Adding New Students to Exiting Individual Student Journals in D2L

Many teachers have already created and are utilizing student journals within Desire2Learn to provide individualized and interactive learning experiences to engage and inspire students by providing opportunities for differentiation, creativity, inquiry, and reflection. However, when new students are enrolled in PowerSchool and automatically added to teachers' D2L courses, teachers have to manually add these students to the existing individual student journals in D2L.

The following steps outline the procedures necessary to add new students to an existing individual journal. All new students will be added to D2L when they are enrolled in PowerSchool.  However, you will have to follow the steps below to add each new student to an individual journal within D2L.  This is a two step process.  First you must attach the new student's name to the student's group # in D2L.  Then you must attache the new group # to a Topic within the individual journal.

Step One:  Attach the New Student's Name to the Group #

• Go to Edit
• Select Groups
• Scroll through the list of Groups and locate the Group # not assigned to a student to a student
• Click on that Group #
• Select Enroll Users
• Search for the Student's name which will be assigned to this Group # (Make note of this # for Step Two)
• Select the Student
• Click Save

Step Two:  Attach the New Group #/Student to a Topic within the Individual Journal Discussion

• Go to Edit
• Select Discussion
• Select the Forum that holds the individual journals
• Click the Dropdown arrow beside the Forum name and select Add Topic
• Change the Title of the Topic to the Student's Name
• Click on the Restrictions Tab at the top
• Go to Group and Section Restrictions
• Select "Restrict this topic to the following groups and sections"
• Click on Add Groups and Sections
• Select the Group # that you previously assigned to the student in Step One
• Click Add
• Click Save and Close

Below is a short tutorial on adding new students to existing D2L individual journals.

For information on how to create individual student journals within D2L, please click here.