Custom Home Pages in D2L

I recently gave a short presentation about using custom home pages for courses taught using Desire2Learn.

  • Do you know what web pages are "framebusters" if you try to embed them into the D2L course home page? Check out slide 5.
  • Do you know where you can easily make custom widgets for your course home page? Check out slide 9.
  • Please share in the comments if you do something different and useful on your course home page.

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