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  1. 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...
  2. Remove Third-Party Integration Content and the Associated Grade Items

    Third-party Integration Content refers to certain publisher content, McGraw Hill videos, Cengage integrations, and other vendor content. ALERT :   If you remove a Third-party Integration item from a course without disassociating it from i...
  3. StudyMate Campus Guides

    StudyMate Campus makes it easy for teachers and students to create flash cards, self-assessments, and learning games for D2L. It  allows instructors and students to create (and share) an unlimited number of StudyMate projects. StudyMate Campu...
  4.  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 or as...
  5.  Create a YuJa Video Quiz

    You can add quizzes throughout your YuJa video to encourage student engagement and assess student understanding. NOTE : When properly importing a Yuja Video Quiz or Playback Quiz into your D2L course, it will automatically generat...
  6. Verifying the Official Day Roll (ODR)

    Faculty member instructions for verifying the Official Day Roll in iStar. ...
  7.  Make Video Accessible

    The goal of accessible learning is that a person with a disability will obtain the information as fully, equally, and independently as a person without a disability. When a learning setting is accessible, a person with a disability is afforded the o...
  8. Make a Google Slides Presentation Accessible

    The goal of accessible learning is that a person with a disability will obtain the information as fully, equally, and independently as a person without a disability. When a learning setting is accessible, a person with a disability is afforded the o...
  9. Difference between a Weighted and Points Gradebooks

    In D2L you can use either a Points  grading system or a Weighted  system. Either is a valid choice. But whichever you use, it should be the one described in your syllabus. Show Video Walkthrough Weighted by Category The grade...
  10. Approved Instructional Technologies

    *To request that an existing integration (in the list below) to be enabled in your course, email VTAC@lonestar.edu . To ensure that your request is completed in a timely manner, be sure to include course numbers, all section numbers, and semester...