Instructor Tutorials

This video explains how to navigate Brightspace as an instructor.

This video demonstrates how to automatically add a minimum or maximum score to an assessment for ungraded rubric criteria. Instructors can quickly assess all ungraded rubric criteria and then return to the assessments at a later time to add feedback.

This video explains how to add external learning content to your course as an instructor in Brightspace.

This video explains how to add the Work To Do widget to your homepage as an instructor in Brightspace.

This video explains how to use the Annoucements tool as an instructor in Brightspace.

Help boost engagement by scheduling announcements for frequent and regular communication to all learners enrolled in a course. Learners can set notification preferences to be made aware of important updates.

This video demonstrates the Co-Marking, Delegation, and Multi-evaluation functionality for evaluators and publishers in Assignments. Use these workflows to improve course management for large classes by assigning multiple evaluators, delegating and managing evaluator workflows, and reducing bias in marking.

This video explains the Class Progress tool and how to use it as an instructor in Brightspace.

The Class Progress tool lets you keep track of your students’ progress for course work like modules, quizzes, and assignments, providing an overview of their progress in your course.

This video explains how to use the Classlist tool as an instructor in Brightspace.

The Classlist tool is a directory of names, emails, and group settings that provide you with quick access to the full list of users in your course.

This video demonstrates how to configure and use the Photo Banner widget. Use the Photo Banner widget to support learning by curating visual aids like diagrams, infographics, and linking to examples of course content topics.

This video explains how to copy an assignment to another course as an instructor in Brightspace.

This video explains how to copy existing content into a course as an instructor in Brightspace.

This video explains how to create a Discussion Forum in Discussions as an instructor in Brightspace.

This video explains how to create a discussion topic as an instructor in Brightspace.

This video demonstrates how to create a discussion topic and forum. Encourage your learners to share thoughts on course material with peers by setting up forums and topics for learners to ask questions, discuss course content and assignments, and work together in assigned groups and sections.

This video explains how to create a quiz as an instructor in Brightspace.

This video explains how to create a quiz with a set of randomized questions in Brightspace. Randomizing quiz questions ensures that learners receive a unique set of questions, reducing instances of cheating.

Hotspots provide a multilayer learning experience enriched with multimedia and interactive components that promote exploration, analysis, and evaluation. Learners can select and open active icons to learn more about parts of an image.

This video explains how to create a video as an instructor in Brightspace.

Watch how to create an assignment and enable Turnitin Similarity Report and Online Grading. Use Similarity Report to check learners’ work for plagiarism. You can also use Online Grading to use Turnitin’s assessment tools.

This video describes how to create and edit a Rubric in Brightspace.

This video demonstrates how to create a certificate in Brightspace. Certificates can be automatically issued based on release condition criteria or manually awarded to learners to recognize their efforts.

This video explains how to create course content as an instructor in Brightspace.

This video demonstrates how to set grade exemptions for learners.
Use grade exemptions to prevent a grade item from being included in the calculation of a learner’s final grade.

Brightspace Creator+ subscribers can create a presentation by launching the Capture App from the Media Library.

Create Presentation provides a simple way to capture your screen and webcam for quick demonstrations and presentations and then add them to Media Library.

This video explains how to create a presentation with Capture Web. Capture Web enables full presentation capture from your browser without the need to download a desktop client. This includes both screen capture and mixed camera and screen presentations. Capture Web is available with the purchase of Creator+.

This video demonstrates how to create and use the Creator+ Timeline element. Use timelines to show a series of events, a workflow, a thought or creation process, or even a dialogue between two people.

This video demonstrates how to customize the quiz results display for learners’ quiz submissions in Brightspace. Creating a custom submission view provides learners with additional insight into their quiz attempt and the quiz attempts of their peers.

This video explains how to modify a quiz question in Brightspace while the quiz is available and adjust learners' grades accordingly.

This video demonstrates how to evaluate discussion posts. Use the discussion evaluation experience to grade learners’ posts and provide feedback on their work.

This video demonstrates how to use D2L Lumi Idea to generate assignment ideas. You can use Lumi Idea for Assignments to help create a new assignment or modify and enhance an existing one.

This video demonstrates how to use D2L Lumi Content. Use D2L Lumi Content to generate engaging learning materials from external files in the New Content Experience.

This tutorial walks you through how to access the Outcomes tool and use the Suggest Outcome Alignments option to quickly generate relevant suggestions for assignments, pages, discussions and quizzes with Lumi Pro in Brightspace.
Note: The name of the Outcomes tool may vary depending on your organization's settings (e.g., Standards, Competencies, Objectives).

This video demonstrates how to use D2L Lumi Quiz. Use D2L Lumi Quiz to generate questions for your Question Library, then add them to the quizzes in your course.

This video demonstrates how to evaluate learners on their discussion participation by grading and providing them with feedback using the Discussions tool.
Use the discussion tool to add and provide bulk feedback to learners.

This video is Part 1 of 2, describing how instructors can enter grades using the Grades Tool in Brightspace.

This video explains how instructors can manage learner grades using the Grades tool in Brightspace.

This video shows how instructors and create and edit Grade Schemes using the Grades Tool in Brightspace.

This video explains how an Instructor can adjust the settings of the Grades Tool in Brightspace.

This video shows how instructors can use the Grades Tool's Setup Wizard in Brightspace.

This video provides instructors with an overview of the Grades tool in Brightspace.

This video explains how grading works in Brightspace.

This video demonstrates how to grade submissions and add feedback in the Assignments tool. Use the assignment evaluation experience to provide feedback, annotate submissions, and assign grades.

This video explains how to give a learner special access to a quiz in Brightspace.

This video showcases the display pages in Content. Use these display pages to view relevant content about assignment, quiz, discussion, and LTI activities.

This video explains how to manage your account settings as an Instructor in Brightspace.

This video explains how to monitor Class Progress as an instructor in Brightspace.

This video describes the New Content Experience (Lessons) in Brightspace. It showcases how to create, organize, and manage course materials in a more intuitive and engaging way.

This video demonstrates how to use the new quiz evaluation experience in Brightspace. Optimize your grading workflows with new quiz management options and an improved evaluation view.

This video explains the features for the New Quiz Experience in Brightspace. Creating a quiz using the new quiz experience provides a fully immersive layout that lets you determine every detail for your quiz.

This video describes the new user interface for the Media Library in Brightspace, highlighting its streamlined design and improved functionality.

This video demonstrates how to use randomization options in the Quizzes tool.

This video demonstrates how to print quizzes in Brightspace for offline use.

This video demonstrates how to release final grades to learners from your grade book.
Use the Grades tool to share final grades with learners, showing them how they did in your course.

This video shows how to review analytics for a completed quiz when Study Support is enabled.
Use Lumi Insights to identify where learners may need additional support and which resources are most helpful. Insights include the quiz question with the most incorrect responses, the most recommended activity, and the most viewed content.
Lumi Insights appear on the quiz topic page in the New Content Experience.

This video explains how to begin setting up your course as an instructor in Brightspace.

This video explains how to set up Classlist, Class Progress, and Grades as an instructor in Brightspace.

This video explains how to create an assignment through Content in Brightspace as an instructor. The new Assignments creation experience has a fully immersive layout that is consistent with other areas of Brightspace.

This video demonstrates how to use the new Discussions creation experience. The new Discussions creation experience adopts creation elements from Assignments and Quizzes, making it familiar and easier to create great course content.

This video demonstrates how to create private groups in the Discussions tool where learners can keep a journal. You can create private groups with restricted discussion areas for learners to journal. Journal posts can be graded per entry or over time.

This video demonstrates how to use the Brightspace, or HTML, Editor. Use Brightspace Editor anywhere where you want to create course content.