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 New Quizzing Experience and Short Answer Questions

This release introduces further improvements to the new quizzing experience for True or False, Multiple Choice, Long Answer, and Short Answer quiz questions, which include the following:

• If instructors opt out of the new quizzing experience, they are prompted to provide a reason why they are opting out.
  
  
  
  
• An option (Save and Copy) has been added that enables instructors to save the current question and copy the content to a new question that can be edited.
  
  
  
  
• Short Answer questions have been enhanced. Instructors can select the new Students must answer all blanks correctly grading option, which is an all or nothing grading option, or Students will receive part marks, which divides the total points by the number of answers possible.
  
  

Spring Ahead!

Get ready, Daylight is coming in 2018.

No, not Daylight Savings Time.

Daylight is the new look and feel coming to BOLT. It is a modern, responsive design to improve user experience in BOLT and emphasize your course Content.


Here is a sneak peak at Daylight on different devices:


Daylight Experience - Responsive Design coming to BOLT in 2018

We will be sharing more information with all BOLT users as the dawn approaches.

New: New Quizzing Experience

BOLT is going through a slow visual upgrade and redesign of the Quizzes tool. When you go create new questions in the Question Library, you will notice when creating certain questions that a new experience is available. A message should indicate that the new experience is on. Please note that for now you do have the option to turn off the new interface if you would like, but eventually the updated redesign will be the default experience.

The redesign is meant to bring the question to the forefront of your question creation experience and simplify the question creation process.


Some of the positive aspects of this redesign:

• Question and answer choices are front and center
• Additional options are now in a flyout Options menu- you can toggle whether or not to add them to your questions. This simplified layout gets them out of your way!
• You can change the question type by selecting a different type of question from the question type drop down menu.

Currently, the question types available in the new experience are: True/False, Multiple Choice, and Long Answer. More question types will be updated as we receive monthly software updates for BOLT. New screens will appear as the updates occur. Stay tuned.