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. 

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, get groups, group assignments, and group discussions set up, 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.

2015Winter and 2016Spring Courses

2015Winter courses are now in available in BOLT. Students will be added to courses December 1st.

2016Spring courses will be available in BOLT November 19. Students will be added to courses January 5th.

Remember: Students will not see courses until professors activate them! You may want to let your students know if you plan to use BOLT or not before classes begin.

Respondus LockDown Browser Available in BOLT

RLDB is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within BOLT. When students use Respondus LockDown Browser they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, access other applications, or close a quiz until it is submitted for grading.

RLDB is available to all Bloomsburg University students and can be requested to be installed in computer labs on campus.

If you use RLDB, your students will need to download and install RLDB to any computer they take quizzes on. RLDB can be downloaded at http://www.respondus.com/lockdown/download.php?id=666246493

There is information in the BOLT Help Course (Tools Integrated with BOLT > Respondus LockDown Browser) to get you started using Respondus LockDown Browser.


For questions about Respondus LockDown Browser or any other BOLT topics, you can contact BOLT Support and the IMDC at bolthelp@bloomu.edu or by calling (570)389-2888.

QuickLinks - QuickLinks tool no longer inserts http:// by default

As of October 17, 2015, the URL field in the Quicklinks tool no longer has http:// automatically inserted to assist users in forming URLs with correct syntax. The field is now blank before you enter a URL.