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How a student can easily complete an audio recording assignment in Moodle, using the new NanoGong plugin

2013/10/17 Leave a comment
  1. Open your assignment (note the loudspeaker/dummy icon for NanoGong assignments/) from the Moodle landing page.CAM03104
  2. Unfortunately, there are a considerable number JAVA warning dialogues to bypass during NanoGong activities before you can even see the recorder plugin on the page, and may be more when you try to submit.
  3. Once you are on the NanoGong assignment page: click red button to record, image_thumb[10]
  4. Make sure the volume meter shows input when speaking (loud enough) or playing back: image_thumb[13]
  5. After recording, submit: image
  6. After submitting,
    1. You can still edit your submission, by
      1. (1) deleting your recording or
      2. re-adding – or (provided your teacher’s assignment allows for (3) multiple recordings)  just adding – (2) your recordings
      3. or adding a (4) message to the teacher
    2. you can also revisit this page to read (5) feedback the teacher gives you about your recording:CAM03108
  7. Experiencing issues? Check troubleshooting page here.
Categories: Arabic, assignments, audience-is-students, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek (modern), Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, lms, Mandarin, multimedia-recording, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Speaking, Swahili, Yoruba Tags: ,

How a teacher can easily assign an audio recording in Moodle, using the new NanoGong plugin

2013/10/17 Leave a comment
  1. We are back in business with easy audio recording assignments in the LMS, thanks to NanoGong – the free recorder I recommended when first starting here – now being available in MOODLE (presumably with the Upgrade to Moodle 2, I almost missed that….)
  2. To assign, click “turn editing on”, “Add activity or resource”, select “NanoGong voice activity”, as pictured below: image
  3. There are a few interesting options:
    1. you can limit the duration
    2. you can limit the number of recordings (attempts?) allowed  (0 is unlimited)
    3. You can let students listen to each other recordings. (Is there a rating feature that can be combined with this?) image
    4. And this is what
      1. you will see (TBA:read on for how to listen to student submissions, give feedback and grade.)image
    5. your students will see…
Categories: Arabic, assignments, audience-is-teachers, e-languages, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek (modern), Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, lms, Mandarin, multimedia-recording, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Speaking, Swahili, Yoruba Tags: ,

Driverinstaller has stopped working

2013/10/14 Leave a comment

A frequent crash message on both student and teacher station:

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Update: I think this could be a Sanako issue. The release notes for Sanako Study 1200 ver 7.1 mention: “Fixed issue where a "DriverInstaller has stopped working" notification was shown in Windows 7 64bit environments when Student application was started up after crashing ”. This indeed looks like the context  I have been seeing this in regularly: image

Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, Glitches&Errors Tags: ,

How to book a resource in Office365–the ultimate training…

2013/10/14 Leave a comment

…using animated .GIFs. Different speed? 0.25sec,0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, , 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec.

Categories: animated-GIFs, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, Film-studies, service-is-library Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Protected: A checklist for our regular equipment inventories

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Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, checklists, faculty-equipment, Film-studies, film-studies-equipment, service-is-library Tags: ,

A checklist for our late hires in the LRC

2013/10/09 Leave a comment
  1. With the help of your colleagues at the reception desk, sign up for your work schedule by sending  meeting requests from NINERMAIL to lrcassistant@uncc.edu,
    1. Plug any holes/weaknesses in the schedule Reception Staffing
    2. Uf you have $2000 FWS, not more than 10 hours /week even if you start late.
    3. Final approval from LRC coordinator required.
  2. Whenever starting/leaving your shift, log in at the reception desk computer, allow all windows to open, then  clock in by entering your code for checkin/out from the spreadsheet checkoutin.xls  into the meeting request (series) on your NINERMAIL calendar.
  3. Read/listen to the training materials you received –
    1. Word (goo.gl/5hgr7Y) printout : contains a checklist for your responsibilities during your shift.
    2. PowerPoint:
      1. Deck (goo.gl/OV45aF) printout explains how to help with booking LRC equipment and rooms using NINERMAIL meeting requests (which will constitute e most of your work at the help desk).
      2. Video of training session: goo.gl/nWDDro.
    3. NOTE: After your first 2 weeks at work, there will be a Moodle quiz (TBA) that you need to pass!
  4. Questions?
    1. First and foremost, follow the instructions and helpful hints of your more senior colleagues at the reception desk.
    2. Bring further questions to the LRC coordinator or director.
    3. If no one is available for questions: post questions in the LRC Moodle Forum.
    Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, e-infrastructure, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Reception-desk, service-is-hr-managing, training

    How to retroactively remove comment option from WordPress posts

    2013/10/07 Leave a comment
    1. Unchecking “Allow comments” does not affect past posts (you had better find that out early in your blogging career – I did not …)
    2. To disable comments for past posts, you have to uncheck “Allow comments”in each one of them.
    3. To even show “Allow comments” in the post editing interface, do this:  image
    Categories: audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-infrastructure, Screenshots Tags:

    Use Moodle 2 Forums’ Mail Now Option to speed up communication

    2013/10/04 Leave a comment
    1. The “Mail Now” checkbox is still there, just the location has changed, compared with Moodle 1..9.: image
    2. Even without “Mail Now” checked, your post goes immediately to the forum – but on the forum, you can still edit it (if you didn’t proof read etc.).
    3. Email, however,  you cannot recall after sending it (well, MS-Exchange email you can, but not Moodle email). That’s why “Mail Now” tries to provide  a safety net for emailed forum messages.
    4. That Forum messages are emailed (“notifications”) is a function of the subscription of users to a forum, which is (“force subscription”) the default, but can be changed in the forum settings.
    5. If you try to use the Moodle forum as a mailing list and/or real-time messaging system (like we do with the LRC Moodle as groupware for LRC staff), checking “Mail now” is recommended.
    Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure Tags: ,