 D2L Brightspace

First Day is a program offered by Barnes & Noble College (BNC), owners of our campus Bookstore, designed to reduce the cost to students of access to publisher-provided online resources.

Video notes can be added to any HTML editor in Brightspace. You can record or upload video or audio files.

This article lists the main roles in Brightspace and gives a short description of the permissions associated with the role within a Brightspace course.

Instructors can copy components of a Brightspace course (i.e., the source course), transferring some or all of its content, activities, and structural elements to another Brightspace course (i.e., the target course). Instructors can also import or export Brightspace course components Export packages are zip files.

Custom widgets are great ways to display important information to your class. Custom widgets often include things like: Office hours, Textbook information, A video that introduces you to your class, Hyperlinks that will be needed throughout the course

Brightspace Pulse is a mobile application that helps your students stay connected to your Brightspace courses with one easy view of course calendars, readings, assignments, evaluations, grades, and announcements. Students use Pulse to quickly check in with all the courses in which they are enrolled from their phone. For examples of how students use Pulse, check out Brightspace Pulse.

Brightspace includes a simple email messaging tool that allows instructors to compose and send messages to individual students, sections, groups, and classlists. These messages are sent to students' WSU email addresses. Brightspace does not receive email. If students reply to messages sent from Brightspace, the reply is sent to the instructor's WSU email mailbox.

Films on Demand is a collect of tens-of-thousands of videos and hundreds-of-thousands of video clips. The Krueger Library maintains a subscription to Films on Demand. You can learn more about Films on Demand and see the full list of videos on the Films on Demand website.

D2L Brightspace is Minnesota State's learning management system (LMS), available to all students and employees. Brightspace course shells are created for every section of every course. Instructors can use their Brightspace courses to provide students with online access to class materials and activities. Brightspace can be used to support any course, regardless of delivery mode. Use your StarID credentials to sign in.

Third-party application integration in D2L Brightspace enables instructors to add functionality to Brightspace courses by utilizing specialized connectors to external resources and services (e.g., online textbook resources). These integrations support everything from single sign-on to Brightspace Grades Tool synchronization, reducing instructor workload and providing students with a more unified user experience.

Instructors use announcements in Brightspace courses to update, inform, and engage students. Announcements are displayed on the course homepage and usually include text, images, and links to other course activities or external resources.

The Brightspace Quizzes Tool includes all the features and functions available for creating, administering, and grading tests and quizzes in D2L Brightspace. Students access the tool when taking tests and quizzes and reviewing their results.

This article includes a summary of the features and functions of the Brightspace Content Tool, including adding modules and content reporting.

This article covers setting accommodations and special access.

Separate Brightspace course shells are created for every section of every course each academic term. Instructors can merge Brightspace courses offered in the same term to create a new Brightspace course with a combined class list.

Brightspace supports two styles of home pages: the Brightspace home page and the course home page. Both of these styles of home page are widget based.

The Minnesota State eServices Grades and LDA Entry page where faculty post official final grades allows for the import of grades from the Desire2Learn (D2L) Brightspace Grades Tool. Instructors who already use the Brightspace Grades Tool can import them directly from their Brightspace course. This import feature works for both merged and unmerged Brightspace courses. Before faculty can import grades from a Brightspace course, the grades must be converted to an acceptable, official format.

This article describes applications for Brightspace sandbox courses and how to request one from TLT. It is intended for instructors and others members of the WSU community who are interested in using Brightspace for an instructional purpose that is not associated with an official academic course or term or simply to stage a course before it is offered officially to the student population.

The Brightspace Assignments (formerly Dropbox) tool is an electronic storage space where students can submit documents and assignments. Assignments will take most file formats including Word, Excel, PDF, and PowerPoint. For multimedia files, use MediaSpace. Submissions are date- and time-stamped. Students will get an email once they have submitted a file to the Assignments folder.

Use the Discussions tool in your course to encourage users to share thoughts on course material with their peers. You can set up forums and topics for users to ask questions, discuss course content and assignments, and work together in assigned groups and sections.

Instructors can use Brightspace Assignments to to gather and evaluate student work and track the completion of on-paper and in-person activities.

Use the Content tool to post and organize course content so that users can use information about course expectations, syllabus, lecture notes, and important dates.

Course materials you post in Content can include documents, images, media files, URL links, and existing course activities. You can add release conditions, grade items, and learning objectives to topics to ensure users navigate through course materials while fulfilling specific course requirements and learning expectations.

The Discussions tool helps students share thoughts on course materials with their peers.

This tool allows instructors to align course and/or program learning outcomes with specific assignments, rubrics, quiz questions, and discussions. Using a learning outcomes assessment approach allows instructors to separate measures of learning from grades.

D2L Brightspace offers many useful tools that you might not know about, including Checklists, Intelligent Agents, Groups, Release Conditions, Replacement Strings, Rubrics, and Surveys.

ReadSpeaker is a text-to-speech (TTS) tool integrated with D2L Brightspace where students will be able to hear content, discussion posts, quizzes, and assignments. ReadSpeaker offers a lifelike voice, more than 35 languages, the ability to slow down or speed up reading, and text magnifying.

Respondus Lockdown is an additional tool connected to Brightspace quizzes.

Respondus Lockdown is an additional tool connected to Brightspace quizzes.

The Brightspace Grades tool is a flexible, online grade book that instructors can use to provide their students with timely and readily accessible feedback. The Grades tool can accommodate both points-based and weighted grading methods, the inclusion of bonus and extra credit opportunities, the exclusion of certain items (e.g., the lowest quiz score) from the final grade, and more.