Thomas' Work Space

How to launch a webpage to students from Sanako Study 1200

2011/10/18 plagwitz Leave a comment

On the center buttons “Web browser”, use
1. either the large grey rectangular right area to launch to all students in class
2. or the small square colored (here brown) left area, to launch only to students in the brown group, like so,
4. unfortunately, you will have to click through number of errors on most web pages – the students do not see these
6. eventually, the start page will show in your Sanako web browser
7. then you can browse to a page from the address bar, click “send”, which will open it on the student computers
9. clicking “follow” is like always clicking “send” after browsing to a new webpage. It allows you to guide the students through a number of web pages.

Categories: documentation, e-learning, software Tags: sanako-study-1200, webbrowsers

How to make a screenshot of your computer screen

2011/10/18 plagwitz Leave a comment

You can look it up, or:

on Windows, press the “PrintScr” key (upper right corner of your keyboard)
on Mac OS X, Command+Shift+3.

Then paste the clipboard into an application that can handle images and that you are familiar with (your best bet may be MS-Word).

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure, software Tags: documenting, screenshots

Why is the “Add calendar” item in the OWA’s My Calendars context menu often grayed out/not available

2011/10/18 plagwitz 2 comments

This can been observed in IE8 and IE9.

Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors Tags: add-calendars, calendaring, OWA

Does your OWA look different from others’, but you do not want the low vision version?

2011/10/18 plagwitz Leave a comment

If you log in on http://mail.uncc.edu and see this:
do this

Click on Options in the upper right corner
Click on Accessibility on the left side of the screen
Uncheck the box for ‘Use the blind and low vision experience’
Click Save at the top of the screen
Sign out in the upper right hand corner
Go back to mail.uncc.edu and login normally without checking the ‘light version’ box, and you will see this:

Not sure how you managed to inadvertently set it to “low vision”, but this is how to fix it, per our helpdesk.

Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors Tags: 2007, 2010, 2011, accessibility, outlook, OWA

How not to book LRC equipment: Avoid scheduling conflicts by not using “Show times as free”

2011/10/18 plagwitz 1 comment

Appointments and Meeting requests default to “Show time as busy”.
Before you change this, like so: . Note this “Gotcha”: “If you have already specified that this is an all day event, Save As is set automatically to Free “.
consider this: a scheduling conflict can easily result, if people coming after you cannot see the resource as “busy”, they might inadvertently book over your booking:
Remember this is a platform for collaboration, not for spreading confusion: If you leave your appointment as “busy”, per the default, voilà, others can see that the resource is busy, and work around it:

Categories: e-infrastructure, service-is-library Tags: 2007, 2010, 2011, calendaring, Gotchas, ms-exchange, outlook, resources, scheduling

Film-and-media-collection.xlsx online database under construction

2011/10/13 plagwitz 1 comment

Sneak preview (larger view here) of the searchable online database with internet background information lookup (Note: work in progress, hard-“head” area!):

Friends of the UNCC-LRC can open this link in Excel-web-app (in your web browser, internet explorer or Firefox): https://skydrive.live.com/edit.aspx?cid=0025C841818181C2&resid=25C841818181C2%21164

More than one LRC assistant can edit the sheet at the same time, just not the same cell. so: if there is more than 1 lab assistant on duty, the one whose first name is closer to the end of the alphabet starts from the bottom row of the spreadsheet and works her way up

Click on the link “try UPC lookup”,

On the page that opens, if there is a picture of the movie with “buy from amazon”, right click on the link to amazon.com, select “copy shortcut”, and paste the shortcut into the column “buy from amazon”

Find the original movie title on the page, copy it into spreadsheet column “UPC title original”,

If there is title English translation, copy it into “UPC title English translation”

Click on link “try worldcat”, do the same as above with the spreadsheet columns “ISBN title original” and “translation”,

How to set up your laptop to use with the LRC portable Projector

2011/10/12 plagwitz Leave a comment

re LCD projector
1. First, book the projector from this list of bookable items (manual included).
2. Here is what we have as Projector: <
3. connect the VGA-adapter which is in the package:
4. (if your laptop does not have a secondary VGA connector, you may need to bring an adapter).
5. power the projector on: (also always power it off using the power button; never just pull the power plug).
on your laptop:
1. find the key combination to enable the secondary output
3. right-click the windows desktop, access the graphics card settings;
4. Enable the graphics card to send a video signal to the projector you just connected. . I the projector native resolution is not automatically recognized, it is 1024*768.
If you want to show a slideshow on the projector, go to PowerPoint
1. ribbon, (1) Slide Show/ item: (2)) set up show, and bring up the (3) set up show dialogue
2. here you can configure to show on monitor 2 (numbers correspond toe the numbers 1 and 2 in the graphics card dialogue above): . Same principle as with other dual screen computers, like the teacher station in LRCCOED434.