BOLT Experiencing Performance Issue

BOLT and its D2L counterparts at other PASSHE universities are currently experiencing performance issues. During this time, students and faculty may experience slowness and an intermittent response time from the MyCourses widget. You can still access your courses by using Select a course… at the top of the BOLT homepage.

D2L is actively working to resolve this issue. Please email bolthelp@bloomu.edu if you have any questions.

Thank you for your patience. We will continue to provide updates.

Welcome New Students!

Incoming freshmen must complete an Orientation Seminar. This BOLT course is available at different times for different groups.

For Summer Start/Act 101 Students

Access to the course on July 2

Summer Assignment is due on July 30

For Other Incoming Freshmen

Access to the course on July 16

Summer Assignment is due on August 13

Transfer students must also complete an orientation program, but that program is NOT in BOLT. Transfer students will not be able to access BOLT until approximately 11 days prior to the start of the semester.

Please contact orientation@bloomu.edu for any details about your orientation requirements!

Updates to Class Progress

New features have been added to the Class Progress tool in BOLT. See when you accessed the course or downloaded content.

You are now able to see when you accessed a course.

To see this, go to the course, Course Resources, and select Class Progress. On the left side of the page, click on Course Access. This will load a page displaying when you logged into your course.

You are also able to see when you downloaded content topics.

To see this in Class Progress, click on Content on the left side of the page. This will load a page displaying your progress in the Content tool of the course. Any modules you downloaded will be tagged as "Downloaded". 

Expand modules to see progress in their content topics by clicking on the “# Topics, # Modules” link.

Once you can see all the topics, any topics you downloaded will be tagged as “Downloaded”. (Note that the tool may still say you “Never visited” the content topic, even if you downloaded it for offline viewing.)

BOLT and Incoming Freshmen

If You're Wondering When You Can Access BOLT...

Incoming freshmen gain access to BOLT and the Orientation course in BOLT at different times.

Summer start freshmen and Act 101 students should have had access to BOLT on May 5. They will gain access to the Orientation course on July 2. Their summer assignment is due on July 30.

All other incoming freshmen should have access to BOLT on June 1. They will gain access to the Orientation course on July 16. Their summer assignment is due on August 13.

Transfer students should gain access to BOLT approximately two weeks prior to the start of the Fall semester or within 24-48 hours of scheduling summer courses.

If you have any questions about the details of Orientation and your summer assignment, contact Orientation at orientation@bloomu.edu.

Update: BOLT Is Accessible

You should be able to access BOLT at this time. The issue at the data center appears to be resolved.

If you encounter any issues accessing BOLT or with response time in BOLT, please contact us at (570)389-2888 or email us at bolthelp@bloomu.edu.

Thank you,
BOLT Support
 

Did you know you can create an EduDentity account and export your ePortfolio to myDesire2Learn?

Keep Your ePortfolio After Graduation

Don't lose your work! Export your ePortfolio to myDesire2Learn and continue to document and demonstrate your achievements.

myDesire2Learn Access widget on the BOLT My Home page

myDesire2Learn lets you continue using the ePortfolio tool beyond graduation. You get 2GB free storage and can continue building your ePortfolio after you lose access to BOLT.

To export your ePortfolio to myDesire2Learn, follow the directions in the widget on the BOLT home page.

Bug Fix: Quizzes Special Access Time Display

Some of you may have encountered a display issue with the special access feature of the quizzes tool. If you were granted special access in a quiz, the time displayed was four to five hours ahead of the actual time your instructor specified.


This display issue will be resolved on February 19. Special access in quizzes should display the time as set by your instructor.