What’s New in D2L

1. What’s New in D2L D2L Version 9.0.x Highlights Summer 2010 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

2. Overview of changes in D2L Version 9.0 • Accessibility • User Preferences—Time Zone • Confirmation/Status Banner Upon Saving in Multiple Tools • Classlist • Discussion • View Progress • Navigation Bars • Manage Dates • Release Conditions • Manage Files • HTML Editor • Rubrics • NEW TOOLS • Course Design Accelerator • Course Builder • Instructional Design Wizard Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

3. Site Permissions For D2L Tools • Changes in D2L became effective after the upgrade to version 9.0.0 on June 5, 2010 • More changes were introduced in version 9.0.1 MR1, taken on August 7, 2010 • Some features and functionality of tools are dependent on permissions that are set for each role at each school’s site Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

4. Accessibility Compliance • W3C and WAI-ARIA mark up in core D2L platform • Provides more information to assistive technologies when reading D2L sites, such as tabs, context menus, page landmarks, error and confirmation messages • W3C World Wide Web Consortium • WAI-ARIA Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

5. Preferences—Time zone setting This setting enables students in a time zone other than Central to display deadlines in the time zone in which they live. The due dates and times will adjust to reflect the time zone where they live. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

6. Confirmation and Status Banners After saving or performing other actions in D2L tools, a prominent confirmation status banner briefly displays. When user clicks Manage Files, a “Loading” status message displays while the user is waiting for the file list to load. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

7. Classlist – Images and Last Accessed Info It was always possible to see a user’s image if the user had uploaded an image to the profile. In version 9.0, the image displays in the classlist, and links to the user’s profile. The date the student last accessed the course is displayed in the classlist Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

8. Classlist Report of Withdrawn Students View Progress is now available for Withdrawn Students Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

9. Discussions display User’s Profile Image This view is Settings: Message List Style = Reading Style Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

10. Discussion Grading Feedback Textbox When grading from within the discussion tool, a textbox displays for entering feedback. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

11. Grades Tool Has View Progress Feature View Progress is available from the Grades tool. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

12. User Progress Displays Feedback/Comments Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

13. Navigation Bars – Look, Feel, Functionality • Navigation bars are frameless in 9.0 • Links can be displayed as text only, image only, or both • When the window is resized, the navbar links will wrap Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

14. Editing a Course NavBar • Ability to edit the Navbar will be based on permissions set at each site • There is a new interface for Editing the Nav Bar • When editing an existing Navbar, the user will need to create a copy of the navbar and perform the editing on the copy. • This is the way it was always done, but the copy was made automatically, in the background, so in the past it was not obvious to the user that the navbar was copied. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

15. Edit A Course NavBar To Edit an Existing Navbar, first click the Copy Navbar icon and click the Yes button to confirm Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

16. Edit the Course NavBar Copy The navbar copy appears, click on link to edit the navbar New interface for editing the nav bar Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

17. Edit NavBar and Make It Active for the Course Properties tab, rename the new copy of the navbar , Save, then use Links tab to customize the navbar Click Navbars, click Change button, selectnew navbar from list and click Apply. This setsthe new, customized navbar for the course. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

18. Manage Dates – New tool in version 9.0.1 Displays items from multiple tools in one screen. Access to Manage Dates tool is in Edit Course. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

19. Offset Selected Dates Taking the number of weeks times 7 equals the number of days to push forward, keeping the day of the week consistent for the begin and end dates in the next semester. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

20. Results of Offsetting Dates The dates have been pushed forward by 30 weeks Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

21. Change Dates on Multiple Items in One Step Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

22. Results of Changing Dates on Multiple Items The Start and End Dates have changed for the previously selected items. Note—clicking the red “X” beside a date is a quick way to remove the date. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

23. Release Conditions – Not and Not Between New Operators for some Condition Types include Not Between and != Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

24. Release conditions – Enrollment Type Release items based on enrollment Role Type Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

25. Release conditions - Any or All • Multiple release conditions can be set for an item • option of requiring ALL or ANY of the conditions to be met • (in previous versions, the only option was ALL conditions) Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

26. Manage Files – New Interface Multiple new features in Manage Files for ease of use. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

27. Manage Files – Edit HTML and Text Files HTML and TEXT files can be edited from the File Manager Multiple new features in Manage Files for ease of use. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

28. HTML Editor – LaTex and MathML • Same editor used on all platforms and browsers (Mac and Windows and their browsers use same HTML editor) • LaTeX and MathML are now options in Equation Editor Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

29. Rubrics - multi-dimensional • Rubrics in previous versions only allowed for one row with multiple columns. • Rubrics in version 9.0 allow for multiple rows and multiple columns. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

30. Course Administration Widget displays available tools. Course Design Accelerator, Instructional Design and Course Builder are new Course Navigation Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

31. Course Builder Course Builder tool provides a way to create the course framework and enter placeholders for learning materials. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

32. Instructional Design Wizard tool provides a way to bring pedagogy into the design of the course as it is being built with learning materials and activities Instructional Design Wizard Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

33. Instructional Design Wizard Step 1 The wizard provides examples and guides at each step Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

34. Resources for D2L Version 9.0 • D2L Community Site http://community.desire2learn.com • Must be a member—use Enrollment link at the site* • Searchable Online Help (can bookmark help topics) • Webinar Recordings • News—Subscribe to The Horizon newsletter • Discussions with D2L Users Worldwide • D2L Users Conference – Annual Event in July • http://www.desire2learn.com/fusion for highlights from 2010 conference in Chicago, July 11-15, 2010 • 2011 Conference is in Denver, July 17-22, 2011 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0