LMS Weekly Update: Have You Ever Wondered What To Do If You…

Posted on Friday, November 8th, 2019

  1. Need to change the answer to a quiz question and regrade student submissions?
    From the Activities/Quizzes, click on the chevron for that particular quiz and then on Grade. On the Questions tab, click Update All Attempts and then on the question, you need to regrade. You have the options to give to all students points value for that particular question or re-grade only the attempts that have a particular answer.
  2. Need to view grades for students who are not in your course anymore?
    Click on the Tools/Class List/Enrolments Statistics. Down at the bottom, under Withdrawals, click on the chevron beside the student and choose View Grades.
  3. Deleted an assignment by mistake?
    To recover deleted assignments go to Activities/Assignments/More Actions/Event Log. The deleted assignment will have a Restore button available.
  4. Need to grade assignment files offline?
    You have the option to download all the assignments files in a zip file, grade them, save the files, create a new zip file and upload all the graded files as a package file. Go to Activities/Assignments/View Submission and then the Submissions tab. Select all submissions and click Download. When you are ready to upload them, from the same screen, click on the Add Feedback Files tab and upload the zip file. Note that you will need to manually enter the grades in the gradebook column.
  5. Need to set up practice quizzes, but without the associated columns in the course gradebook?
    When you set up the quiz, on the Assessment tab, leave None for the Grade Item, but check the box to “Allow attempt to be set up as graded immediately upon completion.” No column will appear in the gradebook, but students will be able to view their score and any other options that you set up under the Submissions View tab.
  6. Your students are reporting that your emails sent from within Brightspace never reaches them?
    Ask them to check the Other folder in their Outlook email client.

Notes:

  1. For the detailed instructions on the above tips and the ones that will be included in the next week update, contact brightspace@algonquincollege.com.
  2. If you are interested in a PD session on these tips, please contact Rob Kershaw (kershar@algonquincollege.com).

Current Rubric Issue and a Work Around

You might have noticed that, when you are editing a rubric and use Ctrl + V or just Edit/Paste, and then save the rubric, surprisingly, when you go back to view the rubric, actually the copied text was not saved. D2L just entered this issue to the known issues list. One of our instructors has discovered a work around that will save you some time and frustration. The work around is to add a space at the end of a copy and pasted comment. So, copy the text, paste it in the rubric and then hit the space key.

 

 


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