 Teaching and Learning

Namecoach, located within D2L Brightspace, is a tool available to faculty and students to share the pronunciation of their name, as well as find pronunciation of others.

Faculty: Barnes & Noble First Day integration is important to put in place if your course is in the Inclusive Access program at Metro State. It is a very simple integration that takes three steps for faculty to include the integration in their course.

FACULTY: This article is for faculty who want to know how to confirm a file attachment to an assignment folder in D2L Brightspace

Email your whole class list or individual students using tools under My.Metro (my.metrostate.edu).

FACULTY: D2L Brightspace allows you to reach your entire class or individual students via email through the Classlist tool.

Provides information on how to use flexible teaching classroom technology.

Equity by Design data allow faculty to identify equity gaps in their classes. The data are most easily accessed through Metro State virtual labs which bring our on-campus labs (including all of our academic software) to our students, faculty, and staff on their personal computers and tablets - virtually.

This article for faculty gives a general introduction to HyFlex teaching technology and offers practical suggestions for getting started and where to learn more or get help.

ALL: Share your videos stored in Kaltura MediaSpace either link them or use the D2L Brightspace integration so that others may view them.

ALL: A LinkedIn Learning subscription is available for current Metropolitan State faculty, staff and students.

FACULTY: LinkedIn Learning provides great courses and specific videos that can work well to supplement learning in the classroom, as well as prepare our graduates to be successful in the job market with courses that can help with technical skills and soft skills. Metro State has an easy process whereby instructors can integrate LinkedIn Learning into their D2L Brightspace course.

Learn more about what Online Learning means to students of Metro State University.

STUDENT: View a sampling of resources that can help propel students toward online learning success.

FACULTY: Once Packback has been enabled, follow these instructions for Packback set up within your D2L Brightspace site for your course(s).

This article for faculty introduces remote proctoring tool Respondus Monitor, explains how to get it set up, and how to review results.

This article provides a link to step-by-step instructions for taking a remotely proctored exam using Respondus Monitor in D2L Brightspace.

This article is for faculty. It explains what to do to set up Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor in a course in D2L Brightspace following a course copy.

This article is for faculty. It explains how to turn on Respondus LockDown Browser for quizzes in a course in D2L Brightspace.

ALL: Read about features of Media and Recording and Editing third party tools, like Audacity and Kaltura MediaSpace.

ALL: Read the description and features of Turnitin and access a tutorial.

This article provides, via links to existing tutorials, information on how a student can complete a VoiceThread assignment in D2L Brightspace.

When attempting to view or create a VoiceThread assignment in D2L, users sometimes encounter a blank screen. This is often due to third-party cookies or tracking being blocked. This article explains how faculty or students can enable third-party cookies for VoiceThread in a variety of browsers for desktop and laptop computers, and mobile devices.

ALL: This article gives a brief overview of VoiceThread and explains how faculty and students can sign in.

This article explains to faculty how to set up VoiceThread in a course in D2L Brightspace. It covers creating an account automatically with your D2L login, adding an assignment to your course, and provides links to additional resources.

FACULTY: This article explains how to set up VoiceThread links following a course copy in D2L Brightspace.

This article is for faculty, staff, and students and explains how to view and manually edit captions in VoiceThread, or how faculty can use the captioning request service.

There are many ways to connect to a Zoom meeting. Pick one that works for your technology and location.

View information on Zoom Rooms, starting and recording your meeting, sharing your screen, sharing documents through chat, breakout rooms and polling. .

Zoom can easily be set up for recurring meetings. You can leverage Zoom to set up your classroom times or recurring meetings.