About Learning Environment

Learning Environment is an innovative learning management system for creating, hosting and editing online learning resources. Learning Environment contains a flexible suite of tools for creating custom content for institutions, courses and users. See Getting Started in Learning Environment for basic orientation and tasks.

D2L Course Tools

This is a list of the tools and functions that are available for you to use in your Desire2Learn course. Some of these tools, such as the ones in the "Other Course Tools" list, may not be in your course's navigation bar by default. To add or remove links from your course's navigation bar, please see the Navbar help topic.

Common Course Tools

• Content
• Discussions
• Dropbox
• Email
• Grades
• News
• Quizzes
• Question Library

Other Course Tools

• Attendance
• Chat
• Checklist
• Classlist
• FAQ
• Glossary
• Groups
• Links
• Surveys

Student Evaluation Tools

• Rubrics

Course Management Tools

• Course Administration
• Homepages and Widgets
• HTML Editor
• Manage Dates
• Manage Files
• Navigation
• Registration
• Release Conditions
• Special Access
• Themes

Non-Course Specific Tools

• Calendar
• Locker