WebCT news at SFU

The recent move to Daylight Savings Time (DST) has resulted in a slight timing inconsistency in some cases in WebCT.

Any time-stamped activity created between March 11th to April 6th will be 1 hour behind.

Here are a few examples.

1. If an assignment has a due date of March 24 at 2pm, and a student logs in at on March 24th at 1:55pm and submits the assignment, in WebCT it will be time stamped for 12:55pm.
2. Any discussion postings made between March 11th and April 6th will be time-stamped one hour prior. So the posting that I made at 1:30pm today was time-stamped in the discussion area as 12:30pm.
3. All calendar entries that you have created should be correct, because calendar entries are manually created by you, not time-stamped by the software.

These time-stamp irregularities will only occur until April 6th (when the clocks used to change). After much discussion, we think we have diagnosed the problem and the repercussions. There is a patch, but that would change all due dates in WebCT, so it was decided that this communications would cause the least amount of disruption.