Thursday, June 28, 2012

Success at rotating glossary in a D2L Widget!

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College uses Desire2Learn as their learning content management (LMS) system and I want to set up rotating glossary terms in a widget.  Most textbook sites have glossary terms set up and I found that I could copy them to the D2L glossary tool.  I did this by copying to excel, added the proper headings to work in D2L and then imported them into D2L.  It was not hard. Next, I downloaded NVU (a web editor) and followed the information and steps in the Rotating Content tool to convert my 20 glossary terms to JavaScript. Here is a picture of how I created this in NVU.

I then published it to a Javascript and uploaded the .js file to D2L and created a widget, added a little javascript code, and I now have a widget with rotating terms with definitions.  It looks like this:
 Want the step-by-step instructions?  jmitchell@smwc.edu