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Film equipment booking FAQ
2012/09/19
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- Do not send the meeting request to lrchelp@uncc.edu or some other person you know in the LRC, but rather send to the equipment email as listed here. Your meeting request will reach this equipment item’s “Resource Attendant who manages the item.
- Do not attempt to book equipment items that are “blocked” on the Scheduling Assistant tab of your meeting request. The Attendant currently mails acceptance responses only to permanent staff, not to students (check for booking success instead using the calendars shared with you in your NINERMAIL), but still has her Scheduling Assistant update the equipment’s publically visible calendar with the booking (tentatively for students). You may have figured by now that TBA:the Resource Attendant and her Scheduling Assistant are actually robots, “Do more with less” and all.
- Do not write in the notes field “I would like a Boom Pole as well” or similar. Nobody but robots is supposed to look at your message, and Robots cannot process this note, and they do not need to: Just add all equipment items,that you plan to check out and back in at the same time, as additional recipients in the “Resources” textbox, as listed here, so that the Resource Attendant and her Scheduling Assistant can manage the sharing of the items.
- Do not load only a single equipment piece – you would be playing a time-consuming lottery with the availability of this item. Rather, load all equivalent equipment pieces in the “Resources” field (see explanation on list of bookable items ) that you could use. E.g. if you need a Vixia camera with a heavy tripod and a microphone, load (-> list of bookable items ) LRC Camera 11-14 and all LRC Tripods 01-04. Then compare availability lines in the scheduling assistant for these items: You will find more easily one Vixia camera and one heavy tripod that fits well into your schedule. Just remember to remove the other equivalent items that do not fit as well into your schedule, before sending the meeting request.
- New memory options from Summer 2013:
- Cameras do not include sd-cards anymore. If you need an LRC sd-card, you have to check it out (and back in) separately, by adding to the “resources:” LRCsd-card##
- Have no way of getting your footage off the camera when returning equipment. Don’t hog the equipment. You can now store your footage temporarily on an LRCthumbdrive##.
Protected: Why we need autoaccept messages from on-premise equipment mailboxes to students in the Office365/live@edu cloud
2012/09/19
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Shortlinks for RUSS1201, RUSS1202 classes with Sanako Study 1200
2012/09/19
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Or use OSK: https://thomasplagwitz.com/tag/osk/o
Protected: How to convert Friendly Russian web pages for better use with the Sanako Study 1200
2012/09/16
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How to get started with Moodle here
2012/08/31
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- Moodle is the UNCC LMS – it is central to teaching with technology.
- The LRC provides Moodle-information specific to language learning, incuding FAQ’s.
- The CTL (= Center for Teaching and Learning) has oodles of general Moodle help.
- Search the CTL site for Moodle by clicking here, and you will find:
- Moodle specific:
- view Moodle on-demand screencast video tutorials,
- read Moodle FAQ’s (updated).
- sign up for instructor-led (face-to-face or webinars, some of which are archived and available on-demand) training:
- Updated Webinar list, which includes for Moodle (I highlighted the more general ones)
- Avoiding the Moodle Scroll of Death (30 min. Webinar)
- Copying a Moodle Course (30 min. Webinar)
- Find & Embed Videos in Moodle (30-min. Webinar)
- How Do I: Peer Review in Moodle (30 min. Webinar)
- Incorporating Streaming Media into Moodle (30 min. Webinar)
- Making Moodle Beautiful (30 min. Webinar)
- Moodle 2 FAQ (30 min. Webinar)
- Moodle Grade Book and Mail Merge (30-min. Webinar)
- Moodle Under the Hood (30 min. Webinar)
- Using Moodle’s Team Assignment (30 min. Webinar)
- Previous (Moodle 1.9)
- Updated Webinar list, which includes for Moodle (I highlighted the more general ones)
- There is more Moodle-information here, just no way for me to provide a direct, filtered link so just browse the pages:
- the CTL podcasts
- Episode 106 Getting Students to Read Your Syllabus: Quizzing in Moodle
- the CTL podcasts
- Moodle specific:
How LRC assistants get paid: paper time sheet if no web time entry
2012/08/30
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- If there is a delay at the beginning of the term getting you into the web time entry system we normally use,
- print a paper timesheet for Work Study Student,
- get it signed from the LRC coordinator or director,
- on or before the 31st, turn it in to Payroll which is on Reese 3rd Floor (consult the Campus Map).
Getting answers for the LRC management from Report Express
2012/08/30
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- Report Express is a powerful tool to get current enrolment data which seems vital for running the LRC, but which I have not been able to get my hands on before easily (SCT-Banner limits access too much).
- Excel download format – which I recommend : cleaner (fewer graphics) and more information – DOES work, but for Excel 2010, I have to rename the download file extension from XLS to HTML (which the download is) and “open with” –> Excel.
- I have not been successful merging these output files per language on the command line into one large HTML file and cleaning up the <html><body> framework – so I have to open each one, merge by copy/paste the contents of the result worksheet into a new worksheet and clean up the data in there by converting into an Excel Table and sorting by a suitable table column, e.g. ID, which puts all actual enrolment data sequentially, and separates all (redundant anyways) header and footer information.
- I finally added table columns with array formulas to calculate the enrolment aggregates,
- per this section (to answer questions like: will this class fit into the language resource center?),
- this course # (to answer questions like: where can we have maximum impact on improving learning with technology with creating the minimum of new learning/assessment materials. Assessment is standardized per course #.)
- and per language-level.
- Finally, vlookup-columns allow me to link the instructor of record and other missing class information (room, building, time) to the student enrolment rows. This allows me to filter, sort and search the enrolment sheet with real-life questions, like
- can we support this size class/course/level and language in the LRC
- is it practical to relocate this course for part/a whole class meeting to the LRC
- which students need be given access permissions to the SANAKO
- etc.
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Sample filter of the aggregate sheet:
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