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Japanese Language Tools (Proofing, dictionary, furigana) in the LRC MS-Office 2010 installation

2013/09/30 plagwitz Leave a comment

Even if not showing in MS-Word’s Language selector),

Even though there is no Japanese Thesaurus:
There are these tools:

In the Research pane, "English Assistance: Japanese" (in the ribbon / "Review" tab, Proofing section, press the , then ALT-Click a character to start a lookup:
a Japanese Consistency Checker:
Furigana:

To enable:
Result (in view / Web layout):
Incidentally, my blog has not quite made it into the TOP 5 of MSW-Office help content:

In addition, for Office, but also beyond, there are the tools of the MS-Office Input method editor (which include dictionary help when you write):

Categories: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, Dictionaries, e-languages, Japanese, Listening-Stations, LRCRoomCoed434, office-software, Presenter-Computer, Reading, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, small-group-work-spaces, Student-Computers, Writing Tags: dictionaries, furigana, proofing-tools

Changes in how to make a meeting request to resource mailboxes after students’ mid-term upgrade to Office365

2013/09/27 plagwitz Leave a comment

Update: We made a brief summary which you can read instead here.
The interface has changed quite a bit, but don’t worry: the basic processes are still the same. Here is a very quick rundown:
You now have to start from the Calendar / + new Event, like so: and
To add resources
1. Don’t try the “button:add room”, you will get this error:
2. instead, either type the resource email address
3. or click the + next to “Attendees’
  1. and search the database for the “LRC[whatever]” resource,
    1. note: no need for a new window anymore
  2. and by double-clicking or clicking the + , from the search results, add the desired resources to the “Attendees”, finally click top menu: “OK”
  3. or to remove spurious ”Attendees”, right-click them:
4. to preview the availability, you can still click top menu: “Scheduling assistant”.
  1. Note that the “Scheduling Assistant”looks very different, not like a parallel timeline, more like a parallel calendars, you can choose form thee upper right
    1. either day view:
    2. or week view:
5. and it tries to help you by giving more explicit information about conflicts:
6. when happy with how you scheduled your “event”, click top menu: “send”
7. read the response
  1. unfortunately, there seems to be no “toast” (tested in Chrome on Windows 7 and Firefox on Window XP)
  2. there is, however, still a response
    1. “accept”
    2. or,”with explanation, “declined”:
  3. there seems to be also a bug that you cannot send messages to yourself (huh? investigating), ignore for the time being:
8. from the “Event” in your calendar, you can still
  1. edit (including, for repeating events, single occurrence or series :
  2. right-click the “Event” from the calendar and choose “cancel”, which still brings up a popup window where you have to “send”:

Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, office-software Tags: calendaring, live@edu, ms-exchange, office365, outlook, outlook-live, resources, scheduling, upgrading

New problem in Sanako Study 1200 version 7 with 2 student recorder exe’s running simultaneously on client, under different user accounts?

2013/09/25 plagwitz Leave a comment

UPDATE: Also an issue in the spring term on the teacher computer..
UPDATE: still an issue in the spring term.
This cannot be good (brought this student down).
How is this possible?
1. Presumably the student logged out an admin during a Sanako activity (we frequently have to place late-coming students sit and use an administrator computer, but they do not always get at term start that they are not supposed to log the admin out and in)
2. So this seems another (special) case of the recently observed student managing to exit the Sanako during an activity (helper.exe was running alright).

Categories: digital-audio-lab, e-languages, Glitches&Errors, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging Tags: image2013, sanako-study-1200, student.exe, version-7

Run-shortcut missing from student start menu?

2013/09/25 plagwitz Leave a comment

Categories: e-infrastructure, os, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging Tags: image2013, windows-7

Sanako screen sharing is now too slow for the client machine..

2013/09/25 plagwitz Leave a comment

… So that clients get suggested to downgrade to basic color scheme, in the middle of class. I saw this for the first time recently , after upgrade to Windows 7 and study 1200 version 7, on the teacher machine, same 4yr old dell optiplex 760.

Categories: digital-audio-lab, Glitches&Errors Tags: colorschemes, image2013, sanako-study-1200, screensharing

If you receive a calendar sharing invitation, click “Open the calendar”

2013/09/16 plagwitz Leave a comment

In Outlook (Desktop), like it says in the first item on the upper left:
This will add the calendar to the list of calendars on the left of your Outlook, like so
That is, if you do a calendar overlay, like so.