Archive for the 'iLearn' Category

This summer we found a very useful and affordable tool (because it is free!).  It is called eXe and it is for creating learning materials for your class.  It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux and even has a version that will run from a USB drive or CD.  This one runs on Windows only [...]


Many of us use MS Word to create our handouts, content and resources for instruction but when we move our content online it is not always the best way for students.  Yes, this might be the easiest way for us but we need to consider that not all students have Microsoft Office at home.  Many [...]


While there are a lot of tools that faculty can use outside of D2L (iLearn), we also want to give you more information about how you can use groups in the D2L system to release information, setup discussions and assignment dropboxes, filter students and email within the Classlist, assign a grade to a group and [...]


A lot of people use Word to create their content for their courses, but when you transfer that document to D2L it (whether it is saved as HTML or not) it doesn’t seem to transfer without a lot of… here is a technical term… gobbledegook.  It seems to have a lot of characters that you [...]


If you are using the Discussions in D2L (iLearn on our campus) and would like to view all the messages in a topic in one list and/or print them you will need to change your settings.

Go to the course and select the Discussions link in the NavBar.
Select Settings to the left.
Where it says Message List [...]