Our D2L Subscription training providesyou unlimited access to on-demand and live D2L sessions. It allows convenient access anytime, anywhere.
How to Register
Create a Brightspace Community account at https://community.d2l.com/brightspace. Be sure to use your SSC email address as a part of the account creation process. Please choose the password recovery option to reset the password.
Check your inbox for an email from Brightspace Community and follow the directions to complete your account setup (check your spam or junk folder if you did not receive an email).
Click on Subscription Training in the navigation bar.
Then click Subscription Training (for licensed clients)
From the playlist drop-down in the upper right hand corner, select “Beginner Learning Environment for HE”. Click on the first module in the blue film strip (Introduction to Learning Environment) to begin.
Feel free to register for other advanced D2L courses after completing the Beginner course.
Pairing Pearson MyLab, Mastering or Revel with D2L Brightspace provides a seamless experience for students. With a few clicks you are able to integrate your grade books and assignments like a pro.
SSC Migrated from LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3 on August 2, 2023. This changed the Pearson Pairing Process below.
Bongo provides much more than an integrated virtual classroom within D2L Brightspace. With video assignments, you can engage students in a whole new form of virtual assessment. Be sure to check out Question & Answer and Interactive Video assignments.
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Video Overview – We have the premium version so our meeting time has been increased from 60 minutes to 240 minutes.
Bongo is a web-based solution. There is no software to download.
Bongo is completely integrated with D2L, there is no need to create an account with Bongo.
We have the premium version so our meeting time has been increased from 60 minutes to 240 minutes.
When you schedule a Virtual Classroom session it will automatically be added to the student’s calendar.
Virtual Classroom recordings can be added to your course content automatically.
Virtual backgrounds are unfortunately not available in Bongo at this time.
Virtual Classroom and meeting recordings are available to students through the D2L Brightspace Pulse app.
The digital whiteboard can be enlarged.
If you choose automatic recording, the recording will begin automatically at the scheduled meeting time and stop when the meeting ends. You will not be able to start and stop the recording unless you choose the manual mode.
Instructors will be able to access a scheduled meeting 10 minutes before it starts. Students will gain access at the scheduled meeting start time.
The length of time you schedule for a meeting is a hard time and the meeting will end automatically when time is up. You will receive a count down.
Breakout rooms are not recorded.
A video assignment will not appear in the D2L Grade Book until the first assignment is graded. There is no need to manually create the assignment.
Audio from videos isn’t sharable from an external source (YouTube, etc.). Available options are the instructor’s use of an external microphone, posting the link to the course in advance like pre-reading, sharing the video link in the chat at the appropriate time during the class, and allowing students a certain period to view it.
Bongo’s default view is Presentation view. To view more students cameras, you can toggle to Large Gallery view under settings.
This data is entered incorrectly more than any other required data. DO NOT ENTER ATTENDANCE VERIFICATION DATA IN FINAL GRADES TAB. If you enter data into the Final Grade Tab by mistake you maybe required to submit a paper Change of Grade form for each individual student. This creates a lot of extra work for you, your Dean, and the Registration team.
As an instructor, it is important that you enter data for each of your students in each of your courses. This information must be submitted to Ellucian Colleague through D2L Brightspace. Data is due on different dates and it MUST BE SUBMITTED ON TIME. Failure to do so impacts South Suburban College financially. If you are uncertain about a deadline for a particular course, please contact your department secretary or Dean. It is your responsibility to know the calendar for your course.
Submitting Attendance Verification
While it isn’t necessary for you to submit daily attendance to the College for your course, it is necessary that you submit an Attendance Verification for each student. Attendance Verification simply lets us know that a student has attended class within the first few meetings of the course and helps set the student up for a successful semester. An “S” (satisfactory) or “NS” (not satisfactory) is to be entered into the “Override Grade” field on the Midterm Grade 3 screen. If a student has not attended your course by the data deadline, that student should be issued an “NS” and the “Never Attended” box should be checked on the Midterm Grade 3 screen. Waiting to check the “Never Attended” box until a later time can have negative consequences on a student’s financial aid.
When the “Never Attended” box is check, students receive a notice that they have 3 days to contact the instructor or Registration to notify them that an error has been made. At the end of the three day period, the student will be dropped from the course. Do not wait until MIDTERM to mark a student as NEVER ATTENDED. It hurts the student in the long run. It is always possible to re-admit a student if they were dropped in error or in working with your dean an exception needs to be made.
STEPS TO ENTERING ATTENDANCE VERIFICATION
Choose GRADES from the D2L NAV BAR.
2. If you are not using the grade book in D2L choose ENTER GRADES to access the EXPORT TO SIS option. If are using the D2L grade book you will immediately see the EXPORT TO SIS option here.
3. Choose MIDTERM 3 from the grade type drop-down menu. By default, the menu is set to FINAL GRADES.
NOTE: This data is entered incorrectly more than any other required data. DO NOT ENTER ATTENDANCE VERIFICATION DATA IN FINAL GRADES TAB. If you enter data into the Final Grade Tab by mistake you will be required to submit a paper Change of Grade form for each student individually. This creates a lot of extra work for you, your dean and the Registration team. Be sure to use only CAPITAL LETTERS.
4. Enter either a capital S or NS into the OVERRIDE GRADE field for each student enrolled.
5. If you are issuing an NS for a student for ATTENDANCE VERIFICATION you should also be checking the “NEVER ATTENDED” box for that student.
6. Be sure to verify there is a CHECK MARK in the box to the left of every student’s name you wish to export. Failure to check the box will result in that student being excluded from the export to ELLUCIAN COLLEAGUE and your data will not be transmitted.
7. Click EXPORT on the bottom left-hand side of the screen.
8. Review the export results of the submissions for each student by scrolling to the right If you receive an error other than STUDENT IS NOT ACTIVE IN THE SECTION, try submitting the data a second time. Don’t forget to add a CHECK-MARK next to the student’s name you wish to export again. If the process fails a second time, please email ssconline@ssc.edu. An error of STUDENT IS NOT ACTIVE IN THE SECTION requires no further action and is an indication that the student has dropped the course. It is okay to skip this student in the future.
Click this floating arrow to scroll right and verity the status of your export.
Always check for errors. They will display immediately after the export is complete.
9. If your course is cross-listed, change the section using the drop-down listing the other courses and repeat the steps for each cross-listed section.
You must select and export each section individual to submit data.
NOTE: Students will be able to see the information you submit through the EXPORT TO SIS in SSC Self-Service.
