Did you know you can combine course sections into one course in BOLT?

Save Time and Energy with a Course Combine!

If you're teaching multiple sections of the same course in a semester, you can combine them into one course offering in BOLT! This saves time since you only have one course in BOLT to deal with!


For Example:

• Instead of creating the same quiz again and again for each section, create the quiz once.
• Upload one set of course materials one time.
• Send email to all students at once or students in certain sections from the Classlist.
• Assess and evaluate all students in one place.

For more information on combining courses, search for "combine" in the BOLT Help Course! Contact us at bolthelp@bloomu.edu if you have questions!

The request deadline for 2016Fall courses is June 1st!

Pearson MyLabs & Mastering for BOLT 2016Fall

Do you use Pearson MyLabs & Mastering products in your course?


Are students completing graded work in the MyLabs system? Would you like to be able to sync those grades over to BOLT easily?


We now have an integration in BOLT to easily sync grades from Pearson MyLabs & Mastering to BOLT Gradebook.

If you want to add the integration to your 2016Fall BOLT course, please request it with our web form here: http://goo.gl/forms/tG38b35eS3


If you want to know more about this integration, search for "Pearson" in the BOLT Help Course.

Language Changes Go Live May 20

Language changes  in BOLT will go live May 20, 2016. Please note this is a display change only- the functionality of the tools will remain the same!






Based on the results of usability testing conducted by Brightspace, the terms changing in BOLT are:

• News to Announcements
• Dropbox to Assignments
• New to Upload / Create
• Add Existing Activities to Existing Activities

Again, please note these are language term changes and that functionality will remain the same. 

For more information on the changes and for ways we plan to support your transition, follow the jump cut...

BOLT Will Be Unavailable May 8, 2016 from 1:00AM to 7:00AM

Every month, BOLT undergoes a maintenance window. This month’s maintenance window is on Sunday, May 8, 2016 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.