Category: D2L Tips

Scenario

This tutorial will cover the steps involved when you wish to see a list of students who have not yet attempted a Quiz yet. For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Steps

1. Go to the Quizzes tool in your course.
2. Click on the down arrow next to the Quiz you wish to see attempts for, and select Grade.

   

3. In the Restrict to drop-down menu, select Users who have not taken an attempt.

   

4. Click the magnifying glass in the Search for box near the top of the Grade Quiz area.

   

5. Scroll down, and you will now see a list of the students who have not yet attempted the quiz.

   

Things to Remember

When you go back to the Grade Quiz area, the Restrict to drop-down should retain the last option you selected, meaning if you want to see a list of students who HAVE attempted a quiz, you will need to select that option (Users who have completed an attempt) from the drop-down.

 

Scenario

This tutorial will cover the steps involved when students want to view their quiz attempt results in D2L. NOTE that you will only be able to review quiz results if your instructor has released them! For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Steps

1. Go to your course in D2L.
2. Go to the Quizzes tool (through the Tools drop-down menu in the navigation bar) or click on the title of the quiz in the Content area (if your instructor has put a link in Content).

   

3. Click on the down-arrow next to the title of the completed quiz you want to view, and select Submissions.

   

4. Click on the Attempt you want to view.

   

5. When you have finished reviewing the attempt, click Done.

 

Scenario

This tutorial will cover the steps involved when you want to only see specific columns in your Enter Grades table. This will make it easier to grade specific items when you have a really large gradebook – especially useful at this time of year! For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Steps

1. Go to the Grades tool in your course, and make sure you are in the Enter Grades.
2. Click the More Actions button and select Hide/Show Columns.
3. In the Hide/Show Columns pop-up box, select the Grade Item columns you wish to see in the Enter Grades table, and then click Save. You will then see only those items in the table – you can go back to Hide/Show Columns at any point to change which columns you see.
4. You will now only see those selected items in the Enter Grades table.

One other function that can help with grading in the Enter Grades table is switching the table from Standard View to Spreadsheet View.  This is especially handy if you have more than one grade item to grade – Spreadsheet View allows you to enter grades for multiple items at once.  To use Spreadsheet View:

1. Go to Enter Grades in the Grades tool.
2. Click Switch to Spreadsheet View.

   

3. You will now see your grades table with boxes into which you can enter grades.

   

Things to Remember

When you choose which columns to see, remember that this is only for your view, as the instructor for the course. This will not affect the students’ gradebook view. To choose which grade items students see, you will need to edit the grade item(s) and use the Hide this grade item setting in the Restrictions tab.

Scenario

This tutorial will cover the steps involved with printing PDFs, WORD documents, and PowerPoint course materials from within the Content tool.  For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

Steps

1. Go to your course in D2L.
2. Go to the Content tool (through the Tools drop-down menu in the navigation bar).

To print documents (WORD, PDF, PPT)

1. In the Table of Contents box, click on the title of the Module containing the files/pages you want to print.
2. Click on the title of the content page you want to print.
3. Scroll down to the bottom of the content page and click the Download button to save the file to your computer, then open it in the appropriate program (for example, WORD or PowerPoint) and print the document from there.

To print multiple pages of Content

1. In the Table of Contents box, click on the title of the Module you want to work with.
2. Click the Download button at the top of the page. The files in the Module will be “compressed” into a zip file, which you can save onto your computer, and then unzip into separate files which you can then print.

As the term winds down, you may find yourself looking at your course Gradebooks in D2L to see how students are doing. One easy way to do this is to set your Final Calculated Grades to be continuously updated as grades are added – you can see it, but students won’t unless you release the Final Calculated Grades column!

Scenario

This tutorial will cover the steps involved when you want to keep the Final Calculated Grade column updated (in the Enter Grades area) as you add marks to grade items.

Steps

1. Go to the Grades tool in your course.
2. From either Enter Grades or Manage Grades, click Settings.
3. Click on the Calculations Options tab.
4. Under Auto Update (at the bottom of the page), select Automatically keep final grades updated. Click Save. Then click Close. When you go to the Enter Grades area, you will now see that the Final Calculated Grades column is updated each time you add new marks to grade items.

Things to Remember

Note that students will NOT be able to see these ongoing Final Calculated Grade column updates unless you release the Final Calculated Grade item.

 

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

Scenario

This tutorial will cover the steps involved when you want to add feedback or attach feedback files for students in the Grades tool.

Steps

1. Go to the Grades tool in your course, and make sure you are in the Enter Grades area.
2. Click the down arrow next to the grade item you want to add feedback to, and select Grade All.
3. Click the Feedback (pencil) icon for whichever student you want to provide feedback.
4. In the Grade Feedback pop-up box, type or copy/paste your feedback into the Feedback box (the HTML editor). You can also use the Insert Stuff or Quicklink options (the icons on the top, left) to upload feedback files for your students (they will be stored in Manage Files). Click Save. Then click Save again once you have finished adding all your grades and feedback for this grade item.Note that the Private Comments box is used to leave comments/information for people in the course who have grading permissions (for example, another instructor, a TA, etc.)

   

Things to Remember

If you are linking grade items to other activities in D2L, for example Dropbox, we recommend that you add feedback, or upload feedback files, to those tools rather than adding them in the Grades tool.

So, today I thought I would post a short tutorial that is targeted more for students who are saving documents for uploading into D2L’s Assignment Dropbox.  However, the information in this post is good to keep in mind whenever you are saving files, whoever you are.

Scenario

This tutorial will cover what characters to avoid in filenames when saving your Word documents (or other assignment documents) for uploading into D2L. (NOTE: a file name is what you are asked to give your document when you save it, for example “BenAssigment1.doc”).

Because your files will be viewed by instructors who use many different operating systems (Mac, PC, etc.) and devices (desktops, tablets, smartphones, etc.), it is important to use characters in your document filenames that may will be compatible as across the board as possible.

So, DO NOT use the following characters and symbols in your filenames!

• # (pound sign)
• % (percent sign)
• & (ampersand)
• * (asterisk)
• $ (dollar sign)
• @ (“at” sign)
• ? (question mark)
• ! (exclamation point)
• ‘ or “ (single or double quotes)
• : or ; (colon or semicolon)
• { or } (left or right bracket)
• < or > (left or right angle bracket)
• / or \ (back or forward slash)
• Blank spaces

Also, keep these rules in mind:

• Don’t start or end your filename with a space, period, hyphen, or underline.
• Keep your filenames to a reasonable length, and make sure they are under 31 characters.
• Always use lowercase (as most operating systems are case sensitive).
• Avoid using spaces and underscores – use a hyphen instead.

For further information, please contact desupport@camosun.ca for assistance.

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.