On this page, you will find tutorials for how to set up various administrative pieces relating to D2L as a whole and your individual course sites. This includes email forwarding, profile pictures, copying components, homepage functions, etc. If you are interested in merging two or more D2L course sites into one (for example, if you are teaching multiple sections of the same course but only want to manage one D2L site for them), see the Merging Course Sections in D2L considerations document.
D2L Administration
These settings are system wide and will affect all courses.
- Using the Select a course… Drop-down Menu and the My Courses Widget (PDF)
- Setting your D2L Email to Forward to an External Email (PDF)
- Adding a Profile Picture
- Changing Time Zones in D2L (PDF)
- Viewing a D2L Course as a Student (PDF)
Copying and Importing
- Copying Course Components from One Course to Another (NOTE: This will NOT copy Zoom sessions – you will need to set those up separately in the relevant courses) (PDF)
- Deleting Everything in a Course (PDF)
- Backing up (Saving) a Complete D2l Course Site (PDF)
- Importing a D2L Course from a Zip File (PDF)
Creating and Customizing
Navbar
- Customizing Your Navigation Bar (PDF)
- Add Simple Syllabus (or other tool) to your Navbar (PDF)
- Customizing your My Tools Menu (PDF)
- Customizing Tool Titles for your Navbar (PDF)
Homepage (banners & Widgets)
- Customizing Your Homepages (PDF)
- Adding a Banner Image to your Course Homepage (PDF)
- Changing the Banner Image on your Course Homepage (PDF)
- Adding Widgets to Your Homepage
- Creating a Contact Information or Other Custom Widget for your Homepage (PDF)
- Changing Images in the My Courses Widget (PDF)
Dates and Release Conditions
- Offsetting Dates in a D2L Course
- Conditional Release – Setting up Release Conditions (PDF)
- What Release Conditions Are Available in D2L? (PDF)
- Multi-Instructor Nursing Courses: Groups and Conditional Release (PDF)