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If you or your students have a BOLT related issue, contact BOLT Support. 

BOLT Support at the IMDC

Monday - Friday, 8am to 5pm in AL 206

bolthelp@bloomu.edu or (570)389-2888

This is the fastest way to get our attention.

Directing your questions to BOLT Support is the quickest way to get the attention of IMDC supervisors. Supervisors monitor issues from the IMDC from 8:00am to 4:30pm daily.

If you want to set up a meeting with IMDC supervisors, contact BOLT Support during regular hours with a brief description of what you want to set up a meeting for and supervisors will be in touch with you!

Conditional Release: NOT Condition

If you're familiar with release conditions, you know that you can set special conditions for when students complete quizzes, dropbox assignments, or surveys. 

BOLT now has the opposite release condition available: the NOT condition.

The new NOT condition will allow you to release items in BOLT if students have NOT completed quizzes, dropbox assignments, surveys, and a variety of other procedures in BOLT.

Please refer to the Content Help module in the BOLT Help Course for information on release conditions and how to set them.

Quizzes Special Access Display Fixed

Some of you may have noticed a display issue with special access in quizzes where the time displayed was four to five hours ahead of the time you had set for students' special access. This was a display only issue.

The issue has been fixed and you should now see the appropriate time after setting special access for students in quizzes.

Browser Support Changes

Desire2Learn platform support has changed:

·         Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 9 (IE9) is no longer supported

·         IE10 and IE11 are now in maintenance mode

·         Microsoft® Edge web browser is now supported

·         Previous versions of Safari (including Safari 6, 7, and 8) are now in maintenance mode

·         The latest version of Safari® is now supported

Course Copy Improvements

After the update on December 18th, copying your courses in BOLT will get easier to do.

Copying External Learning Tool Links

Copying External Learning Tool links such as links for blogs, wikis, journals, etc., used to result in broken links in your new course. After the update, External Learning Tool links copied into Content will no longer result in broken links in your new course.

Copying Content with Quicklinks

Copying content that contains Quicklinks to External Learning Tool links is also improved.

Quicklinks will point to the tools in the new course, no longer resulting in broken links.

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?