Online Course Peer Review » D2L tips http://blog.lsc.edu/onlinepeerreview Promoting Online Course Quality at Lake Superior College Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 D2L News Area — Ahh, the Possibilities! http://blog.lsc.edu/onlinepeerreview/2009/11/06/187/ http://blog.lsc.edu/onlinepeerreview/2009/11/06/187/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:13:20 +0000 susan http://blog.lsc.edu/onlinepeerreview/?p=187 This week’s Learn from Each Other session focused on how to best use the D2L News area. The presentation focused on adding graphics, quicklinks, and video to the course homepage while also stressing the importance of updating course news regularly. Check out the following brief slideshow for some helpful links and ideas:

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]]> http://blog.lsc.edu/onlinepeerreview/2009/11/06/187/feed/ 0 Cool D2L tip! http://blog.lsc.edu/onlinepeerreview/2009/03/02/cool-d2l-tip/ http://blog.lsc.edu/onlinepeerreview/2009/03/02/cool-d2l-tip/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:04:46 +0000 susan http://blog.lsc.edu/onlinepeerreview/?p=111 While at the RSP/ITeach conference this weekend, I attended a session by Jeannette Brewer of Desire2Learn.  She provided some fun tidbits of information that most of there had not been aware of.  Here’s one of them:

By inserting {firstname} into any HTML spot in your courses (news, content, release conditions, etc), D2L automatically places your students’ first names into your message.  This just adds an element of personalization to your class.  This also works if you’d like a student’s last name or username inserted — {lastname} or {username}.

I also learned a good deal about using release conditions to provide feedback.  I’ll present a “Learn from Each Other” session about that topic soon.

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