On the blue navigation bar, on the far right click on ‘more’ drop down menu and click on ‘ATTENDANCE’
Click New Register
Enter the Name of the attendance register and other optional properties as needed
NOTE: Students are able to see these attendance registers from your course in Brightspace from the Course Tools menu unless the visibility setting is unchecked.
Enter a session name: This example uses attendance for Class Meetings.
To add additional sessions to the register, click SAVE, enter the number of sessions to be added, and click ADD SESSIONS.
To return and add or remove sessions at a later time, click the drop-down icon to the right of the register and select EDIT REGISTER from the drop-down.
ENTER ATTENDANCE:
From ‘MORE’ on the navigation bar, Click Attendance:
Click the name of register.
Click the Calendar icon beside session to enter the attendance:
Click the Attendance Status drop-down to set each student’s status:
Alternatively, set the Attendance Status for students in bulk by selecting multiple students and clicking ‘SET STATUS’
Here is how to check to see if students have completed and submitted a quiz.
Click on ‘GRADES’ in the Blue Navigation Bar
Find the quiz in the Grade book you are looking to check submission for
Click on the drop down arrow, select ‘Enter Grades’
Scroll down to the students name. Under the Submission Column, select the question mark with red dot.
Under Attempt, select ‘Attempt 1’ and a new window will come up:
Where it says ‘Still in Progress’ is an indicator that the student has not yet completed or submitted the quiz. You can also click on the ‘Quizzes Event Log’ for more data. In this case, since the time to submit the quiz has passed, the student will not be able to finalize the submission process unless you provide special access to this student and change the availability date. You can also manually grade the quiz on this screen as well.
Quizzes have always been used in College level courses to assess student knowledge of the course information. However, with the way courses are changing to a more online delivery, it has become a concern that students can use internet resources like ChatGPT, to write, answer, and turn in work that may not be original. Respondus Lockdown Browser can help with these concerns.
When a quiz or a prompt for an essay question is accessed from the Learning Management System, LockDown Browser can prevent students from using unauthorized resources.
Here are the simple steps:
1- Create the quiz in the LMS– in our case this would be D2L
EX: For a short essay, create a quiz and use the “ESSAY” question type.
2- From the Lockdown Browser dashboard in D2L {seen below}
Locate the quiz name and select “SETTINGS”
3- Then select “Require Lockdown Browser for this exam” and “Save + Close”
The assessment will now require students to use LockDown Browser.
When students access the quiz from the LMS, LockDown Browser will prevent them from switching applications, capturing screen content, or going elsewhere on the internet (unless the instructor allows it).
Turnitin users the link below may be of interest in helping with checking for AI writing detection capabilities:
It has come to our attention that sometimes students in the virtual classroom Bongo meeting sessions cannot hear the audio when an instructor is sharing a video in the screen share feature. Examples of these videos being shared are YouTube videos, or possibly web sites with videos that deal with particular instruction from a course. Below is a picture of the box an instructor must check in order for the virtual students to hear the audio with the matching video, when screen sharing presentations.
EX: Screen Share page in Bongo Virtual Classroom
By checking this box, the instructor has now shared the corresponding Audio with Video being played in the Screen Share feature.
Wondering how to add some automation to your reminders to students in D2L Brightspace? Learn more about creating Intelligent Agents through this great TLC workshop on August 19, 2022 or through these step-by-step instructions.
Quality Matters (QM), is an internationally recognized, standards-based program, which offers faculty quality assurance in online and hybrid course design with a focus on continuous improvement.
The Quality Matters program is rubric-based. The 43 standards are specific to higher education, backed by research, and are nationally recognized as a means to improve course design.
South Suburban College has a paid membership with Quality Matters.
Membership includes various resources, research and professional development opportunities.
Official course reviews can be completed in two ways:
External:
For a fee, the institution pays Quality Matters to review each course independently.
3 certified QM peer reviewers from other institutions review each course with a turnaround time of 3-6 weeks per course.
Internal:
The institution pays for QM peer review certified training for SSC faculty and/or staff.
These internal certified QM peer reviewers review courses for quality.
Course (and complete programs) that are Quality Matters certified are listed on the QM website. Institutions can promote these courses as well to demonstrate to their commitment to high quality courses.
How can we leverage SSC’s Quality Matters membership?
All Inclusive Access and Cengage Unlimited materials are always released in D2L Brightspace to the instructor one week before the start of the class. This is always done on a Sunday.
For more information please contact the SSC Bookstore.
Have you ever wanted to re-share a discussion post with a student or follow up on a discussion point with your instructor? Discussion tags or @Mentions make this easy! Watch this video to learn more.
