Administrator Documentation

Enable the Work To Do widget

Use the Work To Do widget to give learners a single, accessible list of course activities that are overdue or upcoming. Add the widget to your organization homepage to aggregate items from all courses, or to a course homepage to limit items to that course. This topic follows Knowledge Team voice and accessibility guidelines.

What appears in Work To Do

The widget displays these activity types when they have a due date or end date:

Assignments
Checklists
Content
Courses
Discussions
Surveys
Quizzes

Time window and item limits

By default, the widget shows overdue items from the past 12 weeks and upcoming items for the next 2 weeks (up to a maximum 10-week window).
Regardless of time range, the widget shows a maximum of 6 items.
If there are more, select View all work to open the full-screen view, which lists all items with due or end dates in the upcoming year.

You can customize the default time ranges for your organization with these configuration variables:

d2l.Tools.WorkToDo.OverdueWeekLimit: sets the number of weeks to display overdue items, up to 52.
d2l.Tools.WorkToDo.UpcomingWeekLimit: sets the number of weeks to display upcoming items, up to 16.

This is the paper note and pencil icon used for notes.

Note: To extend or limit the widget’s upcoming or overdue ranges, contact D2L Support to update these properties for your organization.

Enable the Work To Do widget for your organization

Prerequisites

You have a widget-based homepage available to edit.
Your learner roles have permission to view the widget.

To turn on the tool for your organization

From Admin Tools, select Organization Tools.
Toggle Work To Do to On.

To set the permission for learner roles

From Admin Tools, click Roles and Permissions.
For each relevant learner role at the Organization level and/or Course Offering level, enable View Work To Do Widget.
- Refer to Edit role permissions and properties.

Add the Work To Do widget to a homepage

To add the widget to an organization or course homepage

Go to the homepage you want to edit.. Note: you must have a widget-based homepage.
At the bottom of the homepage, click the Homepage Actions Menu.
Click Edit this Homepage.
In Widgets, select Add widgets.
Click System Widgets. Select the Work To Do check box.
Click Add.
Drag and drop the widget where you want to organize the homepage.
(Optional) Click the widget title to edit widget style properties.
Click Save and Close.