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How not to have to join a Saba Centra online class from the LRC late, for lack of speaking capabilities
2013/05/06
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- Problem: We continue getting reports from teachers that students who try to participate in a Saba Centra online class from the LRC listening station computers (with analogue headphones) experience a considerable delay in joining and cause disruption to online classes since they have to troubleshoot their microphones, for lack of being audible online.
- Root cause: Saba Centra on startup automatically selects the “microphone” as recording device…
- Workaround:
- On XP, click “Start”, click “Run”, type (without quotes) “SndVol32 –R” (meaning: “SoundVolume for Recording”), click “OK” which opens the volume mixer for recording devices. The radio button selected will be “Rear input”.
- Start Saba Centra.
- Switch back to the volume mixer you opened in step 1. Note that the radio button now selected is “Microphone”. This is wrong for the listening stations (and the teacher station) in the LRC. Switch it back to “Rear input” (you know that your headset is supposed to be plugged into the rear).
- And off you go… Plus note: There is no need for “expensive” workarounds like:
- haphazardly trying to replug headphones,
- purchasing your own USB headphones,
- hogging the main classroom with its USB headphones.
- On XP, click “Start”, click “Run”, type (without quotes) “SndVol32 –R” (meaning: “SoundVolume for Recording”), click “OK” which opens the volume mixer for recording devices. The radio button selected will be “Rear input”.
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, Distance-education-format-is-Synchronous, e-learning, Listening-Stations, Presenter-Computer, presenter-computer, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging, Speaking
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Saba Centra on startup automatically selects the "microphone" as recording device…
2013/05/03
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- … But we in the language lab use the (dual function microphone/line-in) "rear input" for our headsets (for ergonomic, health&safety and security reasons). Workaround here.
- Apparently this startup behavior cannot be changed within Saba Centra:
- Any startup will bring up the “Audio Wizard” asking users, even in a controlled lab environment, to configure their audio devices,
- and if users do (and choose what they have: headset), make wrong assumptions which audio plug to enable (“Microphone” front panel, even if your headset is plugged into the rear panel dual “line-in/microphone”)
- The workaround according to these easily Googled instructions is using the “Advanced” audio wizard options to override this “Audio Wizard” error, like so:
- “Re-open the Audio Wizard, go to the third screen and change your recording device in your “Recording Device” menu. Advance two slides and determine if you can hear your recorded voice. ”
- 1st screen:
- 3rd screen:
- note the instructions – Click “Advanced”. But it is easier to just use from the start our Workaround here.
- 1st screen:
- “Re-open the Audio Wizard, go to the third screen and change your recording device in your “Recording Device” menu. Advance two slides and determine if you can hear your recorded voice. ”
- The long-term solution is reconfigure your hardware and disable the front panel audio – but will Saba Centra understand you? Stay tuned…
Sanako Spring 2013 Newsletter is out: Nottingham University now boasts 11 Sanako Study 1200 language labs…
2013/05/02
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…for about the same size undergraduate student body (wow!), emphasizes need for training (I trained in their lab when it was still a Sanako Lab 300). Read the whole Sanako Spring 2013 newsletter here.
Protected: LRC Language Teaching with Technology Faculty Showcase Spring 2013
2013/05/01
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“Clickonce” to download Langlabemailer (BETA)
2013/04/26
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After receiving the response to your request for a download link, click the link in the response to go the download page, and on that page click the button: “Install”.
Next:Install. Or Langlabemailer (table of contents).
How a teacher can easily restart the Sanako Study 1200 licensing classroom server when experiencing a crash
2013/04/26
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- Try clicking and running this (http://goo.gl/lTVLc), if you see that:
- this is for
- if your sanako tutor hangs with status message "verifying tutor" and you are confronted with the error dialogue "Connection to the communication platform has been disconnected and the system is not able to communicate with the classroom server anymore"
- And if you run the classroom server on the same computer as the tutor (as we do)
- And if you have checked your "network connection", like gone to a website, and it is restored (e.g. If you simply had unplugged your the cable)?
- And if you do not want to "restart your system if needed" since, as in our case, that takes a big chunk time out of your class
- Hint: this can’t fix your network if that is the root cause, but may be able to work around temporary service outages.
Protected: How a teacher can give students aural feedback on oral exams using the Sanako Study 1200 Lite Recorder
2013/04/25
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How to respond to a poll for the best meeting time using Meeting Requests
2013/04/18
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This 30-sec video shows how to cycle through optional meeting time slots: While keeping an eye on the (red underlined) time slot currently polled, click green checkmark or red cross, you will be moved through the messages automatically:
Takes merely a minute, a few mouse clicks, hardly any mouse moves, and will clean up your inbox and send your vote to me at the same time.
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