D2L: Desire 2 Learn

D2L: Desire 2 Learn An overview of the course management system used at the University of Arizona as well as other universities across the country Page by Adrienne Kaiser

http://www.mnstate.edu/instrtech/D2L/StudentHelp/D2LStudentGuide.pdfhttp://www.mnstate.edu/instrtech/D2L/StudentHelp/D2LStudentGuide.pdf Page by Adrienne Kaiser & Dana Pagnan

Here is a link to an example walk-through on how to use D2L. This is just a sample and may not look exactly like the D2L page for your specific university or classroom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OSN2wJJF3o Page by Adrienne Kaiser

D2L as a New Literacy • D2L has become a staple at many universities, with over 5 million members from higher education institutions. The following link provides a list: List of Higher Institutions • D2L is an asset to instructors, providing automatically graded quizzes as well as one common location for papers to be turned in to. • D2L also benefits students as it provides one website that is able to deliver all of the information necessary to their classes. • Prior to the D2L system, more paper as well as confusion occurred in school systems as it could cause chaos and disorder as too many assignments began in a class. • D2L provides a much more organized way for students and instructors to communicate and remain up to date with all activities happening in the classroom. Page by Dana Pagnan

D2L Perceptions Positives D2L provides students with the opportunity to take classes from the comfort of their own house, apartment or dorm room It provides the opportunity for students to receive immediate feedback from their peers in discussions, as well as from instructors on assigned quizzes over the internet Drawbacks For some D2L quizzes the professor only puts in one answer to a question An example of this is when a question asked for the author and the instructor had listed “Livy” as the answer and students put “Titus Livy” this was marked incorrect and the students had to go to the teacher to personally get his grade changed D2L makes you rely on internet servers that are subject to malfunction at any time Michael S. Schlossberg

Students Overall D2L Feelings Students were polled at a random throughout Northepoint Student Apartments, as well as a Math 302 B class on January 26th, 2009 ^ A minor change can be defined as changing around the layout of the homepage *A major change can be defined as changing the way the information is presented as in creating more animation is the information that is presented ~ Blackboard is a software company that licenses software applications, specifically found in academics Michael S. Schlossberg

Faculty vs. Student Perspective(the second study) • Chemistry undergraduate students and faculty at the University of Arizona were surveyed • 67% of faculty and 12% of the students responded within 48 hours (only those responses were used in this study) Overall satisfaction with aspects of D2L Response in % Robin Rarick

Summary of Findings Overall, both groups give D2L a thumbs up! Robin Rarick

D2L: Desire 2 Learn