My Preferences
To access your Preferences in D2L you will need to go your My Home and then choose Preferences under the Welcome Box.
The Preferences tool allows you to change your online status, font settings, paging preferences, discussion room layout, email preference, and more. Customizing your personal settings is a great way to ensure you are comfortable in the D2L Learning Environment.
Upon selecting the Preferences Tool you will be taken to the Preferences Home Page.
1. General
- Navigation bar auto-refresh – Most users will leave this set to On. Users relying on screen readers should set this to Off.
- Font Settings – Change your font settings to increase the size or change the font style of the D2L instructions and menus. This will not change the way in which content is viewed. Be cautious when increasing to the size 18 font as this may cause your navigation bar items to disappear.
- Internet Connection Speed – Select the setting that best represents your connection.
- Course CD-ROM – The individual user can specify the CD drive being used if there are links to offline materials contained on a CD.
- Operating System – I’m sorry Mac Users. This currently provides no functionality. D2L says it may in the future though. Desire2Learn is compatible with Apple computers but D2L recommends using the Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. Paging
Control the number of users seen in the Classlist.
3. Discussions
Users can change their default view for the discussions tool. These changes can also be made within the discussion tool itself. You may want to revisit these defaults a little later when you are more familiar with the discussion tool.
4. Pager
Change the sound the pager makes when you receive a new page or turn it off altogether. Warning: Do not turn this off if your instructor intends to use the pager. You will not be notified when you have a new message. Do not assume either that your instructor does or does not use the pager. Ask if you are unsure.