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  1. My Courses Widget

    My Courses Widget Overview The My Courses widget displays courses as a grid of tiles at the top of your Home page in D2L.  Pinning and Unpinning Courses To pin a course, hover over the course image until you see the Options menu, indicated b...
  2. SoftChalk Cloud and How to Add it to Your Course

    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 than being uploaded into D...
  3. Publish Quiz Grades

    There are two options when publishing quiz grades: Automatic  and Manual . Automatically Publish Quiz Grades From the Navbar , click Course Activities , and then select [Quizzes] . Click the down arrow next to the title of the quiz yo...
  4. Edit an Attendance Register; Delete a Session

    Edit an Attendance Register Go to Course Activities  > Attendance . From the dropdown menu beside the register you want to edit, choose Edit Register . You can now edit any of the fields as in Creating an Attendance Register . Delete a S...
  5. Use Video Note

    NOTE : We recommend using the YuJa Video Platform for all video content creation in D2L. Visit the YuJa Support Center for more info. Video Notes are available in any tool with an HTML editor. You can add videos to assignment ins...
  6.  Use Intelligent Agents for Early Alerts

    Intelligent Agents are tools that can be used to track certain student behaviors. You can use these agents to identify students who are not actively participating in the course, who have missed important assignments, or whose scores on quizzes o...
  7. Upload Items to ePortfolio

    ePortfolio is a personal portfolio tool for storing, organizing, reflecting on, and sharing items that represent a body of learning. Users can include documents, graphics, audio files, videos, presentations, or other course work that demonstrate imp...
  8. Subscribe to a Discussion to Receive Post Alerts

    You can subscribe to a forum, a discussion topic or an individual thread.  Subscribing to a Discussion Forum or Topic Click the [Collaboration]   menu in the navbar , then choose [Discussions] . On the Discussions List page, click [Subs...
  9. Set Up a Formula Grading System

    Use the Formula grading system when you want to calculate final grades using a custom formula that allows for specific conditions. The Formula grading system is based on the points system but allows you to set conditions around grade items to determ...
  10. Connect a Rubric to a Discussion Topic

    Select Collaboration on the navbar and click  Discussions.   Select Edit Topic from the context menu next to the discussion topic name. Click on the Assessment tab and click the Add Rubric  button. Check the box next to the rubric yo...