Authored by Customer Success at D2L.
STEP TWO: Create a Personalized Plan
Download the attached workbook to walk you through all the steps required to build your personalized plan, including: building a team, setting goals, communication planning, and change management strategy.
STEP THREE: ‘How-To'
Information for content creators and system administrators:
My Courses WidgetTask:
Widgets are typically set up by your system administrators and added to your organization’s homepage – as opposed to the homepage of a course that you are creating the content for. As a content creator you do not have to do anything to make sure your courses appear in a user’s “my courses” widget.
User Resources: Add widgets to a homepage tutorial (video), Customize the My Courses Widget tutorial (video), About the My Courses Widget (Instructor Help)
Supplemental Resources: Set up the My Courses Widget (Instructor Help)
Availability: This feature is available to all customers.
To enable: Make sure you have permissions turned on for the my courses widget. D2L recommends that you turn on the d2l.Tools.MyCoursesWidget.UpdatedSortLogic configuration variable. Use the Customize this Widget option to configure the My Courses widget to display tabs that organize courses by Semester Name, Department, or Role for the Org.
Intelligent Agents Task:
Chose the criteria that will trigger an intelligent agent to send an automatic message to learners - Ex/ course activity or login activity. Set the message learners will receive and schedule your intelligent agent to run automatically at the frequency that suits your needs (daily, weekly, monthly, annually).
User Resources: Encourage engagement using Intelligent Agents (Instructor Help), and Intelligent Agents for Instructors tutorial (video)
Supplemental Resources: Getting Started for Instructors (tutorial video)
Availability: This tool is available to all customers.
To enable: Make sure you have permissions enabled for the employees who will be setting up this feature in your compliance courses.
User Resources: Intelligent Agents Templates: Increase Instructor to Learner Engagement (Product Blog)
Awards ToolTask:
Create badges and certificates to reflect the achievement of different milestones within a course offering and upon course completion.
User Resources: About Awards (Administrator Help), Awards Tool for instructors tutorial (video), Awards – Create a Badge (video)
Supplemental Resources: Create and manage Awards (Instructor Help)
Availability: This feature is available to all clients.
To enable: Make sure the roles assigned to faculty/instructors have permissions to use and make changes to either the announcements tool or the activity feed widget.