Special Access to Quizzes

On the Restrictions tab for each quiz is a button to "Add Users to Special Access." This tool allows you to give individual students a different time limit and/or different date range to take a quiz.
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Special Access for a Dropbox Folder

You can use the special access tool on the Restrictions tab of a dropbox folder to give individual students extra time to submit a paper. This is especially useful if you have plagiarism detection turned on for a folder and a student has submitted a file format that is not recognized by Turnitin.com. [VIDEO DEMO]

View Edit History for Discussion Messages

Student users can edit (only) the discussion board messages they wrote, and instructors can view that editing history. [VIDEO DEMO]

Grades for Students with Different Assignments

You may have a class where not all students do all assignments, and you want each student to have a points possible in the grades area that matches the assignments required for that student. For example, students who are returning to take the same class might have advanced assignments not required of their beginning classmates. To do this requires the use of groups, calculated grade items, and release conditions:

From EZ Test to Desire2Learn

If your publisher (McGraw-Hill) offers the EZ Test program to create tests for your class, you can use it to create files to import into Desire2Learn. The linked document has instructions on how to use this software to create a random block of questions in a Desire2Learn quiz:

From EZ Test to Desire2Learn