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If courses aren’t active, (i.e. future courses), they won’t appear in the “My Courses” area until they become available.

If you don’t see an enrolled course in the “My Courses” area of your D2L home screen, scroll to the bottom of the list and click on “View all courses.” You can then scroll through the courses or use the search bar. Alternatively, you can click on the 9-square ‘waffle’ icon and search for your course by title.

Ensure that mhcollab@recoveryalberta.ca and cpd@mhcollab.ca are saved as “not junk” in your email to ensure that our messages don’t get filtered out as junk.  Work systems may filter us out regardless. You may try adding a personal email to the mail list.

• Ensure that ucalgary.ca emails are listed as “not junk” in your email. 
• Make sure that your email in D2L is correct, as notifications to the class list are sent to this address

If you need to update your email in D2L, you can:

• Log into D2L, then click your name in the top right corner. Go to “Notifications” in the dropdown menu and click on “Change your email settings” under the Contact Methods heading    OR

• Call the UofC IT department at 403.210.9300 to have them change it. If your D2L username ends in .hmhc, tell them you log in via the “guest portal”.

We apologize for that. A rollback to a single form process is planned for the next major site update later in 2025.

The CPD site is a bridge between Recovery Alberta and the UofC. By not having to register/create a new account each year, the intention was to make it easier for users by separating out the site registration and course enrollment processes, while still collecting the demographics we need for reporting purposes. 

A discussion board is required for the accredited courses, which the UofC D2L platform is able to provide. The past courses, labelled as Category B, do not have this requirement, so we can offer them on the CPD website. 

Past courses have always been offered ‘in-house’ (for the exception of a couple of years). Around 2022, the CPD site was rebuilt with the idea that all courses, Accredited and previously offered, would be hosted on the CPD website. To date, we have been unable to make that happen. 

Because the accredited courses are hosted through the University of Calgary’s D2L platform, it adds extra administrative steps. If a new user account is needed in D2L, there is a wait time while their IT department completes our request. 
We are Recovery Alberta staff and have limited access to the UofC’s systems. Most course requests are manually entered as we receive them.

Unfortunately, there is no way to ‘cut out the middle man’. The Faculty of Social Work generously donates the space on D2L to us. The FSW and the IT department do not have administrative staff dedicated to our program needs. 

This information can likely be found in your CPD user profile. We do our best to enter it in if you did not provide it when you originally registered/created your CPD account. 

Us too! 
Creating an account on the CPD website required you to create a username and password.
You likely have a different set of credentials for D2L (usernames are determined by the UofC.) 

If you want to have your CPD site username and password set to be the same as D2L, please contact us and we can try to make that happen. D2L passwords may not meet our security protocols.

Over the past few years, we’ve seen fewer physicians taking part in our courses. While we no longer offer Mainpro+ certification directly, some of our accredited activities may still qualify under self-reporting or non-certified categories—feel free to check the Mainpro+ guidelines to see what might apply.

We know Mainpro+ credits can be important when choosing continuing education. If its absence is a barrier to participating in our courses, we welcome your feedback.