1. Getting Started in Learn@ UW-Superior

2. About Learn@UW-Superior
is the online course management system used throughout the UW System.  Each semester, all UW-Superior undergraduate courses and most graduate courses receive an empty “course shell” for you to use as you wish.

3. Learn@UW-Superior Tools
Attendance
Chat
Checklist
Classlist
Competencies and Rubrics
Conferencing (BB-C Ultra & Online Rooms)
Content
Discussions
Dropbox
Grades
Groups
Quizzes
Survey

4. Learn@UWSuperior Help Resources
Technology Helpdesk
Swenson Hall 2100
(x8300 on campus)
Teaching & Learning Tools website
Lynda.com
Lynda.com is UW-Superior's online training resource that helps guide you through common issues in a multitude of Software Applications.
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5. How to Log Into Learn@UW-Superior
Go to the UW-Superior home page
There are two ways to access the system:
The Campus Login link
In the lower right corner, click on the Superior link.

6. How to Log Into Learn@UW-Superior
Click on the UW Campus Account button.
On the WI Federation login page, type your UW-Superior username and password.

7. My Home
Like students, the first thing you will see is the My Home page after you log into
This is where you will find News from the administrator and the courses you are enrolled in.

8. Course Navigation Materials Communication Assessment Conferencing
Checklist
Content
Glossary
Communication
Attendance
Chat
Classlist
Discussions
Groups
Locker
Assessment
Competencies
Dropbox
Grades
Quizzes
Rubrics
Surveys
Conferencing
BB-C Ultra
Online Rooms

9. Course Home News Updates Calendar Need Help? Course Gallery
Get Help with Technology
Educational Success Center
Jim Dan Hill Library
Writing Center
Course Gallery

10. Course News
Create course related announcements that will be the first thing your students see when they enter your course.
Examples of News:
Welcome to class
New discoveries in or information on your field of study
Class cancellations

11. Course Home News

12. Updates Widget
The Update widget lets you and your students know when there has been activity in the course.
Activities for instructors include:
Unread Discussion Messages
New Dropbox Submissions
Ungraded Quiz Attempts

13. Calendar Widget
Your students will be able to monitor all of their class assignments from one location when you check the “Display in Calendar” box on the Restrictions tab when creating things like Quizzes and Discussions topics.
Some tools will automatically put the due or end date in the calendar for you

14. Display in Calendar

15. Calendar Tool

16. Need Help? Widget
If you or your students need technology or academic support, you’ll find links to:
The Technology Services Get Help website
The Educational Success Center website
The Jim Dan Hill Library website
The Writing Center website

17. Materials: Checklist, Content, and Glossary

18. Checklist Located in the Materials dropdown menu.
Allows your students to keep track of important assignments, readings, or other items they need to complete.
You can see each student’s Checklist status through the View Progress feature in the Classlist.
Category – Organizes similar groups of items, like a folder on your computer organizes your documents. You can create multiple categories per checklist.
Item – The project/assignment you want your students to complete. You need at least one item in order for your checklist to be visible to your students. You can create multiple items per category.

19. Checklist Structure
Preview Mode

20. Checklist Student View

21. Content Located in the Materials dropdown menu.
Display syllabi, course assignments, and instructional materials in text, image, video, and PDF formats.
Module – organizes similar groups of topics, like a folder on your computer organizes your documents. You need at least one module to be able to have topics.
Topic – the link to the document, system tool, or website that has the information you want your students to read or complete. You can create multiple topics per module.

22. Content Structure

23. Content Student View

24. Binder App for Students
Desire2Learn created an iPad App for Students to download Content items to their device for viewing offline.
This app is free for students in the Apple App Store.

25. Glossary Located in the Materials dropdown menu.
Can be used to create a list of class terms and definitions for your students to learn.
Term – word or phrase and definition listed alphabetically. You can create multiple terms per Glossary.

26. Glossary Structure

27. Communication: Attendance, Chat, Classlist, Discussions, and Groups

28. Attendance Located in the Communications dropdown menu.
Allows you to create registers that track attendance for activities within your course.
Register – Organizes your sessions, like a folder on your computer organizes your documents. You need to create a new register in order to use this tool.
Sessions – events you want to use to keep track of your students’ participation in. You can create a session for every day or week your class meets. You can create multiple sessions per register.

29. Attendance Register Structure

30. Attendance Student View

31. Chat Located in the Communication dropdown menu.
Customizable for one-on-one “office visits” or group chats, similar to instant messengers where all participants are online at the same time.
Two types of Chats:
General – all students can participate and view the history of each session.
Private – only those invited can participate or view the history of each session.

32. Chat Structure

33. Classlist Located in the Communication dropdown menu.
Shows all registered students and allows for quick group or individual s to the students in a single course.
You are able to:
See who is in the course
everyone or selected individuals
View students’ progress
Display and print students by Groups
Use Enrollment Statistics to see course withdrawals

34. Classlist Structure

35. Discussions Located in the Communication dropdown menu.
Facilitates student-to-student and faculty-to- student communication throughout the semester.
Forum – organizes similar groups of topics, like a folder on your computer organizes your documents. You need at least one forum with one topic for your students to post messages in.
Topic – where you and your students communicate with each other. You can create multiple topics in a single forum.

36. Discussions Structure

37. Discussions Student View

38. Groups Located in the Communication dropdown menu.
Create small group areas in the Discussion and Dropbox tools, as well as create group lockers for your students to store their group project work in.
Category – Organizes your groups. You need to have at least one category in order to create small groups within your course. You can have multiple categories in the Groups area for different projects/assignments.
Group – A smaller portion of your class that can have Discussions and Dropbox work areas to complete projects in. You can create multiple groups per category. You can manually enroll students in the groups, have the system automatically do it for you, or allow students to add themselves. You can also create single member groups that could be used for journaling assignments.

39. Groups Structure

40. Groups Single Member Group Discussion

41. Student View - Self-Enrollment Group

42. Assessment: Competencies, Dropbox, Grades, Quizzes, Rubrics, and Surveys

43. Competencies Located in the Assessment dropdown menu.
Can be used with Rubrics
Competencies organize the learning objectives and activities, like a folder on your computer organizes your documents.
Learning objectives - goals you want your student to achieve by the end of the semester.
Activities - the individual assignments that your students do in the course that you can use to assess them with.

44. Competency Used in an Activity

45. Dropbox Located in the Assessment dropdown menu.
Allows students to turn in assignment files electronically for your review and feedback.
Can include the originality checking and grademark (TurnItIn) features when setting up folders.
Category - organizes your Dropbox folders, like a folder on your computer organizes your documents. You can create multiple categories per Dropbox.
Folder – where your students submit their files for you to review. You can create multiple topics per category. There are two types of folders – individual and group.

46. Dropbox Structure

47. Dropbox Turnitin Features

48. GradeMark Report

49. Dropbox Submission Log

50. Dropbox Student View

51. D2L Assignment Grader App
Desire2Learn created an iPad App for Instructors to assess Dropbox submissions on their device.
Free for Instructors in the Apple App Store.

52. Grades Located in the Assessment dropdown menu.
Two types of grading systems – Points and Weighted.
The system will calculate and show students their individual grades as the semester progresses.
Category – Organizes similar groups of items, like a folder on your computer organizes your documents. You can create multiple categories in the Grades area.
Item – The project/assignment you want your students to be scored or assessed by. You can create multiple items per category.

53. Manage Grades Points System

54. Manage Grades Weighted System

55. Enter Grades

56. Grades Student View

57. Quizzes Located in the Assessment dropdown menu.
Can assess students’ knowledge using a variety of question types.
Category – Organizes similar groups of Quizzes, like a folder on your computer organizes your documents. You can create multiple categories in the Quizzes area.
Quiz - Assess your students’ knowledge about a specific subject in your course. You can create multiple quizzes per category.
Question Library – place where you can store all of the questions you would like to use in your quizzes. If you want to make a random quiz where the questions would not be in the same order for each student, you would need to import your questions from the Question Library.

58. Quizzes Structure

59. Quizzes Student View

60. Rubrics Located in the Assessment dropdown menu.
Used to generate an assessment of the students’ knowledge.
Rubrics can be used separately or with Competencies.
Levels (the horizontal headings) – the achievements or points your students are work towards.
Criteria (the vertical headings) – the evaluation their work is scored against.

61. Discussions Assess Topic
Rubric Structure
Dropbox
Discussions Assess Topic

62. Survey Located in the Assessment dropdown menu.
Obtain, calculate, and display information from your students without having to score their responses.
Setting up a survey is similar to setting up a quiz, it may have different question types.

63. Survey Sample Question & Report

64. Other Tools: Import/Export/Copy Components, Conferencing, and Kaltura

65. Import Located in the Edit Course area.
You can import an exported course package, a DL Important Information package, or a text book company’s test bank package in to Superior.

66. Import

67. Export Located in the Edit Course area.
You export a copy of a course structure from
This procedure is often used by instructors who have taught a course that is being removed from the system as part of the D2L Cleanup, which is done 3 years after the course was taught.
The zipped package can be stored on your computer, “G” drive, or flash drive until you need to use the course again.

68. Export

69. Copy Components Located in the Edit Course area.
When you have developed one course in and wish to copy part or all of the course into another course.
This procedure is often used by instructors teaching two sections of the same course in the same semester and by instructors teaching the same course in a subsequent semester.

70. Copy Components

71. Cleaning a Course Shell
If you accidently copy the wrong course or copy the materials into a course twice, there is no easy way of doing this, you have to clean out each tool manually.
Removing Grade associations and Rubrics need to be done before you begin deleting information.

72. Conferencing There are two options for web conferencing
Online Rooms - which uses the program version of BB- Collaborate conferencing tool.
BB-C Ultra – which uses the web version of the BB- Collaborate conferencing tool.

73. Online Rooms
The Online Rooms tool uses the web conferencing program, BB-Collaborate, to give instructors the ability to present course materials to their students in live, interactive online sessions.
These sessions can have audio, text chat, video, slide presentations, and polling as well as web touring and application sharing.
The BB-Collaborate Launcher program must be downloaded to the computer before the session can be joined.

74. Online Rooms Structure

75. Inside a BB-Collaborate Session

76. BB-C Ultra
The BB-C Ultra tool uses the same web conferencing program, BB-Collaborate, to give instructors the ability to present course materials to their students in live, interactive online sessions. The difference is that BB-C Ultra is completely online, no extra programs are needed.
These sessions can have audio, text chat, video, slide presentations, and polling as well as web touring and application sharing.
The recommended browser for BB-C Ultra is Chrome, especially if you are presenting materials.

77. Creating a BB-C Ultra Session

78. Inside a BB-C Ultra Session

79. Kaltura Multimedia
Located in the My Home and Course Home Navigation Bars.
You can Upload Multimedia (non-copyrighted) and create Webcam Recordings to be published to your courses.
The CaptureSpace Lite Desktop Recorder allows you to create recordings with and without internet access.
Use Moderation and Approve Student Videos to appear in the Course Gallery

80. Inside Kaltura My Media

81. Using the CaptureSpace Lite Desktop Recorder