We'd like to welcome back everyone back for the Fall 2009 semester. The DIVA Team is pleased to announce the much anticipated integration with iLearn, the campus Learning Management System. This integration allows faculty to sync iLearn and DIVA courses, creating an easy way to link to files and documents between those systems.
We offer two ways to bring DIVA files and documents to your iLearn courses: a DIVA Course Block and a Topic Area Link. You can choose from your personal DIVA materials or those from our growing public archive. The integration can be accessed within iLearn and allows faculty to select an individual DIVA course from which to list materials from.
The best way to start is to check login to DIVA and review the appropriate course area you wish to share from to make sure it has all of the files or documents you wish to link to in your iLearn course. Add any necessary files.
Next, login to iLearn. From there, you can choose whether you would like to create a DIVA Course Block, a Topic Area Link, or a combination of both. The DIVA Course Block is ideal for presenting persistent links to resources to which students may need ongoing access through the duration of the course. The Topic Area Link will allow you to add a direct link to a DIVA resource from within a topic area in your course.
We've already received feedback from many of you and have a set of updates to improve this integration to be released on 9/16/09.
Please contact the DIVA Team if you have any questions.