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LRC web browser popup blockers are currently misconfigured
2013/09/14
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- Problem: I noticed that mail.uncc.edu is not configured correctly, when our hands-on exercises during out training of film students and lrc assistants failed, but I did not have the time to take photos of which browser was involved.
- Workarounds:
- You can always (hold the key:) CTRL-click on the link where your web browsing fails.
- I have a temp solution for the lab, but why not configure these few sites, if you get fed that your users need it.
- Solution: We already asked for these sites be allowed through popup blockers of web browsers in use (chrome, firefox, internet explorer 8):
- *.uncc.edu
- *.mt202sabameeting.com
- *.Mygermanlabs.com
- *.pearsoned.com
- *.pearsoncmg.com
- *.mylanguagelabs.com
- *.mylabs.px.pearsoned.com
- *.pearsonvt.wimba.com
- *.outlook.com
- newly added: *.connect.mcgraw-hill.com.
What to do if university websites seem to be not working, nothing happens when you click?
2013/09/14
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- Try and get the popup blocker on your office or lab PC fixed here (if you are on Windows 7 here, you need to use the 64-bit version): choose "Run" – preferable to “Download” and "Open".
- Then use Internet Explorer to try again what you were trying to do on one of our websites.
- Background:
- My users have been reporting for a while problems getting simple things done on campus websites. Last week I observed a few in their office and in the LRC being stalled by mis- or non-configured popup blocker, and not noticing the cause, being flummoxed.
- The above little program configures the built-in internet explorer popup blocker to allow popups from websites that are part of our infrastructure.
- It does not attempt to configure other popup blockers, whether inside or outside of this web browser.
- The end user could also try
- (holding the key:) CTRL-click on the link where your web browsing fails.
- Or configure the popup blocker manually.
- However, it would likely be best if this were done via GPO…
Equipment circulation training with NINERMAIL meeting requests for Film studies students Fall 2013
2013/09/12
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How to easily avoid “Death by PowerPoint” and focus audience attention by showing paragraphs 1-by-1
2013/09/10
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- Open the Slide Master (“menu:View”/ “Slide Master”), then make these changes:
- Close the Slide Master, for the change to affect all your slides from now on (without you having to add animations for each paragraph individually).
- We only did the master for the main layout. I f you want to have the effect on all slide layouts, keep adding animations like shown above.
- If you want to remove this effect, you can go into the master slide as shown and delete the animations in the animation pane.
Categories: audience-is-teachers, office-software
ms-powerpoint
“I can haz all my online appointment and schedule information in one merged calendar in NINERMAIL?”
2013/09/06
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- Yes, you can! Overlay calendars, a much needed feature from Outlook Desktop (as we mentioned earlier) has finally made it into the web version of Outlook (in Office365 the migration of which from live@edu will be finished by the end off the month), as was announced today: “Users can have multiple calendars in a merged view.”
- Example: In Outlook Desktop (not available to students), you can not only add a calendar like, icsexport.ics to the right, but, if you click on the (1) little black arrow, add/merge icsexport.ics to the (2) already overlaid calendars on the left, which is much more usable if you need to aggregate content from different sources:
- And now also in OFFICE365 NINERMAIL:
- This should make the sharing of calendar information much easier, not only for the about 100 LRC resource calendars, but also for other useful calendars that are published on campus:
- the new LCS calendar
- the registrar’s academic calendar
- the campus-wide faculty calendar
- last not least: your Moodle calendar (view all your moodle assignment deadlines in one place, the same place you check your email)
- And more… ? Do you know of other calendars, and/or a way to discover them?
- The details
- yet need to be panned out. We assume the feature will “just work” like above in Outlook Desktop when you
- We’ll provide more information and examples once we see this feature… TBA
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, office-software
calendaring, live@edu, ms-exchange, office365, outlook, outlook-live, resources, scheduling, sharing, subscribing
Wacom Bamboo Settings for Teacher
2013/09/03
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For the dual screen teacher station, it should be the student viewable monitor
Are we complicating things with touch ? We still have a mouse connected.
In tablet, no button allows setting to "popup menu"
Categories: audience-is-teachers, Presenter-Computer, software, Writing
cth-460, graphics-tablets, wcacom-bambo
WordSmith Tools are once again not licensed
2013/08/28
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- StartingWordsmith from the desktop shortcut results in this:
- Didn’t I test and describe last summer how to fix this?
YouTube Center, a power user extension for your video usage in class
2013/08/27
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- YouTubeCenter comes for a variety of browsers, but note that Firefox seems the only practically supportable browser in our campus computing environment.
- To download and install, go to : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/youtube-center/ and click on:
- There is not shortage of settings (e.g. preselected is the Dash Playback, useful to speed up jumping around a video, by disabling streaming):
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