Winterim 2016 D2L course requests are available in the D2L Course Request Application.
As a reminder, course requests for a semester become available on the first day of priority registration for students, and course shells for D2L need to be requested for every semester you plan on using D2L.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
Welcome back to the Fall 2015 Semester! While there was not a big Desire2Learn (D2L) upgrade this summer, we were busy with a number of changes.
Amy Williams is now the new Desire2Learn Site Administrator. She will be available to help answer any questions and support issues. Please continue to use the D2L Support Form to report your problems.
There were also a few significant fixes for D2L:
For a full list of fixes from the summer, see: D2L Service Update (6/25).
The following new service offerings and enhancements are also available:
We have numerous resources available if you need assistance with D2L.
If you have not already done so, don’t forget to request for your Fall 2015 Courses! Courses requested by 3pm on business days will be available the following morning.
Good luck with the beginning of the semester! If you have any questions or concerns regarding any of these points, please do not hesitate to contact UW-W Desire2Learn Support.
Turnitin services, including Originality Check, Peermark, and Grademark, will be mostly unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, August 15, 2015, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (CT).
During this outage window, students should not submit files to a Dropbox folder that has Turnitin enabled, and instructors should not create new Dropbox folders with Turnitin enabled.
An announcement will appear to users within Turnitin in advance of when the system will be unavailable for the scheduled maintenance.
Instructors are encouraged to modify assignment due dates either before or at least several hours after the scheduled maintenance window. If possible, it’s also advised that instructors change the end date on all Dropbox folders that are utilizing Turnitin so that students won’t inadvertently submit during the outage window.
Please note, any Dropbox folders in a D2L course that are currently NOT utilizing the Turnitin Originality Check, ending before the outage window, or starting after the outage window do NOT have to be altered.
If you have any questions or concerns about this outage, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
The Learning Technology Center is pleased to announce the 7th annual faculty development workshop on online/blended course design and best practices.If you need to design a new (or refresh an older) online or blended course, please consider participating in this unique opportunity to collaborate with other UW-Whitewater instructors and explore proven course design strategies and best practices. This highly interactive summer workshop demonstrates teaching best practices using a variety of teaching methods and technology tools. The structure of this course not only allows you to explore new teaching and course design methods, but it also enables you to participate in activities that provide you with experience in being an online “student.”
The session will consist of online components, face-to-face meetings on the Whitewater campus, and web conferencing sessions. A one-half day orientation session will be held on April 24, and the institute will run through July 31, 2015.
All faculty and academic staff who will be teaching at UW-Whitewater during the 2015-2016 academic year are eligible to apply to attend. However, the workshop will be limited to 25 participants. Applications are due Monday, April 13, 2015.
For more details and registration, please visit the Online/Blended workshop blog at:http://blogs.uww.edu/workshops/
Summer 2015 D2L course requests are available in the D2L Course Request Application.
As a reminder, course requests for a semester become available on the first day of priority registration for students, and course shells for D2L need to be requested for every semester you plan on using D2L.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
As many of you remember, when we took our last D2L upgrade over the summer, the discussion tool got a major overhaul. There were some key features that were not included in the new version. D2L has heard our feedback, and we are happy to announce that the Grid View and the Print all Threads option has returned! These features were included in Service Pack 13, which was deployed on Thursday, January 8th, 2015.
The Reading View will remain the default view for all courses. Individual users can set a Default View on the “Account Settings” page.
We have created the following step by step guides:
Other issues fixed in this update:
Calendar:
Discussions:
Grades:
Import/Copy Course:
If you have any questions or concerns about the service pack updates, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
The Learning Technology Center is pleased to invite faculty and instructional staff to “D2L Day,” a series of hands-on sessions held on Thursday, January 15, 2015 from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM in McGraw 19B.
This D2L Winterim Workshop includes breakout sessions on D2L tools, such as Quizzes, Discussions, Dropbox, and Content. These will include a variety of hands-on “How To” sessions for all levels of D2L users. Morning sessions will cover the basics of the most commonly-used tools, and afternoon sessions will cover each tool in more detail as well as discuss some lesser-known tools. Each session will be “hands on” and include some tips and tricks for attendees to become D2L power users.
Participants may register for the all-day workshop or for individual sessions using the signup tool. The workshops are listed under “ICIT-LTC Training”. If you have any questions about this workshop, please contact the Learning Technology Center.
Struggling with Desire2Learn (D2L)? Register for the updated D2L Starter Course! The Starter Course has been developed to allow you to quickly leverage D2L in an online, hybrid, or face-to-face class format.
The recently updated “D2L Starter Course (December 2014)” is a D2L course that includes a number of useful templates and other resources available for you to copy and modify for use in your D2L courses. The course has updated links, templates, and addresses many of the 5th edition Quality Matters standards.
We welcome any suggestions or comments about the new starter course. Your feedback allows us to continuously improve the resources we provide to support faculty and staff.
Questions and feedback can be sent to UW-W D2L Support.
The D2L eGrading process is now available for the Fall 2014 semester. This process allows instructors to transfer final grades from their Desire2Learn Gradebook directly to their WINS Grade Roster.
If you prefer step by step documentation, that can be found at: WINS eGrading Overview.
If you have any questions or concerns with the eGrading process, please contact UW-W Desire2Learn Support.
The Learning Technology Center (LTC) has created a new video tutorial series on Turnitin covering Originality Check (In Desire2Learn and turnitin.com), GradeMark and PeerMark. These videos are designed to help guide instructors through the basics of using Turnitin.
The video playlist is available below and can be found on our YouTube channel.
Additional information is also available in our documentation space:
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UW-W Desire2Learn Support.