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myDesire2LearnTM Getting Started for Administrators

Agenda

• What is myDesire2Learn?
• Who should use myDesire2Learn?
• Open Beta General Availability Timelines
• Popular Q&A
• From the School’s Perspective…
• From the Student’s Perspective…
• Additional Resources

What is myDesire2Learn?

• Desire2Learn hosted ePortfolio service for students who

are graduating from their school and would like to retain and continue to use their ePortfolio after graduation.

• Students can export their ePortfolio to myDesire2Learn

and continue to collect artifacts, create presentations and share their evidence of achievement with others.

• This is a free service offered by Desire2Learn.
• Individuals are provided 2GB of storage space.

Who are myDesire2Learn Users?

• ePortfolio Higher Education and K-12 Schools
• Specifically: Graduating students who are

using ePortfolio today

• These students will have used ePortfolio at their

school and would like to keep their work after graduation.

• In addition to keeping their ePortfolio after

graduation, these students may also want to continue editing their work, adding new content, creating more presentations and sharing their accomplishments with their peers.

Open Beta General Availability

• What countries?
• Canada, United States, UK, Ireland,

Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand

• What languages?
• English only
• Availability?
• Currently in Open Beta General

Popular Q&A…

• What is Desire2Learn EduDentityTM?
• Desire2Learn EduDentity is an account management service.

Students will create an EduDentity account when they create their myDesire2Learn account.

• What version of ePortfolio does myDesire2Learn support?
• ePortfolio v4.0, SP 8 (March 2013) or higher is required for

successful import of ePortfolio content into myDesire2Learn.

• What version of ePortfolio is myDesire2Learn?
• Currently, myDesire2Learn is running ePortfolio v4.2.

Popular Q&A…

• Can students contact other alumni in myDesire2Learn?
• Yes, it is possible for students to contact other students in
• myDesire2Learn. They can search for their contacts under

“Sharing Groups” to see if they are in myDesire2Learn.

• After a student exports their ePortfolio to

myDesire2Learn does this deactivate their ePortfolio account?

• No, myDesire2Learn receives a copy of the student’s ePortfolio

work which they have selected to export. It does not deactivate their ePortfolio account nor does it delete any content from ePortfolio.

Popular Q&A…

• Will the school know when a student has created their

myDesire2Learn account or exported their work from ePortfolio?

• No, myDesire2Learn does not record the source of

activations so we do not know what school a student has come from to create their account. Likewise, we do not monitor what students have imported ePortfolio work into their myDesire2Learn account.

From the School’s Perspective…

Steps to Provision myDesire2Learn:

Step 1: Inform faculty & students of availability

• Need the ability to identify and communicate with graduating

students

Step 2: Set up necessary technical steps

• Such as DOME variables, Firewall Configurations and Export

Permissions

Step 3: Provide link to create myDesire2Learn accounts Step 4: Provide link to enable the students to export their ePortfolio data to myDesire2Learn (Cookie support for myDesire2Learn.com must be enabled in the web browser.)

Note: Please refer to the Provisioning Guide for the complete details

From the Student’s Perspective…

Steps to Getting Started:

Step 1: Graduating students receive communication on availability of myDesire2Learn Step 2: Graduating students receive link to create their myDesire2Learn Account and link to enable the export of their ePortfolio content into myDesire2Learn Step 3: Create EduDentity & myDesire2Learn accounts Step 4: Export ePortfolio content into myDesire2Learn (Cookie support for myDesire2Learn.com must be enabled in the web browser.) Step 5: Start using myDesire2Learn!

Resources Available

For ePortfolio Administrators:

• myDesire2Learn Getting Started Presentation for Admins
• Provisioning Guide
• Email Template (sample message for graduating students)
• FAQ

For students:

• myDesire2Learn Product Overview Presentation for Students
• Student Step-by-Step Getting Started Guide
• Support Community:

http://support.mydesire2learn.com/mydesire2learn

• Resources and Communications is available on the Community.