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The Preferences tool allows you to change your font settings, paging preferences, discussion room layout, and email preferences (including AutoForward D2L Email messages). Customizing your personal settings is a great way to ensure that you are comfortable in your learning environment.
On your My Home page the Preferences link is located in the Welcome Box located on the left side of the page.
Click Preferences. The Preferences box will appear with a list of what you can set preferences for.
Your font settings are available from the General tab.
This paging value allow you to limit or expand the number of search results you see for certain tools.
If your instructor has set up Discussionsthen you will use them to communicate with classmates to discuss readings, projects, or additional resources that you have found to be useful. You can select the layout and organization of your Discussion forums and topics.
Note: If you have little experience with the Discussion toll, you may want to revisit this area after you have become more familiar with Discussions so that you will be able to determine your ideal preferences.
Display Settings allows you to show the discussion topics list, show the search bar, and show the preview pane.
Default Message List View allows you to decide to decide to view messages in a threaded view or an un-threaded view. The threaded view can easily allow you to follow conversations on the Discussion board.
Message List Style allows you to view discussions in the grid style or the reading style. If you choos the reading style you must click the Mark As Read link so your instructor will see that you have read the topic, otherwise it will appear that you have not read any Discussions. The grid style automatically marks each Discussion as read when you view each one.
Message Fields to Display allows you to choose to display the massage ID. The message ID may be useful for you, but it may add extra clutter to the screen.
Character Limits allows you to limit the number of characters of the subject line displayed in the message list. If you select this box, use the next box to set the number of characters to display in the subject line of Discussion board messages.
Reply Settings allows you to decide if you would like to include the original message text in the reply message.
There are several options you can choose with the D2L Email tool. If you do not want to check your D2L email, you can choose to have your D2L email forwarded to an email account you check frequently.
Email Options
It is highly recommended that you check the box next to 'Save a copy of each outgoing message to the "Sent Mail" folder'.
Text entered in the box to the right of Email Signature will automatically be displayed at the bottom of a new email message.
Display Options
It is highly recommended that you check the box next to 'Mark messages as read when viewed in the Message Preview pane'. It is preferable that you show messages in the Message Preview Pane, as some pop-up blockers will interfere with your message appearing in a new window. The Show the Folder List pane is helpful fornavigating your email folders.
Forwarding Options
You can forward your D2L email to the email account you use most frequently.
Set this preference to receive visual notification when someone pages you as well as to select your Pager sound.
Note: Many instructors do not use the Pager tool, therefore you should ask your instructor what communication methods he or she will use with students. Instructors may only read emails and not answer pages.
If the Pager icon is off, you will receive incoming pages, however you will have to manually check for pages by clicking on the pager.
You will hear the sound you selected the next time you receive a page.
