On Friday, July 17th from 9:00 AM to Noon, the Technology Showcase Tour will be stopping at UW-Whitewater.  The Technology Showcase Tour, sponsored by BP Marketing Group, features the latest and greatest A/V and educational technology available from industry-leading manufacturers.

The traveling exhibit will be located in Lot 12a, which is the metered parking lot between the University Center, McGraw Hall and Heide Hall.

The event is free and open to everyone to attend. Please register at: https://geturl.uww.edu/20n

The Technology Showcase Tour will feature the latest and greatest technology available.  The equipment featured may not be available in UW-Whitewater classrooms and is just here for demonstration purposes.

More information on the tour can be found at: http://www.techshowtour.com/

If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the Learning Technology Center at ltc@uww.edu or 262.472.1004.

In order to maintain optimal storage capacity and ensure the ongoing smooth operation of D2L, a purge of older courses from the system is conducted annually by the UW System Utility.

We’ve begun to prepare for this year’s D2L Course Cleanup process that will take place on Friday, May 1st, 2015. On May 1st, 2015, courses from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012 will be purged from the D2L system. Instructors with one or more D2L courses slated to be purged were contacted via email on Monday, March 9th.

The D2L Course Cleanup resources site is available with more information on the Cleanup process and instructions on how to export course materials and student data.

If you have any questions or concerns about the D2L Course Cleanup process or need assistance, please contact UW-W D2L Support.

When using Respondus LockDown Browser, multiple page quizzes that have the “Prevent moving backwards through pages” checked may freeze on Windows 7 computers running Internet Explorer 9.  Whenever the student tries to go to the next page, the browser will hang up on a white screen and fail to load the next set of questions.  Additional details are available at: https://uwwltc.atlassian.net/browse/LMS-63.

The only workaround at this time is to uncheck the “Prevent moving backwards through pages” or to adjust your quiz to be on a single page.

Currently all lab and classroom machines on campus are impacted.  We are working with Respondus to resolve the issue.  If you have any questions or concerns please contact UW-W D2L Support.

On Thursday, March 5th, Desire2Learn deployed Service Pack 15 & 16 to our D2L Learning Environment.  In this latest update, the following fixes and enhancements were included:

Chat

• Fix: Users can now successfully change Chat settings from within an individual chat room, as well as, from the main list of chats.

Classlist

• Fix: A timezone inconsistency has been corrected for the classlist withdrawals section and user enrollment logs.

Content

• Fix: Improvements have been made to adding video files directly as Content topics. Previously, some users were not able to play the videos.
• Fix: Users will no longer receive an error after successfully uploading new files in the Manage Files area. This error was encountered intermittently.

Copy Components

• Fix: Users with access to Copy Course Components can successfully copy items from inactive courses using both the Copy All and Select Components methods, regardless of their role’s ability to access inactive courses.

Discussions

• Fix: Notifications for discussions activity no longer causes an error when viewed outside of the course in which the discussion is located.

Dropbox

• Fix: Multiple users can now attach feedback to a Dropbox submission

ePortfolio

• Fix: When ePortfolio artifacts are linked to from text areas in presentations, these artifacts now open successfully when the presentation is submitted to a Dropbox folder.
• Fix: An issue related to sharing groups in ePortfolio has been addressed.  Users will no longer receive a Not Authorized error when they try to view shared items that are available to them.
• Fix: Photos taken on mobile devices and synced to ePortfolio through the ePortfolio mobile application are displayed in the correct orientation (portrait or landscape).

News

• Fix: When downloading file attachments from the News widget, attachments are now saved with the original file name preserved.

Quizzing

• Fix: When grading a quiz attempt, the Save and Continue button now continues to the next question.
• Fix: Images attached to questions in the question library will no longer disappear if a user previews an in-progress question before it has been saved.

Surveys

• Fix: Surveys can now be successfully accessed and submitted when sent out in emails using the Invite Participants feature in Surveys.
• Fix: Draft surveys that have due dates will no longer cause an error when some users load the Content tool. Draft surveys are not visible to these users.
• Fix: A fix to the date filtering logic was made to the Survey Reports tool to allow for smaller report sets to be created for consecutive date ranges. Previously, an error in the date filtering prevented some attempts from being included at the beginning of the range.

User Progress

• Fix: Users can no see the help terms for unreleased final grades in the User Progress tool.
• Fix: The Login History data in User Progress has been fixed to no longer display inaccurate Days Absent values after the first 10 rows.
• Fix: The number of posts read in Discussion Statistics includes the posts made by that user. The column name has been changed to better describe this count.
• Fix: Performance improvements were made to the Login History section of User Progress.
• Fix: Improvements have been made to the Dropbox section of User Progress to prevent errors being displayed to the user.

Widgets

• Fix: Users will no longer have their role reverted while using Role Switch if they encounter a broken image on the course homepage.

If you have any questions or concerns about the service pack updates, please contact UW-W D2L Support.