{"id":6147,"date":"2014-12-15T12:49:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/blackboard-tip-of-the-week-97\/"},"modified":"2014-12-15T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:49:06","slug":"blackboard-tip-of-the-week-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/blackboard-tip-of-the-week-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Tip of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-para\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Bb 9.1 April 2014<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"first-para\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>With all due respect<\/strong> <\/span>to his\u00a0<a style=\"color: #528f6c;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/17661-theory-general-relativity.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>General Theory\u00a0of Relativity<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.virginia.edu\/~jh8h\/Foundations\/chapter7\/chapter7.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Special Theory\u00a0of Relativity<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Albert Einstein overlooked an even more fundamental Law of the Universe: \u00a0as Murphy mandates, bad things\u00a0<em><strong>will<\/strong>\u00a0<\/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 style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>As an\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Rx<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/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: <a style=\"color: #528f6c;\" 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 style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Please feel free<\/strong><\/span> 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><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Use the following link<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong>to download a printable version of this\u00a0<em>Bb\u00a0<\/em>tip of the week: <a href=\"http:\/\/acaddb.hvcc.edu\/~m.petersen\/bbtotw\/printable_copies\/BBTOTW_12172014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Download the Tip<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Use the following link<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to view previous\u00a0<em>Bb\u00a0<\/em>tips of the week: <a style=\"color: #528f6c;\" title=\"BBTOTW-Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wordpress\/author\/m-petersen\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>BBTOTW-Archive<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>And, as always,<\/strong><\/span> please feel free to contact the Distance Learning Office (<strong>629-7070\/<a style=\"color: #528f6c;\" 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, 15 Dec 2014 12:49:06 +0000 by\u00a0m.petersen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bb 9.1 April 2014 With all due respect to his\u00a0General Theory\u00a0of Relativity\u00a0and\u00a0Special Theory\u00a0of Relativity, Albert Einstein overlooked an even&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-6147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147","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=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}