Thursday, July 20, 2017

IMDC Trainings

We are offering training on BOLT and instructional technologies this summer, from August 14 through August 24.




Registration for trainings is required.




Please register for the sessions you will be attending here:
https://goo.gl/forms/3pAEIivKoFxBR16r2



Schedule of IMDC Trainings:



August 14
9AM Getting Started with Daylight
10:30AM Assignments


August 15
1PM Quizzes - New Features!
2:30PM LockDown Browser & Monitor


August 16
1PM Getting Started with Daylight
2:30PM Discussions


August 17
9AM Tools for Providing Feedback
10:30AM Video Options


August 21
1PM Reporting/Statistics/Tracking
2:30PM Quizzes - New Features!


August 22
1PM Getting Started with Daylight
2:30PM Synchronous Learning Tools


August 23
9AM TurningPoint Cloud (Clickers)
10:30AM Grades


August 24
9AM Getting Started with Daylight
10:30AM Awards Tool - New to BOLT!!!

Quizzes: New Shuffle feature

Have you wanted to be able to shuffle both the questions and sections in your quizzes in BOLT? Previously you were able to randomize questions or add random sections in quizzes. Now, you are able to also shuffle the order of sections, or the order of questions in a section, in quizzes.


Starting Friday 7/21, you will be able to use this new feature in BOLT.


To discourage cheating in quizzes, instructors can now shuffle the order of all questions in quizzes, or specific groups of questions (sections) in quizzes.


When editing a quiz in the Quizzes tool, a new option to Shuffle order of questions at the quiz level displays in the Quiz Questions section. When creating a new section to group specific questions in a quiz, a new option to Shuffle order of questions in this section is visible in the Display Options section. Once the shuffle option is selected, a shuffle icon appears next to each affected question in the quiz.



screenshot showing the option to "Shuffle order of questions at the quiz level" on the Properties page of a quiz
The new Shuffle feature coming to Quizzes on July 21




To shuffle all questions in a quiz,
1. On the quiz Properties tab, under Quiz Questions, select “Shuffle order of questions at the quiz level”.
2. Save the quiz.


To shuffle specific questions in a quiz,
1. On the quiz Properties tab, under Quiz Questions, click Add/Edit Questions.
2. Create a section.
3. Import questions to the section.
4. Under display options for the section, select “Shuffle order of questions in this section”.
5. Save the section.


You can shuffle the order of random sections at the quiz level, but random sections do not have the new shuffle questions option since the nature of random sections is to provide a random number of questions from a pool of questions, performing a similar function.

Are you Ready for Daylight?

BOLT will have a new look and feel next month. Daylight goes live on August 17, 2017.


The Daylight Experience is coming to BOLT to bring a new, modern, responsive design to BOLT. If you haven’t, take a look at our video introducing Daylight.






Instructors also have access to preview Daylight at https://bloomudev.desire2learn.com. Use your BU login as you do in BOLT to preview Daylight.

Improvements to the HTML Editor in BOLT

Do you use the Create a File feature in Content, post Announcements, or use the Discussions tool in BOLT? If you do, you may notice some improvements to the HTML editor used in all these places.
 
  • Unsaved Changes Prompt
  • Preserved Formatting from Microsoft Word
 

Unsaved Changes Prompt

If you are working on a file, and you try to navigate away from the page without saving, your browser will display a prompt to let you know that you have unsaved changes and give you the choice to leave or stay on the page to save your file.



a screenshot of editing an HTML file in the HTML editor with a browser prompt to leave or stay on the page
New Unsaved Changes Prompt for the HTML Editor


 

Preserved Formatting from Microsoft Word

When you copy and paste from Word, the formatting in the Word document will be preserved when you paste into the HTML editor. Images pasted from Word will save to your course files in Manage Files.



screenshot of editing an HTML file in the HTML editor with images and tables pasted from Word with preserved formatting
New Preserved formatting in HTML Editor when pasting from Microsoft Word