Assignments, Quizzes, & Exams

D2L Gradebook

An online gradebook is essential for multi-modal, remote, and online courses. Students frequently report appreciating this feature even in face-to-face courses. And since you need to record grades anyway, why not do it in a system that helps you efficiently maintain your gradebook?

Here's the details: How the Grades Tool Works for Faculty and Students - Transcript

D2L has two basic ways of calculating grades that are practical for our courses. These tutorials showcase each, while further explaining the calculation systems:

Adding Items and Categories to a Points-Based Gradebook - Transcript

Adding Items and Categories to a Weighted Gradebook - Transcript

For more tutorials on the D2L Grades tool, see our D2L Self-Paced Training Set

Quizzes & Exams in D2L

• Use the D2L Quiz Toolset for exams and quizzes

  • Building a Basic Quiz in D2L - Transcript

  • Creating Quiz and Exam Questions

    • Multiple Choice and Multi-Select - Transcript

    • Fill-in-the-Blank

    • Matching

• Preview a Quiz (See what your students see)

• See and Manually Grade Student Quiz Submissions - Transcript

• Quiz Date and Time Restriction Basics - Transcript

• Simple Question Randomization in a Quiz

  • Have D2L randomize questions delivery for each student. Each student will receive the same questions.

• Using the Question Library & Creating a Question Pool For Advanced Randomization - Transcript

  • Have D2L serve questions to each student at random, from a (larger) question bank.

We have many more tutorials for using and choosing features in the D2L Quizzes Toolset, at our D2L Self-Paced Training Set

If you prefer or have experience with Google Forms, this is also an excellent option for quizzes.

Google Drive for Student Assignments

D2L dropboxes are probably simplest for collecting files like .docx or .xlsx. But if you have students create video or audio files, Google Drive is particularly helpful because Google Drive plays these without requiring the viewer/listener to download them. And students can collaborate using Google's onboard tools, like Docs, Slides, or Sheets.

• • Google Drive: the basics for Canisius Faculty and Staff.

  • How Your Students Can Use Google Drive & Docs to Collaborate.

Simple Sharing: Students share files with you, but not with each other

• If you have students share files with you via Google Drive (not with a folder so the whole class can see them), in your Google Drive, go into the Shared with Me section to find your student's files. Then drag those into a folder within your Google Drive so they are easier to find.

  • Here's a video you can share with your students - paste the link in D2L - that shows them how to share videos solely with you (and not with each other): https://youtu.be/0qPeBcwj9u4.

• Have your students create folders so they can easily share multiple files with you.

  • Watch this video, and share it with your students, to create a simple sharing scheme for class assignments using Google Docs and Drive. In this method, each student creates a separate folder so that no student can access another student's work, but you can see all student folders.

  • Drag their folders out of your "Shared with Me" section into a folder you create in your My Drive, for easy organization.

Create a Simple Sharing Folder for your Course. This can allow students to upload files that are then shared with each other. Students might collaborate on Google Docs, or upload video files that they then share as links in D2L discussions.

• This video is for you, showing how to create and share a folder that only you and your students can access.

• This video is for your students, so you should include this link in your D2L course space: https://youtu.be/tt0JVTc8Oa8. This shows them how to access the folder you created and shared.

• If you want them to specifically share videos via your sharing folder, to a D2L Discussion, link this video in your D2L course space: https://youtu.be/f8UnC_UOhsg

Don't like D2L's Quiz tool? Use Google Forms for Quizzes