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Brandeis Latte Login: How to Access Brandeis University Accounts Learning and Teaching Technology Environment (LATTE), the university learning management system, is a Moodle-based learning platform that enables Brandeis faculty members and students to engage in online education.
Through LATTE, faculty members can create dedicated course pages with syllabi, readings, multimedia, and other resources. Students participate in discussions, submit assignments, receive feedback, and interact with other members of their learning community. For technical support with LATTE, please contact the Technology Help Desk by submitting a help request or calling 781-736-HELP (x64357). The Help Desk can assist with uploading materials to LATTE, adding course participants, and other technical questions.
Faculty Members
- Learn LATTE course – view helpful documentation designed to help you become familiar with the features in LATTE, and how to make use of them.
- Echo360 and LATTE – learn how to use Echo360 to record a video or upload an edited video clip directly within a LATTE course.
- Best Practices: Saving Course Materials – learn best practices and process to save course materials or restore archived course materials
Students
- Access your courses
- Manage your personal LATTE profile and preferences
- Complete assignments (Best Practices)
- Use discussion forums (Best Practices)
- Use Voice Thread in discussion forums
- Record a video or upload a video clip (Echo 360 and LATTE)
- Use Macmillan Resources (Achieve, Sapling)
Recent Changes
The following outlines changes to LATTE, the university learning management system, that have been approved by the Academic Technology Committee and its LATTE subcommittee. These changes have been implemented to optimize the system and provide resources necessary to support the hybrid teaching and learning model of academic year 2020-2021..
Grade Aggregation Types simplification
Change in available grade aggregation types (effective Jan. 7)
Based on recent analysis, several grade aggregation types are not in use and unnecessarily complicate the use of the gradebook. Gradebook aggregation types with minimal or no use will be removed within LATTE (see screenshot below). The most widely used methods will remain:
- Weighted Mean of Grades
- Simple Weighted Mean of Grades
- Natural
This update will limit the options of aggregation types starting with the spring term. Courses (current or past) that used one of the discontinued aggregation types will not be unaffected.
Please see the Gradebook Quick Guide in Learn LATTE to learn more about these grade types. The Library Team is available for more personalized assistance with your course gradebook.
File upload limit, Change in video options
September 23, 2020
Dear Colleagues,
You are receiving this message as an instructor or academic administrator in a Fall 2020 course. We are writing to notify you that LATTE, the university learning management system, will undergo changes effective tomorrow, Thursday, September 24, in order to provide resources to support the hybrid teaching and learning model and sustain the platform’s technical platform.
You will continue to receive communications when changes of any kind occur within LATTE. These changes have been approved by the Academic Technology Advisory Committee (ATAC) and the LATTE Subcommittee.
Summary of Changes (effective 9/24)
The text editing toolbar, commonly found in discussion forums, label activities, and assignments with online text submission types, is integrated with Echo360. This is the ITS recommended best practice for instructors and students to record a video or upload an edited video clip directly within a LATTE course.
LATTE provides several ways to perform the same function. Over the past several months, many instructors and students have used the Add Media and Record Video buttons available in the text editing toolbar as means to record a video or upload a video clip within a LATTE activity. These options are not best practices, and their use can cause course sizes to grow exponentially. In addition, due to the exponential growth of course sizes, limitations for file sizes that may be uploaded are being reduced. Additional documentation is available to assist in situations where larger file sizes are needed.
- Change in video options: The Add Media and Record Video buttons will be removed from the text editing toolbar in order to prevent media from being added directly into the text editing window and prevent the video from being recorded “in-line” in the window.
- No files will be automatically removed.
Changes to date (effective 9/17)
- Change in file size: Change in file size: The file size limitation for files uploaded into all areas (for ex: discussion forums or assignment activities) was changed from 2000MB (2GB) to 20MB. This places the limitation on par with Gmail attachment file size limits.Files of larger sizes can be shared with Brandeis cloud storage solutions such as Box, Google Drive or embedded Echo360 videos/presentations and linked from LATTE.
- Expanded Help Instructions:When attempting to upload files greater than 20MB, instructors or students will be directed to documentation that outlines alternative ways to incorporate files into course activities.
Support/Resources
Faculty support resources are available from several groups across campus; details can be found in this overview. Please visit the ITS website for helpful information including best practices and FAQs.
If you have any questions about these changes, please contact the Help Desk ([email protected] or 781-736-4357).
Sincerely,
Ivan Nieves
Associate Director, LMS and Service Management
Information Technology Services, LATTE team
brandeis.edu/its
FAQs
Why are these changes being made?
With the shift to distance learning in mid-March, the number of large files and video uploads directly into LATTE has grown exponentially; the number of courses larger than 2GB has grown from 31 courses in Spring 2020 to 887 in Fall 2020. In addition to an overabundance of video options, this led to a technical challenge and adversely impacted system performance. These changes will streamline the use of video content and the size of upload files.
When will these changes go into effect?
The reduction in file size went into effect on September 17. The Add Media and Record Video changes wrny into effect tomorrow, Thursday, September 24.
Will these changes impact the sizes of the files that I can upload to my course as a resource?
The change to file size limitation applies only to the size of files that may be uploaded through a LATTE activity, such as a discussion post, label, and assignment activity. Files hosted externally, such as links to Box, Google Drive, or embedded Echo360 videos/presentations are not affected by this configuration change.
If I have files that are larger than the new limit within my course, what will happen to them?
On an ongoing basis, instructors will be contacted if particularly large files are detected in their courses, and provided instructions and assistance to replace them. No files will be automatically removed.
Course shells exceeding 2GBs in size will not qualify for a course retention extension, so they will not be kept past the 6 term time limit set by the Course Retention Policy. We will partner with faculty to optimize course size limits if retention extensions are needed.
How will these changes impact the student experience?
Students may hit a size limitation with image uploads, especially if they’re using a smartphone camera app to capture a high-resolution image of their handwritten notes for submission. We recommend offering formative activities early on in the semester for students to become familiar with the upload process and size limit, before requiring this kind of activity in a graded assignment or quiz. This will give students the opportunity to develop a new process and seek out support if needed. When hit with a size limit, students will be directed to refer to best practices and resources for completing assignments or using discussion forums.
Accounts & Access
A top priority of our team is to ensure a safe and secure environment for Brandeis’s computing resources and data.
ITS maintains Brandeis accounts and the authentication systems, such as identity.brandeis.edu and Two-Factor Authentication.
Account Management & Settings
ITS provides an easy-to-use interface for maintaining your Brandeis account and email settings.
Change your Password
Update or reset your Brandeis account password.
Create a Brandeis Account
Set up an account to access Brandeis’s online resources.
Two-Factor Authentication (Duo)
Brandeis has enabled two-factor authentication using the Duo service. This means you will be required to verify your identity using something you have (like your phone, landline or tablet) and something you know (your password) to add an additional layer of security to your Brandeis account.
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