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LRC hosts help desk for students to register on their McGraw-Hill Connect online textbook website

2013/08/17 Leave a comment

This special Help desk will be sign-posted in the LRC on the day of the events. For now, consult the calendar of the iMacsand Group Room1, 2 (see https://thomasplagwitz.com/2012/11/04/how-to-view-lrc-hoursevents/).Here is the documentation:

Categories: announcements, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-training, textbooks, websites Tags:

Current LRC equipment circulation training for Film students (pre-Office365)

2013/08/17 Leave a comment
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Current LRC training for Student Assistants

2013/08/17 Leave a comment
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Demo of Puntos de partida on the McGraw-Hill Connect online platform for Hybrid Spanish teachers

2013/08/17 Leave a comment
  1. For your review:
  2. Highlights:
    1. Learnsmart: adaptive learning content that asks for and tracks for the teacher and adapts for the student to students metacognitive confidence about her knowledge before testing it
    2. In a flipped classroom setting, highest failure areas in the online learning results can be easily seen by the teacher to adapt the next class meeting.
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LRC Fall 2013 announcements

2013/08/16 Leave a comment
  1. The LRC has upgraded to Windows 7 and Office 2010.
    1. Benefits:
      1. Your students can use the computer interface from the default English to  about 20 languages, including non-Western.
      2. Your students can also use speech recognition (in English, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish), e.g. for dictation exercises (Example videos:  very bad French, decent German). Students can train the computers to their voice and take their training data with them.  I’d love to explore with you possibilities for pronunciation practice with automated intelligent feedback .
      3. Your students can use old and new MS-Office Proofing tools.
    1. Caveat:  W are still trying to restore some former functionality (e.g. no Google Arabic, Farsi and Russian IME etc.). Please bear with us while we deal with the new college tech infrastructure. 
  1. The LRC has upgraded its Sanako digital audio lab software.
    1. Because of budgetary constraints, our software agreement had to end  with version 5 . This summer, the vendor presented us with a free upgrade to version 7, with compliments for my blog posts about using the Sanako.
    2. Benefits:  We decided to implement the upgrade lest you and your students need relearn in the middle of the academic year and since Version 7 adds valuable language learning :  which I would love to explore with you: Vocabulary exercises  and Pronunciation exercises which  make use of the computerized text-to-speech capabilities we just implemented with windows 7
    3. Caveats:
      1. We are still trying to restore the old Sanako configuration. E.g. Pairing recording is not working currently.
      2. I hope to upgrade my LanglabEmailer software to support the new version after the term is underway.
  1. For students attending distance classes with Saba Centra in the LRC, microphone audio on listening stations fixed, no more 30 minute delay  when joining class.
  1. UNCC is upgrading to Moodle 2. The CTL is investigating how the LRC Metacourses for audio materials I created can be converted to Moodle 2. If you need the audio materials from the metacourses,  we can help you upload them into your individual courses temporarily. 
  1. Classroom AV: We found a temporary workaround for the projector image quality and are investigating permanent solutions. Currently no VHS video and doc cam display during classes  (we would love to  scan your text anyway and distribute them digitally).
  2. LRC Calendars and Booking:
    1. In the LRC Room and Equipment List, your will notice some new film studies equipment (calendars requested from ITS).
    2. We added new calendars to the Quicklinks on LRC home page :  Tutors and LRC assistants. Please keep checking how we fill these open positions over the next few weeks, and use the help they can offer you.
    3. When booking, you can
      1. get help at the LRC reception desk;
      2. book yourself  from anywhere,
      3. or have your “delegate” book (planned; setup requested from ITS).
  1. I will continue next week with the biweekly Sanako Clinic to aid teachers with their LRC class preparation. Please consult the LRC calendar if you want to drop in, or reschedule one with me for your needs.
  2. I am also offering LRC introductions for your class during the week 2 and 3 on a “first-come, first-served” basis, and à la carte (I suggest consulting a one-sheet menu with an overview  of LRC facilities that I am  preparing.) Please let me know if you are interested.
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How to share your calendar from Outlook (desktop)

2013/08/15 Leave a comment
  1. Click “Share Calendar”:image
  2. Choose your settings, then click “Send”: image
  3. Or you could just rely on the campus default and have colleagues use the “scheduling assistant” in the “meeting request”,
  4. After adding participants image
  5. their calendars can be seen – in timeline format, good for comparing availability of multiple meeting participants –after you click on ribbon item: “scheduling assistant”. image 
  6. In current OWA., “meeting request” and “scheduling assistant”  look a bit different from/reduced (including permissions) compared to Outlook, as you can see here e.g..
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How to fix a crash of the teacher station control panel

2013/08/15 Leave a comment
  1. Problem: control panel on the teacher station  unresponsive (both hardware and software buttons). No AV and on/off switching.
  2. Cause: Octo switch in the AV cabinet crashed (it needs replacing).
  3. Resolution: Open the door to the AV cabinet and powercycle the switch (= unplug and replug the lower thin black cable in the 1st or top rightmost thin black cable in the 2nd photo). Or use the call button (still functional) and wait for help.
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Moodle 1 into Moodle 2 course restore fails with error “unsupported subplugin” or “unknown resource successor” or “parameter (contextid) was missing

2013/08/14 Leave a comment

  1. I could not get the course to convert, until I deleted everything but the fora , and not even my rss blocks converted with urls – if this helps somebody, I describe the steps I took here:

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  4. The cause of this is likely due to an unsupported subplugin not being available in the version of Moodle you are using. If this error appeared during the restore of a Moodle course check the plugins within the backed up course against what is available in the Moodle you are restoring the course to. The Moodle you are restoring the course to is likely to be missing a plugin that is present in the backed up course. There is a tracker for this error to be a bit more graceful during course restore for Moodle version 2.x.x http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-29288  <http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/error/moodle/unsupported_subplugin>
    • Do not include "Video Assignments" means not only video files, but also Kaltura streamed video.
    • If I remove pretty much anything which was useful and retry backup/restore with these settings
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    1. I removed the video, however, there is a new error
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    1. There seems no way for me to deselect Centra events, soi I sem to have to delete them from the original course (whee I would still have had a use for them).
    2. Did I see these linked file warnings before?

    Backup Details:

    Include Assignments without user data

    test upload assignment1

    Model imitation Assignment

    Include Forums without user data

    LRC Staff Announcements&Discussion Forum

    Spanish Tutoring Schedule Changes

    Include Quizzes without user data

    The Cloze(multianswer) question "" does not contain any question

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    Pasted from <https://moodle.uncc.edu/backup/backup.php>

    Error remains:

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  5. Now remove really all Saba Centra  and Kaltura references.

  6. Error remains: image

  7. Now we are removing everything except fora:

  8. Not much point anymore, but now we reach the next step: image

  9. RSSs blocks were transferred, but without feeds.

  10. In addition, you may see this error, when you get logged out and have to log in again after uploading the backup file: image

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