" This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. " - Winston Churchill

Have you checked out the press release on Distance Education? Click on the graphic above to learn more. We want to thank everyone for their continued support!

This summer, Honorlock will be updating their Minimum System Requirements. Beginning July 1st, Honorlock will no longer support Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Mac OSX 10.11 and Mac OSX 10.12. This update reflects users’ most common operating systems and allows for the maintaining of an efficient testing process to deliver the best experience for you and your students. 

After July 1st, you will find the updated Minimum System Requirements, as well as a system compatibility test, at honorlock.com/support .

Using videos for your online course? We have a few tools that can help with that! We offer Zoom, Yuja, and Camtasia/Snagit technologies to help with your lecture capture and multimedia needs. Contact our support desk at [email protected] for more information.

What is an instructional designer anyway? How can they help me with my online courses? Instructional Designers are guides, problem solvers, project managers, helpers, and so much more. They are skilled in the best practices for the design and delivery of your online course. Contact [email protected] to get connected to one.

A course blueprint, or course plan or map, is a tool you can use when designing or redesigning your course. The blueprint acts as an outline for your course as a whole and serves as a guide for sequencing your content. Your blueprint should demonstrate the relationship and alignment between your learning outcomes, assessments and assignments, and course content.

Contact us at [email protected] for a course map template! We'll be happy to work with you on filling it out as you design your online course.

What is a sandbox? It's a D2L course that we can create for you so that you can start working in your online class before fall courses are made available in the LMS. Contact our support desk to have one made for you! Once fall courses are open, we can copy everything from your sandbox to your actual class. Contact our support desk at [email protected] for more information.

With the Annotations tool in D2L, you can give your students contextual inline feedback on their Dropbox assignments by highlighting text, adding notes, and more. For a quick look at how to use the Annotations tool, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd2rdj_6q6k

Zoom has launched a new and improved and more secure version! Beginning May 30, version 5.0 or higher will be required to use Zoom due to changes in the encryption. Follow this  easy step sheet to update your computer’s Zoom application today. You can read all about the 5.0 version through this  5 Things to Know About Zoom 5.0 blog post . New to Zoom? Check out  Distance Education’s Zoom page  for more information.