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How to allow resubmitting of Moodle Kaltura video assignments

2011/12/12 plagwitz Leave a comment

Students may need a number of tries to complete a Kaltura video recording assignments, especially if they do not take advice to do it in the LRC, with the provided support structure, but overly confident, prefer to try “relying on their own metal”.
To allow them to learn from their mistakes, one is best advised to allow for resubmission of their assignment.
If you have not enabled the assignment, click on the assignment on the Moodle course home page – apparently no need to “turn editing on” prior –, and in the upper right corner of the assignment page, click button: “update this assignment”, like so:
On the assignment settings page, make sure, “allow resubmitting” is set to “yes”, like highlighted below:

Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-learning, lms Tags: kaltura, moodle

How to override a Projector control out of synch with the Classroom projector

2011/12/10 plagwitz Leave a comment

When the projector control system is “out of synch”with the projector.
Symptom: “System off” does not turn the projector off, but also “System on” does not turn.
Workaround: From the control panel Home screen, access soft button “system tools”
Here you can manually turn the projector on/off (and the close the screens)

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-teachers, Classroom-technology, e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, hardware, Presenter-Computer, Projectors Tags: FAQs

Logging off fails on teacher station?

2011/12/08 plagwitz Leave a comment

Symptoms: Cannot log off.
Diagnostics:
1. Not even after taskkilling so far (got to around “S” in process name initials)).
2. When did this behavior first manifest itself? This week? MS-Office 2010 upgrade? Novell upgrade?
Workaround: Current best workaround is power-cycling the computer.
Solution: Problem seems to have disappeared. Cause and resolution unclear, though.

Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-manager, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, Presenter-Computer Tags: windows-xp

Screencasts for Fall 2011 Workshop: Computer classroom management in the LRC using Sanako Study 1200

2011/12/08 plagwitz Leave a comment

The workshop stayed “this side of the digital audio lab”, i.e. focused on those generic teaching tasks that the Sanako Study 1200 can facilitate which have the widest teaching application (including in, but also beyond language-skill-courses):
1. remote controlling student computers,
2. screen sharing, collaborating with students,
3. launching applications on students computers,
4. sending students to webpages,
5. launching handout files to students and collecting their input back
6. locking their computers, screens or keyboards,
7. “clicker” classroom polls, for which I have written a PowerPoint Template you can base your own clicker-like face-to-face class exercises on.
8. and more…
9. Here are two screencasts of my presentation:
  1. one for the right screen/participant screen (using the Study1200 teacher to student screen casting). Requires Windows Media Player on PC, like in the LRC: download from MS-SkyDrive.
  2. one for the left screen/projector, where I displayed mostly a PowerPoint. You can watch this in parallel using another player, e.g. the VLC player, like in the LRC. However, it can also stream from MS-SkyDrive.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-learning, LRCRoomCoed434, Presenter-Computer, Screencasts, software, Student-Computers, training, workshops Tags: 2010, ms-powerpoint, sanako-study-1200

A PowerPoint Template to base your clicker-like face-to-face class exercises on

2011/12/08 plagwitz 2 comments

Enables easy exercise creation:
Resides on S:\coas\lcs\labs\lrctest\templates\Teacher.pot;
Requires MS-PowerPoint 2010, as installed on the teacher computer in LRCRoomCoed434.
Training videos are available for download here (requires Windows Media Player on Windows, as installed in the LRCRoomCoed434).

Usage samples available on request from

German Beginners,
Intermediate
and Advanced Classes.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-learning, learning-materials, Presenter-Computer, presenter-computer, Screencasts, software Tags: 2010, ms-powerpoint, trpTeacher

How to book LRC resources – explained in one screenshot

2011/12/02 plagwitz 3 comments

You can come to the LRC reception desk to book an item (you will still need to log into your NINERMAIL). But you can also self-help, and get immediate confirmation, from any device with access to your NINERMAIL:

If you have a basic LRC classroom booking scenario, send to the room lrcroomcoed434@uncc.edu what looks like “an email that includes times”: Go to your Ninermail inbox. Using the little triangle icon, unfold the “New” menu. Click menu item “Meeting request”. In the window, that opens, in the “Resources:” field, put lrcroomcoed434@uncc.edu. In the “Subject:”, put your course number. Enter start and end times of your classes visit. In the upper left, Click “Send”. Within a few seconds you receive a response email from the room in OWA: If you did not check the “Scheduling Assistant” tab, you may be asked to reschedule because of a conflict. If you fail to get a response, something went wrong, did you mistype the address? OWA remembers and suggests it after first use, but the first time you need to get it right.