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  1. Use the Course Selector

    To move quickly from one class to another, choose a course from the course selector. If you have taught more than one semester, you will notice many sections for each course. To determine which course is the correct one for the current semester, loo...
  2. 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. If ...
  3. View Attendance Schemes

    Attendance schemes provide the criteria for marking attendance in a register. Each attendance register uses one attendance scheme, which you assign when creating a new register. The register defines the students and sessions covered, and the attenda...
  4. Restrict Assignment Submission Options

    Navigate to the Edit Folder page Click Course Activities on the navbar and choose Assignments . Click on New Folder or click on the context menu of any assignment and choose  Edit Folder . Set the file submission options On the P...
  5. 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...
  6. Connect a Rubric to a Grade Column

    NOTE: Grade items that are associated with (ie linked to) assessments (assignments, discussions, quizzes) cannot also have a rubric. It is one or the other. From the Grades page, click on the  Manage Grades  tab. Click on the gr...
  7. Create a Quicklink

    Any place you have the What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) text editor, its toolbar incudes Quicklink . Select the words in your text that you want to use for the quicklink. In the HTML editor , click on the [Quicklink icon ]. Choos...
  8. Quality Matters FAQ

    What is Quality Matters? Quality Matters (QM) is an organization devoted to quality assurance in online learning. QM supports institutions' quality assurance goals in a variety of ways through their program and resources tailored to support q...
  9. Publish Quizzes Manually if They Do Not Appear in the Gradebook

    If your quizzes do not automatically publish to the gradebook, it is likely because the Evaluation & Feedback panel for the quiz is not configured correctly. Configuring a Quiz to Publish Grades In the Navbar , select [Course Activities] ...
  10. LOR: Update a Learning Object

    You can only update objects you have published to the LOR in the Shared Faculty Repository. You cannot edit them in the LOR; you must edit them inside your course and then Publish to the LOR. Inside your course, make changes to your original objec...