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How to launch a webpage to students from Sanako Study 1200

2011/10/18 Leave a comment
  1. On the center buttons “Web browser”, use
    1. either the large grey rectangular right area to launch to all students  in class
    2. or the small square colored (here brown) left area, to launch only to students in the brown group, like so,
    3. webrowser3
    4. unfortunately, you will have to click through number of errors on most web pages – the students do not see these
    5. webrowser2
    6. eventually, the start page will show in your Sanako web browser   webrowser3
    7. then you can browse to a page from the address bar, click “send”, which will open it on the student computers
    8.  webrowser4
    9. clicking “follow” follow is like always clicking “send” after browsing to a new webpage. It allows you to guide the students through a number of web pages.
Categories: documentation, e-learning, software Tags: ,

How to add an RSS feed to your Joomla front page

2011/10/06 Leave a comment
  1. Go to Top menu: Extensions / menu item: module manager / upper right corner button: new / radio button: feed display / upper right button: next
  2. Fill out this form, some hints to follow: 
    1. radio button: show title: module name will be displayed on front page,
    2. Position
    3. Order
    4. RTL = Right To Left
    5. title: can give context
    6. image: not if you want a tight display
    7. items: more than 3
  3. joomla-wordpress-newsfeed-module-editor
  4. The resulting feed display looks like this on the Joomla Front Page: 
  5. joomla-wordpress-newsfeed-result1
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-manager, documentation, e-infrastructure, websites Tags: ,

Meta: WordPress Categories–what are they good for?

2011/09/29 Leave a comment

wordpress-categories

Not for AND-searches, as a matter of fact.

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, documentation, e-infrastructure Tags: , ,

How not to book LRC equipment: Scheduling conflicts

2011/09/23 3 comments
  1. Do not send a meeting request to an item for a time when the item has a prior meeting request.
  2. The tab: scheduling assistant within the meeting request you edit is there to tell you when items have prior meeting requests.
    1. scheduling-assistant-timelines-marked-no-yes
    2. A “blocked” timeline denotes a prior meeting request: The item has already been booked (solid block) or requested (hatched block) during the start and end time of your meeting. Do not crash their party.
    3.  “blank” timeline means “item is free”. Go ahead: You can request a meeting with this item between your start and end time.
    4. Once you have this overview, you can easily remove, by right-clicking on the resource, extra resources that you cannot book or could, but which you do not need: scheduling-assistant-remove-resource
  3. Once the university has mail-enabled your cloud-accounts on campus, we will have a computer decline such conflicting requests automatically, and force you to start over with a new meeting request. It will be still worth your while memorizing the above: You can save time and avoid disappointment.
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-infrastructure, service-is-library Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

How teachers can grade student recordings done with the LRC Sanako Study-1200 in their Office

2011/09/23 Leave a comment
  1. Teacher on their office PC (MAC users talk to http://helpdesk.uncc.edu) can press windows-key+e, and in the window, that opens,
  2. browse to the student mp3 recordings with date and time in the folder name on s:\coas\lcs\labs\lrctest\sanako\student (no S: drive on office PC? talk to http://helpdesk.uncc.edu, but in the meantime, try windows-key+r, paste = \\DATASERV1\DVOL1\coas\lcs\labs\lrctest\sanako\student”, click “OK”),
  3. open the student recording file, either by double-clicking to, presumably, open it in Windows Media Player, or, preferably, by selecting multiple files, right-clicking and choosing “Open with” to open them for comparative grading (read some tips) in Audacity.
Categories: all-languages, assessments, audience-is-teachers, documentation, e-languages, faculty-offices, grading, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, multimedia-recording Tags: , ,

LRC Facilities: Coed037 (Film studies lab)

2011/09/20 Leave a comment
  1. The classroom
    1. old layout (wall-facing, 1 row along wall):
    2. new layout Fall 2011 (front-facing, 2 columns along both side walls): coed037-CIMG0003
  2. The teacher computer (an upgrade is in the works):
    1. coed037-teacher-IMAG0025 Stitch
    2. coed037-teacher-IMAG0028 Stitch
    3. coed037-teacher-IMAG0034 Stitch
Categories: COED037, documentation

Our Office 2010 natural language features upgrade: A running log

2011/09/15 1 comment
  1. Just logging some notes, observations, issues, step-by-step instructions… – other than non-natural-language, most collaboration features, which are being logged here.
  2. Office 2010 proofing tools (proofing-tools2010-install.wmv),:
    1. again, we select custom install, “run all from Computers”
    2. install is extensive, but uneventful
  3. Office 2010 proofing tools (proofing-tools2010-first-run-German-set-language.wmv), first run:
    1. German is not autodetected. You have to set the language of the selected text manually, and first find the button on the ribbon:reviewing
    2. While choosing the language, you can see from the checkmark which languages now have proofing tools installed
  4. Foreign Language Support
    1. One of the strongest benefits of upgrading to MS-Office 2010 in the language center is the improved foreign language support licensing for so called “Language Packs”, and that we have a complete set of licenses to the MS-Proofing Tools.
    2. In addition MS-Office supports free download of so called “Language interface packs” which seem essentially downscaled language packs for LCTL (usually come only with (see feature list) a spell checker and help in the language). Compare: “If a language is available in a language pack or as a fully localized version, it is not available as a language interface pack”.
    3. Unfortunately multi-user (= learner of different language) support is not the primary usage scenario of these tools. It is, however, possible, to set the language to a default (e.g. Spanish, Arabic or Chinese, depending on your environment). Switching to another language is relatively easy for a user
      1. changing the screen-tip language: http://skydrive.live.com/embedicon.aspx/screencasts/office-2010-switch-screentip-language.wmv?cid=4fa3329905d7e1ce&sc=photos
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Categories: all-languages, audience-is-language-learning-center-manager, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, documentation, e-languages, office-software, Screencasts, software Tags: , , , , , ,

The Language Resource Center within the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies in the College of Education building

2011/09/14 Leave a comment

CIMG0002 Stitch

Categories: documentation, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte Tags: