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2012/3 enrolment per language in the main LRC constituent departments (LCS and ELTI)
If you cannot log into Windows because of accessibility dialogues offering you help
- Symptom: You cannot log in since accessibility tool dialogues (like above) come up when typing your password
- Workaround: Restart the computer (and make sure you have no item sitting on the keyboard while doing so, usual suspects: textbooks, bags). If you do not want to restart, but fix it immediately, you can read more about Windows XP accessibility features and keyboard shortcuts here.
- Root cause: You may have activated Windows accessibility features by erroneously depressing for a long time or repeatedly pressing a modifier key while the LRC computer was on the welcome screen. You may not run into this behavior from your personal computer (or read here how to disable Windows 7 Sticky and Filter Keys), but the LRC needs to be ADA compliant. Think of it as another LRC language tool that sometimes may get into your way temporarily if you do not study the language, but that you would not want to miss for the language you do study.
New keyboard shortcuts for diacritics on LRC Teacher PC
- The US international keyboard layout that has come with MS-Windows for many years (though – except in the LRC – not set as default, you need to enable it in the control panel) greatly facilitates typing of characters for most languages that use Roman script with common diacritical marks, but does not cover Pinyin and similar diacritical marks.
- Carly from Carleton, as avid a language teacher as a technologist, had the great idea to extend Microsoft’s US-international keyboard so as to include all the Pinyin tone marks (and other accents useful for linguists). Here is the upshot, extracted from her instructions, but excluding what (either shortcut or (use of common accents within Pinyin is now covered also below) purpose) has not changed from the shortcuts of the non-extended US-international keyboard that used to be the default in the LRC:
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What you want Which keys you press (before comma is “dead” key = no result until after next key) Example acute accent, pinyin 2nd tone
‘(=apostrophe), vowel
á é í ó ú
grave accent, pinyin 4th tone
`(=grave), vowel
à è ì ò ù
macron accent, pinyin 1st tone
hyphen, vowel
ā ē ī ō ū
pinyin 3rd tone
%(=shift+5), vowel
e.g. ǎ ě ǐ ǒ ǔ
ü with pinyin tones
Accent, double-quote
e.g. ǖ ǘ ǚ ǜ
letter with dot below
; (=shift+period), letter
e.g.
letter with double acute
: (=shift+;) , o or u
ő, ű, Ő, Ű
- We are offering the extended US-international keyboard this as an optional keyboard on the teacher and student PCs with Windows 7.
- To select the new keyboard layout, use the language toolbar, click on 2nd option:
- To explore the new keyboard layout use the Windows On-screen keyboard which will let you peek ahead after your pressed a dead key.
- To bypass a special dead key (= get the normal behavior of the key), press SPACE after it.
Recommended settings for a departmental Sanako Lite Recorder installation
The following settings are not in the default installation for the language lab, but rather manually overridden (in the Student Recorder Settings) for installation on faculty office computers: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sanako\Study\Student\Settings]
“My files directory”=”s:\\coas\\lcs\\lrc\\sanako\\teacher\\”
“AlwaysUseRecorderLiteVersion”=dword:00000001
The following setting obviously needs to be generalized:[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sanako\Study\Student\Settings]
“Temporary files directory”=”C:\\Documents and Settings\\tplagwit\\Local Settings\\Temp\\”
The helper.exe architecture should be disabled outside of the Sanako classroom (details here):
[HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sanako Helper]
“Start”==dword:0×00000004
and for backup:
[HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Sanako Helper]
“Start”=dword:0×00000004
Even with the helper.exe neutralized, the “associate media files” option appears too greedy – at least here I cannot get it to associate, as it seems to promise, the media files only when the student.exe is running, rather the following file associations changes seem to get baked into the registry permanently – so the following is not recommended (leave the checkbox in the settings unchecked):
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mff]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\StudyStudent.Document]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\StudyStudent.Document\DefaultIcon]
“”=”C:\\Program Files\\Sanako\\Study\\Student\\Student.exe,0”
The following associations seem to be added when checking “associate media files”in admin settings , but it does not look like this association is limited to during run time of the recorder
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\StudyStudent.Document\shell\open\command]
“”=”C:\\Program Files\\Sanako\\Study\\Student\\Student.exe %1”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.dim]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.maa]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.wav]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.snd]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.au]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.aif]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.aic]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.aifc]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.aiff]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.asf]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.asx]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.wax]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.wm]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.wma]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.wmd]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.wmp]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.wmx]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.wp1]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.wvx]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mid]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.midi]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.rmi]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mp3]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.m3u]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.m1v]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mp2]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mpa]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mpe]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mpeg]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.dat]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mp2v]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mpv2]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.ogg]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mov]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.qt]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mp4]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.ra]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.rm]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.ram]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.rmm]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.rmx]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.swf]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.smi]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.rmj]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.rt]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.mnd]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.pls]
“”=”StudyStudent.Document”
“Content Type”=”Application/StudyStudent.Document”
How students can record their picture or photo presentations with PowerPoint 2007
- On the ribbon:slideshow, click “record narration”,
- click “Change quality”,
- change the quality to 16Kbit from the default of 8kbit (which caused audio break-ups when I tested),
- click OK and present, using the headphones,
- then Save As / Show.
- You can easily use the saved file to e.g. upload the assignment to your teacher’s Moodle / File Upload Assignment.
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