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About Course Templates
All courses offered in Brightspace must be associated with a course template. Course templates link a course offering to a department (or another parent org unit for organizations that don't use departments or include another org unit between departments and course templates). The primary purpose of the template org unit…
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About the Terms and Conditions tool
The Terms and Conditions tool is turned on by default for your instance. The Terms and Conditions tool allows administrators to add a terms and conditions page to their instance of Brightspace. Administrators can set the terms and conditions to have no expiry and users are only required to accept the terms if new terms and…
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About Activity Feed
Activity Feed is a course homepage widget that provides a central location for instructors to post messages and assignments. You can also provide links to course materials and external resources. This gives learners the ability to quickly access links to important materials, comment on messages made by instructors and…
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Set default settings for display indicators
To set default settings for display indicators Administrators can set org-level default settings for display indicators in the Class Progress dashboard and User Progress report. This allows instructors to see Class and User Progress items relevant to their organization without having to change what displays on the page. If…
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About Quick Eval
Quick Eval offers evaluators a single location to view all learner submissions that are awaiting evaluation. Submissions made to Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussions are displayed in a sortable list and can be selected to take you directly to their assessment page. Educators can sort, filter, and search submissions to…
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About Lessons
Lessons is a way for instructors and learners to experience the Content tool in Brightspace. It offers a simplified experience for organizing content, aligning to learning standards, managing the availability of course materials, and automatically scheduling content units as a pacing guideline. You can now import from the…
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Set up Course Updater
To use the Course Updater tool, administrators must enable the Course Updater tool. Once enabled, administrators must grant the See Course Updater permission to users that need to use the tool. Once the Course Updater tool is enabled and the See Course Updater permission is granted, Course Updater must be added to the…
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About Manage Files
The Manage Files tool is a file management system for your course. You can use this tool to organize and upload files associated with your course offering. D2L recommends that you organize your files into folders, creating a folder for each module of content. In some instances, when you upload .jpg files in any file upload…
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Set up course navbars and themes
For each course, you can create a navbar with links to course-specific and organization-wide tools and resources, and a theme to customize and brand the look and feel of navbars and page backgrounds. Set a default navbar You must have permission to manage navbars at the organization level to set default navbars for an org…
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About Awards
The Awards tool enables instructors to provide merit-based awards to students. There are two types of awards: Badges, and Certificates. Badges are awarded based on any criteria determined by the instructor. They are meant to provide digital markers that represent accomplishment throughout a course or program. Badges do not…