monthly archives: September 2024

All Live, DEVU, and MSTR courses from the Summer 2023 semester will be deleted from Humber systems on Friday, October 25th. System clean-ups are scheduled following good practices for data and storage management. Humber’s practice is to retain past courses for one year plus one semester. Innovative Learning recommends faculty back up and archive Blackboard courses […]

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Midterm season is around the corner! Here are five Gradebook Setup Tips from the team in Innovative Learning. “How do I set up the overall grade in my course?” Tip #1: Use the weighted grading calculation to show students the running total of their overall grade. Assign the weighted percentage values to each gradable item according to the assessment plan […]

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There have been reports about users (both students and instructors) encountering an “Oops something went wrong” error when accessing courses on Blackboard Ultra. Anthology is currently working on a fix, and an update will be provided soon. Until we receive the updates, this error message may appear intermittently. Need support? The Innovative Learning Support Centre […]

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The Respondus LockDown Browser will be discontinued due to some required updates needed from the vendor. We are actively engaging with Respondus to address the issues, and we hope to resume the service once the necessary updates have been completed. To remove the Respondus Lockdown Browser from a test, please follow these instructions.   In […]

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Microsoft Teams is our video hosting platform for live, online classes in Blackboard Ultra. The recommended method for creating and sharing the link to an online synchronous class in Blackboard is to: Create an event in Outlook Calendar using your Humber credentials, copy the meeting link and post in the Course Content area and the […]

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