This site contains resources and links supporting faculty using D2L AND faculty just beginning to use an LMS.
This site and the links to the left are updated regularly, so please return to see new tutorials and documentation.
Please select one of the links on the left to discover more about Desire2Learn.
The Digital Learning Center team includes:
- Melissa Green, Instructional Development Coordinator
- Jory Hadsell, Distance Learning Coordinator
- David Martin, Educational Media Design Specialist
The Los Rios Blackboard Server has been taken offline permanently.
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| Latest Updates | | 11/2/2009 |
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 Mac Snow Leapord - D2L Issues We've had a report that Apple's new operating system, Snow Leopard, is crashing the Respondus Lockdown Browser for D2L quizzes.
If you are using D2L Quizzes, requiring the Respondus Lockdown Browser, and know students are using the Macintosh OS, suggest they plan on taking quizzes from another computer (on campus) or delay their upgrade until the semester is over. - Melissa (noreply@blogger.com)
Spring 2010 Course Requests The Faculty Request Interface, FRI, has been updated with a link to your Spring 2010 courses. This means you can NOW make your course requests for the spring semester and the new course shells will be created overnight. Go to http://losrios.edu/ess (Employee Self Service).
The official course request is completed when you click the Submit Request button and see the confirmation that the course/s will be created overnight. Student enrollment will not happen until 5 days before the start of classes, or about January 12, 2010.
If you want to see or email enrolled or waitlisted students for spring, use the Online Grading System - http://inside.losrios.edu/. - Melissa (noreply@blogger.com)
Students in Safari 4 can't see linked content set to open in a new window Students attempting to view links that are set to open in a new page may experience problems viewing the linked content if they are using the Safari 4 browser with the default security settings. Below is an explanation of the problem and proposed solutions:
When clicking on a content link that is set to open the page in a new window (not inside the D2L frame) the default installation of Safari is set to block pop-up windows. This prevents the links from opening in a new window. The result is that the D2L screen appears to "blink" (as the page refreshes) but there is nothing in the D2L content frame and there is no new window displaying the linked web page.
At this point, we know of two solutions to this problem:
1) Access the Safari preferences, and on the Security tab, un-check the option to "block pop-up windows."
2) If the student does not want to un-check the option to block pop-up windows, they can force D2L to display the external link in a new window by clicking the "un-dock this page" icon located near the top of the empty (blank) D2L content frame after they initially clicked on the content link.
Internet Explorer 7 and the latest versions of Firefox do not appear to have this problem with the default security settings. - Jory (noreply@blogger.com)
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