Winterim and Spring 2014 D2L course requests are available now through 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.
This morning, Thursday, October 24th, Desire2Learn Inc. deployed Service Pack 14 to our D2L learning environment.
The following fixes were included in the service pack:
A hotfix was also applied during this update that corrects the issue that was blocking users from adding participants with the “batch file” option. If you’ve previously used this option but were unable to do so during this semester, you should be able to do so now.
Mixed content handling in Firefox and Chrome is still an issue, especially for courses that have links to external resources. We wrote about this previously on our blog, and you can view that post for more information.
As a reminder, the Notifications feature has been enabled starting this semester. This feature allows users to receive notifications on several different tools to either their email or to their phone. For more information, please see our blog post on the Notifications feature.
Also, for interested faculty and staff, the D2L Ignite Regional User Forum is still accepting registrations. For more information on the conference and a link to the registration, please see this blog post.
If you have any questions or concerns about the service pack updates, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
The Learning Technology Center (LTC) is pleased to invite faculty and instructional staff to attend the next free session in the Snackable Series “Solving Teaching Challenges One Byte at a Time.” In the “Snackable Series” sessions, a specific learning technology is spotlighted. The next session will be held October 16th and 17th and focuses on E-service learning.
Service learning is a powerful tool to foster critical thinking, engage your students, and promote civic engagement. E-service learning is a service learning program or project conducted online. This format allows students limited by work obligations and geography to participate. This session will introduce some formats for online service learning, some common partnerships, and the practices of other faculty.
The dates, times, and location for this snackable are as follows:
Wednesday, October 16, 2013: Noon to 1 p.m.
Thursday, October 17, 2013: 11 a.m. to Noon
Location: iCIT Training Center, McGraw 112
Register online today for this “Snackable Series” session, seating is limited: http://signup.uww.edu
If you have any questions regarding the Snackable Series and its sessions, please contact the UW-W Learning Technology Center.
Some users may have received several email notifications from D2L that were related to past courses. Learn@UW has inadvertently triggered notification emails this afternoon (October 1st, 2013) starting at around 3:00 PM for UW-Whitewater users.
The emails can be ignored and shouldn’t affect your courses. However, we apologize that some of you may be receiving many of these emails, especially if you had notification subscriptions set up in your past courses.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
Starting this Fall 2013 semester, email and SMS notifications have been enabled for Desire2Learn.
You can receive instant notifications to your email or phone for several tools, including Discussions, Dropbox, Grades, News, and Quizzes, or receive a daily summary of activity. You can also exclude specific courses from your notification options.
To set up or change your Notification settings, after logging into D2L, you can click on either the Tools menu or your name in the minibar (as seen in the screenshot below), and select the Notifications option.
Also note, that if you use the mobile notifications, do not include the “1” preceding the area code in your phone number.
For more directions on setting up your notifications, please see this page of the D2L user guide. If you have any questions or need additional assistance, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
The Learning Technology Center (LTC) is pleased to invite faculty and instructional staff to attend the next free session in the Snackable Series “Solving Teaching Challenges One Byte at a Time.” In the “Snackable Series” sessions, a specific learning technology is spotlighted. The next session will be held September 18th and 19th and focuses on utilizing discussions in D2L.
Discussions in D2L are a form of asynchronous interaction between the members of a class. When designed properly, discussions build a learning community, encourage critical thinking, and help your students apply the material they are learning. This session will introduce you to some best practices in designing and facilitating discussion in D2L and will include sample discussion prompts you can adapt for your course.
The dates, times, and location for this snackable are as follows:
Wednesday, September 18, 2013: Noon to 1 p.m.
Thursday, September 19, 2013: 11 a.m. to Noon
Location: iCIT Training Center, McGraw 112
Register online today for this “Snackable Series” session, seating is limited: http://signup.uww.edu
If you have any questions regarding the Snackable Series and its sessions, please contact the UW-W Learning Technology Center.
With the latest service packs applied to the D2L Learning Environment, there were a few changes made to the copy function in the Import/Export/Copy Components tool.
Instead of using a drop-down menu to select the “source” course for the copy function, an new Search for offering function has taken it’s place. This allows you to easily select or search for a particular course that you would like to copy from.
For more detailed directions on how to copy components from a D2L course, please see the Copy Components wiki page. In addition to those written instructions, a video tutorial is also available below:
If you have any questions about the changes or using this tool, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
This morning, Tuesday, August 20th, Desire2Learn Inc. deployed Service Pack 12 and 13 to our D2L learning environment.
Two of the biggest changes made to the Learning Environment with these service packs include a course search function in the Copy Components tool and better functionality with the document viewer within the Dropbox tool. In addition to the updates, the Notifications feature has been re-enabled for users. Further information will be provided for Notifications and the Copy Components changes in future blog posts, but updated instructions on how to copy using the Copy Components tool are available on the Copy Components wiki page.
Some of the issues addressed in the document viewer withing the Dropbox tool are as follows:
Additional fixes to tools in these service packs are as follows:
Dropbox: Dropbox submission files now display in correct order after sorting files alphabetically by users’ first name and last name.
Discussions
Grades
Competencies
HTML Editor
Homepages: Gradients for widget titles now displays in Internet Explorer. Gradients for homepage backgrounds are no longer displayed in Internet Explorer 8 and 9 due to limited browser support for gradients and background opacity.
Web Framework: On full screen pages, the background color now covers the full width of the main screen.
If you have any questions or concerns about this service pack and the tools updates, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
Some users may have received several email notifications from D2L that were related to past courses. Learn@UW has inadvertently triggered notification emails this morning for non-UWM campuses.
Learn@UW is currently taking steps to stop the flood of old messages and to determine the cause of this event. The emails can be ignored and shouldn’t affect your courses. However, we apologize that some of you may be receiving many of these emails, especially if you had notification subscriptions set up in your past courses.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
This morning, Thursday, June 27th, Desire2Learn Inc. deployed Service Pack 11 to our D2L learning environment.
Included fixes to tools in this service pack are as follows:
Quizzes: If a quiz’s Submission View is restricted to only be viewed by users who achieve a score between 0-100%, users who achieve 100% can now also access the Submission View correctly.
Calendar: Application changes were made to improve the performance of the Calendar tool.
Grades: If students have names that contain apostrophes (‘), it is now possible to correctly access their quiz attempts and dropbox folder submissions from grade book in Grades.
Discussions: New topics are no longer created in the wrong forum when users create group-restricted discussion topics from “Group Restrictions” in Discussions.
Dropbox: A performance improvement was made to reduce database I/O consumption when generating Notifications for “Dropbox – dropbox folder due date or end date is 2 days away” and “Quizzes – quiz end date is 2 days away”.
Content Browser: Titles and icons in the Content Browser widget are now restored to their original layout and no longer have alignment issues.
If you have any questions or concerns about this service pack and the tools updates, please contact UW-W D2L Support.