{"id":5381,"date":"2014-05-05T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/blackboard-tip-of-the-week-80\/"},"modified":"2014-05-05T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:56:14","slug":"blackboard-tip-of-the-week-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/blackboard-tip-of-the-week-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Tip of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With all due respect to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/17661-theory-general-relativity.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>General Law of Relativity<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fi.edu\/learn\/case-files\/einstein\/special.html\" target=\"_blank\">Special Law of Relativity<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, Albert Einstein overlooked an even more fundamental Law of the Universe: \u00a0as Murphy mandates, bad things <em><strong>will<\/strong> <\/em>happen when college students least want them to happen! That is, in the local application of this law, your students\u00a0<em><strong>will<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>have issues with their online final exams when they can least afford to encounter those issues!<\/p>\n<p>As an <em><strong>Rx<\/strong> <\/em>for the strife that this law will impose on your students, the DL office offers the following preventative measure, in the form of a link to a tutorial that will empower your students to effectively circumvent, if not totally avoid, the hazards of taking final exams online: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvcc.edu\/deptweb-dlweb\/students.php?id=5095&amp;cat=102\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Tips on Taking Tests in Blackboard!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to copy\/paste this link into an announcement (or e-mail) to your students, so that they can ensure themselves of a less stressful experience in taking their final exams!<\/p>\n<p>And, as always, please feel free to contact the Distance Learning Office (<strong>629-7070\/<a title=\"DLHelp@hvcc.edu\" href=\"mailto:DLHelp@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">DLHelp@hvcc.edu<\/a><\/strong>) if you have any questions about this!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 05 May 2014 11:56:14 +0000 by\u00a0m.petersen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With all due respect to his General Law of Relativity and Special Law of Relativity, Albert Einstein overlooked an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}