Common Desire2Learn Tasks for Instructors

General

• Logging into Web Single Sign-on (WebSO)
  For logging in to Desire2Learn
• Desire2Learn System Check

Navigation

• Understanding My Home and Course Home
• Adding Links to the Navbar
•  Adding and Moving Widgets on your Homepage *
  

Course Offering Information

• Making a Course Available to Students
• Importing Course Content From a File  *
• Exporting Course Content  *
• Copying Content Between Desire2Learn Courses  *
• About Managing Files*

Creating Content

• Course Builder
  • Understadning the Organization of Course Builder *
  • Understanding nodes, modules, placeholders and objects *
  • Managing Nodes on the Canvas *
  • Building a Course Using Course Builder *
  • Creating and Editing Objects *
• Manually Adding Content
  • About Content *
  • Creating New Modules*
  • Creating New Topics*
  • Using the HTML Editor  *
• News
  • Creating a News Post*
  • Managing News Items*
• Groups
  
  • Creating a Group Category *
  • Creating a Group *
  • Enrolling Users in Groups *
  • Self-Enrolling a Specified Number of Students per Group  *
    
• Using the IUP Streaming Media Service with Desire2Learn
• Using Films on Demand with Desire2Learn
  
• Setting Up WebDAV in Deisre2Learn for Windows XP

D2L Tools

• Discussions
  • Creating Discussion Forums and Topics*
  • Managing Forums, Topics, and Messages*
  • Moderating Discussions and Approving Messages*
  • Assessing or Evaluating a Discussion Topic*
• Dropbox
  • Creating dropbox categories and folders*
  • Managing dropbox folders or categories*
  • Managing submissions to dropboxes*
  • Viewing submitted files*
  • Leaving feedback and grading dropbox assignments*
  • Allowing a student to resubmit an assignment
  • Using Turnitin with the Desire2Learn Dropbox
• Quizzes
• Grades
  • Creating a Grade Book with the Grades Setup Wizard *
  • Creating a Grade Book Category *
  • Creating a Grade Item *
  • Entering Grades *
  • Calculating Final Grades *
  • Creating a Formula in the Grades Formula Editor *
  • Importing and Exporting Grades *
• E-mail
  • Composing (creating) e-mails *
  • Managing e-mail messages*
  • Using e-mail folders*
  • Using the Address Book*
•  Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing
• Creating a Collaborate Web Conferencing Room in D2L
• Wimba Classroom
• Wimba Classroom Overview for Instructors Using Desire2Learn
• Running the Wimba Setup Wizard for Desire2Learn
• Adding a Wimba Classroom to D2L
• Setting Up Application Sharing in Wimba Classroom for Desire2Learn
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Please Note:

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Last modified on 3/18/2013 2:02:18 PM
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