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Old Course Deletions

Cranky thought of the day that does not involve the LT department: if you book time with our LT colleagues, and especially if you requested a custom session for a specific group, and then, you don't show up, it's rude. Please don't do that. These guys have a lot of...

COD Membership Benefits for the Online Learning Consortium 

College of DuPage is an Online Learning Consortium (OLC) member! You can take advantage of many institutional membership benefits with your cod.edu email address: Free Webinars on online higher education topics Access to the interactive OLC Quality Scorecard for...

Clean Up Your Mess!

Christine's cranky thought that does not involve the LT department: ever heard of Betteridge's Law of Headlines? Here it is: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." Case in point: Anyhoo, back to Blackboard stuff. One of the...
While I Have Your Attention

While I Have Your Attention

Let's talk about a topic that I consider super important: our own digital practices with regards to privacy and data protection. This is, of course, related to my previous post on LLMs. The usual disclaimer: What I discuss in this post is my perspective only, It does...

No, PDFs Are Not Dead

No, PDFs Are Not Dead

No, PDFs are not dead You may have seen some communication urging people to stop using PDFs for accessibility reasons. It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Let me review different situations and what you can do so that your documents are accessible. The worst-case...