To access your Pager in D2L you can click the Pager icon from the top navigation bar of your D2L Course Home.
The Pager Tool allows any D2L user to get in touch with any other D2L user in a format more immediate than email. The Pager is an excellent tool to get a quick answer from an online classmate or your instructor or to ask another user to check his or her email. The Pager will also display your online status so classmates can know when your online.
Pager Homepage
Upon clicking the Pager Icon a new window will open with the Pager
Homepage.
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The top panel will allow you to refresh
your Pager tool to check for updated pages and also update the
online status of your contacts. This area also contains a
description of the indicator icons you will find beside your
contacts names.
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The second panel will show all users who are
currently online in D2L.
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These icons will allow you to check your
history and access new pages.
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A P icon indicates that you have a new page from this contact. Simply click the P and it will open a window with the new page. |
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The H icon will allow you to access a history of pages you have had with this contact. |
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The third panel contains all the users that
are currently not online.
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The fourth panel contains all the tools for
use in the pager.
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The add button will allow you to add classmates to your contact list. |
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The remove button will allow you to
remove classmates from your contact list.
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The help button will bring up a help tutorial covering all aspects of the Pager tool. |
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The New Page button will open a New Page where you can specify the user you are wanting to page. |
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The Close button is how you will exit the Pager Tool. |
Sending and Receiving Pages
There are two different ways to send a page using the Pager
tool. Open the Pager tool to the Pager Homepage.
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Click on the name of a personal contact to open
a page to that contact.
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The
button will open a blank page where you can specify the contact.
Upon selecting either a contact or a new page you will be taken to
the Send Page Tool.
1.
The To: dialog box is where you will
enter the name of the contact you are wanting to page. If you
selected the contact from your Contacts list this will already be
filled in for you.
2. This area is where you type the
message you are wanting to send in your page.
3. When you are done you can
select the Send button to send your page to your contact.
When receiving a page your Pager will light up and play your
incoming page sound you have selected in your Preferences.
Adding Contacts to your Pager
To add classmates to your personal contacts, click add
from the main pager menu to open the Add Contacts Screen.
1.
If you know your contacts name you can enter
that here to add them to your personal contacts list.
2. Here you will have a drop down
list of all your courses. Choose the course you want and a
list of all your classmates will be displayed below. Put a
check next to all the ones you want to add to your personal
contacts list.
3. When finished select Add to add
the users to your personal contact list.