Washburn University Instructor

Instructor Training - Assessments

Assignments

Assignments allow students to submit files to you so you can grade them in the D2L system.

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Assignments

Discussions

Discussions are how you allow students to talk to each other about specific topics in the online environment.

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Discussions

Other resources:

Clarifying discussion confusion (Forums vs. Topics) - Transcript

Quizzes

Quizzes can be used to determine the students' understanding of the information in your course. It is the tool used to administer quizzes, tests, and exams.

Video overviews:

Creating quizzes (11:38)
Scoring quizzes (1:45)
Quiz item analysis & statistics (1:20)
Regrading quiz questions (2:30)
Checking for and submitting un-submitted quiz attempts (2:08)
When a student tells you they did a quiz but you don't see it in the list of attempts, it may be because they clicked the Save button instead of the Submit button. This is how you find and submit it.
Question library (1:43)
Creating question pools (3:11)

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Quizzes

Class Progress
The Class Progress tool helps you check your students' progress in a course through tracking course-specific assignments and feedback, and through measuring progress indicators.

Video overview:

Class Progress (1:20)

Grades

Grades is your D2L gradebook. It can be set up to let you enter directly into it or it can be attached to assessment activities in D2L so their scores come over automatically. It can be customized in many different ways.
If you aren't familiar with online gradebooks, I strongly encourage you to start by reading this introduction to Grades.

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Grades

Rubrics

Rubrics can be used to communicate expectations for an assignment, provide focused feedback on works in progress, and grade final products.

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Rubrics