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Providing information about supported learning technologies at uWaterloo. Our primary learning system, Waterloo LEARN, receives monthly system updates from our vendor, D2L. Highlights of those updates will be posted here.

January 2021 D2L Updates

Welcome back for the Winter semester! 

What's New? 

Video Recordings in Discussions and Quizzes 

Students can now add video recordings in discussion posts and in written response quiz questions!

What's in a Name?

New for the Fall 2016 term!

D2L has introduced some new terminology which Waterloo LEARN will be adopting. The most significant changes that will impact instructors and students are the following:

Get Ready for the Spring Term by Requesting your LEARN Course Shell

Requesting single section courses can be done by logging into Waterloo LEARN and clicking the Request a Course link found in the Instructor Tools widget. Once you have submitted the request we will approve it as quickly as possible and in most cases the course will be available after 9:00 am the next day.