We encourage instructors to share this opportunity with their students.

Students are invited to join the Longo Family Be Your Own Boss (BYOB) series for a comprehensive seven-week workshop designed to help you refine and develop a business idea into a viable opportunity. The Longo Family BYOB series will guide you through identifying problems to solve, understanding who benefits from your idea, evaluating its feasibility as a business, and much more.

This program is perfect for anyone eager to learn and apply tools for assessing which ideas have the potential to address problems and transform them into successful business ventures. Plus, participants will have the chance to compete for a share of $40,000 in funding to bring their ideas to life!

The Longo Family BYOB workshop series will take place in person at the North Campus from January 16, 2024 to March 6, 2024, and at the Lakeshore Campus from January 14, 2024 to March 4, 2024. Each session will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Further details about each workshop are provided below.

Participants must attend at least five of the seven workshops to be eligible for the final competition. This requirement ensures a solid foundation of knowledge and skills, preparing you for the opportunity to compete for a share of $40,000.

If you have any questions about the Longo Family BYOB workshop series please reach out to our team at cfe@humber.ca.

For more details and to register for the program, visit the event webpage.

This August, Architectural Technology student Rozlyn Mead and Interior Design student Dayanna Lopez Buitrago represented Humber Polytechnic at the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Annual Conference that took place August 15-17 in Anaheim, California, after being awarded competitive scholarships to attend.

The experience was both inspiring and educational. Highlights included a private tour of the Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, featuring presentations from the project’s architect and lighting designers, where students gained first-hand insight into the integration of lighting and design at a world-class destination. The gala also offered valuable networking opportunities with industry professionals, exposure to innovative new lighting products, and the chance to celebrate excellence in the field through the prestigious Illumination Awards ceremony.

This opportunity not only expanded Rozlyn and Dayanna’s professional networks but also deepened their understanding of the evolving role of lighting in architecture and interior design.

Here are the highlights of faculty questions from November. These are not necessarily the most frequently asked questions, but helpful for all faculty members to know.

Question: How do I create a Test in Blackboard?

Answer:

Follow these step-by-step instructions:

1. On the Course Content page, select the plus sign > Create. The Create Item panel will open on the right.
   
2. On the Create Item panel, scroll down and select Test. The New Test page will open.
   
3. On the New Test page, name your test.
   
4. To add a new question, select the plus sign and choose the desired question type.
   • Consider learning more about the different question types available to you at Anthology’s Blackboard Help page.
     • Learn more about how to create a hot spot question,
     • Learn more about how to create a calculated formula question,
   • You can also create Question Pools to create randomized questions on a test or to organize questions into topics.

Please keep in mind that by default, students can see test questions with their answers, as well as the correct answers, immediately after submission. To change this setting, click the gear icon in “Test Settings”, and go down to “Submission View”. By clicking on this option, you can change the settings related to assessment results viewing to ensure students don’t see the correct answers immediately after submission.

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Question: I'm having an issue adding the Respondus Lockdown Browser to my test. What can I do?

Answer:

Follow these instructions to learn how to enable and add the Respondus Lockdown Browser to your test.

If you are encountering issues with adding Respondus Lockdown Browser to a test, please make sure that the test name does not include special characters (icons, photos, emoticons, etc.). If it includes any of these characters, the Respondus Lockdown Browser Dashboard will fail to open!

If students are encountering issues accessing the Lockdown Browser, and you copied the test from a previous course, you must go into the new course, access each of the test settings, and select the Respondus LockDown Browser option. This will redirect you to the Respondus settings page; without completing this step, students will not be able to take the exams in the new course, as the Respondus settings do not transfer from one course to the next after copying.

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Question: How do I grade final assessments using the Gradebook in Blackboard?

Answer:

There are 3 main methods to use the Gradebook for your midterms is:

• Method 1: Using the overall grade column as your midterm grade. This should only be used when you’ve already created all course assessments. To do this, please complete the following:
  • Set up the Overall Grade as a weighted total.
  • Ensure that you only grade items that contribute to the midterm grade.
  • The grade displayed is the midterm grade. You can enter that grade into Banner. As you continue to grade items throughout the semester, the Overall Grade will update to reflect the students' current grade.
• Method 2: Creating a manual calculation column within Ultra to calculate midterm grades.
  • Learn how to add a manual grade column.
  • Choose either “Add Calculation” or “Add Total Calculation“. The Total Calculation column mirrors the Overall Grade column, enabling the easy calculation of the lowest/highest grades.
  • Once you name the column, you can set the calculation to add or multiply grades or set a value for the midterm, learn more.
• Method 3: Downloading a copy of the Gradebook into Excel and calculating the grades from there.
  • Please see this resource which demonstrates how to download your gradebook into Excel.

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Question: How do I drop the lowest grades from a grade category?

Answer:

You can drop the lowest score from a specific category or subset within a category. To achieve this, navigate to the Gradebook, select ‘Overall Grade’ for editing, and then choose the category from which you want to drop the lowest score. Click on ‘Edit calculation rules’.

This opens a side panel that allows you to drop the lowest or highest scores.

The same function is also available if you create a Total Calculation column from the Gradebook.

For more information, please visit the Anthology website.

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