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Support for Desire2Learn
Make Your Course Active
Automatically provisioned Desire2Learn courses are
made available to the "instructor of record"
listed in Banner via dates that correspond to terms.
When instructors make a course active, the course becomes
visible and accessible to students between the start
and end dates of the course.
At your "My Home" page, a visible gray exclamation
symbol indicates your course IS NOT
active. The absence of the gray exclamation symbol indicates
that your course IS active.
To activate your course there are two main methods:
from the "My
Home" page and from
inside a course.
From the "My Home"
page:
Select the pencil corresponding with the course you
wish to make active.
On the resulting page, select the "Active:"
checkbox.
Select "Save" and your course will be made
active.
When back at your "My Home" page, the gray
exclamation symbol is gone - indicating that your course
is active. Students can see and access your course between
the start and end dates of the course.
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From inside a course:
Go into the course by selecting the course hotlink.
When in the course, along the upper right of the frame,
select the "Edit Course" hotlink.
Select the "Course Offering Information"
hotlink.
On the resulting page, select the "Active:"
checkbox.
Select "Save" and your course will be made
active.
When back at your My Home page, the gray exclamation
symbol is gone - indicating that your course is active.
Students can see and access your course between the
start and end dates of the course.
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About Terms,
Start and End dates, Instructor of Record:
In most cases, "terms" (typically
aligned with semesters Fall, Spring, Summer) determine
when courses appear on an individual's "My Home"
page. Course offerings for automatically provisioned
courses will be visible to instructors within a few
weeks after registration begins for an upcoming term.
Once the upcoming term courses are loaded into the Desire2Learn
system, instructors will see courses arrayed in their
"My Courses" widget under the header for the
appropriate term.
Registered students can access a course
between Start and End Dates. Start and End dates are
established for a course within a term. Students can
access at the Start date of a course offering only if
the course is made active. Instructors
must make a course active before students can gain entrance
to the offering. Note that instructors can make their
course active earlier than a start date but that students
will not be able to access until the course start date
arrives.
To check the Start and End Dates of your
course you can click the pencil icon to the right of
your course title when viewing the course under the
"My Courses" widget on your "My Home"
page. The Start and End Date information will appear
on the "Course Offering Information" page.
Caution! Instructors shouldn’t make
their course inactive once the term begins unless students
are made aware that this is going to occur ahead of
time as it can cause great confusion! Always know that
there are many other ways to “hide” aspects
of a course as opposed to making the entire course disappear!
Instructor of Record: The instructor that
a department has identified in Banner as being the instructor
that is officially teaching a course offering. The course
and enrollment information in Desire2Learn comes from
what is in Banner. When an automatically provisioned
course offering is created in D2L the instructor of
record information is associated with the course offering.
Instructors should work with their department and the
Registrar's office to have instructor of record information
correctly reflected in Banner. If you are a co-instructor,
have the instructor of record give you access to the
course by enrolling you into the course as an instructor.
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