D2L Brightspace

General Quick Guides

• Check Student Last Accessed Date - learn how to check your students last accessed date in D2L which is a great way to make sure students are engaging with the course and keeping on track
• D2L Faculty Task Guide - links to videos on commonly used tasks in D2L
• D2L Quick How 2's - collection of quick steps to accomplish commonly used tasks in D2L
• Enabling Personal Pronouns - voluntarily display personal pronouns as part of your D2L profile which is visible on the Classlist.

Gradebook Guides

• Complete Gradebook Guide
  • Grades Setup Wizard
  • D2L Grades Basics
  • Dropping the Lowest Grade
  • Releasing Final Grades
  • Creating a Weighted Gradebook

Publisher Integrations

Publisher integrations (MyLab & Mastering, McGraw-Hill Connect) are available in D2L through the Content area as External Learning Tools. 

• McGraw Hill Guide

• Pearson Guide

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Please note: you must be listed as an Instructor on both the course you want to copy to and from in order to complete your own course copy.  If you have permission from another instructor to copy their course content, use this D2L Course Copy request form (opens new window).

1. Log into D2L.
2. Access the course that you wish to copy the content into. 
3. Select Edit Course in the upper right corner.
4. Select Import/Export/Copy Components.  (You may need to scroll down to see this option.)
5. Copy Components from another Org Unit will be selected. Click on Search for Offering. Be sure Include protected resources is checked.
6. Search for the course that includes the content you wish to copy.
7. Select the course that you wish to copy and then click Add Selected.
8. Click Copy All Components.
9. The copy process will start. When the copy process finishes, it will display Copy Completed.
10. Click View Content to review or modify the copied content.

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• Brightspace Help (opens new window) is a repository of short, direct step guides and videos.
• Brightspace Tutorials (opens new window) is a YouTube channel with quality videos produced by D2L.  They are specific by subject, short, and direct.
• Visit the Brightspace Community (opens new window) to search articles and discussions on using D2L. 

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• Brightspace Help is a repository of short, direct step guides and videos.
• D2L Student Tasks Video Guide provides information about the commonly used tasks in D2L and videos on how to perform each task.
• Enabling Personal Pronouns - voluntarily display personal pronouns as part of your D2L profile which is visible on the Classlist.

These videos are made available by D2L directly.  You can view the entire playlist on YouTube.  Select videos are highlighted below for the most used tools.

• Navigation
• Notifications
• Content
• Discussions
• Quizzes
• Assignments
• User Progress
• Grades
• Classlist

Brightspace Pulse is a mobile app that can help you stay connected and on track with your courses.  It provides one easy view of course calendars, readings, assignments, evaluations, grades, and announcement items. The app can help you make better decisions about how to handle workload, when to submit assignments, and when to prepare for tests. The schedule view and weekly visualization enables you to quickly at a glance view what is due today, this week, and upcoming across all their courses.  Brightspace Pulse is available for download from Google Play™ (opens new window) store or Apple App Store® (opens new window).