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Mylanguagelab.com “Authentication failed” glitch in audio recorder
2012/10/18
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Common error in IE8 when students review their test before submitting. No worries, the student recording is not lost. Still, what is the solution?
Delete the Flash Global Settings if the iMacs webcam displays black frame only
2012/10/11
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- Problem: Safari and (not recommended after last testing round) Firefox both hung on iMAC6 when a student tried to do a Moodle Kaltura Webcam assignment and got to the built-in ISight camera display page.
- Cause: maybe a Flash security problem accessing the web cam? maybe security dialogue was not answered by the student correctly earlier, and the “preference”stored in her account?
- Solution (presumably): System started working again after I deleted the Flash Global settings, by right-clicking on the webcam video preview window like so:
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- Ceterum censeo that we need a computer management infrastructure if we want to use MACs for language learning technology. Faronics-Deepfreeze would have prevented this problem, provided we have a software imaging system (CASPER coming up apparently) that can let us start with a usable image, and the staff time to learn and configure 2 usable OS images and dual usable computer management infrastructures. TCO now > TCO dual OS infrastructure > TCO web cams for 45 PCs.
Sanako licensing error in the middle of an exam?
2012/10/04
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What NOW? I decided to not update from 22 to 24 licenses last night to avoid running into issues like that with pending exams. Can this be a mere temporary network error? How can I assure students can submit their Sanako homework activity?UPDATE: The problem went away as mysteriously as it had cropped up, even before a restart of the teacher computer or Sanako services running on that computer (I did restart Sanako Teacher, though). However, during the outage, other network sites could be pinged from the teacher computer. Licensing server issue then?
Categories: Glitches&Errors
licensing-server, sanako-study-1200
Saba centra ie listening station crash
2012/09/26
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Categories: Distance-education-format-is-Synchronous, Glitches&Errors
Centra crash ie listening stations
2012/09/26
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Try firefox also. The plugin should be preinstalled on all pc’s.
Categories: Glitches&Errors, mental-notes
Animated GIFs workflow using MS-OneNote, MS-Paint, Irfanview and UnFREEZ
2012/09/25
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- To keep things simple (and, at least in our work environment, free) during smaller Animated GIF projects (larger projects may warrant use of ImageMagick, scriptable image editor), you can use
- MS-OneNote screen clipping (configured right, it seems the fastest way to collect source material)
- Update: I recommend now screenshotcaptor instead, if you do screenshot projects more than occasionally. MS-Paint (or pretty much any image editor) to mark up your images
- IrfanView to batch convert to GIF:
- UnFreez to easily create animated GIFs in differing speeds:
, which can be automated.
Deepfreeze console select clients oddities
2012/09/21
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- Problem: You lose most context menu options if you select a series of clients in deepfreeze console with shift-click, then exclude from selection non-working client:
- Cause: Bug in Faronics-Deepfreeze (ver 7.21 etc. here)?
- Workaround: If you select your longest list of working clients with shift-click, skip the non—working client, and add to the list with control-click, you still get the full context menu:
Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors
faronics-deepfreeze
EWS are working
2012/09/11
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Categories: e-infrastructure, Learning-logs, service-is-programming
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