Create a Single News Feed for Multiple Course Offerings

Desire2Learn does not have a way to create a single News item and share that with all of an instructor's course offerings. Instructors therefore have to create an item in each course offering or create it once and then copy it into each course offering. A workaround is to use a custom widget with a Twitter feed. The widget would have to be added to each course offering but it would allow an instructor to post something once (in Twitter) and have that appear many places (inside the Twitter widget on each course offering's homepage). The challenge will be for us to fit important information into fewer than 140 characters. ;-)

Sharing Custom Widgets Among Courses

Perhaps you created a custom Twitter widget or a banner widget that you want to share with your other courses.

1. Click on the course you want to add the custom widget.
2. Click on Edit Course and chose Import/Export/Copy Components.
3. Make sure Copy Components is selected and press Next.
4. On Existing Offering scroll down and select the course you want to import from and press Next.
5. Select Widgets from the list. Choose Individual Items to Copy to select only the custom widget you want. Press Next.
6. Select the widget you want to copy over and press Next.
7. On the Confirm Components to Copy box review and press Next to accept.
8. Once the widget is completed it will show a green checkbox. Press Done to finish. You can then go to the Homepages, Content/Layout and add your custom widget.