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Preferences

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My Preferences

My preferences are a group of tools that allow you to change your font, password, preferences etc. Customizing your personal settings is a great way to ensure that you are comfortable in your new learning environment.

That these tools are available outside your courses. This means that changes here will be reflected in all of your courses.

In order to set up your preferences:

1. From My Home, in the Welcome Box, click My Preference link. Refer to Figure 1.
2. Then my preferences screen appears. Here you will be shown a series of tabs as shown on Figure 1, click on the tabs to access different settings.

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General Settings

You can customize the general settings such as online status, font style and size, by setting my preferences under general tab.

1. From My Home, on the Welcome Box, click My Preference link. Refer to Figure 1.
2. The General Settings is accessible under the General tab, which is shown by default
3. Under the Font Setting heading, use the drop-down menu to change the font face and font size. The Preview box will show you how the selected font will look.
4. Click Save button.

Figure 2

The font affects only Desire2Learn fonts and does not affect the font face or size of the content set by the user.

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Discussion room setting

You can customize the discussion room set up in the way you wanted to be by choosing the various options under my preference for the Discussion.

1. From My Home, on the Welcome Box, click My Preference link. Refer to Figure 1.
2. Discussion settings are accessible under the Discussion Tab as shown in Figure 3.
3. Choose the various discussion topics frame settings according to your preferences as listed below.
   1. Discussion Topic Frame: Shows or Hides Discussion Topic frame on the left hand column.
   2. Search bar: Shows or hides the search bar above the discussion subject list.
   3. Search bar type: Normal will display the search bar where you have simple search options. Advanced will display the search bar where you can search within the discussion forum by keyword, date posted, subject, name of individual.
   4. Topic List type: Choose Single forum to lists the topics of the single discussion forums and all other available discussion forum.
4. Use the drop-down menus to choose your default view type.
   Threaded will show only the original messages and its subsequent reply.
   Not threaded will show both the original messages and the reply to the messages. You may choose the type of messages to display that are arranged either according to date, subject or name of person who posted.
5. Click Save button.

Figure 3

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Pager

Pager is a tool that can be used to inform you who is online and enables you to contact them. The pager allows students to pose questions to you on a one-to-one basis, removing some of the anxiety normally found in a traditional classroom setting.

1. From My Home, on the Welcome Box, click My Preference link. Refer to Figure 1.
2. The pager settings are located under the Pager tab as shown in Figure 4.
3. Turn on/off your pager sounds by selecting the option beside Pager Notifier.
4. Choose the desired pager sound from the provided list if you choose to turn on the pager notifier.
5. Click the Save button.

Figure 4

When the user receives the pager the image at the upper right hand corner flashes in green color and beeps if the pager notifier is turned on.

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Desire2Learn Support Contact Information

Phone: (507) 389-3295      |       Email: desire2learn@mnsu.edu