You set up your grade book but the grades don’t look right. How can you find out where the problem occurred? Sometimes the problem may be settings. For example, I recently reviewed a problem grade book where the total points for a category were not what was expected. The category was made up of four […]

What does “Celebrate Differences” mean to you? For the Autism Society of America, #CelebrateDifferences means promoting acceptance of autism, and fostering inclusivity. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2020), the prevalence of autism in children has grown to about 1 in 59. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by differences in communication, relationships, and social environments, and affects people differently and […]

Most of the courses that instructors requested us to migrate were migrated using a bulk process developed by D2L for their Brightspace product. However, this process had limitations, namely that the course export package from Blackboard could not be larger than 1 GB. Before we tried converting courses, we ran a report from Blackboard to […]

We are making progress migrating content from Blackboard to Brightspace and anticipate completing all the course migrations requested by the March 22nd deadline complete by the end of March. The exceptions are Spring 2021 courses. We will migrate these starting about April 19th to capture as much content as possible. We will be reaching out […]

The March update of the software on our system brought a few changes to note: Better integration of Turnitin into the New Assignment Experience Pulse App has notifications for upcoming quizzes and assignments Quiz Copy workflow has been updated to function more like the new assignment workflow Improved workflow for multi-select quiz questions Improved rubrics […]