Category: D2L Tips & Tricks
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D2L 10.1 – How to access your content tools
When I opened up the freshly upgraded D2L today, I was both excited and nervous. I knew there were some great improvements coming (outlined here by Arwen: https://wordpress.viu.ca/ciel/2012/11/14/d2lv101review/ ), but I also knew some of the changes would affect the look and feel of content areas. I spend a lot of my time in content…
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Images too large? Don’t have Photoshop? What can you do?
ADDING IMAGES TO D2L When helping faculty with their D2L courses I see a common problem almost daily: uploading images to D2L that are full resolution and too large for the screen. Sure, once uploaded to D2L they can be sized on screen visually, but image size itself stays the same – – so over…
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Pushpins in D2L
I recently attended the D2L Regional Users Forum at the BCIT downtown campus in Vancouver and spent a couple of my sessions with a D2L trainer learning about some of the tips and tricks with D2L and came across a little tidbit that may be a bit of a time-saver. In the mini-bar of the…
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Randomizing Questions in Your Desire2Learn Quiz
The quiz tool in Desire2Learn is pretty cool. I like that you can have the quiz graded and the grades exported to gradebook automatically. In addition to being able to see different types of reports on your students’ results, you can also set limits on time and number of attempts. My favorite aspect of this…