IDDS Workshop Schedule

IDDS offers a wide variety of workshops. If the time of the workshop does not fit your schedule, please contact us for a one-to-one appointment!

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REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Register via email at idds@ship.edu. Please include the name and date of the workshop in your email. 

January Workshop Sessions 

All workshops will take place in the IDDS lab, LL012. 

What's New in D2L

1/23 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
1/25 - 9:00am to 10:00am
1/29 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
1/31 - 8:00am to 9:00am

February Workshop Sessions

Bb Collaborate

2/04 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
2/07 - 9:30am to 10:30am
2/15 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
2/20 - 9:00am to 10:00am
2/21 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
2/27 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm

What's New in D2L
2/11 - 10:00am to 11:00am
2/13 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

We're available for one-to-one consultation!
If there is a class that you would like to take, please call and we can schedule a one-to-one session with you. 

IDDS Events

IDDS provides a 4 Week Online Desire2Learn course for those teaching through the Office of Extended Studies during the Summer. Check back for course times and dates.

Brown Bag Lunch 

Join us for our first Brown Bag Lunch. Our topic is Wikis in the Classroom. Bring you own brown bag lunch--we'll supply the drinks and dessert! Date: TBA

Interim Director of IDDS & Ship Desire2Learn Campus Administrator

Donna Panzo, Doctoral Student, Pepperdine University
Office: Lehman Library room 014
Phone: 717.477.1123 x3439
Email: dmpanz@ship.edu 

What's New In Desire2Learn 9.4

Changes to existing features

Dropbox (Learn More)

The Leave Feedback interface is completely redesigned for 9.4 to show both submissions and space to grade the submissions in one page. Instructors can also now view specific document types in your browser without downloading them. Documents are available as text only or as a document image (meaning instructors can't select text). 

The following file formats are compatible with Dropbox's document viewer:

• MS Word (.doc, .docx) - View ONLY in D2L, Annotate in MS Word
• MS PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx, .pps)  - Annotate in PowerPoint
• Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) - View in D2L, Annotate in Adobe Acrobat
• Web (.htm, .html)  - View and annotate in D2L
• Plain text (.txt)  - View and annotate within D2L
• Images (.bmp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png)

Instructors can also annotate users' web and plain text file submissions with the HTML Editor and attach those annotations as part of feedback.

Calendar (Learn More)

The new Calendar is completely redesigned to focus on presentation of course material. 

• Instructors can:  
• create events from Content and schedule your course independent of availability events.
• subscribe to all your course calendars or individual course calendars through iCal. This enables instructos to easily view your Desire2Learn course events in external calendars such as Outlook and Google Calendar, and on mobile devices such as iPhones, Android, and Blackberry.
• create and track personal tasks in Calendar. Personal tasks replace personal events from previous versions.

News (Learn More)

• Instructors 
• Publishing Status: Instructors can save drafts of news items for later, or set items for future publication. See Creating a News item.
• Major Edits to News Items: In conjunction with dismissing news items, instructors can mark edits to News items as major edits, which restores the edited items to users' News widget and triggers a notification, if they've subscribed to notifications.
• Students 
• Students can now dismiss news items from appearing in the News widget once they've read them. 

Notifications (Learn More)

Faculty and Students can now have more information delivered to them through RSS, email or text messaging. (Before you can receive text notifications, you must confirm your mobile device. Carrier charges might apply to text messages you receive. Check your phone/data plan.) 

• Faculty and Students can subscribe to receive email or SMS notifications on dropbox folders with approaching end dates.

Notification preferences are accessible from the My Settings widget. .

New Features

Seating Chart

The new Seating Chart tool enables instructors to create and manage virtual rooms.

• Use the custom filters to track attendance and mark participants as present, excused absent, or unexcused absent.
• Use the same interface to track participation in class.