Weekly Quercus Updates
This week: Rich Content Editor Pretty HTML View-Known Issue, EdTech's April Newsletter, This Week's Faculty Question: My students need to watch previous videos of the course in order to submit their assignments. They cannot find any video recordings that were made more than 30 days ago in BB Collaborate and neither can I. How can I access these recordings?
In this Weekly Update:
- Rich Content Editor Pretty HTML View - Known Issue
- EdTech's April Newsletter
- This Week's Faculty Question
Rich Content Editor Pretty HTML View - Known Issue
In a recent Weekly Quercus Update (February 25, 2021), we told you about the new Pretty HTML view available in the Quercus Rich Content Editor. While this view can be handy for formatting pages and other areas where you use the Rich Content Editor, there is currently a known issue with the Pretty HTML editor that affects student text submissions in Quizzes and Assignments. Specifically, adding text in pretty HTML view in RCE does not save for essay answers/text submissions.
Summary of the problem:
When a student uses the Pretty HTML view to enter text on an essay -type question in Classic Quizzes or on a Text-Entry submission for an online Assignment , their text is not saved.
Recommended Workaround:
Students should not use the Pretty HTML view to enter text responses in Quizzes or Assignments. We recommend that students answer any questions requiring a text-entry response offline (i.e., in a Word document) and then copy and paste the answers into the Rich Content Editor when they are ready to submit. If they need to format their response, they can use the available formatting options in the WYSIWYG Rich Content Editor view directly without going into the HTML views.
EdTech April Newsletter
FASE's EdTech Tip Sheet is out for April! We have a new staff member, Inga Breede! She's our new Senior Instructional Technologist, Content Production and she'll be leading our media production efforts as well as supervising the Lecture Capture and Remote Editing Services.
This Week's Faculty Question
Q: My students need to watch previous videos of the course in order to submit their assignments. They cannot find any video recordings that were made more than 30 days ago in Bb Collaborate and neither can I. How can I access these recordings?
A: Bb collaborate recordings appear on the Recent Recordings list for 30 days. To see a list of recordings made earlier than 30 days ago you need to:
1. Change the filter to view Recordings in a Range:
2. Select a date range from the calendar to see your recordings.
For more information on viewing recordings in Bb Collaborate, see our guide: How do I access my Bb Collaborate Session Recordings?
Have a Quercus (or EdTech) question? Please contact FASE's EdTech Office.
