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How teachers prepare files for oral exam with Sanako Study 1200

2012/12/18 Leave a comment
  1. For an oral exam with visual cues (example), make a PowerPoint slideshow by 
    1. finding images, e.g. online
      1. (e.g using Google image search,
        1. and optionally advanced search,
          1. and optionally filtering by clip art.
    2. saving found images to a local folder (e.g. “my documents”),
    3. using them with PowerPoint’s PhotoAlbum feature
    4. saving the result as [your username]_[your class####]_oral-exam##.pptx.
  2. For an oral exam with aural cues,
    1. if you do not have the Sanako student recorder installed on your PC yet,
      1. Follow the instructions here to install it for use in your office (or even at home – make sure you have access to the network share with the recordings if you want give aural feedback with insert recording)
      2. or come to the LRC to record where the Sanako is set up be default;
    2. fill out our oral exam MS-Word template (sample question included) from here (use the lower right menu download button).  

    3. Start the Sanako student recorder (in the LRC or on your own computer – if in need, you can borrow one of headsets in this this list),

      1. press the red record-button in the center right, as shown here and
      2. read out the MS-word template, row by row, that you just filled out.
      3. Once done, press the blue stop button.
      4. Go to Menu: file / save as/ [your username]_[your class####]_oral-exam##.mp3.
  3. Normally (it is still being worked on),
    1. you could save all files in a special Sanako folder visible on the desktop of your office PC,
    2. from which I, as soon as you let me know about the files, can pick them up in my office to finalize them for delivery in the LRC and
    3. from which you can pick up the final version in the classroom to when administering the exam in the Sanako lab.
  4. Questions remain? Come to the LRC reception desk during regular business hours with this blog post to be walked through this step-by-step.
Categories: e-languages, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, service-is-assessing, service-is-learning-materials-creation, step-by-step-guides Tags: , ,

The LRC writing input methods (“keyboards”) are not configured right

2012/12/14 Leave a comment
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  2. In intl.cpl, we do not want keyboards installed for western and central-European (= characters a-z, merely altered by diacritics) languages, including US. We type these languages, including US-English, with the us-international keyboard extended 2.1, which has to be set as default, and that US-English extended 2.1gets checked as the keyboard for all western languages ("show more"). The regular US keyboard gets removed/made invisible to the user, and with any reasonably recent version of MS Sysprep tools, that is no problem anymore.
  3. For non-Western languages, the built-in windows keyboards should be "checked", and also the alternate input that we had to download and install methods need to be "checked" under their languages: MS Maren, Google input methods nee to be enabled (checked): e.g. Farsi is not enabled (checked).
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, Glitches&Errors, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Student-Computers, Writing Tags:

Kaltura Webcam assignment GRMN1201 example

2012/12/13 Leave a comment

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Categories: e-languages, German, learning-usage-samples, lms, Speaking Tags: ,

Does the Sanako Study 1200 tutor set the input language to Chinese (traditional)?

2012/12/12 Leave a comment
  1. Or why is my input language set to Chinese after the Sanako tutor install:image
  2. Unclear whether the tutor install has an effect on the default language, but we observed this problem earlier on an XP computer that also had the Sanako study 1200 tutor.
Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging Tags: , ,

The big LRC SANAKO “How do I…?”

2012/12/05 Leave a comment

(Work in progress).

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Categories: all-languages, animated-GIFs, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, digital-audio-lab, documentation, e-languages, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, learning-usage-samples, Listening, LRCRoomCoed434, Presenter-Computer, Reading, recording-software, Screencasts, screenshot-albums, service-is-documenting, service-is-training, Speaking, Student-Computers, training, Writing Tags:

How to terminate Sanako student.exe

2012/12/04 Leave a comment
  1. Since I am getting search engine hits from the above query on my blog, a quick answer:
  2. You likely need to terminate the helper.exe in the process manager first, since this service restarts the student.exe, for the good reason that
    1. you do not want students to opt out of your Sanako class,
    2. and also in case of student.exe crashes.
  3. Now here is wondering why you want to terminate it…. Smile
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-manager, digital-audio-lab, documentation Tags: ,

ICS corruption in Moodle calendar events?

2012/11/28 Leave a comment
  1. I am seeing once again a large number of events loaded as internet calendar into MS-Outlook via an iCal link default to the same day: image
  2. This time the iCal sources is Moodle, but it also displays the iCal feed internally so: image
  3. I observed a similar issue when loading certain Drupal calendars into MS-Outlook, only that
    1. it seems to have affected only certain sites on the same (?) Drupal instance (is this user input error?)
    2. Events defaulted to the current day in MS-Outlook – the Moodle issue does not.
    3. All events were effected – not so in this Moodle issue.
Categories: documentation, Glitches&Errors, lms Tags: , , , ,

Protected: Slides for ARBC1201 Oral Exam

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Categories: Absolute-Beginner, Arabic, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, learning-materials, Slideshows, Speaking Tags: