COLI has created several new text-based tutorials for D2L quizzes.

First, we have a quick tutorial on making some quiz questions into bonus questions. A relatively straightforward process, but not immediately apparent and therefore can be tricky to find. View the tutorial from this link here.

Next up, we have several ways to preview a quiz. This can be useful as a secondary check or to see how the quiz will be presented to your students. Click this link here to view this tutorial.

You can also import questions into the Question Library. Maybe you have too many quizzes that you are not using and want to clean up your quiz list a bit or you want to make some questions for quizzes but are unsure which quiz to install the questions. Or maybe you downloaded a question bank for D2L. Click this link here to learn how to do both.

Finally, we have a new tutorial on using the D2L Quiz Question Pool for advanced randomization. You can have D2L randomly select questions from a group of questions. This can provide a truly unique quiz for every student. Learn how to use the Question Pool from this link here.

As always, if you require additional help or have any questions, feel free to contact Helpdesk for the fastest response.

It’s always a good idea to perform software updates on any of your productivity applications installed on your laptop (or desktop) PC. With Zoom, you need to update your desktop app, and we find Zoom must be kept fairly close to the latest version to work properly. In November, Zoom is beginning a policy of only allowing a few of the latest versions to operate with web meetings. If your app falls behind this rolling minimum version, you will be obliged to update it before joining a meeting. For example, on November 5th, Zoom users must have version 5.8.6 or later.

Updating is easy to do on your laptop (or desktop) computer. When logged into the app, click your account icon in the upper right. On the dropdown menu, you’ll see Check for Updates. Here’s a tutorial showing what to expect, but it’s a pretty simple and usually fairly quick operation.

We recommend checking for Zoom updates at the beginning of semesters, before any important upcoming Zoom event, and perhaps any time you happen to be in the app to schedule or manage meetings. If you teach with Zoom, put it into your schedule to update it every week, perhaps as a routine during scheduled office hours.