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Desire Learn
Quickguide: Getting Started
Introduction ..............................................................................................................1
Logging In..................................................................................................................2
Logging Out ...............................................................................................................2
My Home vs. Course Home ......................................................................................2
System Announcements vs. Announcements ...........................................................4
Preferences ...............................................................................................................4
Profile .......................................................................................................................7
View My Progress .....................................................................................................7
Locker .......................................................................................................................7
Introduction
D2L is the new Learning Management System that will allow you to access your course
materials, collaborate with other students, and submit your work.
There are many tools that D2L offers, but keep in mind that each class is customized by
the instructor and therefore certain instructors may utilize some tools and not others.
Logging In
You can always access the
D2L login page by going to:
https://courses.depaul.edu/
You will see the login pane to
the left of the screen. (shown
here to the right)
Enter your DePaul Campus
Connection Username and
Password
Click Login
Logging Out
Once you have logged into D2L, you will be able to navigate between My Home
and Course Homes (discussed in the next section).
To log out of D2L, go to the upper right corner of the screen and click the
LOGOUT link.
My Home vs. Course Home
Once you have logged into D2L, you will be in the My Home section of D2L
Here you will see the My Settings pane to your left, the System
Announcements and My Courses panes in the middle, and a Calendar and
Academic Support pane to your right (however, this may vary based on
instructor preference). This is shown below:
If you click on a course listed in the My Courses section that will direct you to a
Course Home. Like My Home it also contains tools and a Navbar that is
unique to that course. A Navbar contains links to course areas and tools and
typically will be at the top of the screen:
System Announcements vs. Announcements
System Announcements will be seen when you log into D2L. They will be on the
My Home page and pertain to university wide announcements.
Course announcements or News will be within an individual Course Home and
will pertain to announcements created by the instructor.
Preferences
Under the My Settings pane you will find the Preferences Link. Preference
tools allow for you to customize the way you view material, handle email, and your
online status.
Click on Preferences and you should see 5 tabs: General Preferences,
Appearance & Accessibility, Language & Region, Discussions, and Email.
General Preferences:
Control whether or not you want to appear online when logged into D2L. Also,
select what drive is designated as your CD-ROM drive.
Appearance & Accessibility:
Select a Font size and style to view your My Home and Course Home materials.
Also, control seeing secondary windows as pop-ups (the default setting is dialogues
so you would switch to pop-ups if they are preferred). You also have the ability to
enable or disable HTML and rich text features (the default setting is enabled).
Language & Region:
Select a language (can be controlled by the instructor as well), time zone, and
calendar sequence (what day begins a week).
Discussions:
You have the ability to control discussion settings once inside a discussion area of
a course, but you can also control these settings here.
Email:
Select the checkbox at the top of this window if you want to have a copy of each
sent message sent to the email address you have registered with D2L/Campus
Connection.
The “Reply to” feature allows you to set an external address to receive replies to
your emails that can be different then the address that you have registered with
D2L/Campus Connection.
Create an Email Signature for D2L. This will appear at the bottom of all
messages that you send.
Also, choose to show external email addresses in the D2L Address Book
Profile
Create a profile by clicking the Profile link:
Here you can enter information about yourself and upload an image. This
information will be accessible to other classmates so only add what you would like
to share.
View My Progress
Click the View My Progress link
This shows how much you have completed in D2L. It will include checklists and
grades by course (if enabled by the instructor)
Locker
The Locker is a personal file storage area for you. Group lockers can also be
created by instructors for shared use with classmates. To access your personal
locker click the Locker link
Here you can upload, create, edit, move, copy, zip, and delete files in your own
personal storage space.