Earlier in the year, the Institute Curriculum Committee (ICC) approved changes to the grading scale used for graduate courses. This unfortunately means that any courses created for Fall 2020 created before the announcement, have an out-dated schema. We explored the possibility of having Blackboard run a backend database query to correct the schema but the […]
Continue reading →By now you’ve heard that Wentworth selected D2L’s Brightspace as our new LMS. Learning Innovation and Technology (LIT) will be offering open sessions and training on the new system over the summer and fall. Because many faculty prefer to access materials and learn on their own we will also be offering self-paced training. In addition […]
Continue reading →Blackboard has developed a replacement for Box View, the assignment annotation tool in Blackboard that most instructors find an unacceptable replacement for the original annotation tool, Crocodoc. Blackboard deployed the tool to our production environment in late June. Watch a video: Documents annotated with Box View were migrated to Bb Annotate. We are hoping this will […]
Continue reading →As part of our efforts to provide better meeting security (and avoid “Zoom Bombing”) we implemented some changes to our account, including the requirement that users be logged in to Zoom to attend meetings hosted under our site license. For Wentworth users, this means logging in using the “Sign in with SSO” option. If users […]
Continue reading →Due to a number of “Zoom Bombing” events in Wentworth courses, DTS has reviewed the security settings in Zoom and is making changes to better secure our sessions.
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