Part 2: Build a Course in D2L
Introduction
D2L, as well as all other learning management systems, are a type of website. Just like any other website, D2L includes a way for users to move — navigate — to pages that each contain different content, tasks, or tools.
Online course components must be built to facilitate learning and be non-obtrusive. Ideally, course navigation will be simple and quick. When considering your course’s design and navigation structure it is important to ask these three questions:
- How will my students know where to go?
- How will my students know what to do there?
- How will my students know when to do it?
The less time students spend asking these questions, the more time they will have interacting with course material.
Learning Objectives
By the end of Part 2 you should be able to:
- Detail the importance of a well-organized online classroom.
- Manipulate D2L’s navigation system.
- Build a widget.
- Design a homepage with widgets.
- Upload Content and Create Content in the Table of Contents.
- Use the Rich Text HTML Editor.
- Copy Components (including content) from a previous semester’s course.
