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Meeting Requests in OWA – from the source

2011/12/22 1 comment

The Scheduling Assistant

Request a Meeting

Modify a Meeting

Open a Meeting

Close a Meeting

Cancel a Meeting

Save a Meeting

Add or Remove Attendees

Select a Meeting Room

Reply To or Forward a Meeting Request

And more: http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/bb899488.aspx

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Language tutoring support in the LRC

2011/12/20 Leave a comment
  1. New and improved as of Spring 2012: We now have 2 computerized small group work spaces for tutoring groups.
  2. An effective computerized help desk
  3. A live CAE tutor calendar display. This will help the time zone-challenged students until all students are put into the right time zone in NINERMAIL (or self-help). At that point all students will be able to load the tutor calendar of their choice in NINERMAIL. The tutor calendar has also “LRC” in the title – this way students always are reminded WHERE the tutoring is. We are also working on getting small group workspaces set up in the entrance library area  to the left.
  4. Improved tutor signage
  5. A variety of non-computerized tutoring workspaces
  6. A variety of computerized tutoring workspaces that allow the tutoring to share with other uses of the LRC.
  7. As listed in this view when you enter the LRC: 433-tutoring
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How to check if components of Shotgun Microphones (05-08) are complete

2011/12/20 Leave a comment
  1. Use this list:
    1. micro
    2. seat1
    3. seat2
    4. cable1
    5. cable2
    6. adapter1/4”
    7. windshield
  2. Or use the illustration from the microphone package: CIMG0054
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How to check if components of Microphone Boom pole (01-04) are complete

2011/12/20 Leave a comment
  1. Boom
  2. Adapter for microphone holder. To change the screw size to that of the microphone holder you have CIMG0017microphone holder CIMG0050, you can unscrew the adapter and turn it around – however, do not lose it!
  3. gitzo-gb0530-CIMG0010
  4. LRCMicroBoom large CIMG0048
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How to check if components of Canon camera (01-10) are complete

2011/12/19 Leave a comment
  1. Battery
  2. Battery Charger
  3. AV cable – FIREWIRE cables for transferring video are not included, we do not have enough. Use in the LRC only.canon-zr-800-CIMG0002 (2)
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Sharing and reusing Moodle learning content using backup and restore, part I: Backup

2011/12/15 4 comments

To reuse your own content, you can import. To use somebody else’s content, the other user can backup his content (even though not shown below, a subset of the content of a course can be chosen) and share (by downloading the file created within the course file area) the backup file with you (a zip-archive that contains an xml file), for the other user to restore. Like so:   backup1 backup2a backup3a backup4a backup5abackup6backup7backup8

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Sharing and reusing Moodle learning content using backup and restore, part II: restoring

2011/12/15 4 comments

Here I am restoring the backup I made from a different user’s Moodle course in part 1:backup, to add the learning content to my own target course:

restore-uploadrestore-menu-itemrestore-upload1restore-upload2 restore-upload3 restore-upload4 restore-upload5 restore-upload6 restore-upload7 restore-upload8 restore-upload9 restore-upload10

Now how can we scale this collaboration on Moodle learning content without an erepository?

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What are best practices for recycling Moodle course teaching content? A running log

2011/12/08 Leave a comment
  1. Guiding Questions:
  2. I am in the process of creating Moodle assignments with instructors. I am inclined to tell them that this is best done now, before the term starts. I have met several instructors who seem to redo all their Moodle assignments and other content, for each term and each section, and who change Moodle courses on the fly, in the middle of the term, adding identical assignments to multiple sections. When I taught with the LMS (in Blackboard environments), the entire course (content) was “rolled over” between terms (and copied into sections), after subtracting student data. What are best practices in Moodle for reusing/recycling such course content, across terms, sections, and instructors? 
  3. Is it possible to get entire course+instructor combinations recycled centrally and automatically, whenever an instructor teaches a course again, from the archive of the last version of the course, sans student data?
  4. Or does each instructor, any time she reteaches a course, have to manually reimport all materials she wants to reuse from her old courses? So far, I have followed this page: http://teaching.uncc.edu/Moodle/how-to/importing-Moodle-course (here is an example of using the import feature when adding assignments into multiple sections in the middle of the term: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/tag/importing+moodle/). Can this be done before term start at least into one section, from which the other section is created by copying? What would be the cut-off date for that?
  5. Would instructors use the last live version of the course to go forward, like I did with Blackboard, or are instructors advised to develop all content in separate development courses, and selectively import content from there into live courses? Does each instructor have a development course by default? Is it possible/advisable for an instructor to have one development course per actual course she teaches (repeatedly)? Does access of instructors to past courses expire when they get archived, and when would that be?
  6. Finally, how could assignments be exchanged between instructors who teach the same courses? 
  7. Courses seem to be complex packages. Repackaging individual assignments from one generic development course into course packs while importing seems administrative overhead, unless there is a in-built support for packaging that allows to add course tags to content. On the other hand, courses need to be easily updateable: student data needs to be added and removed easily. Teacher content needs to be refined, possibly updated with some current materials each term.
  8. Exploration:
    1. files planning:
      1. When publishing files, I have been trying to restrict all information that needs regular updating (dates, fine tuning of assignments and grading) to the syllabus files which I upload every term. So that I can “roll over” the rest of the course, including its files. 
      2. observe the (max 64mb) file size limit in your Moodle courses
      3. You cannot use this procedure to share Kaltura videos, not even the ones a teacher made
    2. importing
      1. importing steps see here.
      2. To be seamless, source and target course need to have the same format (settings / topical, weekly or other). Otherwise, your exports from a weekly formatted course into a topically formatted course will get put into the topic number corresponding to the week # (which, if you have set to fewer topics than you had weeks, may effectively hide them. Not to worry, you can still retrieve them by adding topics to your course, then moving the assignments where you want them).
      3. backing up/restoring
        1. backing up see here 
        2. restoring see here
        3. more on backup/restore from the Moodle docs FAQ
        4. primary instructor can use assign roles to add other teachers to give them access to importing; better create an intermediate, not student-accessible Moodle course for sharing instead
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