Wrapping Up Your Fall Courses in D2L
Here’s a checklist from FacTS Center, for wrapping up your fall course(s) in Desire2Learn:
– Do you want students to see their calculated grade when they log into the gradebook? (see the D2L Users Group tutorial on Turning Grade Calculation for Students.)
– Export your gradebook to archive in your personal records by the week after grades are due. (see the D2L Users Group tutorial on Exporting Grades.)
– Export a backup copy of your course to a personal drive, for safekeeping. (see the D2L User Groups tutorial on Archiving a Course).
– If you will be teaching a course in the Spring semester, copy your course content from a prior semester into your new course shell. (see the D2L User Groups tutorial on Copy a Course/all Course Components from One Course to Another).
Desire2Learn January Boot Camp!
The FacTS Center will conduct a D2L Boot Camp, or two-day intensive seminar on Wednesday, January 7 and Thursday, January 8. If you haven’t used D2L very much, this is a chance to learn how to use Desire2Learn to manage your course’s online presence and activities. If you have used D2L, come to learn about new features, and ask questions about the features you’d like to use. FacTS Center staff will conduct demonstrations of D2L tools, and in between these, help faculty on a one-on-one basis to build their courses. Bring your real course content, so you can prepare it for your next course!
On January 7, the Boot Camp will be conducted in two parts with a break in between for lunch. Additionally, FacTS Center will repeat part II of the Boot Camp in the morning of January 8, for those who could not attend the afternoon session on the 7th. All sessions will take place in Old Main 115. Computers running Mac and PC operating systems are available there, but feel free to bring your own laptop, too.
You can sign up for the Desire2Learn Boot Camp on our FacTS Center Workshop Sign Up Sheet.
From all of us in the FacTS Center, we wish you and yours a safe and happy holiday season!
Submitted by: Mark Gallimore, academic technology specialist, ITS
