Category: D2L Tips & Tricks
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Fast and Furious Learning – An Overview of Desire2Learn Fusion 2013 – Part 1
For the past few months I have been busy converting a multitude of courses from Moodle to Desire2Learn at VIU. When I heard that I was going to have the […]
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D2L 10.2 Upgrade
The Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning is very excited about the June 27, 2013 D2L upgrade to the latest version 10.2! Version 10.2 offers a more streamlined navigation […]
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Photo editing online – free!
Last month I facilitated a 1.5 hour workshop on photo editing. Although I use Adobe Photoshop CS6 for my own photo editing, I knew that not all VIU faculty/staff would […]
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Group Restricted Content
Are you interested in using the Groups tool in to create project discussion areas for students? Perhaps you have readings that only certain students should have access to, or what […]
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Collaborative Documents in your D2L Course
One of the tools which we do not have available in the current version of Desire2Learn is a wiki or collaborative document editor. Collaborative documents allow multiple users, including both instructors and […]
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Will understanding the basics of web design help you build better online courses? Yes!
I recently completed a 7-week course titled Designing Online Information/Dreamweaver CS6. This is just one in many web-related courses that I have either taken or facilitated over in the past […]
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D2L Email: Tracking Recipient Activity
Email: Tracking Recipient Activity To enable your D2L Email to track when recipients open your email messages, follow these steps: From inside your D2L Email, select Settings. Select the first […]
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Integrating Online Textbooks within D2L
Online textbook producers for classrooms have created online books that have more than just the printed words from a book on a computer screen. Online textbooks that are used in […]
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Embedding media in your D2L course
Video and other visual media enrich your course. Video allows your students to access material at their own pace – they have the power to pause, rewind and replay material […]
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Flipping PDFs!
I am always online, both at work and at home. Admittedly, I spend way too much time online some days, but while there, I research and learn quite a bit […]
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Adding RSS Feeds to your Desire2Learn Course
An RSS feed is a web feed format used to publish frequently updated works, such as news headlines, blogs, audio and video in a standardized format. RSS feeds allow students […]
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How to Add Email Addresses to Your Hotmails Safe Senders List
If you are an instructor, the last thing you want is for your students to not receive your emails. Unfortunately, Hotmail recognizes many VIU email addresses as junk and automatically […]