Intro to Desire2Learn

1. Intro to Desire2Learn Westside version

2. Learning objectives • At the end of this Workshop, New Teachers to Westside High School will be able to • Log in and out of Desire2Learn • How to change your password in Desire2Learn • Add and Remove Students within their course section • Create a News Item • Add Content to their Course

3. NETs-Teacher Standards Addressed: • Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments 
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS·S. b. Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress

4. Logging in • Log into: http://bibb.desire2learn.com • Enter the user names and temporary passwordsgiven to you. • A note about passwords: everyone should change their passwords because we set up the accounts with a generic pattern that, honestly, students are quite adept of figuring out).

5. Changing your password Steps to change password • After you have logged into Desire2Learn, select the Password link in the My Settings area in the Welcome Box found on the left side of the screen. • Enter your old password, your new password and enter it again to confirm it. • Click the “Change Password” button to process the change.

6. Adding Students • Log in to Desire2Learn. (you should already be logged in right now) • Enter the course into which you wish to enroll additional students. • Click on "Classlist" in the navbar. • Click the "Add Participants" link. • Click the "Add an existing user" link. • In the "Search for" box, enter the first and last name of the student you wish to add. • Click the "Search" button. • In the search results that appear, locate, and check the box next to, the student you wish to add. • In the "Select a Role" drop down, choose "Student". • In the "Select a Section" drop down, choose the section into which you wish to enroll the student. • Click the "Enroll Selected Users" button.

7. Deleting Students 1. Log in to Desire2Learn. (you should already be logged in right now) 2. Enter the course into which you wish to enroll additional students. 3. Click on "Classlist" in the navbar. 4. Scroll down and you should see the students currently enrolled in your class. (If you are missing a student, change the number of students displayed to the maximum value) 5. Click the check box next to the student(s) you wish to remove from your course. (You can remove more than one student at a time.) 6. Click the Unenroll Selected Users tool in the gray bar at the top or bottom of the page. 7. A confirmation window will appear. 8. Click "Yes". You will be returned to Classlist page

8. Creating News • Log into Desire2Learn. Navigate to the course you wish to add News. • Click the New News Item icon at the top of the News widget. • Enter the news headline in the Headline field. • Enter the news content in the Content field. • If you want to hide your headline's date and time clear Always Show Start Date. By default, a news item's start date and time appears below its headline when displayed in the News widget. • Select the posting availability date in the Start Date and End Date drop-down lists. News items are published immediately unless you specify an alternate start date from the Start Date drop-down list. • You can make News remove an item on a specific date by selecting the check box Remove news item based on end date. You and administrators can still see the news item after its end date, but it will not appear in the News widget. • You can include attachments and audio recordings as part of your news item: • To add an attachment, click Add a File in the Attachments section. • To record audio, click the Record Audio in the Attachments section. Click Flash Settings to make adjustments to your microphone selection and volume. Click Play to listen to your recording. Click Clear to erase your recording. • Click Save as Draft to continue editing the news item (students cannot see draft news items), or click Publish to release news item to users. Click Schedule to publish a news item with a future release date.

9. Westside News Template All courses are required to have a daily update to the news listing with the follow headings: Standard:List here your GPS or QCC standard that you are working on today EQ:This should be a relavant big idea that students should be able to answer. Opening:How are you going to begin your lesson? Here is where you will describe that opening activity Work session:What are you work on today, give details. Closing:At the end of class, how do you plan to wrap things up.

10. Adding Content You must create a module before you can add topics. You can create modules within existing modules to establish a deeper hierarchy. (It helps to think of Modules as Unit Folders.) Create a new module • Click Content on the navbar to access the Manage Content page. • Click one of the New Module icons. • You can change the parent from the Parent Module drop-down list: • Select None if you don't want the module to be a sub-module. • Select a module from the list of existing modules if you want it to be a
sub-module. • Type your module title in the Title field. • You can type in a Short Title as an option. (This is not required but is nice when you get advanced and start using some of the optional widgets) • If you want to exclude this module from the numbering system, select the Hide Enumeration check box. For example, hiding enumeration on an Course Information module does not affect the numbering on later modules. • Set further options and click Save to save your changes, or to continue creating modules, click Save & New. • Option • Procedure • Hide a module from participants' view • Click the Restrictions tab and select the Hide this module check box. All topics beneath this module are also hidden. • Set date/time restrictions • Click the Restrictions tab and set the Start Date and End Date. • Set release conditions • Click the Restrictions tab. • Do one of the following: • To set pre-existing release conditions to the topic, click Attach Existing and select the conditions from the list in the pop-up window. • To create new conditions and attach them to the topic, click Create and Attach. For details on creating release conditions refer to Release Conditions. • Choose whether access to the module is dependent on meeting all or any of your conditions. • Add comments • Click the Comments tab. • To add comments that only you can see, type your comments into the Personal Comments text field. • To add comments, type your comments into the Shared Designer Comments.

11. Adding Content To add a Topic... 1. Click the New Topic button on the top menu. When you Add a Topic, you have four options: • Create New File - this creates a new document right in the system • Course File - use a document that you may have previously uploaded into Manage Files • Upload New File - upload a file you already have created or saved to your computer/memory stick. • Quicklink- quick link to a location in your course or to a website. 2. Select the Upload New File option. Choose this option to add something new to your course from your computer. 3. A new screen appears where you will choose the Module the file is to go in (ex. Course Information) and enter a Title for this file you are uploading – for example, Syllabus. 4. Next click the Browse button next to “File to Upload”. This will open a window for you to search your computer for the file you want to upload. Once you find the file, simply double click and it will take you back to the D2L window. Now you will see that the ‘File To Upload’ field has information in it. 5. Next click the SAVE button. The screen will refresh once it is done uploading and saving your file. You will see a time/date stamp that says it was saved successfully. Now click on Manage Content. 6. You will now see your MODULE “Course Information” and underneath it, your TOPIC “Syllabus”.

12. Wrapping it up…. • Logging out of Desire2Learn • To log out of D2L, go to the upper right corner of the screen and click the LOGOUT link. (It is import to remember to log out of D2L especially if you are using a shared computer. Failure to log out could leave your work space at risk.) • Survey – on googleforms: https://sites.google.com/site/intro2ws247/moving-forward