D2L - How to Pin A Course to Your Homepage

Objective

Following these steps will pin a course to your homepage in D2L, causing it to always show up on that page.

Environment

D2L

Before You Begin

Be aware there are multiple reasons why a course may not appear in your D2L at all. See this article (link) for more.

Steps

  1. Scroll to the bottom of your D2L homepage
  2. Select View All Courses
  3. You can narrow the list by typing part of the course name in the search box at the top of the resulting screen
  4. Hover over the course you want and select the icon of 3 dots that appears
  5. Select Pin to pin the course to your homepage
  6.  The pinned course should always appear on your D2L homepage under Pinned. Select the X at the top-right of the screen to return to your homepage.
  7. On the homepage under My Courses, be sure that Pinned is selected and not All.

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