Set Up Binder

Binder is a free iPad app available at the App Store. It allows you to access content files on your iPad, save them to a Catalog on your computer, take study note directly on the content pages, and organize them in a way that is meaningful to you.

To set it up properly requires three basic steps:

1.    Create a Desire2Learn EduDentity Account.

2.    Search for and install the Binder App on your iPad.

3.    Launch and Set up the Binder App.

Create a Desire2Learn EduDentity Account

This is an account separate from and in addition to your NS Online account where you log in to NS Online (Desire2Learn). This step must be created within D2L (not within the Binder App.)

1.    Go into a course.

2.    Click on Content.

3.    From any of the files within Content, click the arrow to the right and choose "Send to Binder."

4.    A dialog box will open and prompt you to log in with your EduDentity account or to Create a New account. Click on "Create an Account.”

5.    An agreement page displays. Check the box confirming that you are over the age of 13, and choose Accept.

6.    Fill out the registration form with the appropriate information.

7.    After you create the account, you will be asked to Continue or Resend Activation Email. Click on Continue.

8.    Go to your email account that you entered on the registration form. You will have an email from EduDentity asking you to click a link to activate the account. Click the link.

9.    You will see an "Email verified" message.

Search for and Install the Binder App on Your iPad

1.    After your EduDentity account is created, go to your iPad to download the Binder App. Go to the App Store and enter the search terms, "Desire2Learn Binder." 

Launch and Set up the Binder App 

1.    You are provided with two options to login: EduDentity or Facebook. Choose EduDentity.

2.    Log in with your EduDentity username and password. This is the username and password that you used to create your EduDentity account. It is not your NS Online username and password.

3.    After you login, click on Fetch.

4.    Choose Learning Environment.

5.    Enter the address: elearn.nscc.edu. Tap the Connect button.

6.    Login to your NS Online (Desire2Learn) course using your A number and password.

7.    Check the box, "Do not ask me again for this application."

8.    The Fetch screen opens. A list of the courses in which you are enrolled will be displayed.

9.    Click on the Catalog button. Click on the document titled "Binder Push Start Guide" to learn to use Binder.