Changes Coming to BOLT on May 19, 2017

There will be two significant changes to BOLT on May 19, 2017. A new navigation scheme will be in place, and online rooms will be phased out.

New Navigation

To prepare for the Daylight Experience, there will be changes to the navigation bars in BOLT. New menus will be on the My Home page and course home page.




BOLT My Home Navigation Update May 19

BOLT Course Home Navigation Update May 19

Please note, this change will not affect your course materials or content! This is a cosmetic change only!

Online Rooms Phased Out

The Online Rooms tool is being phased out. If you want to save recordings from January 2015 through May 2017, you will need to fill out a form and return it to Julie Wolfe by May 5, 2017. Please see the Blackboard Collaborate module in the BOLT Help Course for more information.

What Synchronous Tools Are Available?

We have the new version of Collaborate, Ultra, available for instructors and students to use. You can add Ultra to your course content as an External Learning Tool. In the module you want to add it to, just click Existing Activities, select External Learning Tools, and select Ultra. This will add a link to Ultra. If you click through the link, you will be able to set up Ultra sessions.


We also have Virtual Classroom available in BOLT courses. The link to this tool will be moving from the Learning Tools menu to the Communication menu on May 19.


We have Zoom pro accounts for instructors available as well. If you want to try Zoom with BOLT, please email imdc@bloomu.edu.

ProctorU Pilot

Are you teaching online? Do you want to ensure the integrity of your online exams?




If you are interested in online proctoring for exams, we are offering a pilot with ProctorU.



If you would like more information, please contact us at imdc@bloomu.edu.

Update to LockDown Browser on June 1st for Students

LockDown Browser is changing the way students access quizzes on June 1st.


Beginning on June 1st, students must use the Launch feature in BOLT to access quizzes using Respondus LockDown Browser.


If students try to launch RLDB from their desktop they will see a message that they must navigate to the quiz using another browser to access the quiz.


In BOLT, there will be a button the Launch the quiz in the browser.

Email Address Update

The IMDC has a new email address. Please update your contacts.


If you want to contact the IMDC, please email us at imdc@bloomu.edu!

Long Answer question type renamed to Written Response on April 21st

On April 21st in the Quizzes tool, the Long Answer (LA) question type will be changing to Written Response (WR).


The change will NOT affect any of your Long Answer (LA) questions. This is a name change only.


The question type was renamed to make the name more intuitive for instructors.

Changes to BOLT Coming May 19, 2017

Daylight is coming to BOLT in August.






What is Daylight?






Daylight is a fresh, new look for BOLT. Starting on August 17, 2017, you will notice a new look and feel for Brightspace. Courses will look more polished and modern than ever.




Brightspace Daylight Experience, coming to BOLT August 2017



To get ready to flip the switch to Daylight, you will notice some changes to navigation bars in BOLT starting on May 19, 2017.






The first place you will see a change is in the My Home page navigation bar:


BOLT FUTURE My Home Navigation, update to occur on May 19

The second place you will see a change is in the Course navigation bar:

BOLT FUTURE Course Navigation, update to occur on May 19



For detailed information on each new menu, please follow the cut to read more.