quiz when you have decided to award points to all students or to change the points awarded for a particular answer. In the Navbar , select [Course Activities] , and then selec...
  9. Edit an Attendance Scheme

    You cannot edit the Organization Default System Scheme, but you can edit an attendance scheme that you have created. Editing an Attendance Scheme Click on Course Activities  and choose  Attendance . Click on the Attendance Schemes  tab. Click...
  10.  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 unabl...