Upcoming Desire2Learn Workshops
Instructional Technology is offering a series on implementation of Desire2Learn, one of the course management systems that MSUM supports. Desire2Learn (D2L) is an instructional management system. It provides a collection of tools that are useful for classroom-based courses, hybrid-delivered courses, and online courses. Your students can access the course via a web browser from anywhere in the world.
Monday July 27th – Overview of D2L — How to get an account and a look at the basic tools that D2L has to offer that can support your face-2-face course as well as hybrid or online delivery courses. 45 minutes 9:00 – 9:45, 11:00 – 11:45, 3:00 – 3:45
Tuesday July 28th– D2L’s Gradebook. The gradebook is an immediate feedback option to let students know their progress in the course. Instructors can link grade items to quizzes for automatic grading, Assignments and scores can be added, edited, or deleted. You can also import grades from an outside file or export scores to a text editor or Excel. The gradebook can be set for automatic weighting of grades or on a points system. Bring your syllabus and some ideas of how you would like your gradebook set up and work in your own course to create your gradebook. 45 minutes 9:00 – 9:45, 11:00 – 11:45, 3:00 – 3:45
Wednesday July 29th — Content — This feature allows the instructor to post content related to the course either by uploading files to the File Manager, creating a web based page using D2L’s built-in html editor, or linking to an outside web source. Content can be released with time restrictions, made available only to specific students or set to be released only when certain conditions have been met. – Bring your content on a flash drive. 45 minutes 9:00 – 9:45, 11:00 – 11:45, 3:00 – 3:45
Monday – August 3rd — The Assignment Dropbox This feature gives the instructor the option to allow students to submit their work online. Students can upload their work in the Dropbox and the instructor can view it at his or her discretion. Assignments can be graded online. Comments can be added with the Word Comment feature and returned to the student in the Dropbox. 45 minutes 9:00 – 9:45, 11:00 – 11:45, 3:00 – 3:45
Tuesday – August 4th — Quizzing in D2L: This feature allows instructors to evaluate students online. Different question formats can be applied and modified. Question Library, Randomizing Questions and Answer choices, Restrictions and Submission Views – 45 minutes 9:00 – 9:45, 11:00 – 11:45, 3:00 – 3:45
Wednesday August 5th — More on Quizzing, creating quizzes with Respondus (a third party quiz generator that all faculty can access) and importing to D2L. 45 minutes 9:00 – 9:45, 11:00 – 11:45