D2L Oklahoma RUF Custom Homepages

Norman, Oklahoma

D2L V10 Home Pages

• Building Beautiful Home Pages Learners Will Love with Learning Environment 10

Widget-based Home Pages

• Before you begin setting up your course home page, consider the needs of your students:– What information is most relevant to them as

students in your course? – What course materials and supplementary

materials will they need?– How can you maximize your course home page

to include relevant information?

Widget-based Home Pages

• At-a-glance, what do you want students to see?– Course news and updates– Important dates and reminders– Links to course content– Links to supplementary materials– Relevant RSS feeds

9.4.1 Standard Home Page with News & Widgets

V10 Widget Layout Options• Suggestions:

– Maximize the use of screen space

– Don’t repeat things in widgets and nav bars

– Encourage your students to enter course through home page, as much as possible

8 Layout Choices

Two Equal Widget Columns

Large Column on Left

Three Column Layout

Three Contest Entries

Three Embedded Polls

Replace strings

Building Custom Widgets

Laura Gibbs - OU

Full Custom Home Pages

• Any webpage/site can be used as a custom home page in D2L.

• Examples:– Course blog– RSS aggregator– Any course-specific web page

Custom Page Example

Norman, Oklahoma