- Browser Check
Test your system settings to see if it is compatible with D2L requirements.
- Chat
Chat tools allow you and your students to communicate via text while online at the same time. Using the D2L Chat tool, students can hold private chats with other students in the course or communicate on group projects. You can also use the Chat to hold online office hours.
- Checklist
The Checklist tool allows you to spell out the steps of a specific process. Your students can then 'check off' each step of the process as it is completed.
- Classlist/Groups
The Classlist provides you and your students with a list of students currently enrolled in your course. The Classlist is automatically updated from the University's Student Information System (SIS). Groups can be created to arrange students in your class and have different access to course tools.
- Conditional Release
Conditional release is used to define the order in which a student accesses course materials. "Release" means "visible or accessible to students." The most commonly used release conditons are date and time. Yet D2L allows intstructors to define other types of conditions for release of material to students. These defined orders are sometimes referred to as "learning paths."
- Content
The Content tool allows you to post and organize relevant learning materials for your students. Content material can range from basic text to multimedia files.
- Copying Course Materials
Using this tool you can copy course content, course files, news, links, dropboxes, grade books, quiz questions, quizzes, and surveys from one course to the next.
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Course Home
Course Home is the entry page for your specific course. It is the first page that your students see when they enter the course. This page contains the News tool and provides you and your students with access to D2L's Schedule tool.
- D2L Email
D2L creates D2L email accounts for all users. This account is different from a UA email account. A D2L mail address looks like this: .@d2l.arizona.edu
Instructors of large classes may be interested in using their D2L email account so that the large volume of mail generated by a large class does not swamp their personal .@ email.arizona.edu account.
- Discussions
The Discussions tool can be used for online discussions between you and your students or between groups of students. After setting up a discussion Forum (major categories), you can create individual topics within the forum for discussion. Students can post messages in a 'threaded' discussion. Students can also attach documents to their messages.
- Dropbox
The Dropbox tool is an electronic storage space for documents submitted by your students. You can create multiple folders for assignments that can be opened and/or closed for submission based on specific dates and times.
- Edit Course
The Edit Course tool allows you to change certain basic parameters of your course and to modify the NavBar, Files, and Content. You should consult with a D2L consultant before changing the course Info, Tools, or Components.
- FAQ Tool
FAQ stands for Frequently Asked Questions. The FAQ tool allows you to collect and answer common questions that students may have about the course or an individual topic. FAQs can be clustered in categories or simply listed for the student to read through.
- Glossary
The Glossary tool allows you to provide students with terms or acronyms and their definitions. Students are provided with an alphabetized listing of the terms that they can access anywhere within D2L.
- Grades
The Grades tool allows you to establish an online grade book. Items in the grade book can be tied to other D2L tools such as the Dropbox and Quizzes tools so that a grade entered in one of these tools is automatically updated in the grade book. Question items from the Quizzes tool such as multiple-choice, true/false, matching, ordering, etc. can be set to grade the items automatically and then update the grade book. Students can use the Grades tool to check their grade at anytime during the course.
- HTML Editor
The HTML Editor allows you to change the information in a course file using HTML tags or a word processing like editor.
- Journal
The Journal tool allows you and your students to create and save personal journals.
- Locker
The Locker is an electronic storage area for you and your students. You can 'upload' and 'download' files from your home or office computer and use them in D2L or transfer them from one computer to another. Your students can use this space in a similar manner however, only the owner of the locker can view its contents.
- Manage Files
D2L saves a variety of different Content pages as html files within the D2L system. Manage Files allows you to view, upload, or delete these files. In some cases, you can even edit the files within the Manage Files tool.
- My Home
My Home is the main entry page for D2L. It is the first page you and your students see after signing in to D2L. Like the Course Home page, this page contains a News section. However, this News section is controlled by the D2L Support Staff and is used for system announcements.
- NavBar and Banner Images
The NavBar contains links to the various D2L tools that you have defined. It is made up of the red and blue lines at the top of the D2L page. Editing the NavBar allows you to change the tools that are accessible to your students.
- News
Found on the Course Home page, News allows you to post messages to your students so that they will see it when they first enter your course page. These messages can be released or removed based on a date and time.
- Pager
The Pager allows you and your students to 'page' each other by sending a short text message. The next time that the person being paged enters the course, the pager will flash and beep that a message is waiting.
- Preferences
The Preferences tool allows you to change your font settings, paging preferences, discussion room layout, email preferences, and password.
- Quizzes
The Quizzes tool allows you to create a variety of assessments for your students. While labeled 'Quizzes', this tool can be used for exams, surveys, and/or homework assignments. The Quizzes tool can be used to create the following types of questions: multiple-choice, true/false, arithmetic (including specifying ranges of numbers with significant figures), fill-in-the-blank, multi-select, matching, ordering, and long and short answers. Many of these questions can be graded automatically and then automatically entered into the Grades tool. Quizzes can be released conditionally based on date and time.
- Role Switch
The Role Switch tool, found on Course Home, allows you to view your course from another role such as a student or TA. There is a limitation to this tool. When in student mode, you will NOT be able to view what a student would see in the Quizzes and Grades tools.
- Schedule
You and your students have access to an online calendar through the Schedule tool. Available on the My Home and My Course pages, the Schedule tool allows you to set reminders of important dates and activities. As an instructor, you can create an event for yourself, or one that is added to every student's schedule.
- Self-Assessment
Similar to the Quizzes tool, the Self-Assessment tool allows you to create assessment items such as multiple-choice, true/false, arithmetic, fill-in-the-blank, multi-select, matching, ordering, and long and short answers. The Self-Assessment tool does not keep a record of the student's response.
- Survey
Similar to the Quizzes tool, but you cannot connect a Survey to the Grades tool and it has less question response tracking capabilities than Quizzes. If you need that kind of information you must use the Quiz tool. Simply name the Quiz as a Survey. The Survey tool allows you to create assessment items such as multiple-choice, true/false, arithmetic, fill-in-the-blank, multi-select, matching, ordering, and long and short answers. The Survey tool allows you to keep a record of the student's response or makes the survey anonymous.
- Webroster
Final grades in your D2L gradebook can now be automatically imported into Webroster.
