Presentation by Barry Dahl about building custom home pages in Desire2Learn

1. Norman,
Oklahoma

2. D2L V10 Home Pages
• Building Beautiful Home Pages
Learners Will Love with Learning
Environment 10

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 9.4.1 Standard Home Page with News & Widgets

6. 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

7. Two Equal Widget Columns

8. Large Column on Left

9. Three Column Layout

10. Three Contest Entries

11. Replace strings
Three Embedded Polls

12. Building Custom Widgets

13. Laura Gibbs - OU

14. 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

15. Custom Page Example

16. Norman,
Oklahoma