What’s New in D2L

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

WHAT’S NEW IN D2L

D2L Version 9.0.x Highlights of New Tools and Changes to Rubrics ToolSummer 2010

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

NEWS TOOLS AND SIGNIFICANT CHANGES

NEW TOOLS Manage Dates Course Design Accelerator Course Builder Instructional Design Wizard

CHANGES Rubrics Tool-significant change

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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.

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CHANGE DATES ON MULTIPLE ITEMS IN ONE STEP

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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.

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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.

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RESULTS OF OFFSETTING DATES

The dates have been pushed forward by 30 weeks

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COURSE NAVIGATIONCourse Design Accelerator brings together into one place the key tasks in designing a new course.

COURSE DESIGN ACCELERATOR

Four Areas of Course Set Up and Design

COURSE STRUCTURE

COURSE ADMINISTRATION TOOLS

COMMUNICATION TOOLS

COMMON FIRST ACTIONS FOR NEW COURSES

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

COURSE BUILDER

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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, learning activities, and assessments.

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INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN WIZARD STEP 1

The wizard provides examples and guides at each step

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN WIZARD LEARNING OBJECT TYPES

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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.

RUBRICS TOOL CHANGE: MULTIPLE LEVELS