D2L Oklahoma RUF Custom Homepages
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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