Training Tips & Tricks

If you find interesting tips & tricks regarding D2L, use this page to let others know about them.  Create a subheading alphabetically, then add your tips & tricks.

Enumeration:

When creating Content Modules you can hide the enumeration of individual modules.  This can be done in two places that I've found so far. 

1. When creating a Content Module, immediately below the name and title of the Module, is a check box "Hide Enumeration", that can be checked.  This will create the module, yet turn off the automatic enumeration which has been set in the Content Display Settings / Enumeration screen.
2. Once a Content Module has been created, you can click on the edit content module button to far right of the Module listing.  Under the Release Conditions tab, there is a Hide check box which will turn off the automatic enumeration which has been set in the Content Display Settings / Enumeration screen. 
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 News:

 To delete news items:

1. Click on the Edit button in the upper right hand corner of news item.
   
2.  In the Edit Item window, click on the News button in the upper left hand corner of the window.
3.  Check the check box on the appropriate item you want to delete, and click on the trash can icon to the far right.
   

 Discussions:

This might have been obvious to others but it took a little time to figure it out. In WebCT, there is the "Reply Privately" button under each discussion posting that generates an email to the author. This is a popular feature with faculty. There didn't seem to be that option in D2L. But, there is..it is just not obvious.  Instead of clicking a button called Reply Privately..just click on the author's name (which is a hyperlink) and a compose email mesage is generated to that author.  Faculty are happy again!!