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WHAT’S NEW IN D2L

D2L Version 9.0.x HighlightsSummer 2010

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

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


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


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


PREFERENCES—TIME ZONE SETTINGThis 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.


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.


CLASSLIST – IMAGES AND LAST ACCESSED INFOIt 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


CLASSLIST REPORT OF WITHDRAWN STUDENTS

View Progress is now available for Withdrawn Students


DISCUSSIONS DISPLAY USER’S PROFILE IMAGE

This view is Settings: Message List Style = Reading Style


DISCUSSION GRADING FEEDBACK TEXTBOX

When grading from within the discussion tool, a textbox displays for entering feedback.


GRADES TOOL HAS VIEW PROGRESS FEATURE

View Progress is available from the Grades tool.


USER PROGRESS DISPLAYS FEEDBACK/COMMENTS


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


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.


EDIT A COURSE NAVBAR

To Edit an Existing Navbar, first click the Copy Navbar icon and click the Yes button to confirm


EDIT THE COURSE NAVBAR COPYThe navbar copy appears, click on linkto edit the navbar

New interface for editing the nav bar


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.

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.

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.

RESULTS OF OFFSETTING DATES


The dates have been pushed forward by 30 weeks

CHANGE DATES ON MULTIPLE ITEMS IN ONE STEP


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.

RELEASE CONDITIONS – NOT AND NOT BETWEEN

New Operators for some Condition Types include Not Between and !=


RELEASE CONDITIONS – ENROLLMENT TYPE

Release items based on enrollment Role Type


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)


MANAGE FILES – NEW INTERFACE

Multiple new features in Manage Files for ease of use.


MANAGE FILES – EDIT HTML AND TEXT FILES

Multiple new features in Manage Files for ease of use.

HTML and TEXT files can be edited from the File Manager


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


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.


COURSE NAVIGATIONCourse Administration Widget displays available tools. Course Design Accelerator, Instructional Design and Course Builder are new


COURSE BUILDER Course Builder tool provides a way to create thecourse framework and enter placeholders for learning materials.


INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN WIZARD

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 STEP 1

The wizard provides examples and guides at each step


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


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