Offerings that relate to the management of academic course materials (e.g., videos, documents, spreadsheets) and that facilitate teaching and learning using online portals. Includes learning management systems and other learning platforms, as well as services that provide on-demand, usually modular skills-based learning to employees and/or students.
An excellent FAQ (SharePoint link) is maintained in collaboration with the Ability team and the training program owners.
It is best to clear cache/cookies before taking a quiz in D2L. If you have a problem during a quiz, closing and re-launching your browser is the quickest fix.
This goes over some of the basics of D2l Gradebooks, including terminology.
Zoom LTI is a way to integrate Zoom into D2L to make it easier to tie coursework to Zoom meetings and webinars.
Brightspace Pulse is a mobile app that can help learners stay connected and on track with their courses in Brightspace Learning Environment. It provides one easy view of course calendars, readings, assignments, evaluations, grades, and announcements.
PlayPosit is integrated with D2L and Kaltura MediaSpace. These links go to instructional videos and training how to use PlayPosit.
It is possible to create a MS Teams site for a course. It does not pass activity and grade information back and forth to D2L, but offers an alternative space for the course material
There are a few reasons why a course you are registered for might not show on your D2L homepage. This article covers the most likely scenarios.
This document details basic help and instructions for ELI Review.
This article provides redirect support information for the LaTex typesetting system.
This article provides access and troubleshooting information about WebWork
Following these steps will add or update a SCORM/xAPI object to a course in D2L.
Following these steps will add users to a given course in D2L.
Following these steps will enable D2L to send popup windows to your browser, which may be necessary for certain course content.
Following these steps will change the role of a selected individual within a D2L course.
Following these steps will change the End Date for a course in D2L, affecting when students will be able to see and access it.
Following these steps will change the grading scale on a D2L course to be on a standard 4.0 scale.
An instructor may want to re-use certain course modules that they have created in previous semesters. This article guides through how to accomplish that.
This article links to the information on help.d2l.msu.edu that details how to create these links.
A Submission Folder is sometimes referred to as a dropbox. Follow these steps to create one for your course in D2L.
Following these steps will compose and send an email to either the entire classlist for the course, or to the students you individually select.
By default, emails from D2L are only sent to internal D2L email addresses. Users must opt-in to forward D2L emails to their MSU Spartan Mail accounts
Following these steps will set a quiz in D2L to start at a specified time and have the timer run for all students whether or not they are in the quiz.
Following these steps will merge two courses together in D2L, leaving only one course remaining.
Following these steps will pin a course to your homepage in D2L, causing it to always show up on that page.
Following these steps will publish existing scores from a quiz in D2L to the Gradebook for the course.
Following these steps will revise the scores given on questions in a quiz in D2L
Following these steps will remove a quiz attempt from a student in a D2L course, potentially allowing them to submit another attempt if time still permits.
This article covers how to restore a missing Course Admin button in a D2L course.
Intended for Instructors, following these steps will set up a method for students in a D2L course to submit and peer-review their work as a group.
Following these steps will submit final grades from a class to the Registrar's Office.
Following these steps will allow you to view feedback given on your D2L quiz attempt.
Following these steps will enable you to attach a file to a topic in a discussion forum in D2L
This document gives the steps a Course Administrator would need to take to create or remove a development course or community
An instructor may want to print out a classlist showing all the students in a particular course. This can be accomplished by exporting from the Gradebook.
Following these steps will grant special access to take a quiz outside of the standard times and/or attempts allowed.
Following these steps will hide or make visible selected content in a D2L course so that students can view it and potentially interact with it.
Following these steps will make quiz feedback visible to the student that submitted the attempt.
This article provides links to available training resources regarding managing questions in D2L quizzes.
This article details how to restore an assignment that has been deleted from a course in D2L
It may become necessary for an instructor is submit a quiz attempt in progress for one or more of their students. This document details how they can do so.
Following these steps will submit a request to add iThenticate access to an account.
Following these steps will install MATLAB locally on your machine and link it to your MSU account.
Live chat help is available within LockDown Browser when using the webcam proctoring feature (sometimes called Respondus Monitor). Chat agents can assist you with pre-exam issues related to the webcam and microphone.
New users that haven't been added to a course in beSocratic may be able to log in, but will only see a blank white screen or three dots cycling with no indication of what is wrong.
This error is generally caused by an incorrect password.
Sometimes filters may inadvertently hide messages. Removing the filter makes them visible.
Sometimes when trying to upload an assignment or post a message, the screen appears to go blank, with a series of buttons across the top.
Importing questions from Question Libraries into Question Pools is not working as expected, due to an issue identified 3/6/24.
This message is caused by an existing pending attempt on a quiz in D2L.
This error can affect courses where the gradebook is set to drop the lowest score from items that do not have the same point total.
Special characters can break content in D2L and prevent you from uploading files if the filename contains them. Remove them to complete the upload.
When you attempt to log in to D2L, you receive an error: "There Was a Problem Processing Authentication, Either Username or Password Was Invalid or Your Account Does Not Exist".
Turnitin is only able to scan certain file types to check for similarity/plagiarism. This error is returned when the assignment has Turnitin enabled and the file does not meet its restrictions.
This article covers what to do if you have an active quiz attempt and you are not able to submit your answers successfully.
If Overall Score is not assessed, students will receive a blank page when clicking View Graded Rubric from within Grades.
If an instructor is trying to add a rubric to an assessment and it does not show up, some settings may not be set correctly.
The lockdown browser sometimes opens only a white page on a Mac and does not display the test. This article details some steps to resolve the issue.
If you are trying to use LockDown Browser for Chromebook with your D2L Brightspace exam, you'll first need to allow pop-ups for your D2L environment in the Chrome Browser.