Author: eschudel

This tutorial is for faculty who have previous experience using the Quizzes tool in D2L. For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Scenarios

This tutorial will cover the steps involved when you wish to send quiz marks to the gradebook AFTER a quiz has closed, and also when you have forgotten to link a quiz to a grade item but with to link it before all students have completed the quiz.

Scenario 1: Linking the Quiz to a Grade Item and Releasing all the Grades after the Quiz has Closed

1. Go to the Quizzes tool in your course.
2. Click the arrow next to the title of the quiz you want to release marks for, and select Edit.
3. In the Assessment tab, click the Grade Item drop-down menu, and select the grade item you wish the quiz to connect to (this assumes you have already set up your gradebook in D2L).

   

4. Make sure Automatic Grade and Auto Export to Grades are DE-SELECTED (no arrows in their boxes). Click Save and Close.

   

5. When you are ready to publish quiz scores to the gradebook, click the arrow next to the title of the quiz you wish to grade, and select Grade.

   

6. Click the select boxes in the Published column for all the attempts you wish to release grades for. Click Save and Close. When you go to your gradebook, you will see the quiz grades entered there for you.

   

Scenario 2: Linking the Quiz to a Grade Item and enabling Auto Export to Grades after the Quiz has started (but BEFORE it’s completed by all students).

1. Go to the Quizzes tool in your course.
2. Click the arrow next to the title of the quiz you want to print, and select Edit.

   

3. In the Assessment tab, click the Grade Item drop-down menu, and select the grade item you wish the quiz to connect to (this assumes you have already set up your gradebook in D2L).

   

4. Click the select box next for Auto Export to Grades (this will mean that grades will automatically be exported to the Gradebook for students who complete the quiz from this point forward). Click Save and Close.

   

5. Now you need to export grades for students who have already completed the quiz.
   1. Click the arrow next to the title of the quiz you wish to grade, and select Grade.

      

   2. Click the select boxes in the Published column for all the attempts you wish to release grades for. Click Save and Close. When you go to your gradebook, you will see the quiz grades entered there for you.

      

Things to Remember

After Exporting grades to the gradebook, go to the Grades tool to make sure the grades are there!

Questions?  Contact desupport@camosun.ca.

This tutorial is designed for faculty who have previous experience using the Grades tool in D2L. For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Scenario

In this tutorial, I will cover the steps involved when you wish students to see a cumulative grade at a specific point in the term (typically the mid-point).  This is a common request at this time of year, so I thought you might like to learn more!

Steps

1. Go to the Grades tool in your course, and make sure you are in the Manage Grades area.
2. Click the New button and select Item.
   
3. Under Choose a Grade Item Type, select Calculated.
4. Give your Grade Item a Name, select other parameters as required, then under Calculation, select the Grade Items you wish to include in your snapshot.
5. Scroll down, and under Calculation Method, select Milestone Grade Calculation. Then click Save and Close. Students will now be able to see what grade they have so far in the term.

Things to Remember

You can also use the Milestone Grade Calculation to show a student their cumulative grade in the course at any point (i.e., using only selected grade items). What I mean by this, is that you can go back in and edit this item at any time to add more Grade Items to the calculation for students.

You can only create Calculated Grade Items if your grading system is Weighted.

If you use the Dropbox tool in D2L, you may have noticed a new option popping up for you. I wanted to let you know what this option will do, and how to turn it off if you don’t want to opt-in.

When you go to your Dropbox, you will see the following message appear:

If you click Turn it on, the old table view will change from a table with the column headings: Total Submissions, Unread Submissions, Flagged Submissions, Due Date:

To a table with the column headings Completed, Evaluated, Feedback Published, Due Date. Note that the numbers now show the number of items along with the total number of students in the course site:

If you click Leave it off, you can always turn it on later, or if you click Turn it on, you can always turn it off later, by clicking on the little down arrow at the top right-hand of the Dropbox area:

Make your choice. You can always go back and change it later.

Note that there may be a point at which this new view becomes the default. We currently don’t know when that may happen.

If you use the Rubrics tool in D2L, you probably pull your hair out a little every time you try to add levels and criteria, and try to figure out what marks to apply to each criteria. So, let me take a moment to welcome you to the new Rubrics Creation Experience, which has now been enabled in Camosun’s D2L!

For the next several months, you will be given the option to opt-in or out of the new interface, but I highly recommend you opt in as this will eventually be the default rubric creation interface. This is what the Opt-In looks like when you click New Rubric:

Click Turn it on to enable the new creation experience.

You can turn off the new experience, if you don’t like it, by clicking on the little down arrow in the top right,

and then clicking Turn it off (or Leave it on if you decide to keep it!).

Now, let’s look at the new interface.

First, you only have one screen to work in. In the old interface, you had a Properties tab (where you gave the rubric a Name, set its Status, chose what kind of rubric you wanted to create, etc., and a Levels and Criteria tab. In the new interface, everything is selectable on one screen.  The top part has the Name field, as well as Type and Scoring drop-down menus, and a Reverse Level Order option. You can change the Type and Scoring as you create the rubric if you want to see what different rubrics will look like.  Let’s take a look:

Underneath this, you have the Criteria and Levels table. You can click in the boxes to change the Criterion and Level names, the points, and the Feedback (each Feedback box is an HTML editor). You can add Levels by clicking the + at the far right, and add Criteria by clicking + Add Criterion at the bottom.

If you change the default points values, the points values at the end will also change automatically.

You still have to adjust the Overall Score table manually, so that the Level names match the main table, and the overall score matches the calculations from the main table. The Options listed are also the same, as is the Advanced Availability. Remember a rubric has to Allow new associations in Competencies for you to attach it to an assessment. Your changes will save automatically, so when you are finished working on your rubric, you can click Close.

Also a reminder – if you have rubrics in Dropbox or Discussions, and those assessments are connected to a Grade Item, those rubrics will automatically appear in the Grades Feedback area once you have published the feedback in the associated Dropbox or Discussion Topic.

If you have never used the Rubrics tool in D2L, we highly recommend that you either attend a Rubrics workshop (two are offered this May/June – one at Lansdowne and one at Interurban) or book an appointment with an instructional designer by emailing desupport@camosun.ca.

This tutorial is designed for faculty who have previous experience using the Content and Manage Files tools in D2L. For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Scenario

This tutorial will cover the steps involved when you wish to set a Default Path to a specific Manage Files folder for a Module in the Content tool.

Steps

1. Go to the Content tool in your course.
2. In the Table of Contents box, click on the title of the Module you want to work with.

   

3. Click on the down arrow next to the title of the Module and select Set Default Path.

   

4. In the pop-up box, click Change Path. You will then see a list of the folders you have available in the Manage Files area.

   

5. Select the title of the folder you want to connect to your Module. If you don’t see the folder you want, either use the + signs to open the folders to check for sub-folders, or click on New Folder at the tops to create a new folder. Once you have selected your folder name, click Select a Path.

   

6. You will now see the folder you selected at the end of the path name next to Change Path. Click Save. All files you upload to the Module will now be automatically saved in the folder you selected.

   

Things to Remember

Remember to set up your Default Paths at the same time as you create your Modules. This will save you from having to reorganize your files in Manage Files later.

This tutorial is designed for faculty who have previous experience using D2L. For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Scenario

This tutorial will cover the steps involved when you wish to see what your course looks like to a student. This is especially handy when you have “hidden” components in your course and want to double-check to make sure your students can’t see them.

View as Student

1. Go to your course homepage.
2. Click on your name in the top right-hand side of the page, and select View as Student.

You will now see your course as a student would, with the following exceptions:

• Viewing as Student means that you are still “you” – you simply lose access to the editing functions you have in your normal “teacher” role. This means if you post a discussion message or send an email while Viewing as Student, those will appear as if they come from YOU (i.e., with your name attached).
• You can’t test group enrolment using View as Student – you can neither be enrolled as a student in a group, nor can you self-enrol into a group when viewing as student.
• While you can view the gradebook as a student, Viewing as Student does not allow for having actual grades in the Grades tool. See below for more information on how to Preview a student’s gradebook.
• You cannot complete a quiz or have that quiz’s grade sent to the Grades when Viewing as Student. See below for more information on how to Preview a quiz.
• You cannot submit a Dropbox assignment and have the grade sent to the Grades when Viewing as Student. See below for more information on how to Preview the Dropbox.
• You can’t be attached to Special Access when Viewing as Student.

3. To stop Viewing as Student, click on your name again, and click on the X next to Viewing as Student.

Previewing Quizzes

While Viewing as Student won’t allow you to take a quiz in your course (it allows you to click on the quiz, but there will be no Start Quiz button), you can Preview a quiz which allows you to test a quiz.

1. Go to the Quizzes tool in your course.
2. Click on the down arrow next to the quiz you wish to preview, and select Preview.
3. Read through the instructions, etc., and then click Start Quiz.
4. Preview your quiz, answering questions if you like (question answers will auto save once you complete them), and click Submit Quiz when you have completed it.
5. Select Allow this preview attempt to be graded in the Grade Quiz area if you like (note that this will NOT send the grade to the Grades tool!), then click Submit Quiz.
6. You can now view the various Submission Views you may have set up for your quiz, then click Done.
7. Click Exit Preview.
8. If you want to see this attempt in the Grade Quiz area, click the down arrow next to the quiz, and select Grade.
9. Under Restrict to, click on the Users who have completed an attempt drop-down menu, and select Users who have previewed attempts, then click the magnifying glass above!
10. You can then click on the attempt you just completed to look at the grading area for the quiz. See the Grading or Re-Grading Quiz Submissions tutorial for more information.

Previewing a Student’s Gradebook

Viewing as Student will allow you to see what your course gradebook will look like to a student, but you will not be able to see actual grades or feedback in this view. You can, however, preview one of your student’s gradebooks to see what grades and feedback look like to your students. This is especially useful for helping students who may be confused about where and how to see feedback in the Grades tool.

1. Go to the Grades tool in your course and click on Enter Grades.

   

2. Click the down arrow next to the name of the students whose gradebook you wish to preview, and select Preview. That student’s gradebook will open in a pop-up box.

   

3. Click Close when you have finished previewing the student’s gradebook, and the pop-up box will close.

Previewing Dropbox

You can submit an assignment to the Dropbox when Viewing as Student, but you will be unable to view the attempt in the Evaluate Submission area. The following steps will be useful for you when you want to learn how to grade student submissions before any of your students have submitted anything.

1. Go to the Dropbox tool in your course. Click More Actions and select Preview.

   

2. Click on an assignment’s title to open the submission area.

   

3. Add a File to add your submission, add any Comments if you wish, then select Allow this preview submission to be available in the dropbox folder if you like (note that this will NOT send the grade to the Grades tool!), then click Submit.

   

4. Click Done.

   

5. Click Exit Preview.

   

6. If you want to see this attempt in the View Submissions area, click the down arrow next to the assignment, and select View Submissions.

   

7. Click Show Search Options if needed, then under Submissions, click on the drop-down menu, and select Users with preview submissions, then click the magnifying glass above!

   

8. You can then click on the submission you just completed to look at the Evaluate Submission area for the preview submission. You can then add feedback, a grade, and Publish your feedback (it will NOT go to the gradebook). See the tutorial Grading Dropbox Submissions for more information.

Things to Remember

While there are some tools and functions you will not be able to test fully from a student perspective unless you are an actual registered student in the course (for example, Groups), you can contact an eLearning instructional designer to check those tools and functions for you in your live course sites.