uiuLearn Faculty Tutorials & Resources

This page contains tutorials to help faculty develop uiuLearn skills to create a variety of online course activities that can enhance students’ learning experience. You will also find information on UIU Library resources and educational technologies, such as McGraw Hill, Pearson, Zoom, and Turnitin. If you don’t find what you are looking for, additional support and resources are available at the end of the page.

uiuLearn Beginners

Logging in to uiuLearn

uiuLearn Platform Browser Requirement

uiuLearn 101: The Basics for Faculty

This video tutorial covers:

Logging in to uiuLearn
uiuLearn layout and basic navigation
Attendance Tool

Related uiuLearn 101 Basic Training:

Download and Install Microsoft Office 365 applications to your computer
Navigating the Learning Environment: Develop comfort in navigating the common elements of the uiuLearn Brightspace learning environment.
Navigating to Courses in uiuLearn
D2L Brightspace uiuLearn Instructor Tutorials Videos
D2L Brightspace uiuLearn Instructor Knowledge Base
Enabling Pronoun Display in uiuLearn

uiuLearn Tutorials and Resources

Accessibility

- Grant a Special Access to a Student for QuizzesD2L video – Shows how to grant more time or provides an alternative due date for Quiz completion for students with special needs.
- Detailed Accessibility Checking Tutorial from Desire2Learn (video)

Announcements

Assignments

New Assignment Experience: Video by D2L. Covers the opt-in Assignment Experience
New Assignment Experience: PDF format. Covers the opt-in Assignment Experience released in June 2020.
Create Grade Items for Assignments
Associate Grade Items and Assignments
Grade Submissions in Assignments: Video by D2L. Grade assignment submissions from within the tool to quickly evaluate and leave feedback for learners.

Attendance

Attendance Tool

Browsers

Clear Your Browser Cache: This tutorial includes Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browser instructions.

CengageNOW

Checklists

Checklists: Video by D2L. Help learners deconstruct a large assignment into smaller tasks using a checklist. This tutorial shows how to create a checklist to help learners stay on track and complete an assignment.
Create a Checklist

Classlist

Classlist Tool: Video by D2L. This tutorial shows how to use the Classlist to email or send instant messages to learners. Reach out to learners directly to discuss their progress through course materials and assignments.

Class Progress

Class Progress Tool: Video by D2L. Customize Class Progress to make it easier to track and compare the performance of learners in your course. This tutorial shows how to customize Class Progress to display indicators relevant to your course.
Class Progress Report: Video by D2L – Customize the User Progress report to easily track users’ performance. This tutorial shows how to customize the User Progress report to meet your needs.

Communication Tools

Class Engagement – Using the Class Engagement Tool to Monitor Student Success
Email Classlist
Creating a Profile in uiuLearn: Video by D2L – This tutorial shows you how to create your personal profile to build connections with the users in your course.
Brightspace Pulse Phone App: This tutorial covers:
- Pulse Installation
- Notification Settings
- Excluding Courses from Notifications

Content

UIU utilizes Lessons from D2L Brightspace to present course materials. It is a simplified experience for organizing content and managing the availability of course materials. Units are color-coded and easily defined. Linked below are tutorials from the D2L Brightspace Help site:
- - Overview: Create course content in Lessons — Video format
  - Overview: Create and manage content in Lessons — Writing format
Import Course Content/Copy Course
Import Vendor Course Contents: Video by D2L. Conveniently import course components from other systems provided by content vendors into your uiuLearn course.
Release Conditions and Hiding Content in uiuLearn (Video)
Text Editor: Insert Image
Text Editor: Insert Quicklink
Text Editor: Insert Stuff

Course Evaluation

Discussions

Engagement

Class Engagement Data in uiuLearn: Step-by-step engagement high-level overview that will help instructors quickly identify at-risk students based on engagement data. This tutorial covers the Class Engagement Tool, Class Progress, and the Insights Engagement Dashboard.
Intelligent Agents: PDF step-by-step that shows instructors how to set up basic Intelligent Agents that can send alerts when something happens or doesn’t happen (e.g., the student doesn’t access an online course for 7 days) in uiuLearn.

General Education Assessment

Visit Faculty Community for methods — Coming Soon

Grades

Understanding Grades: Video by D2L. Covers gradebook aspects such as gradebook organization/reordering, activity grade associations, weighted grades, and event logs.
Enter Grades: Video by D2L. Remain up to date on assessments and evaluations in your course by entering grades in your gradebook.
Grades: Clickable PDF format for efficient navigation with video links. This tutorial covers:
- Engagement Tools
- the Grades Setup Wizard
- Gradebook Settings
- Grade Item Labeling Considerations
- Releasing Student View of Grades
- Setting up, Organizing, and Editing a Gradebook
- Basic Grade Entry
- Related Best Practices
Grades Beyond the Basics: D2L video training that covers 15 tips and techniques for instructors for more efficient, effective use of the Grades tool.
Quick Eval: Video format. This tutorial covers:
- How to identify unevaluated learner submissions in Quick Eval
- Prioritizing unevaluated learner submissions in Quick Eval
Associate Grade Items and Assignments
Associate Grade Items & Discussions
Calculate Cumulative Grade
Create Categories
Create Grade Items for Assignments
Create Grade Items for Discussions
Create Grade Items for Quizzes

Library Resources

Everything you need to know about Henderson-Wilder Library
Faculty Guide to Library Resources and Services: https://uiu.libguides.com/faculty-guide

Navigation

Media Library

MS Teams in uiuLearn

How to set up MS Teams links in uiuLearn Content Modules– How to create a module and create MS Teams links for course streaming classroom meetings or office hours.
How to set up MS Teams links in email, announcements, and more
MS Teams User Training

Office 365 (O365)

O365 Widget: The Office 365 widget on the uiuLearn global homepage and most course homepages enable quick access to UIU email, Outlook calendars, and OneDrive where there is generous 1 TB storage and access from any computer, as well as easy file sharing.

Simple Syllabus

Click Here to Access the UIU Syllabus Library

ProctorU

ProctorU-Exam Preparations-Student Guide

Quizzes

Quizzes: This tutorial covers:
- Question Library: organization strategies, setup, importing questions
- Quizzes: question types, Quiz setup, gradebook associations, answer views, statistics, quiz security features
- Quiz best practices: labels, previews, accessibility
Bonus Quiz Questions: Video by D2L. This tutorial shows you how to create bonus questions so the final score of a quiz can exceed the maximum points of the quiz, and how to designate a quiz question as a bonus question.
Importing Questions to Crete a New Quiz: Video by D2L. Import questions from a CSV or zip file to quickly set up a new quiz.
Quiz Question Converter: Are you looking for a way to add a bank of questions to the Quiz Question Library? Look no further than this handy Quiz Question Converter- now available through the Brightspace Community on the Learning Center!
Quiz Statistics: This clickable PDF tutorial shows you how data captured in uiuLearn Quizzes can help you not only see how well students are learning the subject you are teaching, but data can also help you identify potentially bad questions or topics that may require further study or change in course materials. Related resources on quizzes and competencies, learning objectives, and reports.
Quiz Reports: This D2L Brightspace video shows you how to create a Quiz Report that can be automatically sent to a specific audience (e.g., Instructors) on a specific date.
Create a Quiz
Create Grade Items for Quizzes

Session Checklist

Session Transition Instructor Guide

Turnitin

Turnitin Instructor Guides
Interpreting Similarity Reports – Guide | Video | Spectrum

Online Learning Support and Resources

D2L (uiuLearn) Brightspace

D2L Service and Brightspace Real-Time status
Phone 877-325-7778
Email [email protected]
uiuLearn Virtual Assistant — Located on the bottom right of your screen once logged in to uiuLearn

Upper Iowa University Information Technology Resources

[email protected]
UIU IT Resources
phone 563-425-5876
Need assistance with Course Design? Email [email protected] for further assistance.

Zoom

Zoom Support Hours are 24/7, including public holidays. Agents or technical engineers are available for web, chat, and phone support.