Week's End Report - April 17, 2015

Tip of the Week!

In addition to the default Total column that appears in each of your courses, you can also add a new column to display the score the student has earned in the course as a whole.

Take, for example, a course that has 1000 points possible. The students have completed activities worth 500 points and Ivy Student has earned 450 points, the default Total column will show that Ivy has earned 450 points, or 90%. You can add a second column that would show that Ivy has earned 45% (450/1000) towards her final course grade.

When added towards the end of the semester, a Final Grade column can help students to see the grade they’ve currently earned and how well they’ll need to do throughout the remainder of the semester in order to finish the course with the grade they’d like to earn.

To learn more, see the website:

Final Grade Column

For more information about calculated grade columns and how they work, click the link below:

Calculated Grade Columns

Just In Time Job Fair

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  On Monday, April 20th, Lafayette will be hosting the Just in Time Job Fair beginning at 10 am and ending at 2 pm. 35 employers will be attending. Please encourage students to attend this event to network with employers. From 10 am - noon students may have a free professional head shot taken, so remind students to dress professionally and have plenty of resumes ready to hand out!

Blackboard Information

• Blackboard will be unavailable from 12:30 am - 6:30 am Friday, April 17
• Blackboard Profile Verification
• Some of you may have received or may receive an email from “Blackboard Profile Verification” stating that your profile has not been used in almost a year and will be permanently deleted in 30 days if not updated
• This email IS legit!
• To keep your profile from being deleted, log in to Blackboard, click on the Global Navigation in the upper right corner (next to the log off button)
• Click on the top icon on the left side of the drop down (if you set up your profile, this may be your profile picture or may be the standard image of a gray silhouette)
• Go through your profile and make any necessary updates
• Wednesday, April 15th issues were experienced with the network that caused Blackboard to be slow or unavailable. These issues were reported beginning around 6:00 pm, resolved at 8:40 pm.

MindTap

• MindTap connectivity issues were reported Monday evening and issues were still being reported Tuesday morning at 11:40
• No information is currently available regarding issue resolution

Email/Exchange & More

• Exchange (including OWA) connectivity issues were reported at 5:55 pm Tuesday, April 14th. Issues were resolved at 6:24 pm. These issues impacted only faculty and staff.
• Internet connectivity issues were reported from campus locations on Wednesday, April 15th from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm.
• Exchange, Evisions, CollegeNet, Fundware, Sharepoint and IvyNews will be unavailable from 7:30 am - 9:00 am, Sunday, April 19th