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LRC Outlook/Exchange 2010 Resource Calendaring: How to alter meeting times in OWA

2012/01/23 plagwitz Leave a comment

If you are the meeting organizer (you initiated the meeting request), in your NINERMAIL/OWA calendar, just click on the meeting and drag the meeting start and/or end time with your left mouse button in the desired new location (works like in Outlook), and send updates (this will not affect for the series of a recurring meeting, only the current occurence):
If you are not the meeting organizer, the meeting organizer, when requesting a meeting with you, may have allowed you to “Request a new time”: use the corresponding button (screenshots are for Outlook):
1. in the meeting request: .
or in the calendar item context menu

2012/01/18 plagwitz 1 comment

2012/01/18 plagwitz Leave a comment

Error reads: “”this operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer”.
Immediate workaround:
1. right-click on the link, choose copy, open a web browser window and paste the link into the address bar, browse to it from there.
2. File / Save as / Web page. From where you saved the web page, double click to open it in the your web browser, click the links form within there.
3. Have you tried saving your MS-Word files to the new SkyDrive.live.com (login with your NINERNET password) yet? Students can choose to open MS-Word documents in either MS-Word or their web browser which should also bypass the problem.
Solution: Investigating. Seems related to no “default browser set” in XP Control Panel / Internet options. If you cannot live with the workaround, do ask your System Administrator. Or stay tuned

2012/01/13 plagwitz 2 comments

2012/01/12 plagwitz 1 comment

Find your file upload writing assignment and click on it:
Read the assignment text, write an MS-Word file (format not required, but your teacher will likely send you MS-Word back if she uses track changes) and attach it, like so:
If this shows, you have finished the assignment:
Wait for notification, then go TBA:review your teacher’s comments.

2012/01/12 plagwitz Leave a comment

On popular request: Deutschland Radio still does live streaming, but their on demand archive is also very good. Unlike Deutsche Welle which has discontinued live streaming geared neither towards expats, nor language learners though.

2012/01/11 plagwitz Leave a comment

This first-year German textbook comes with a Companion Website with free online exercises, organized by chapter, on the publisher’s website (different from the Quia.com –based workbook and lab manual exercises).
From the instructor guide: “The Companion Website is a robust online resource designed to give students a chance to practice and further explore the vocabulary, structures, and cultural themes introduced in the text. For each chapter, students will find self-grading practice exercises on vocabulary and grammar topics as well as Web-based reading and writing activities. Web links to carefully selected sites in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Liechtenstein, and South Tyrol (Italy), accompanied by interesting activities, provide additional interaction with the cultures of these German-speaking areas of Europe. Also available on the Website are the audio components of the Student Text and the SAM, as well as an interactive vocabulary flashcards tool. ”
These exercises include vocabulary practice, even flash cards.
The auto-correction feature provides:
1. some useful feedback for further study,
2. summary grades
3. and an email to teacher function that should facilitate Syllabus integration of this useful resource: