Per MnSCU System Office:
Update on D2L issues in Chrome browser:
Chrome 32 has resolved the issue with miniature-sized frames inside some D2L tools.
Chrome 32 has introduced a new issue with D2L at screens that bring up a separate window with a list of options, such as “Insert Quicklinks”. After a lengthy wait time, a blank window displays in the pop-up and does not populate with information.
D2L has identified this as a browser bug that Google Chrome intends to fix in version 33, but preliminary testing of the current beta version of Chrome 33 shows that the issue still exists.
D2L recommends using a different browser until Google Chrome has a release that resolves this issue.
Further questions and inquiries? Please address to:
d2L@stcloudstate.edu
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Per MnSCU System Office:
D2L Document Viewer
We made some adjustments to our environment that appear to have alleviated the document viewer issue. We are still closely monitoring the viewer queue, and would appreciate your prompt reports if users experience the spinning “loading” icon when trying to view documents in Content or Dropbox.
D2L Email and Notification Delays
We also made some changes for email, and continue to monitor the email queue. This issue is still under investigation. If you experience delays, please report via the ticket system with details of the time the email was sent or notification alert occurred, and when the email was actually received.
Thanks for your patience on these issues.
Per MnSCU System Office:
The D2L document viewer is experiencing issues. In Content and Dropbox, users may see a spinning icon and a blank background, but the documents do not load. We are working to resolve the issue.
Users may download and view the documents as a temporary workaround.
We appreciate your patience as we work on alleviating the problem.
Q:Student John Doe is no longer a student in my NNN 101 course. However, every time I manually unenroll him from my D2L classlist, he reappears. How do I permanently delete him?
Faculty Name
A: THis is a known problem and the MnSCU System office is working on fixing it.
Thank you for your parience
Campus Technology, a leading periodical in the use of technology in education, lists for consideration the 2014 technology trends for education:
- Mobile Platforms and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
- Adaptive Learning (personalization of online learning)
- Big Data (predictive analysis)
- Flipped Classroom
- Badges and Gamification (assessment and evaluation)
- iPADs and Other Tablets (mobile devices)
- Learning Management Systems (on SCSU campus – D2L)
The Journal
has a similar list:
- BYOD (it is a trend going up)
- Social Media as a Teaching and Learning Tool ( trend going up))
- Digital Badges (split vote, some of the experts expect to see the us of badges and gamification as soon as in 2014, some think, it will take longer time to adopt)
- Open Educational Resources (split vote, while the future of OER is recognized, the initial investment needed, will take time)
- Desktop Computers (it is a trend going down; every market shows a decline in the purchase of desktop computers)
- iPADs: (trend going up)
- ePortfolios (trend going down)
- Learning Management Systems, on SCSU campus – D2L (split vote). LMS is useful for flipped classroom, hybrid and online education uses CMS, but gradual consolidation stifles competition
- Learning Analytics, Common Core (trend going up)
- Game-Based Learning (split vote), but the gaming industry is still not to the point to create engaging educational games
Regarding computer operating systems (OS):
- Windows (trend going down)
- Apple / Mac OS X (split vote)
- iOS (iPhone, iPAD etc) (trend going up)
- Android (trend going up)
The materials in these two articles are consistent with other reports as reflected in our IMS blog:
IMS offers an extensive numbers of instructional sessions on social media, D2L and other educational technologies:
Please email us with any other suggestions, ideas and requests regarding instructional technology and instructional design at:
ims@stcloudstate.edu
How to enroll students in groups you created in D2L?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Z1sVamRBk
Creating groups in d2L
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I18h6mzoOX8
Here are several YouTube videos, which can help you in that direction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y0ObLfJh3M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mErwGMlReM
Per MnSCU System Office:
A few schools have reported a spinning “Loading” status when trying to view some documents in Content and in the Dropbox. A temporary workaround is to click “Download” and view the document that way, rather than trying to view it from within Content or Dropbox.
If you are experiencing similar issues, please contact us.
Your main D2L page, upper right corner has hyperlinks to the MnSCU help documentation:
Click on the hyperlink and then click on Contents. Locate the link to the tool you would like to learn more about
Desire2Learn (D2L) is the MnSCU purchased commercial product of CMS.
Prior to D2L, MnSCU paid license to WebCT. WebCT merged with Blackboard, which at the moment is the largest CMS.
in the first decade of the 21st century, dozens of commercial CMS products appeared on the market, but they were gradually absorbed mostly by Blackboard (BB). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_Management_System
The advent of Web 2.0 tools, such as blogs and wikis offered viable alternative to the commercial CMS. Further, open source products such as Drupal and Sakai posed additional competition to commercial CRS.
Last but not least, with the advent of cloud computing, a new generation of products are competing with BB and D2L
Alternatives to D2L:
Moodle, Drupal, Sakai
Edmodo, Sophia (http://www.sophia.org/), Piazza, Prulu
http://www.quora.com/Who-are-competitors-or-other-services-similar-to-Edmodo
http://www.quora.com/E-learning/What-companies-are-Piazzas-direct-competition-in-the-edTech-space
http://wazmac.com/discussion/edmodo-v-schoology-v-moodle/
Mukurtu CMS (http://mukurtu.org) is a free and open source community archive platform and content management system built on Drupal 7
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