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1. Go to http://lrc.uncc.edu
2. access like so:
3. The default calendar view in OWA is monthly:
4. From the top menu icons, you can easily change to weekly and daily views:
5. The calendars are edited directly by the service-providing party, to stay up to date with the frequent changes in tutor availability (see #1 on Seven ways to think like the web; #4, getting them to stick to our “disciplined naming conventions” remains a work in progress).
6. Thanks to Joomla’s Publish/Unpublish feature, we also stand a chance keeping up with the frequent changes in tutors being sent to the LRC or not, by entirely hiding non-applicable calendars (so that students do not have to think about what  we mean by “no time slots = sorry, currently no tutor”):

1. This email archive search
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4. includes the capability to search other mailboxes, if you have been granted access, like archived institutional knowledge. The following screenshot shows both what options you see if you have been granted  access, and what if not:

When you train in OWA, you can take advantage of sending your students directly to certain interfaces of OWA, for doing specific hands-on tasks. If they are not alreay logged in, they seem to get redirected to the desired view in the end Working example:

https://mail.uncc.edu/owa/?cmd=contents&fpath=Calendar&view=Weekly&archivestub=1

Limitations seem to be in the browsers: IE> Firefox > Safari.

However, I could not find a way to send a user to a specific view of an OWA published calendar (seems to default always to monthly).  Non-working eexamples:

bad request http://mail.uncc.edu/owa/calendar/LRCtutor11@uncc.edu/Calendar/calendar.html?view=Weekly 404 http://mail.uncc.edu/owa/calendar/LRCtutor11@uncc.edu/Calendar/Weekly/calendar.html#

See documentation here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232199.aspx

Can you use webbparts to save your users to have to change the view  when they open up a calendar like http://mail.uncc.edu/owa/calendar/LRCRoomCOED434@uncc.edu/Calendar/calendar.html#, or another way to open this calendar not in its (monthly) default view?

1. Why does this matter? Different information may be visible to you, especially shared calendars can display more sensitive information than internet published calendars.
2. How can I tell the difference? Apart from the amount of information that gets displayed to you, different calendar types appear :
   1. in a different place:
      1. Shared calendars appear under (1) heading “people” (even if it is a room or other resource),
      2. subscribed calendars under (3) heading “Other Calendars”
   2. with a different type of name:
      1. Shared calendars have as name the email address (2) “@uncc.edu”
      2. subscribed calendars have as default name only “calendar”. Only if you rename the calendar, it has a meaningful identifier, like was done here (4)
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Start in Moodle here, then do steps –1 to 2. Open NINERMAIL, continue with steps 1 to 8:

Subscribing to LRC calendars, e.g. for tutoring, will give you access from your Ninermail/OWA and always keep you updated of late-breaking changes. Here is how, starting from our list of bookable resources:

Want a longer version?

1. Why to subscribe?
   1. RSS is a great way to get your information both fast and filtered.
   2. For advanced filtering of RSS feeds, try Yahoo Pipes.
   3. However, WordPress makes this even easier by allowing for a wealth of atomic searching and filtering options. Choosing the right template (and content strategy), if you click on any of the linked items in either the category list or tag cloud on WordPress,
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   5. the resulting page will include an RSS link , or simply add “/feed” to the URL of your category, tag or even search result page, to get a feed  that you can subscribe to.
2. How to subscribe?
1. MS-Outlook makes subscribing to RSS more convenient since you do not need to go to a separate application like an RSS-Reader. Read your RSS with your email, think of the RSS feed as an email list, but personalized to your interests.
   1. You can subscribe to the “RSS feed” link like so:
   2. For historical reasons, I still use Google Reader, but I rely on Outlook’s advanced automated content download (including full text posts and multimedia attachments) and well-understood archiving, search and export features to not miss podcasts which I want to collect for potential use as teaching content: When Outlook fails, as with some RSS formats, you can still try and resort to the Internet Explorer Feed store:
2. If you use OWA: you can read feeds, but not add them through the OWA interface. If you are staff, you can still add them in Outlook first. If you are a student and restricted to NINERMAIL, you need to use a different feed reader. I recommend the free web-based Google Reader.

1. In Moodle:
1. With Firefox (3.6 here), go to Moodle Calendar: https://moodle.uncc.edu/calendar/view.php?view=upcoming&course=1 
2. Right-Click on and choose “Copy Shortcut”:
2. In Ninermail/OWA: click “Calendar”, right-click “My calendars” , click “Add calendar’, click radio-button “From internet”, paste URL you put in clipboard into textbox, click button “OK”, right-click calendar added, click “rename” and call it “Moodle”
3. Alternatively, in Outlook Desktop: go to “calendars”, right-click “shared calendars” , click “add calendar’, click “from internet”, paste URL you put in clipboard into textbox, click button “OK”, right-click calendar added, click “rename” and call it “Moodle”
4. Want a longer explanation?

1. This can been observed in IE8 and IE9.
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1. If you log in on http://mail.uncc.edu and see this:
2. do this
1. Click on Options in the upper right corner
2. Click on Accessibility on the left side of the screen
3. Uncheck the box for ‘Use the blind and low vision experience’
4. Click Save at the top of the screen
5. Sign out in the upper right hand corner
6. Go back to mail.uncc.edu and login normally without checking the ‘light version’ box, and you will see this:
3. Not sure how you managed to inadvertently set it to “low vision”, but this is how to fix it, per our helpdesk.