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Layout of the Language Resource Center (LRC)
2014/01/22
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The numbers in the layout correspond to the numbers we posted (to facilitate teacher and student orientation and to aid in LRC temp staff troubleshooting) on the computer monitors and also (for IT staff) to the number part of the underlying computer names which can also be displayed in the classroom management systems NetOP School and Sanako Study 1200 on the teacher computer (32).
LRC website migration from WordPress to Drupal
2014/01/22
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Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, e-infrastructure, websites
drupal, wordpress
Protected: How LRC assistants help with LRC room and resource mailboxes
2014/01/21
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Putting 2 Manfroto and Cullman camera tripods and 2 Smith-Victor Lights back into circulation with repair parts from eBay and HomeDepot
2014/01/19
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- The Library handed us back circulation of equipment that supports production classes in film studies since they could not maintain the equipment in good state of repair. We are having a hard time to do that, too,
- and regularly seem to lose – since we have no library, but only student staff, likely even more – vital parts (despite plenty of training and (feed:)checklists)
- which we cannot get replaced through approved university procurement channels.
- Enter the local HomeDepot, which has an entire aisle dedicated to screws, bolts, nuts and wing nuts, and eBay, which provides reasonable search features if you specify your parts well. While we do not have part numbers, the first order attempt was delivered in short time and proved successful: Here are the broken lights (screws wing nuts has been replaced in the meantime):
- Here are the the fixed tripods
- (still in the surplus bin, but no need: back into circulation):
- and their original parts, and replacement parts from eBay:
How staff can connect their smart phones to Ninermail
2014/01/16
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Including Calendars, useful if you need to receive a reminder for your LRC bookings. It is all documented here (but the student instructions are on top of the search results, which may be confusing to some): http://itservices.uncc.edu/facultystaff-services/email/mobile.
Scheduling assistant shows no information on free/busy
2014/01/16
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This effectively prevents all reservations of shared equipment. We tested with these 4 resources, and increasingly nearer dates in the future (from May to today). This is in Offcie265 from a student account. From a staff account in OWA, I do not see the same behavior: 
Update: A resolution is being worked on… Update2: FIXED
“Server busy” dialogue on system startup and Speech recognition listening on by default
2014/01/14
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- How can one find the program that causes this error? It is not immediately obvious from the dialogue itself, including “Switch to”.
- Speech recognition should not be on (saying “listening”) by default (we have seen it freaking students out when it goes into command or typing mode).
Categories: e-infrastructure, os
image2014spring, speech-recognition
Deepfreeze rebooting the lab computers again during use
2014/01/14
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- I have been told that Deepfreeze will reboot lab computers (hourly?) only when they are idle (on login screen).
- However, I have observed the unsolicited reboot also when trying to work with these computers.
- Today, I had both lab computers that I was working on with the Sanako , reboot in the middle of my testing, with the 1 minute warning dialogue.
- Will pressing “cancel” prevent this, especially during high-stakes writing and speaking assessments with the Sanako? What if the users misses it (we sometimes deliberately have the screens blocked/blacked out during parts of classes).
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