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LRC Facilities: Coed037 (Film studies lab)
- The classroom
- old layout (wall-facing, 1 row along wall):
- new layout Fall 2011 (front-facing, 2 columns along both side walls):
- The teacher computer (an upgrade is in the works):
Reception area PCs: Remaining issues with the software image
- That’s a new one:
. likely fixed by logging in with an admin account first before freezing. - IE8 windows in kiosk mode where clients need to log in (and out, using the built in links not by closing the browser)
- 49erexpress , the rest is linked there and opens in a new window which can also be closed, as long as the login dialogue stays up
- mail.uncc.edu
- Moodle
- Safari
- default dialogues need to be changed
- no “not default browser”:
- close w/o saving settings/tabs
- no “not default browser”:
- should start and load the UNCC-LRRC calendar (could be home page)
- default dialogues need to be changed
- Chrome
- business chrome install, but interferes with zoomit shortcuts
- Firefox
- is missing tab 49erexpress: use this also for lrc assistants
- LRC Moodle
- LRC lists
- loads its required tabs twice – probably related to “save and quit” feature which needs to be set to “quit” and “never ask again”.
- Spreadsheet opens read-only.
- Trying to set the file attribute to read/write fails
- Trying to set the file attribute to read/write fails
- not needed, store in outlook, also we do not output code to spreadsheet anymore anyway to discourage manual copy: Writable spreadsheet is not useful anyway on a frozen PC
- w/o thawspace: implement one in Deepfreeze (which requires alteration of the DFWks.exe installer) (and during creation of the image, fake the drive letter from which the spreadsheet autoloads, with a removable drive).
- Better would be Faronics Igloo which would with install of deepfreeze redirect spreadsheet folder to thawed virtual partition, but is not available
- Deepfreeze did install and could be frozen, but does not accept its password for thawing locally and needs to be thawed from the Deepfreeze Console. Password has been updated.
- The MS-Office tooltips are set to French – this is for testing:
- Internet Explorer managed to sneak in Bing as the default search provider;
- When starting MS-word, there is a DOCUMENT Recovery pane.
- in explorer, protected operating files are not shown, but hidden files
- label screens on lrc assistant side.
- LRC assistants use Firefox, clients use Internet explorer (full-screen – use ALT+TAB to switch windows)
- show on 2nd screen:
- SAFARI with UNCC-LRC calendar
- Moodle Spanish announcement (?)
- Printers
- department: optional
- Ricoh: default
Sanako Study-1200 Oral Exams: More result examples
- Study 1200 will automatically save the exam recordings of each of your students under a distinct name (you can choose student email name or seat number) in a location which you can access from your office desktop:
- You can load this recordings in Audacity to grade them, including skipping past the questions and increasing the play speed, but not the pitch, and easy comparison of students like in the picture below:
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Just testing the post by email
This appears to be a Trados error. Does it appear on every startup? On each Coed434 PC? We have to investigate.
How to set up PowerPoint show on dual screen computers
Before trying to show your PowerPoint on the classroom projector, with your PowerPoint file open on the teacher computer, go to the dialogue: “Set up Show” and choose from the dropdown: “secondary monitor”, click “OK”, like so:
Then proceed as normal.
How to enable screen cloning and switching between display modes on the LRC reception desk dual screen Dell OptiPlex 780 with WinXP
Short, non-technical answer: on the keyboards of the reception desk computers, press key combination
- ALT+CTRL+F10 to mirror the same image on both monitors;
- ALT+CTRL+F11 to return to extending the primary screen, i.e. showing something different on the second screen.
- if this stops working, restart the computer.
We do not use any more key combination ALT+CTRL+F10 to cycle through the different desktop configurations, which include cloning/mirroring the same image on both screens (also keep pressing the key combination, in order to get back to extending the image to the 2nd screen, for running an informational display (calendar, PowerPoint) to display on the 2nd screen after mirroring the lab assistant’s screen onto the 2nd screen when interacting with a client on the other side of the help desk counter).
Longer, technical answer: You have to configure this. But the Win XP dialogue: Display Properties / tab: Settings only allows for “extending” the desktop to the secondary screen. However, button: Advanced leads to another dialogue, with a tab: ATI Control Center, by the graphics card manufacturer.
If you also enable the advanced settings in this dialogue, you can get to the hotkey settings where, among other things, you can enter a key combination for cycling through Display Configurations, one of which being cloning.
In addition, you can save this configuration as such:
Why all these minutiae? You cannot have LRC clients and staff at the help desk communicate with the help of a computer (and all the goodies accessible now, from intranet to interwebs) if they cannot easily share the screen (and, in order to both even interact with the screen, share keyboard and mouse, which are easy to duplicate, if you have some spare USB input devices lying around). If you can make them share, you have applied AI to business problems (compare dual screen system in the LLC entrance area here). If calling the after state “AI” sounds too lofty to you, you may call the before state “flying blind” instead: I just care about the delta which remains the same.
Keyboard overlay stickers improve foreign character writing support in the LRC
Some non-western, but character-based languages benefit from having keyboard overlay stickers installed. Here is a list of what the LRC has:
| Amount | Languages | installed@ |
| 3 | Arabic | 1 list. station, 2 rightmost computers in the front row of the left (teacher perspective) half of the main classroom |
| 2 | Farsi | 2 rightmost computers in the middle row of the left (teacher perspective) half of the main classroom |
| 1 | Greek | 1 list. station |
| 3 | Russian | 1 list. station, 2 rightmost computers of the rear row of the left (teacher perspective) half of the main classroom |
Here are photos of the Arabic and Cyrillic keyboards:
We installed the stickers, so that they reflect the software layout of the keyboard that you get when choosing the respective language from the international toolbar. Note that the letters marked in red on the Cyrillic keyboard picture below are not supported by the Russian keyboard layout:
Since only one set can be added to any existing physical keyboard, the teacher computer keyboard can not have an overlay. The student computers with overlays are the listening stations and computers 6,7,12,13,18,19 on the LRC layout map.
Remember that the On-screen-keyboard software remains accessible at all PC’s through clicking “Start”, “Run”, typing “OSK”, clicking "OK".
Example where you can get your own keyboard overlay stickers.
Protected: How to conduct an easy oral exam with Sanako1200 (Model imitation/Question Response) – Part II: Implementation/instruction of examined students
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