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What’s New in D2L

What’s New in D2L. D2L Version 9.0 Highlights Summer 2010. Overview of changes in D2L Version 9.0. Confirmation/Status Banner Upon Saving in Multiple Tools Classlist Discussion View Progress Navigation Bars Release Conditions Manage Files User Preferences—Time Zone HTML Editor

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What’s New in D2L

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  1. What’s New in D2L D2L Version 9.0 Highlights Summer 2010 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  2. Overview of changes in D2L Version 9.0 • Confirmation/Status Banner Upon Saving in Multiple Tools • Classlist • Discussion • View Progress • Navigation Bars • Release Conditions • Manage Files • User Preferences—Time Zone • HTML Editor • Rubrics • NEW TOOLS • Course Design Accelerator • Course Builder • Instructional Design Wizard • Intelligent Agents (available since 8.4—but initially had some bugs) Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  3. 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. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  4. Classlist – Images and Last Accessed Info It 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 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  5. Classlist Report of Withdrawn Students View Progress is now available for Withdrawn Students Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  6. Discussions display User’s Profile Image This view is Settings: Message List Style = Reading Style Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  7. Discussion Grading Feedback Textbox When grading from within the discussion tool, a textbox displays for entering feedback. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  8. Grades Tool Has View Progress Feature View Progress is available from the Grades tool. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  9. User Progress Displays Feedback/Comments Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  10. 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 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  11. 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. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  12. Edit A Course NavBar To Edit an Existing Navbar, first click the Copy Navbar icon and click the Yes button to confirm Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  13. Edit the Course NavBar Copy The navbar copy appears, click on link to edit the navbar New interface for editing the nav bar Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  14. Edit NavBar and Make It Course Default 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. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  15. Release Conditions – Not and Not Between New Operators for some Condition Types include Not Between and != Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  16. Release conditions – Enrollment Type Release items based on enrollment Role Type Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  17. 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) Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  18. Manage Files – New Interface Multiple new features in Manage Files for ease of use. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  19. Manage Files – Edit HTML and Text Files HTML and TEXT files can be edited from the File Manager Multiple new features in Manage Files for ease of use. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  20. Preferences—Time zone setting This setting enables students in time zone other than Central to display deadlines in the time zone in which they live. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  21. 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 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  22. 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. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  23. Course Administration Widget displays available tools. Course Design Accelerator, Instructional Design and Course Builder are new Course Navigation Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  24. Course Builder Course Builder tool provides a way to create the course framework and enter placeholders for learning materials. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  25. 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 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  26. Instructional Design Wizard Step 1 The wizard provides examples and guides at each step Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  27. Intelligent Agents Tool • Intelligent Agents can assist the instructor and students as an early warning notification or as a positive feedback notification for outstanding performance • The tool is available from Edit Course • The instructor sets up the agents with criteria and customized e-mail messages…… • The Intelligent Agents tool was available in version 8.x, but with the enhancements to Release Conditions, and some bug fixes, it will function better in Version 9.0 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  28. Intelligent Agent – Based On Release Condition Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  29. Intelligent Agent Personalized Message To Student Create a customized message that will be sent to students who meetthe criteria for the Agent. Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  30. Intelligent Agent Based On Login Criteria Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  31. Intelligent Agent -- Personalized Message with Replace Strings Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  32. Intelligent Agent – Agent List Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  33. Intelligent Agent Messages To Instructors After an agent runs, the instructor receives an email message that confirms the agent ran, and indicates whether action was taken. The “action” the agent takes is sending email messages to students who met the criteria. If no students met the criteria, Action Taken would be “No”. Example of a Message: The following agent has finished running: Org Unit: May2010V9TestCourse - May 2010 Version 9 Test Course Agent: No Login Request Submitted: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 8:04:18 AM Agent Completed: Thursday, May 27, 2010, 8:04:20 AM Action Taken: Yes Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

  34. Intelligent Agents—E-Mail Messages To Students • The instructor does not know which students received the message, only that the agent was run and action was taken • If instructor wants to know which students receive the message, instructor can put his/her own email address in the cc: or bc: field of the email message • The instructor will receive a copy of each message that the agent generates for each student • That can be a lot of messages, but it is the only way to get that information • A feature request has been submitted to D2L to provide the instructor with the list of students who received the message in a single e-mail to the instructor Minnesota State Colleges and Universities D2L Upgrade to Version 9.0

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