Getting Started with MyCourses D2L 1. Support for MyCourses D2L (Desire2Learn) 2. How to Access MyCourses D2L (D2L) 3. Navigating D2L 4. Accessing Grades and Setting Up Your Grades book (including Pass/Fail) 5. Using the News Tool in your courses 6. Adding your course outline to your course page Support contacts for D2L and/or Final Grades Brealey Name Email and Extension Alana Callan alana.callan@flemingcollege.ca ext. 1209 Kristina Lonsberry kristina.lonsberry@flemingcollege.ca ext. 1422 Fiona Gentle fiona.gentle@flemingcollege.ca ext. 1616 Frost Name Email and Extension Terry Greene terry.greene@flemingcollege.ca ext. 3042 Sherry Sutton sherry.sutton@flemingcollege.ca ext. 3205
How to Access MyCourses D2L (D2L) Desire2Learn or D2L is the college learning management system (D2L) You can find D2L on the MyCourses Page. To access: 1. Login to the portal as you normally do 2. Click on MyCourses on the top menu bar 3. Click on Launch D2L 4. D2L will start automatically. 5. If logging in remotely, you may need to enter your Fleming userid and password
Navigating D2L This image provides an overview of how to navigate when you first log in to D2L.
This image provides an overview of how to navigate on your course page in D2L.
Accessing Grades and Setting Up Your Grades book (including Pass/Fail) How to access grades from your course page 1. From the NavBar click the Assessments link 2. Then click on the Grades link Setting Up Your Grades book Click on the Settings link
Click or stay on the Personal Display setting tab: If you make any changes to the Personal Display settings be sure to click the Save button.
Click on the Calculation Options tab. Be sure to save your changes and then close out of Settings.
Adding New Items While in the Grades tool click on Manage Grades Click on New and select Item From the New Item screen you can pick the type of Grade Item you want to create/use. Generally you are choosing the Numeric type UNLESS you are setting up Pass/Fail grades.
Setting up a Numeric item (column) Repeat for each Grade Item you need to create for your course.
Pass/Fail Grade Items
Pass/Fail Item Repeat for each Grade Item you need to create for your course.
Using Categories (or When to use Categories) Remember: when you are creating Items you need to associate the correct Items to the Category you want to.
Sample Grades book (with numeric items, 1 category calculating best 2 out of 3 quizzes) Tips: Editing items Deleting Items
Entering Grades Click on Enter Grades Click on Switch to Spreadsheet View for an easy to use interface Once you have entered grades be sure to click Save before you exit out of the Grades tool. OR
You are then able to enter grades for a specific item. You have to click on the Save button once you have entered the grades.
Using the News Tool on your D2L Course Page There are lots of good reasons to use the News Tool on your course page. It is an announcements tool that can be personalized (to include the student s name), you can add links, images, video, text etc., to items. AND students can be notified when there are new news items. From your D2L course page click on the News tool. Click on New Item to create a new News Item.
For a complete list or replacement strings that can be used in the HTML editor please visit the following link: http://help.d2l.msu.edu/content/list-replacement-strings
Adding your Course Outline to your MyCourses D2L course page With changes coming to the course outline system we are suggesting that you save your current approved course outline as a PDF (Portable Document Format) and upload it to your course page. To do this: 1. You need to be Logged in to the portal 2. You need to be Logged in to D2L 3. You need to Locate your approved course outline Location Course Outlines > List Semester Course Outline
Linking to your course outline to your course page in D2L Go to your D2L course page. Click on the Content Browser