UWRF

Help For Instructors


Would you like combined sections? Click below address.

http://its.uwrf.edu/services/requests/desire2learn.php


Want to use the Instructor Guide?

Just click the "Content" link after you log in.

Content


Online Video Tutorials for Instructors (Just 1-2 minutes)

Tutorial- Activate D2L Course

Tutorial- Chat

Tutorial- Classlist

Tutorial- Discussion

Tutorial- Dropbox

Tutorial- Locker


Additional Faculty Support

Below you will find quick helpful information. Please click on the links to jump to each section.

Course Activation
Classlist, email, and address book information
Content and Best Practices
To contact us for help

Did you make your course active so that students can see it when they log in?
All courses at UW-RF will have a Learn@UW River Falls course automatically built. These courses are set up with the start
and end date of the semester. They all are inactive. Please make the course ACTIVE if you want students to
have access to it. If you would like your students to have access prior to the semester starting you can change the start date that is listed. To make them active, please log into Learn@UW River Falls and, then click the "edit" icon next to your course and you will see the window below...check the "active" box for it to be active:
Click here for a demonstration on course activation

Support


Does your Classlist show missing email addresses?
If there are missing addresses, this means that your student has not upgraded their falcon account. This usually occurs with new or transfer students. If you have any missing emails in your classlist, please encourage your students to upgrade their falcon accounts, by logging into FAA and they will need to manually change their passwords.

Does your Classlist not show all the instructors or students?
Make sure your search field is blank. When you search for a specific user the search field remembers that search and keeps the name in the search field, and will only display the name you are searching on.

The course address book:
As of ver 8.1.x (summer 2007) there is a new "checkbox" in the "edit course" area. The checkbox controls the addresses displayed in the address book. By default the "show course address book" checkbox is NOT checked, causing the entire organization address book to be displayed when searching for an address. This can be cumbersome and we suggest that you check the "show course address book" checkbox. This will filter the addresses so that you see only the addresses for that particular course. See the image below:

Support

Best Practices Content:
Can you see "content" on the nav bar once you log in? There is additional course help here for you, that only instructors have access to. You will find information on how to quickly set up your course, add content and manage grades.If you don't see "content" on the nav bar, please email us below and let us know.


For all help please use this email address:

d2l-help@uwrf.edu

For help with a specific course please give us the full path, it may look like this:

UWRVF_1052_1_ENGL_111_SEC40_3680 - Academic Reading and Writing

To find this, please log into Learn@UW River Falls, edit your course by clicking on the edit icon below. On the top of your course in the title bar you will see the full path displayed. Just highlight that and copy it and send it to us.

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