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Last Minute D2L Survival Guide

As soon as you can

• Update your Profile First Log in, Profile, Settings
  
• Import Material, (Gray Bar, Edit Course), coming soon
  
• Create News item letting your class know more information is coming
  
• Begin creating your Content... syllabus first, then info on items that need to be done the first week. Just stay a week ahead of the class for now.
• Design your gradebook on paper, then create the placeholders in the gradebook for the items you will be grading
• Set up a 'Just for chatting' and 'Questions?' discussion
  • Decide if you will have weekly discussions, and make any required for week 1
• Create the dropboxes for items students will submit electronically, and associate with the proper gradebook item
  
  Take a deep breath, and start working ahead
  
  
• Each week add
  • new News items, as needed
  • new Content items, as needed
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• Import quizzes provide by publisher, or from colleagues, or start building your own. Associate with gradebook items.
  
  
  For the next semester
  
  
• Import your previous class
• Adjust dates
• Check settings
  
  Perhaps add
• Attendance
• Checklists
• Surveys
• Milestone Grades
  
  When you are getting comfortable, perhaps add
• Objectives
• Rubrics

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