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>Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:30:11 -0600
>From: Lauren Rosen <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #9329 Desire 2 Learn
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UW System currently has adopted D2L as our course management system.  
The unicode compliance issues we had, have improved. Our Chinese,  
Japanese, Arabic and Russian instructors are able to post  
announcements in the target language. That said, it is a course  
management system and we use it for managing courses and their content  
but not for the interactivity that we get out of other tools. It is a  
place holder for grades and links to other tools that we use such as  
wimba, wikis, etc. We have yet to find a good way to integrate these  
systems as D2L doesn't play particularly nicely with most outside  
vendors. So, in our case, students login to D2L, link from there out  
to other tools that require them to login again, etc. As long as we  
prewarn the students of this, they don't seem to bothered by multiple  
logins. D2L does allow for instructors to do their grading and can be  
upload to our central grading system that later generates reports such  
as transcripts and so forth. So that was integrated. Frankly for  
actual courses interaction, we don't really use it. Just for  
"management" of content as a one stop shop for students to get the  
full picture of the course and download documents.

Hopefully others out there are actually using it for course  
interaction and can speak to that element a bit more.


Lauren Rosen
Collaborative Language Program
University of Wisconsin
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Madison, WI  53706

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On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:34 AM, LLTI-Editor wrote:

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>> From: "Cobb-Zygadlo, Deanne" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: Language Learning and Technology International Information     
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>> Subject: Desire 2 Learn
>> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:29:00 -0500
>
> Hi,
> I heard a "rumour" around our institution yesterday that our current
> Blackboard system is to be replaced with  Desire 2 Learn this summer.
> The decision is rumoured to be going forward without the planned
> consultations due to our current BB license coming due; however, I
> have not yet had this substantiated.
>
> When I searched the LLTI listserv to learn whether anyone was using
> this system with foreign languages, I noticed just one discussion from
> 2004 warning that at that time it was not Unicode compliant.  I am
> wondering if anyone has any recent experience with this system to say
> whether or not this has been rectified or if there is any other
> feedback, concerns or jubilations on this product.
>
> All the best,
> Deanne
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> Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
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