Weekly Quercus Updates

In this Weekly Update:

1. BB Collaborate Update
2. This Week's Faculty Question

BB Collaborate Update

BB Collaborate just released a new update today on March 11, 2021.

Support Chatbot Available in More Places

BB Collaborate's chatbot, released earlier in January, can now be accessed on both Error pages and Report an Issue panel to provide better support to users.

This Week's Faculty Question

Q: I want to share some new resources with my students and am planning to send them an announcement in Quercus. However, the course ended over one month ago. Can I still send an announcement from the course even though it’s ended? If so, will my students still be able to see the announcement?

A: As instructor, you can still send a course announcement. However, because the course ended over one month ago, it is now in read-only state for students. That means that students would not receive a notification about a new announcement being posted in the course.  They could still access the course in Quercus and view the announcement there. However, the course will now appear under Past Enrolments and will no longer be displayed on their Dashboard. That means that students would have to navigate to Courses > All Courses > Past Enrollments to access the course and announcements, which they may be unlikely to do on their own.

As a work-around, you could still use the Inbox tool to message the students with your announcement or to let them know that there's an announcement in your course that they have to navigate to for viewing.

Note: Instructors can continue to message students via the Inbox tool for up to 1 year following the session end date. This is when instructor access moves into read-only mode and this window cannot be extended. For additional information on Quercus course states for students and instructors, please see the Course Life Cycle page in the Quercus Support Resources.

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