Highlights

Registration for summer online classes begins on March 19, for graduate courses and March 26 for undergraduate courses in the MyShip portal at https://portal.ship.edu 

 

 

Contact Information

Horton Hall 108
1871 Old Main Drive
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg, PA, 17257
(717) 477-1502
(717) 477-4050 fax
extended@ship.edu 

Inquiry Form 

 

An Introduction to D2L

Starting Summer 2010 Ship will be changing Learning Management System from Blackboard to Desire2Learn (D2L).

The following orientation materials are available for students wishing to familarize themselves with D2L before the change.

"Getting Started with Desire2Learn".  PDF 

Click on this link to download the Adobe PDF Reader if you do not already have it on your computer.

This document explains in general terms the following areas:

  • Log in
  • Log out
  • My Home
  • My Courses
  • General page layout
  • Viewing your progress
  • Change your password
  • Change your email address
  • Change your profile
  • Change your preferences

Tool 

D2L Quickstart Guide
PDF format
Blog  PDF 
Chat  PDF 
Checklist  PDF  
Classlist   PDF  
Content  PDF  
Discussions  PDF  
Dropbox  PDF 
Email   PDF 
Grades   PDF 
Journal   PDF 
Locker   PDF 
Pager   PDF 
Personal Homepage    PDF 
Quizzes   PDF 
Schedule  PDF 

After completing all the steps in the Getting Started PDF, please review the following Quick Start Guides to familiarize yourself with how Desire 2 Learn works. (Note: Not all tools will be available in your class, depending on what functions your instructor has decided to use.