Build Your 2016Spring Course Workshop

Would you like hands on help building your 2016Spring courses?

Join us for the Build Your 2016Spring Course Workshop!

The IMDC will be holding a hands on workshop to help you build your 2016Spring courses.

We will help you copy course components, set up groups, group assignments, and group discussions create quizzes... whatever you want to build, we will help you build it so you are ready to start off the Spring semester in style.

When: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 at 2pm
Where: Andruss Library 243
How: YOU MUST REGISTER TO ATTEND. Please register at http://tinyurl.com/IMDC16Spring

Bring any new content and/or course materials to the workshop in a digital format, either on a flash drive or on your P drive.

If you have any questions please contact Julie Wolfe at jwolfe2@bloomu.edu.

New to BOLT November 19: EBSCO Curriculum Builder

BOLT is pleased to announce the integration of the new EBSCO tool Curriculum Builder. The tool will be available to instructors November 19th.

What can you expect from Curriculum Builder?

BOLT Will Be Unavailable November 8, 2015 from 1:00AM to 7:00AM

Every month, BOLT undergoes a maintenance window. This month’s maintenance window is on Sunday, November 8, 2015 from 1:00am to 7:00am ET. BOLT will be unavailable during this time. Please plan accordingly. 

Maintenance Window FAQ

Q: Where are the maintenance dates announced?

A: Maintenance dates are announced here on our BOLT Students blog, our BOLT Blog for faculty, and in the News items on your My Home page in BOLT.

Q: What will happen if I try to log in during a maintenance period?

A: A page will load that says Desire2Learn is unavailable due to scheduled maintenance.

Q: Why am I still seeing a page that tells me D2L is unavailable after the maintenance window?

A: If you tried to login to BOLT during the maintenance window, your browser may be loading the scheduled maintenance page from its cache memory. If you encounter this page outside of the maintenance window, please clear your browser cache before trying to login to BOLT again.

• Clear your browser cache in Internet Explorer
• Clear your browser cache in Firefox
• Clear your browser cache in Chrome
• Clear your browser cache in Safari

Q: This is a bad time for BOLT to be unavailable. Can maintenance be rescheduled?

A: We understand frustration when BOLT downtime occurs during busy times of the academic year. Unfortunately, we cannot reschedule the maintenance windows. The IMDC has no control over the regularly scheduled maintenance windows. They are scheduled by our vendor and are necessary to keep BOLT working optimally.