• Welcome to iLearn Help for Instructors
  • Instructor Checklist
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    • General FAQ
    • Getting Started
      • Add availability and due dates in Content
      • Access Release Conditions
      • Best practices for entering grades
      • Best practices for using Discussions
      • Best practices for creating release conditions
      • Change personal settings
    • Content
      • Create a new module
      • Fix broken links in Content
      • Set up a quicklink to a discussion forum or topic in Content
      • Add availability and due dates in Content
      • Why can't learners see the Content I posted?
      • Why are YouTube videos and other embedded media using Insert Stuff not working/loading?
    • Discussions
      • Set availability and due dates for an assignment submission folder
      • Create a discussion thread
      • Lock a discussion forum or topic
      • About locking discussion forums and topics
      • About hidden discussion forums and topics
      • About moderated discussion topics
      • Create an equation
      • Set up a quicklink to a discussion forum or topic in Content
      • Hide a discussion forum or topic
      • Restrict a forum or topic to specific groups or sections
    • Assignments
      • Set availability and due dates for an assignment submission folder
      • Set release conditions for an assignment submission folder
      • About assessing assignment submissions
      • Add feedback and evaluations to assignment submissions
    • Email
      • Email learners in iLearn Learning Environment
      • Populating the To, CC, and BCC fields of an email using the Address Book
      • Unfilter your email inbox
    • Rubrics
      • Types of rubrics
      • Create a rubric for a course
      • Edit a rubric
      • Attach a rubric to a discussion topic
      • Attach a rubric to an Assignments folder
      • Attach a rubric to a quiz
      • Associate rubrics with Competencies and iLearn ePortfolio items
    • Quizzes
      • Export quiz grades to grade book
      • Reset quiz attempts for learners
      • Create a quiz report
      • Grade all user responses without grading individual attempts
      • Recalculate a quiz after adding more correct answers
      • Preview a quiz
      • Create a random set of questions for a quiz from the Question Library
      • Create a quiz with an auto submission
    • Bonus Marks
      • Create bonus marks
      • Assign bonus marks to a discussion topic
      • Assign bonus marks to an Assignments folder
      • Assign bonus marks to a quiz
    • Grades
      • Grading concepts
      • Create grade categories and items
      • Set the grading system for a course
      • Weighted, points, and formula grading systems
      • Weighted grading system
      • Points grading system
      • Cannot see the formula grading system
      • Exclude a grade category or item from the final grade calculation
      • Grades return to null after leaving feedback in the Assignments folder
      • Re-order grade categories and items
      • Hide grade categories and grade items
      • Set date restrictions for grade categories and items
      • Attach a discussion topic to a grade item
      • Attach an Assignments folder to a grade item
      • Attach a quiz to a grade item
      • Delete a grade item associated with a tool
      • Import grades
      • File format for importing grades
      • Export grades
    • Final Grades
      • Adjust final grades for all students
      • Release final grades
      • Release final grades automatically
  • iLearn Tools
    • Administering Courses
      • Book Management
        • Understanding book management in iLearn Learning Environment
        • Add a book
        • Edit a book
      • Course Administration
        • Course Administration basics
          • About course administration
          • About course colors
          • About course locale
          • Change the status of a tool
          • Activate a course offering
          • Course Admin offering information
          • Rename a tool
          • Search for courses
        • Managing course components
          • About copying course components between org units
          • Special considerations when copying course components
          • Copy course components
          • About importing course components from a file
          • Import course components
          • Course Import Compatibility
          • Troubleshooting: Course Conversion
          • About exporting course components
          • Export course components
          • What course components can be exported?
        • IMS Common Cartridge
          • About IMS Common Cartridge
          • About importing IMS Common Cartridge packages
          • How are protected IMS Common Cartridge resources handled?
          • IMS Common Cartridge versions
        • Mobile Branding Administration
          • About Mobile Brand Administration
          • Update mobile branding
          • Mobile branding reference sheet
      • LTI
        • What is LTI?
        • Add third-party content from the Content tool
        • Add third-party content from Insert Stuff
        • Add third-party content from Insert Quicklink
        • Add third-party content from Course Import
        • Add third-party content from Import/Export/Copy Components
      • Metadata
        • Metadata basics
          • What is metadata?
          • Metadata and the Content tool
          • Metadata and the iLearn Learning Repository tool
          • Metadata interfaces
          • Best practices for using metadata
          • Troubleshooting metadata conflicts
        • Using metadata views
          • Metadata views
          • Create a metadata view
          • Import a metadata view
          • Export a metadata view
        • Using metadata languages
          • Set initial metadata language
          • Add a metadata language
        • Using metadata templates
          • Metadata template types
          • Create a metadata template
          • Import a metadata template
          • Export a metadata template
        • Using metadata taxon schemas
          • What is a taxon schema?
          • Taxon schema types
          • Define your taxon schema in an XML file
          • Import your taxon schema from an XML file
      • Intelligent Agents
        • Intelligent agents basics
          • What is the Intelligent Agents tool?
          • Considerations for setting up agents
          • Best practices for creating and using agents
          • Replace strings for agents
        • Using agents
          • Create an agent
          • Edit an agent
          • Copy an agent
          • Delete an agent
          • Update Intelligent Agents Settings
          • Run an agent manually
          • Perform a practice run
          • Change the status of an agent
          • View the History of an agent
      • Registration
        • About Self Registration
        • Create new iLearn Learning Environment users using the Self Registration tool
        • Enroll existing iLearn Learning Environment users using the Self Registration tool
        • Enable self registration in a course offering
        • Unenroll users from a course offering using the Self Registration tool
        • Import users using the Self Registration tool
        • Run Self Registration reports
        • Create registration forms
        • Associate a registration form with a course
        • Set restrictions on self registration
        • Approve self registrations
        • Delete or reject self registrations
        • Troubleshooting self registrations
      • Replace Strings
        • Replace Strings
      • SCORM
        • About SCORM
        • Add a SCORM package to the Content tool
        • Move your imported SCORM content to a different module
        • Adjust the display size of your SCORM object
        • Remove a grade item from a SCORM object after the package is imported
        • Publish a SCORM package as a SWF or HTML5 file with automatic grade creation
        • Publish a SCORM package as a SWF or HTML5 file with manual grade creation
        • Troubleshooting
          • My SCORM objects are too small or too large in the Content tool
          • The top of my SCORM objects are being cropped in the Content tool
          • When I view my SCORM package in the Content tool, I receive a notification that an error occurred initializing communications with the LMS
          • An error appears when I close the window that opened to play my SCORM package
          • An "LMSSetValueError:cmi.core.lesson_status to [unknown] Incorrect Data Type" error appears when I open my SCORM Project
    • Course Planning
      • Attendance
        • What are the basics of Attendance?
        • How attendance is calculated
        • Track attendance
        • Set your Cause for Concern percentage
        • Delete attendance sessions, registers, or schemes
      • Calendar
        • Calendar interface overview
        • Create course events in Calendar
        • Change Calendar settings
        • Create multiple instances of an event
        • Change visibility for events
        • Offset dates for events
      • Checklist
        • How do checklists organize information?
        • Create a checklist
        • Set release conditions for a checklist
      • Manage Dates
        • About Manage Dates
        • Offset dates in Manage Dates
      • Manage Files
        • What are the basics of Manage Files?
        • Apply content permissions on folders in Manage Files
        • Create a Content topic in Manage Files
    • Course Design
      • Course Builder
        • Course Builder Basics
          • About Course Builder
          • Course Builder terminology
          • Understanding nodes and the course tree
          • Course Builder interface overview
          • What is the relationship between Course Builder and Content?
        • Creating a course structure
          • Add a module or placeholder
          • Add a new object
          • Add an existing object
          • Add a new evaluation object
          • Add an existing evaluation object
          • Repair broken objects
      • Homepages and Widgets
        • How homepages and widgets are shared
        • About creating a course homepage
        • Create a widget-based homepage
        • Create a tool-based homepage
        • Create a homepage with an external URL
        • List of system widgets
        • Create a custom widget
        • Are there restrictions on sharing custom widgets?
        • Change how a widget appears
        • Change a homepage layout
        • Change personal settings
      • Personal Dashboard
        • Understanding the Personal Dashboard homepage and Course Setup Checklist
        • Personal Dashboard homepage overview
        • Course Setup Checklist overview
        • Reset the welcome tour
        • Set course visibility
        • Change your default homepage
        • Re-enable the Personal Dashboard homepage
        • Why can't I view a tour of a tool when I click a link in Course Setup Checklist?
        • Why can't I access more tools from the Course Setup Checklist?
      • Instructional Design Wizard
        • What are the basics of Instructional Design Wizard and Learning Activity Library?
      • Navigation and Themes
        • About the navbar
        • Create a navbar
        • Style navbar links
        • Make your navbar accessible
        • Delete a navbar
        • Change a course navbar
        • Create custom link groups
        • About themes
        • Create a theme
        • Delete a theme
        • Themes layout style panels
      • Visual Course List Widget
        • About Course List widget
        • Add the Visual Course List widget to your course home page
        • Add a graphic to a course
    • Creating Course Content
      • Content
        • Building a course
          • Content tool overview for instructors
          • About course content organization
          • About accessible courses and accessible course content
          • What kinds of files can I use for course content?
          • Create a new module
          • Create a new topic
          • Add an existing course object to Content
          • Add subtitles to video topics
          • About SRT files
          • Managing course content using drag and drop
          • Set up a quicklink to a discussion forum or topic in Content
          • Set a content topic or module's status
          • Styling content topics consistently
          • Enable HTML templates in Content
          • Apply an HTML template to a new document in Content
          • Add a learning objective to a content topic
          • Create a SCORM object's grade item
          • Remove SCORM simple sequencing
          • Why are YouTube videos and other embedded media using Insert Stuff not working/loading?
          • Why can't learners see the Content I posted?
        • Delivering a course
          • Notify learners about updated course content
          • Add availability and due dates in Content
          • Evaluate Assignments submissions from Content
        • Monitoring a course
          • Track activity and user progress on SCORM objects
          • What does iLearn Learning Environment report on for SCORM objects?
          • What does iLearn Learning Environment report on for users of SCORM objects?
          • About tracking content completion and participation
          • Manage completion tracking settings for a topic
          • Check completion tracking for a content topic
          • Check course content statistics
          • Check course content feedback
          • Change content display settings
          • View user progress in Content
      • HTML Editor
        • What are the basics of HTML Editor?
        • About inserting equations in the HTML Editor
        • About the Graphical Equation Editor
        • Tabs in the Graphical Equation Editor
        • Create an equation
        • Edit an equation
      • Links
        • About links
        • Create a link
        • Create a link category
        • Delete links and link categories
        • Fix broken links in Content
      • Release Conditions
        • Access Release Conditions
        • Tools that support release conditions
        • How do release conditions work?
        • Best practices for creating release conditions
        • Release condition types
    • Collaboration and Communication
      • Blog
        • Create a blog
        • Write a blog entry
        • View your own blog
        • Edit blog entries
        • Add blog comments
        • Delete blog comments
        • Find and follow other users' blogs
      • Chat
        • Change your chat settings
        • Manage chat history
        • Personal and general chats
        • Create a general chat
        • Create a personal chat
        • Add or remove users from a chat
      • Classlist
        • Accessing the Classlist tool
        • Enrolling a Teaching Assistant or Mentor
        • Unenrolling a TA or Mentor
        • Why are tabs important in the Classlist tool?
        • Set which tabs appear in Classlist
      • Discussions
        • Getting started with discussions
          • Create a discussion forum
          • Create a discussion topic
          • Create a discussion thread
          • Reply to a discussion thread
          • Subscribe to a discussion
          • Unsubscribe from notifications
          • Restrict a forum or topic to specific groups or sections
          • Restrict multiple forums or topics to specific groups or sections
          • Automatically create restricted topics for groups or sections
          • Copy a discussion thread with replies
          • Best practices for using Discussions
          • View discussion statistics
          • Best practices for using and interpreting discussion statistics
          • Export discussion statistics
        • Moderating discussions
          • About locking discussion forums and topics
          • Lock a discussion forum or topic
          • About hidden discussion forums and topics
          • Hide a discussion forum or topic
          • About moderated discussion topics
          • Moderate discussions
        • Assessing discussions
          • Assessment methods available for a discussion
          • Configure a topic for assessment
          • Assess users in discussion threads
          • Assign scores to users from the Assess Topic page
          • Link a discussion assessment to a grade item
          • Link a discussion topic to a learning objective
          • Add an assessment to a discussion topic with a learning objective
          • Displaying rubric scores on the Assess Topic page
          • Restore deleted discussions
      • Email
        • Email overview
        • Disable your course address book
      • FAQ
        • Create an FAQ question
        • Create an FAQ category
      • Groups
        • Best practices for setting up groups
        • What happens when you move users to a new group?
        • Best practices for group enrollment
        • Create a group category
        • Create a group
        • Group enrollment types
        • What happens when you delete a group or group category?
        • Set up self-enrollment in groups
        • Restrict a forum or topic to specific groups or sections
        • Enroll course leaders in groups
        • Delete a user from a group
      • Locations and Seating Chart
        • Locations and layout basics
          • What are locations and layouts?
          • Set a location as active or inactive
          • Reset a layout
          • Add a location to calendar events
        • Seating chart basics
          • What is a seating chart?
          • What is a seating chart cold call?
          • Create a seating chart
          • Assign a seat to a learner
        • Sessions basics
          • What is a seating chart session?
          • Create a session in seating chart
          • Track session attendance and participation
      • Announcements
        • Create an Announcements item
        • Delete an Announcements item
        • Edit an Announcements item
        • Reordering an Announcements item
        • Restore a deleted Announcements item
      • Sections
        • What is the difference between Sections and Groups?
        • Considerations when setting up Sections
        • Create or add more Sections
        • Edit properties of all existing Sections
        • What happens when you delete Sections?
        • Enroll students in Sections
    • Assessments
      • Assignments
        • Assignments Basics
          • What is Assignments?
          • What file types are supported in Assignments?
          • Add categories to manage assignment submission folders
          • Create an assignment submission folder
          • Set release conditions for an assignment submission folder
          • Add special access to an assignment submission folder
          • Reorder, edit, and delete assignment submission categories and folders
          • Restore deleted assignment submission folders
          • Set availability and due dates for an assignment submission folder
        • Assesssing assignment submissions
          • About assessing assignment submissions
          • View the File Submissions log
          • Restore a deleted submission
          • Add feedback and evaluations to assignment submissions
        • Assignments and Turnitin
          • About Turnitin
          • Enable Turnitin for an assignment submission folder
          • About Turnitin-enabled assignment submission folders
          • About Turnitin-enabled group assignment submission folders
          • Exempt individual users from Turnitin
          • Viewing OriginalityCheck reports
          • What file types are supported in OriginalityCheck?
          • Troubleshooting: I see an assignment submission showing an icon that says, "An originality report could not be generated for this file".
      • Awards
        • About Awards
        • Create a new award
        • Share awards with other courses
        • Hide an award from the Available Awards page
        • Add release conditions to an award
        • Add an existing award to a course
        • View awards for a classlist
        • Manually grant an award
        • Revoke an award
        • Troubleshooting: Certificate text is too long
      • Competencies
        • About competencies
          • Reasons to use competencies
          • Understanding competency structures
          • About parent-child relationships between competency structure elements
          • About nested competency structures
          • About overlapping competency structures
          • Switch your view in competencies
          • Setting visibility for competency structure elements
          • Why can't I see my learning objectives?
          • Allow users to add competencies to their iLearn ePortfolio
        • Using automatic evaluation
          • Understanding automatic evaluation
          • How an automatic evaluation is initiated
          • Allow automatic competency evaluation after a user achieves a competency
          • Turn off automatic competency evaluation
          • Manually initiate an evaluation
          • Monitor the re-evaluation service
        • Evaluating activities
          • Evaluate assignment submission folder activities
          • Evaluate survey activities
          • Evaluate discussion topic activities
          • Evaluate manual assessment activities
          • Enable learning objective completion using quiz or grade item activities with automatic assessment
          • Evaluate quiz activity manually
          • Evaluate grade item activity manually
        • Creating and editing competencies, learning objectives, and activities
          • Understanding competency status settings
          • Create a competency
          • Modify an approved competency
          • Copy a competency
          • Delete a competency
          • Create a learning objective
          • Copy a learning objective
          • Delete a learning objective
          • Associating activities
          • Types of activities
        • Understanding competency structures and associations
          • Associate a competency structure element with another existing element
          • Associate a learning objective with an activity
          • Remove an association between competency structure elements
          • Remove associations between a learning objective and an activity from another tool area
          • What happens when you share competency structures
          • Share a competency structure
          • About competency versions
          • View competency structure results
          • Override a user's result
          • Associate an independent learning objective or activity to a parent element
      • Grades
        • Grade book basics
          • Grading concepts
          • Grading schemes
          • Create a grade scheme
          • Grading systems
          • Set up your grade book
        • Creating grade items
          • Create calculated grade items
          • Create formula grade items
          • About formula grade items
          • Formula Editor validation errors
          • Create text grade items
          • Create selectbox grade items
          • Create pass/fail grade items
          • Create numeric grade items
        • Managing grades and grade items
          • Manually assign grades
          • Release final grades
          • Export grades
          • Set grade visibility options for students
          • Set release conditions for grades
          • About bonus grade items
          • Inaccurate final grades
          • Manually recalculate the final grade
          • Enter an adjusted final grade
          • Calculate final grades for a single user
          • Restore a deleted grade item
          • Scenario: Final calculated grade using Points system
          • Scenario: Final calculated grade using Weighted system
          • About automatic transfer of overall score to a learner's grade
          • Automatically transfer overall score to learner's grade
          • Best practices for entering grades
        • Managing event logs in a grade book
          • About event logs
          • Access the event log for a user
          • Access the event log for an individual grade item
          • Access the event log for a users’ final grades
          • Access the event log for changes to a grade item's properties or restrictions
          • Access the event log for restoring grade items
      • Question Library
        • Importing questions into Question Library
          • About importing questions into Question Library
          • Access Question Library
          • Import questions into Question Library from an existing collection
          • Import questions into Question Library from a CSV file
          • Import questions into Question Library from a learning object repository
        • Creating Question Library questions
          • Types of questions
          • Create true or false questions
          • Create multiple choice questions
          • Create multi-select questions
          • Understanding grading options for multi-select questions
          • Create long answer questions
          • Create short answer questions
          • Create multi-short answer questions
          • Create fill in the blanks questions
          • Understanding grading options for short answer, multi-short answer, and fill in the blanks questions
          • Create matching questions
          • Create ordering questions
          • Understanding grading options for matching and ordering questions
          • Create arithmetic questions
          • Create significant figures questions
          • Understanding arithmetic and significant figures question components
          • Types of supported enumerations in the Formula field
          • Understanding iLearn Learning Environment rounding rules
          • Create Likert questions
          • Create text information
          • Create image information
          • Understanding regular expressions
        • Managing questions in Question Library
          • Create sections in Question Library
          • Create sections outside Question Library
          • Edit a question or section in Question Library
          • Preview questions in Question Library
          • Reorder questions or sections in Question Library
          • Publish questions and sections to a learning repository
      • Quizzes
        • Quizzes Basics
          • Export the event log of all quiz attempts
          • Reset quiz attempts for learners
          • Prevent cheating in quizzes
          • View the event log of a single quiz attempt
        • Creating Quizzes
          • Create a quiz
          • Add restrictions to a quiz
          • Add special access to a quiz that requires Respondus Lockdown Browser
          • Add assessments to a quiz
          • Set a different number of quiz attempts for an individual learner
          • Associate learning objectives with a quiz
          • Customize the submission view for a quiz
          • Create a quiz report
          • About quiz reports
          • Give each learner a random set of quiz questions
          • About random sections
          • Create bonus quiz questions
        • Quizzes and Question Library
          • Considerations around quizzes with associations to Question Library
          • Delete a question pulled from Question Library in a quiz
          • Copy a quiz with Question Library associations to another org unit
      • Rubrics
        • Rubrics basics
          • Where can you use a rubric?
          • Types of rubrics
        • Managing rubrics
          • Create a rubric for a course
          • Copy a rubric
          • Edit a rubric
          • Delete a rubric
          • Share a rubric
      • Self Assessments
        • Reasons to use self assessments
        • Best practices for creating and using self assessments
        • Evaluating self assessments
        • Create a self assessment
        • Delete a self assessment
        • Share self assessment questions with other instructors
      • Surveys
        • Set up a survey
        • Survey examples
        • Set a survey to active
        • Set a date range for a survey
        • Anonymous participation in a survey
        • Ensure anonymous survey participation
        • Setting survey restrictions
        • Control user responses in a survey
        • Create special access to a survyey
        • Track survey progress and results
        • Set up survey reports
        • View a survey report
        • Notify participants of an available survey
        • Survey branching
      • User Progress
        • Reasons to use the User Progress tool
        • Accessing User Progress data in the iLearn Data Platform
        • User Progress overview
        • Change User Progress settings
        • Class Progress overview
        • Change Class Progress settings
  • iLearn Apps
    • Brightspace Pulse
    • iLearn Binder
    • Brightspace Assignment Grader
      • The Basics
        • What is Brightspace Assignment Grader?
        • How Brightspace Assignment Grader works
        • Log in using your iLearn Learning Environment account
        • Log in using your D2L EduDentity account
        • Add a link to a iLearn Learning Environment instance
        • Get the URL of your iLearn Learning Environment instance
        • Change your display settings
      • Using the app
        • About synchronizing your iLearn Learning Environment account with Brightspace Assignment Grader
        • Sort assignment submission folders
        • Sort submissions within an assignment submission folder
        • Grade an assignment submission
        • Annotate an assignment submission
        • Update or retract published grades and feedback
        • Download assignment submissions
      • Troubleshooting
  • iLearn platform requirements
    • Browser
    • Supported Files for Course Content
  • iLearn guides
  • iLearn videos