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Tevera is designed to support field work as part of curricular activities for programs like social work. Teachers use Tevera to manage field placements, track hours and progress, deliver documents to the students, automate workflows, and track learning objectives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

H5P creates HTML5 interactive modules that can be included directly into a Brightspace course. H5P content engages the student in low-stakes activities that can be used to assess mastery with grades imported directly into the Brightspace gradebook.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.