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Support for Desire2Learn
An explanation of the roles
that are available to Instructors who wish to enroll
additional participants into their course(s).
Overview: The Desire2Learn learning management system
used by MSU features automatic course provisioning whereby
all courses listed in the Banner system are automatically
created and available for use by MSU instructors. These
courses are populated with students that have registered
via the MSU registration system.
Additionally, Desire2Learn has enrollment capability
built in to the learning management system itself so
that Instructors are able to enroll participants into
their Desire2Learn course offering according to need.
These additional participants can be enrolled into courses
utilizing one of the 5 role types described below.
Instructor:
for making a course available to a user with instructional
responsibilities
- Content – can add/remove/organize Modules
and Topics
- Discussions – can create/remove Forums and
Topics, create private discussion groups and post
messages
- Dropbox – can create /remove new folders and
link to gradebook
- Quizzes – can create/remove quizzes and question
library
- Classlist – can view classlist and enroll/unenroll
students, audit, course assistants and instructors
- Grades – can view, add/remove and release
student grades
- Groups – can create/remove groups and give
private access to dropbox, discussion and locker
- Chat – can create/remove and participate in
chats
- Surveys – can create/remove surveys and question
library
- Checklist – can create/remove checklists
- Edit Course – able to effect all areas of
the course... for example: build content areas, create
discussion areas, access and create items in the Grades
area
- Course Offering Information – can activate
a course
- Import/Export/Copy Components – can import/export/copy
from to org units they have access to
- Manage Files – upload/download, cut/copy/paste,
delete, zip/unzip
Note that the "Instructor" role gives full
ability to the enrolled participant regarding design
in the course including access to all functions in the
"Manage Files" area, all course Editing functionality,
and access to the Grades area and related functions.
Typically, the Instructor role is reserved for participants
that are working in the course offering in a co-instructor
capacity. Caution should be exercised when enrolling
individuals in this role!
Course Assistant:
for making a course available to Course Assistants
(AKA Teaching Assistants)
- Content – can view content
- Discussions – can post messages
- Dropbox – can grade submitted assignments
- Quizzes – can grade quizzes and question library
- Classlist – can view classlist
- Grades – can enter student grades
- Groups – can view groups
- Chat – can participate in chats
- Surveys – can view survey reports only if
instructor releases them to CA
- Checklist – can view checklists
Typically, Instructors restrict enabling this role
only to users with appropriate access
at the university level – for instance, Instructors
will usually enroll only participants who have been
identified as an official Course Assistant (AKA Teaching
Assistant) assigned to the course. Note that Course
Assistant accounts can see and edit the Grades in the
class. Caution!
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Student:
enrolled in courses at a student level from Banner
- Content – can view content
- Discussions – can view/post messages
- Dropbox – can submit files to folders released
to them by the instructor
- Quizzes – can take quizzes released to them
by the instructor
- Classlist – can view classlist
- Grades – can view their grades
- Groups – can view group information
- Chat – can participate in chats
- Surveys – can take surveys released to them
by the instructor
- Checklist – can see checklists
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Audit: auditing
student from Banner or guest in course
- Content – can view content
- Discussions – can view/post messages
- Dropbox – can submit files to folders released
to them by the instructor
- Quizzes – can take quizzes released to them
by the instructor
- Classlist – can view classlist
- Grades – can view their grades
- Groups – can view groups
- Chat – can participate in chats
- Surveys – can take surveys released to them
by the instructor
- Checklist – can see checklists
Differences between the Student role and the
Audit role:
A student auditing the course does not receive credit
for the course though they can participate at the level
of a student. MSU states "Registered students may,
with the permission of the instructor, enroll in a course
as auditors and earn zero credit. A student must decide
to audit a course by the tenth class day of the semester.
Auditors pay the same fees as students enrolled for
credit." (from the "MSU Online Catalog -Taking
Courses for Zero Credit" - http://www.montana.edu/wwwcat/register/register3.html)
Using an Audit role can also serve to distinguish users
in a course from student accounts. When enrolled as
an "Audit" role, participants appear in the
classlist with their role listed as Audit – not
Student. The Audit role could be used for individuals
in the course who are participating as librarians, tutors,
or guest instructors.
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Librarian:
for making a course available to Librarian personnel
- Content – can view content
- Discussions – can post messages
- Dropbox – can grade submitted assignments
- Quizzes – can grade quizzes and question library
- Classlist – can view classlist
- Groups – can view groups
- Chat – can participate in chats
- Surveys – can view survey reports only if
instructor releases them to Librarian role
- Checklist – can view checklists
Typically, Instructors restrict enabling this role
to librarians at the university level. The role is very
similar to the Course Assistant role with the exception
of being able to see or interact with the Grade area.
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To learn how to enroll participants inside of D2L go
here:
http://eu.montana.edu/btc/tlt/support/D2L/enroll_user/
Need more information? Contact Desire2Learn support
at MSU Bozeman:
email: eCAT@montana.edu
phone: 406-994-6550
Desire2Learn
Support Page
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