Overview

 

The D2L Email tool gives you an e-mail address of first.last@billings.desire2learn.com. This is separate from you regular MSUB Outlook (msubillings.edu) e-mail address. Some instructors prefer students use the D2L e-mail for their course just to keep correspondence with students compartmentalized within each course. You'll want to let your students know the preferred methods of communication at the beginning of the course.

 

Step-by-Step

    1. At the top of D2L (on any page) ,click the Message Alerts icon and then click the Instant Messages text link.

 

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                  2. Once the Instant Messages window pops up, you can click view the Inbox, Friends list, and the Classlist to locate and chat with your students.

 

                   If the window does not pop up automatically, you may need to allow msuboline.net through your pop-up blocker, or disable it to access your Instant                              Messaging.

 

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The Inbox lists all D2L users you have

communicated with or have reached out to you. 

To remove someone, select the check box next 

to their profile picture and click the Delete

button above 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Friends list can be both instructors

and students who are not in your current 

class but are in D2L. Anyone who is currently

logged into D2L will show as online with the

little green circle below their name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reach out to any of students in the 

Classlist. Students who are online will

have the little green cirlce lit below 

their name. 

 

      3. Once in a conversation, you can send messages back and forth in real time with ease. You can still send messages to those who are offline. They will see                       your message the next time they log in and access Instant Messages.

 

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