Inline Grading

Inline Grading is a new feature for HCC faculty in Service Pack 14 and it may cause some confusion. Now, without leaving the Grade Assignment page, you can view, comment, and grade student-submitted assignment files.

Inline Assignment Grading can convert, display, and annotate Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PDF file formats. This accounts for well over 95% of submissions to Blackboard Learn Assignments (based on sampling of Managed Hosting clients). File formats that cannot be converted will be presented for download, as in the past

To read about how to best use Inline Grading in your courses go to Help.Blackboard.com: http://tiny.cc/jnuyfx. Or you can watch the video below.

MyHCC Email and Messaging

The implementation of HawkMail 365 and the sun-setting of Campus Cruiser is the impetus for enabling the Blackboard email tool. The email tool within Blackboard acts as a relay server sending the email messages to the email address that is present in the student's Blackboard user profile.

For more information on how to use the Email and Messages tools within Blackboard reference the PDF document from CITT:  http://citt.hccfl.edu/Files/emailMessaging.pdf

Additional instructions can be found on the Blackboard Help site: https://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/9.1_SP_10_and_SP_11/Instructor/050_Course_Tools/Email 

Help for students can also be found on the Blackboard Help site: https://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/9.1_SP_10_and_SP_11/Student/040_Tools/Email 

1 User name & 1 Password!

The Office of Information Technology  is excited to bring streamlined changes to login credentials for employees and students

On Monday, July 22, 2013 we will be implementing changes to the Colleague (Datatel) and WebAdvisor systems that will enable employees to use NetID to access these systems. 

Remember that your NetID is the User ID and password that you currently use to log on to your computer.   This means that you will have ONE User ID and password to access:

• Your Computer
• Colleague (Datatel) If you currently have access (This is to be implemented in the Fall semester)
• Web Adviser
• Outlook (Web/Mobile Devices)
•  VPN

Finally, users will be able to stop using cheat sheets hidden in drawers or under keyboards!

Changes for Students
 
In addition to the above changes for employees, Students as well will benefit from several changes as well.  The systems that they use as well will benefit from the NetID.  While MyHCC and Smarthinking have been using the NetID for a while, also starting on Monday, July 22, 2013, students will be able to access WebAdvisor and the new email system Office 365 with their NetID.  

Microsoft's Office 365 is the replacement for the Campus Cruiser email system.

Along with these changes, we are updating the appearance of the Hawk Net page (http://www.hccfl.edu/hawknet.aspx).   All existing links will still remain available from this page, but we are implementing a new mobile-friendly and ADA compliant look.

Please keep in mind that these changes are significant and every effort has been made to implement this as smoothly as possible.  

If you have any issues accessing Datatel or WebAdvisor, please contact HCCLive (http://hcclive.hccfl.edu)  and create a ticket, advising them that you are having difficulties accessing these services using your NetID so that they can escalate these tickets appropriately.

http://citt.hccfl.edu/Files/emailMessaging.pdf

 

MyHCC System Planned Outage

At  Midnight, Saturday, July 13th, through Sunday, Noon, July 14th the Blackboard System will be unavailable.

This is a 36 hour time period.

HCC's authentication system will be undergoing maintenance because of this, students, faculty, and staff will not be able to log into MyHCC (Blackboard) until Noon on Sunday, July 14th. This work is in preparation for the new student email system, Hawkmail 365.

Please plan your work around this system outage accordingly.

Course Availability Settings

Please note the Course Availability settings have changed with the  service pack update in May. If you have not set your course availability to continuous, students will only be able to access the course from the listed start date through the listed end date of the section. For instructions on how to change the course availability settings please refer to this PDF document on the CITT website.

Exported and Archived Files > 60 days to be Deleted from MyHCC

Exported and Archived files that still reside in courses on the MyHCC servers will be deleted if they more than 60 days old. This is a performance related issue and must be done on a regular basis. If you have archived or exported files within your courses that you wish to keep, please downloaded them to your desktop or other storage device.

The files will be removed this Saturday, June 29th at 2 am during the system maintenance.

Note: We are not removing previous semesters courses from the server. Those courses will still be retained until the Course Removal and Deletion process occurs in October 2013. We will communicate with faculty the dates when the removal of courses will take place. Please refer to the document link above if you have questions regarding this process.

Discussion Board Replies within HTML Tags

Discussion board replies within HTML tags are not displayed.

Steps to Repeat:

1. Enter course.
2. Creating a new thread with tags inserted at the end of the submission in the HTML editor.
3. Attempt to reply.

Expected Result:
The reply text is displayed.

Observed Result:
The reply is not displayed.

Symptoms: The display issue (body of reply not showing) occurs because the body of the reply is rendered within the DIV of class dbParentPost, i.e. within the hidden original post that forms part of each reply. As that entire DIV is hidden, the response body is hidden too.
Target Release: 9.1 SP15 ( Blackboard is working on a patch to resolve this issue that should be available before we upgrade to service pack 15)