I had a caulking-the-tub moment this week, in which a weird urge to complete a task turned out to be totally providential. Although I have to be sure to get all of my content out of our old LMS this week, I thought that I had plenty of time to move my lecture videos. That platform isn't going away until January. But I got into a video-transferring groove a couple of days ago, and I just kept working my way backward in time.
"Why am I doing this?" I asked myself. "Wouldn't it be smarter to finish up the loose ends in the time-sensitive task first?" But instead I just kept moving videos out of their old storage location and into the new one.
When I got all the way back to the 2018 videos, I found myself flummoxed. In 2018 I taught my first fully online asynchronous class, and so I had made a boatload of lecture videos. But for some baffling reason, the first third of the course wasn't showing up with my other videos.
Had they been auto-deleted, because I'd exceeded a storage cap?
Were they in some secret folder I couldn't see?
I contacted tech support, and they were also flummoxed.
Somewhere in the dim recesses of my brain a faint recollection stirred, and I looked at the course website from 2018. I had totally forgotten: I switched platforms in the middle of prepping those materials. I started out storing videos in the LMS, but bumped up against the limit on data storage for a single course.
If not for that weird itch to transfer my videos ahead of schedule, I would have lost all of that material. Ai yi yi, I am wincing at the thought.
I am feeling grateful tonight for weird providential urges.
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