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About the Course Home
Course Home is the entry page for your specific course. It is the first page that your students see when they enter the course. This page contains the News tool and provides you and your students with access to D2L's Schedule tool. You may also change a variety of preferences or use the Role Switch tool.
Accessing the Course Home
To enter a course from your My Home screen, go to the My Courses area in the middle of the page and click the title of your course. You will then be directed to your course home page.
Your course home page displays all of the tools for your course. You will notice that the navigation bar now contains many different tools that were not visible on the My Home page.
- All your course related tools ( Content, Discussions, Chat, Dropbox, etc.)
- All your personal tools (Email, Calendar/Schedule, Locker, etc.)
- Preferences - My Settings
- Upcoming Calendar events
- News
- Logout
- Bookmarks
- Content Management Console (Edit Course)
You can access the following from the course homepage, depending on what D2L tools you are using:
Student Views of the Course Home and Tools
If you would like to view what your course or tools look like in the eyes of a student, you can do so by using the Role Switch tool at the bottom of the Course Home. By changing your role to Student you can navigate your class and see the course as a student would. Please note that under the student role you will be unable to view the gradebook, take quizzes, or view any items with conditional releases. Once you are finished using the student role, you can switch back to your instructor role by going back to the role switch tool in the Course Home and selecting -- My Role (Instructor) --.
