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Desire2Learn

Published on Nov 28, 2015

My notes on the Desire2Learn presentation to CAU on April 18, 2013

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

DESIRE2LEARN

HECTOR ALVERO

PORTAL

Minibar is nice--follows you and leaves a trail of breadcrumbs so you can find your way back . . .

I love how this is profile dependent, and how it works as a portal. Very nice design.
Photo by Will Montague

CONTENT

I thought this was good, but I couldn't help comparing to Canvas as I heard what they had to say--and being a bit disappointed with D2L. 100mb, really? That's less than most small flash-drives. It sounded very inadequate . . .I wonder how much they make "upgrading" this file space for colleges for an extra charge . . .
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CALENDAR

Nice how you can get to content from the Calendar--but they don't have the drag and drop capability of Canvas, and I found it disappointing that the notifications don't go out in real time--they have to be "scheduled" on two-day notification schedule. This seemed bulky and awkward.
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CLASS STUFF

I was impressed with this part of their presentation. I liked the control of the content, the modules, how you can modify layout--and I really like the widgets. Very cool. WOW

QUIZZES

Just like Canvas, a very nice quiz tool--I like how you can connect to standards--but became disappointed that you couldn't connect to institutional or departmental standards--only in-class standards--without an extra fee for the analytic package. GRRRRR.
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RETENTION

EXTRA MONEY
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PORTFOLIO

EXTRA MONEY

ANALYTICS

Very cool, and EXTRA MONEY
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MIGRATION

They have this down--but not as well as Canvas . . .
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TRANSFER

How easy is it to transfer to D2L?

They provide train the trainer training, they transfer all the WebCT class content files.
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UPGRADES

After hearing the nice presentation at Canvas about how they allow the user to adopt changes as they come, and how they don't use versions--they just add updates--this "major update per year" thing made me a bit nervous . . . then, in the next breath, they were discussing how they could help train us after updates . . . eeeeek.
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BANNER INTEGRATION

I think they need to do some more homework. After canvas told us they could transfer gradebooks attendance to Banner, D2L told us that was impossible--that you can only record final grades and they would have to build something to report attendance without the grade report.

This really lost me.