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How to notify students of changes and information about your course through D2L Brightspace. This is an easy way to reach all students in a course.
A video tutorial—helpful for students—to forward announcements sent by instructors through D2L Brightspace to an email address.
A tutorial on how to add modules and sub-modules—a folder-like container for content—to your course.
"Topics" are individual content items—PDFs, PowerPoint files, Word documents, links to outside resources, etc.—contained within modules or links to other activities in the course. This is how to add this content to your course.
How to create a forum for class discussions. Do this before you create topics (below). Courses can have multiple forums.
How to create a discussion topic—essentially, a discussion thread—in a Brightspace D2L forum. Forums can contain multiple topics.
All of Brightspace's video tutorials about the different tools available to create and manage discussions.
How to share thoughts and comments on course topics in the Brightspace discussions tool.
How to create four different kinds of assignments in Brightspace.
How to complete and submit assigned assessments and activities in Brightspace. Helpful for students.
A Knowledge Base article from Metropolitan State.
A Knowledge Base article from Metropolitan State.
Zoom is a platform for remote video conferencing. This is a good alternative for in-person meetings and classes.
Log in with your StarID and password. Minnesota State contracts with Zoom; use this log in to access all of Zoom's functionality. You may wish to share this link with your students.
How to get started with Zoom, with tips specifically for Minnesota State faculty and staff.