VIULearn – Learning Design for Deep Learning

What’s New in VIULearn? (Summer 2016)

This summer, there have been changes to the names of some of the tools you use in VIULearn. For instance, “Dropbox” for submitting assignments has been creating some confusion with the internet storage service “Dropbox”. Additionally, there have been a… Read more ›

May 25, 2016 1 Comment

Stephanie Boychuk

D2L Tips & Tricks, Emerging technologies, General, Learning management systems, Online learning, Technology

10.6.1, brightspace, Change, Content, D2L, Language, Navigation, Terms, viu, VIULearn

What’s New in VIULearn this Month? (March-April 2016)

Every month, VIULearn is updated by our software provider D2L. Most of the time you won’t even notice the changes, because they are behind-the-scenes improvements. An example of a behind-the-scenes improvement was an improvement to the Import / Export /… Read more ›

Apr 18, 2016

Stephanie Boychuk

D2L Tips & Tricks, General, Learning management systems, Online learning

10.5.7, Content, D2L, file, html, learn, Rubric, viu, VIULearn

Exciting Ways to Use the New “Not” Release Conditions

You may have seen my previous blog post where I talked briefly about the new “not” release conditions. If you were wondering what these conditions could be used for, I’m here to give you a few ideas to get you… Read more ›

Mar 08, 2016

Stephanie Boychuk

D2L Tips & Tricks, General, Learning management systems, Technology

agents, brightspace, conditions, D2L, desire2learn, faculty, intelligent, learner, news, not, notifications, Release, VIULearn

What’s New in VIULearn this Month? (February-March 2016)

Every month, VIULearn is updated by our software provider D2L. Most of the time you won’t even notice the changes, because they are behind-the-scenes improvements. An example of a behind-the-scenes improvement was an improvement to the Import / Export /… Read more ›

Mar 02, 2016 2 Comments

Stephanie Boychuk

D2L Tips & Tricks, Learning management systems, Online learning

10.5.6, Condition, D2L, Discussion, Release, Rubric, VIULearn

Global Accessibility Awareness Day – May 15th

May 15th was Global Accessibility Awareness Day. As someone who spends a lot of time in online courses personally and professionally, I decided to take advantage of a free webinar entitled “Web Accessibility Tools in Action: Awesome Tools to Build… Read more ›

May 29, 2014

Stephanie Boychuk

General

accessibility, awareness, design, global, resources, sean, Tool, VIULearn, webinar, yo

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 for two of the system’s most used tools – Content… Read more ›

Jun 26, 2013

Mary Ross

D2L Tips & Tricks, Learning management systems, Online learning, Software

VIULearn

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 to release additional information for specific learners needing more support.… Read more ›

Jun 07, 2013

Stephanie Boychuk

D2L Tips & Tricks, General

VIULearn, VIULearn Tip

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 20 years. As you can imagine, working with websites has… Read more ›

Apr 09, 2013

Mary Ross

D2L Tips & Tricks, Learning management systems, Online learning

course design, online design, VIULearn, web design

Desire2Learn Learning Sessions

This March our Centre began running Desire2Learn Learning Sessions, welcoming 31 instructors from various faculties to 25 different sessions throughout the month. The instructors averaged 2 sessions each! If you didn’t get a chance to attend any sessions, we… Read more ›

Apr 01, 2013

Stephanie Boychuk

General, Learning management systems, Teaching & Learning

session, VIULearn, workshop

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 as many times as they like. You could record your… Read more ›

Feb 21, 2013

Stephanie Boychuk

D2L Tips & Tricks, Online learning, Teaching & Learning

help, media, video, VIULearn, VIULearn Tip

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What’s New in VIULearn? (Summer 2016)

What’s New in VIULearn this Month? (March-April 2016)

Exciting Ways to Use the New “Not” Release Conditions

What’s New in VIULearn this Month? (February-March 2016)

Global Accessibility Awareness Day – May 15th

D2L 10.2 Upgrade

Group Restricted Content

Will understanding the basics of web design help you build better online courses? Yes!

Desire2Learn Learning Sessions

Embedding media in your D2L course