8. Accessing D2L
Address: https://learn.colorado.edu
Log-in for workshop course
Username: Password:
training01 passwd01
training02 passwd02
training03 passwd03
Etc…
Log-in for sandbox and course
spaces is your IdentiKey
username and password
Editor's Notes
Introduce yourself
Describe the role of ATCs
Objectives of session
Provide instructions on how to take poll
Poll to help guide how much time we’ll spend on slides 3 and 4
Also helps to use CULearn as an example
The faculty members of 400 courses opted into D2L for Fall 2011. That is, they chose to use D2L.
In the spring, all new course requests will automatically be created in D2L unless a faculty member chooses to opt out.
From Fall 2012, all courses will be created in D2L.
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These systems pull together a variety of resources into one space such as discussion boards, web pages, multimedia such as YouTube videos, podcasts, and screen casts, web 2.0 tools such as blogs and RSS feeds and traditional texts like articles students might be responsible for reading in their courses.
The advantage to this as that students and instructors have one portal to access course materials and learning activities as opposed to having to access many different online tools each with their own usernames and passwords requirements. Our OLE only requires one.
Secure
Nightly backups
Affiliates – IdentiKeys only
Privacy of student information
Another benefit to OLEs is that they are pretty secure. Courses are backed up nightly.
As noted previously, only individuals with an IdentiKey username and password can access the course meaning that only students in your course and the faculty members you will be working with will have access to the course materials.
And student information is kept private, only to the instructor (in the case of assignments) and to other students in the class (in the case of discussion forums).
For the rest of the session, I’d like to introduce you to Desire2Learn from the perspective of the way most instructors use OLEs.
Desire2Learn does all the things faculty members would expect from their online learning environment and more. They can use D2L as a repository of information, as a communication tool, as an assessment tool and as an administrative tool.
Now I’d like to spend some time demonstrating the tools instructors can use to support these uses.
20 minutes
Discuss best practice for organizing content – by week. Advantage – will make it consistent with what students see in the syllabus
Demonstrate how to add content
Modules
Topics
Multiple Topics
Embedded multimedia
You can embed throughout the course:
Widgets
Course topics in course content
Discussions
Quiz Questions
Highlight D2L
Browsers- latest version of Firefox or Safari
Upon logging-in, provide an overview of My Home and Course Home.
In order to highlight the tools, I’ll be logging into D2L. Students, staff and instructors with D2L accounts can access D2L at: https://learn.colorado.edu. They can log-in using their IdentiKey username and password. Before the start of the semester, faculty and students accounts will automatically have access with their IdentiKeys.
In the future, both instructors and students will be able to navigate to D2Lfrom myCUInfo.
20 minutes
Poll – demonstrate the top 2
20 minutes
Poll – demonstrate the top 2
20 minutes
Poll – demonstrate the top 2
If discussions aren’t selected in the poll, we can also demo this
20 minutes
Recordings
Speak instructions
Accept recorded assignments
Customizing the course layout:
Widgets
Homepages
Navigation bars