"No College" list on My Home Page

Faculty are reporting some of their classes are listed under No College - Fall 2009 instead of Sacramento City College - Fall 2009.

We were told this is a glitch in the nightly enrollment update process that causes a class to be temporarily listed under No College. This will not affect your students ability to access your ACTIVE course, even while it is listed under No College. The problem should resolve itself within 24-48 hours.

NavBars - How to add links to Classlist or Dropbox

This post is a tip on how to add links or how to remove links to resources you are not using in your D2L courses. The SCC template was adjusted to provide links to major areas. Many faculty are building course content with links to specific discussion boards, quizzes or dropbox folders. However, in developing a course, faculty need access to these links to create forums, folders and quizzes.

Goto Edit Course > NavBars > SCC brand NavShell link opens the Edit Navigation Bar page. The tabs and graphic reflect the 4 areas of the top of the screen. Your course NavBar is the BOTTOM LEFT and BOTTOM RIGHT.

Click the Bottom Left tab label to see the list of Inactive Links and the list of Current Active Links. Inbetween these boxes are two move buttons, move from inactive to active or move from active to inactive. The list of active links can be modified with the UP and DOWN buttons.

There is a Preview button to confirm your changes. Use the SAVE button once you are happy with the order of links.

If you are NOT using D2L tools, remove the links from your course NavBars to minimize student confusion.

Flex Workshops - Fall 2009

Distance Education and Instructional Development will be presenting the following workshops:
Wednesday, August 19th

• Desire2Learn Early Adopters Drop-In
  10:30 am to 12 noon - LR 141
• Adobe Acrobat
  1:00 pm to 2:30 pm - LR 141
• Get Ready, Get Set, Get D2L! Newbies Welcome!
  3:00 pm - 4:30 pm - LR 105

Thursday, August 20th

• Desire2Learn Roundtable — Learn from the Pros!
  10:30 am - 12 noon - RS 269

D2L System Offline

Planned system maintenance is scheduled for Wednesday, August 12th, from 7:30 am to 11 am. Minor updates with details to follow.

Textbook Rep Is Your Friend

Recently we've been troubleshooting a textbook testbank problem for one of our instructors. Lo and behold, calling textbook Faculty Tech Support line was incredibly helpful. When all else fails or the struggle drones on and on ...

Suggestion #1) Call your textbook rep and ask for the tests to be converted to D2L format. They will process and give you the .ZIP files for uploading into D2L.

Suggestion #2) Go online to the pubisher site with the ISBN number for your textbook and download the Bb course file with the tests included. This file would be like the Bb Archive files imported into D2L, and you can choose to just use the test items.

Suggestion #3) Use the online site to create tests and download as Bb v6 or WebCT. These >ZIP files might import into D2L or import into Respondus. (Except that our publisher's export is currently broken and the package is not including all the required files so importing to D2L or Respondus will fail. This tidbit is only available if you call the tech support team, no notice was posted on the website.)

Keep the textbook Tech Support number handy – and call them ASAP when you have problems with their content and materials or web site. They have resources, staff and time to do the conversions for you.