Overview
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FAQs
To add someone to your course, select the Classlist link from the navigation bar at the top of your eLearning course home page. When the Classlist page opens:
- Select the Add Participant icon
at the top of the page. - When the Add Participant window opens, select Add Existing User.
- Type the name or student email address of the person you want to add to your course into the Search for: box, check the fields you are searching (first name, last name, etc.) and then select the “Search ” button.
- All people in the eLearning system with that last name will be now be displayed.
- Find the person you are searching for and check the box to the left of their name and choose the appropriate role from the drop down list
- Click Enroll Selected users
- Now select their appropriate role (e.g., Guest Student, TA, Guest Instructor) in your course by selecting the drop down box arrow to the right of their name and selecting the appropriate role from the list.
- Select the “Enroll” button at the bottom right of the Add Participant window and that person will now have access to your eLearning class.
- If you selected the "Send Enrollment Email" at the top of the page, an email message will be sent to the person notifying them of their enrollment.
Note: Non-registered students in current semester courses MUST be added in as Guest Students as the automatic roster load will remove them when it runs. Faculty cannot enroll a student in the official "Student" role.
- A rubric inserted in the Discussions “Assessment” area cannot be viewed in the Grades area.
- Students cannot see the scored rubric in Discussions.
- Students can only be see the *unscored* rubric in Discussions, just above the Topic title.
- Overall, inserting a rubric in the Discussions area under “Assessment” is not recommended.
To assess discussions using a rubric, we recommend:
- directing students to “Rubrics” on your navigation bar so they can see the rubric, and
- placing the rubric in your linked grade item in the D2L gradebook.
Here’s how to use rubrics to assess Discussion posts:
Add Rubric to Grade Item
1. Click on [Grades] in the navigation bar.
2. Click on [Manage Grades].
3. Click on the name of the grade item for your discussion assignment.
4. Under grading, click [Add Rubric].
5. Select the Rubric from the list, and click [Add Selected].
6. Click [Save].
Link Discussion Topic to Grade Item
7. Click [Discussions] in the main navigation bar.
8. Find the Topic you wish to assess. Beside the title of the Topic, click the [small inverted triangle] to reveal the dropdown menu.
9. Click [Edit Topic] in the dropdown menu.
10. Click the [Assessment] tab.
11. Click the dropdown menu under “Grade Item” to select the appropriate grade item to be linked to the Topic.
12. Type the number of possible points in the “Score out of” field.
13. Click [Save and Close].
Assess Discussion Posts and Enter Grade
14. Click [Grades] in the main navigation bar.
15. Click on the small inverted triangle beside the appropriate grade item.
16. Choose [Grade All] in the dropdown menu.
17. Click the colorful icon in the [Submission] column to read any student’s aggregated posts in the linked Topic.
18. Click the yellow ruler icon under the [Assessment] column to score the rubric.
19. Manually enter the score into the [Grade] column — scoring the rubric will NOT automatically enter the grade.
20. You may choose to leave comments in the [Feedback] column.
After you score the rubrics, students will be able to view them when they go into their gradebook.
Recent changes in browser security are causing problems in eLearning with Topic Links to external web sites. These resources are not opening for students as they once did.
The easiest and best solution for this problem is to have the link open in a new window. We consider it a “Best Practice” to have sites external to eLearning always open in a new window.
Please follow these simple steps to edit your links:
Select the down arrow next to your Topic and select Edit Link:
On the next screen, check the box to have the link open in a new window, and then click Update.
