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Step-by-step instructions on how to edit your faculty profile on my.metrostate.edu.

FACULTY: This article reviews the various email options available to faculty in D2L Brightspace. Email in D2L functions much like a postal drop box; you can send messages out to student accounts, but you cannot interact with your university email inside of D2L.

FACULTY: Create modules, upload files, and add activities to your course.

FACULTY: This article focuses on setting up a quiz in D2L and some of the tools available to help with the process.

FACULTY: There are multiple ways to set up grades in D2L’s grade book. This article will focus on two: setting up the grade book in the Manage Grades section of the grade tool first, and setting up the grade book as you create the activities in the course.

FACULTY: Instructors can automate communications and monitoring for students based on activities or lack thereof. Faculty can set release conditions to monitor login activity, course activity and grade accomplishments, setting up notifications to themselves or to students directly.

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FACULTY: Create an Assignment folder inside D2L Brightspace for student submission of assignments.

MoveIT Securely is a service provided by Minnesota State which allows you to securely send large files to personnel that do not have access to University shared drives, such as vendors, partners or other Minnesota State institutions.

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

STUDENTS, FACULTY: 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.

Reserve Hotel Office Space using Outlook.

The system office of Minnesota State provides faculty and professional advisors access to information about their advisees without needing to looking them up individually in Uniface. These standard reports find students for a given advisor, all students and their advisors or students without advisors.

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.