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How to test Blackboard IM (formerly Wimba Pronto) for Vista Higher Learning Textbooks

2014/02/04 Leave a comment
  1. After logging in on vhlcentral.com,
  2. the Software is linked on your “My courses”  page: image
  3. Download and install: image
  4. After install: image
  5. Mine was already enabled, but the help says: imageLog in (Note: my account info was different form my vhlcentral.com) image
  6. image
  7. image
  8. Check out the Tools menu
    1. Audio settings should be especially interesting, but there ix no built-on test:
    2. image
    3. Need a partner for testing ..
Categories: e-infrastructure, Student-Computers, textbooks, web-conferencing Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

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

2014/01/31 Leave a comment
  1. –CAM04736
  2. This images is too low resolution, but I am trying to demonstrate that we still experience the same issue as in the fall: two users can be logged in simultaneously. In both cases ones was me. this can cause the language lab software to fail.
  3. If generally this is supposed to be prevented in our computing environment, what may be the root cause in these instances?
    1. I am pretty sure mstsc’ing has nothing to do with it. I do not remote into that PC usually.
    2. Is it possible for another user to log in when previous (administrative?) users got locked?
Categories: digital-audio-lab, e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, os Tags: ,

How to create a form on Google Apps

2014/01/31 Leave a comment
  1. If you want to collect input from others (including students outside of a course = Moodle), including recurring input from the same student (multiple submissions are the default andsingle submission limit can apparently only be enforced offwith JavaScript hacks)(.
  2. Do this to create a form in Google Apps:
  3. Here is what you can have your submitters see: imageimageimage
  4. Here is what you get:
Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure, Screencasts, service-is-documenting, service-is-tutoring Tags: ,

MS-Surface RT unboxing

2014/01/29 Leave a comment
Categories: e-infrastructure, hardware, os, tablets Tags: , , ,

Protected: Facilitating equipment circulation and room booking with website calendar aggregation?

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Categories: e-infrastructure, Learning-logs, service-is-library, service-is-tutoring Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

How to connect an MS-Surface RT to the secure campus wireless

2014/01/29 Leave a comment
  1. This worked on a 1st generation Surface, but with Windows 8.1.
  2. No problem getting onto the UNCC49er network, but the Surface/Windows 8 is not supported on the NINERWifi-secure yet. Specifically, loading the automated configuration tools provided when first trying to access the   NINERWifi-secure, fails on the RT platform. CAM04613CAM04614
  3. I received seemingly conflicting instructions:
    1. The campus website
      1. has for devices that are not supported manual configuration settings.
      2. Another campus that uses the same secure wireless provider has these instructions for Windows 8.
      3. I could piece it together from there,
      4. including any translation to (there is none needed that I could see which BTW actually amazes me) Windows 8 RT.
    2. Maybe the following would have worked also, but I did not try it since I was already in the middle of the above steps:
      1. Swipe in from the right-edge of the screen, and tap Settings. (If you’re using a mouse, point to upper-right corner of screen, move the mouse pointer down, and then click Settings.)
      2. Tap or click the wireless network icon Wireless network icon. A list of available wireless networks should appear.
      3. Look for the “Hidden Network” option and then choose it.
      4. When it prompts for a SSID, type in exactly: NinerWiFi-Secure
      5. It should then prompt for username/password (NinerNET credentials).
      6. Say yes to any certificates warnings that pop up.
Categories: e-infrastructure, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, tablets Tags: , , , ,

“Back to basics”: Need once again to default to color scheme basic on teacher computer

2014/01/27 Leave a comment
  1. Same problem as last term: (What made it come unstuck/unfixed?): CAM04573
  2. CAM04574
  3. No Sanako screen sharing activity involved here, but MS-Community-Clips screen sharing.
  4. Classes are moving in, and we cannot have the teacher computer slow to a crawl and eventually crash in the middle of a Sanako class, especially not when an assessment is involved.
Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, hardware, Presenter-Computer Tags: , , , ,

Why does MS-Exchange calendar publishing with Limited details show the name of the organizer in the subject?

2014/01/22 Leave a comment
  1. Partial answer: Because the organizer name gets already put into the booking itself, before publishing  (I first thought it was put in by a bug  the publishing settings, where there is   supposed to be an option to enable/disable showing the organizer name ).  UPDATE: Another part of the answer: AddOrganizerToSubject is set to true on the mailbox (Doh! Hm, but why did this not seem to cause a problem before)?
  2. Booking:
  3. image
  4. Result (I saw the correct “whence”part of the subject briefly flickering up, but then the organizer name appeared in front of it):
  5. image
  6. Publishing Setting:
  7. clip_image001
  8. Published View (which is where we do not want the organizer to show):
  9. image
  11. clip_image003 2010 SP?.
Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors Tags: , , , , ,