Rubrics Rubrics are guides that can be used to assess and/or evaluate student work in a standardized way. Rubrics are useful for providing timely feedback, encouraging students to review and use feedback, prompting students to think critically, to help instructors ensure alignment between learning outcomes, course content, and assessment, and […]
Grades
Grades Vendor Documentation How do I setup my grade book in Avenue to Learn? https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3539-set-up-your-grade-book Understanding the Grades Tool: How to create a Grade Item: How to Create a Grade Book Category: How to Enter Grades: How to Create Grade Exemptions: Final Grade Submission We’ve detailed a guide regarding final […]
Assignments
Assignments Vendor Documentation Assignment tool from a Student’s perspective: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/18102-assignments Assignment tool from an Instructor’s perspective: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3304-about-assignments Setting up an Assignment folder in Avenue: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3608-create-an-assignment Add feedback and evaluations to Assignments submissions: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3529-evaluate-assignments-using-the-assignments-tool Access the new Assignment page from the Content tool There are several different starting points to create […]
Manage Dates
Manage Dates The Manage Dates tool allows you to bulk change dates for everything in your course. When used in conjunction with Import/Export/Copy Components, it can allow you to re-offer a course quickly. Vendor Documentation Refer to documentation from vendor https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3428-bulk-edit-dates-in-manage-dates Bulk Edit Dates 1. On the navbar, click […]
Surveys
Surveys The Surveys tool allows you to create surveys for your students that can be anonymous or not. It provides statistics (both class and individual) and the most popular use for it is course evaluations. Vendor documentation Set up a Survey: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3674-set-up-a-survey Track Survey Progress: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3468-track-survey-progress-and-results Tutorial on how to […]
Calendar
Calendar The Calendar is a personal tool that displays all the events in all your enrolled courses including start dates, end dates, due dates and calendar events. Assignment folder dates automatically show in the Calendar when created. Please note that when you copy assignment folders from another course or a […]
Checklist
Checklist One of the uses of the Checklist tool is to distribute the content in order to allow students to check their own progress of the material, or to unlock supplementary materials that not all of your students require. This can be especially useful if you are unsure of the […]
Groups
Groups Creating groups will allow you to release content, assignment folders, quizzes, etc to a specific group of students. The most used case scenario in Avenue is setting up groups for group project work using the Assignments tool. Vendor Documentation How do I manage groups online? https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/3483-create-categories-and-groups How to create […]
FAQ
FAQ We don’t see this tool being used very often at McMaster, however, it can be helpful especially in large classes if you want to avoid students e-mailing you the same question multiple times. You can use this tool to provide information about your course, method of contacting you, and […]
Content
Content How to create a Course Overview: How to add a Module: How to upload a Topic or create a file from scratch: The above are the basics that you should know. For an expanded dive into the content tool, there is a content playlist from the vendor at: https://bit.ly/2P9Tu8C […]