User Progress and Grades - Withdrawals

Students may withdraw from a class, which will result in an automatic unenrollment from the D2L Classlist, unless the enrollment was processed manually (which is a separate problem).  Often, instructors are asked to report grade or progress information for students who have withdrawn. 

To see "User Progress" and "Grades" in D2L for a student who withdrew or dropped the course:


1.  From the D2L Course Home page, click [Classlist]
2.  Click [Report]
3.  Scroll down past the statistics to the list of "Withdrawals"
4.  Find the student's name
5.  Click the [Grades] icon (yellow ruler with green checkmark) -or- the [User Progess] icon (circle of dots)

Important notes about User Progress:

• The D2L course site must be Active. If it's not active, the inquiry yields "No tools enabled for this course." Screen shot: http://screencast.com/t/TnISmL9e (This can be a problem because inquiries often come after the semester is over, when a student is trying to get a refund, or financial aid is involved.)

• From the above screen, selecting a different course will *also* spontaneously change WHICH student's User Progress is being reported, if the original student isn't enrolled in the course that was chosen! Video demonstration: http://screencast.com/t/D3iCwnurN (This can be a problem because it would be very easy for the instructor not to notice the switch to a different student, and could report inaccurate data as a result.) 

• If a student withdrew (or was administratively dropped) from ALL D2L courses, no User Progress data is available for the student at all. Video demo: http://screencast.com/t/FltTlavPip  

The work-around for all these issues is for the instructor to

1. re-enroll the student from the Classlist, and/or make the course site active ... 
2. gather the needed information ... and then 
3. unenroll the student from the course site (again, from the Classlist) and/or make the course site Inactive again.

To enroll someone from the Classlist:
http://d2ltipsandtricks.blogspot.com/2009/08/adding-someone-to-your-d2l-course-site.html


To unenroll someone from the Classlist:
http://d2ltipsandtricks.blogspot.com/2010/01/unenroll-users-from-classlist.html


To make a D2L course site Active:
http://d2ltipsandtricks.blogspot.com/2009/04/making-course-active.html


To make a D2L course site Inactive:
http://d2ltipsandtricks.blogspot.com/2009/09/faq-when-does-my-course-become-inactive.html


D2L 9.2.1 SP3 – September 2011

FAQ: Why did the dropped students in the group appear in the email list?

Faculty: A student in a group informed me that when she went to email the members of her group, the email went to FIVE students, not three. I checked, and see that the email went to two students who are no longer in the class -- they dropped. But I don't see them in the groups enrollment page.

This is a known issue:
http://kb.wisc.edu/luw/page.php?id=8199

A workaround is to send email from the Classlist. Filter the Classlist to show the desired group and then click "Email everyone on this tab." Your email message will be sent to the proper recipients.