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Protected: CTL’s Mahara Workshop in the LRC

2013/12/05 plagwitz Enter your password to view comments.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-languages, eportfolio, instructional-technology-unit, Screencasts Tags: mahara

Another way to upload many files into Moodle 2

2013/12/04 plagwitz Leave a comment

Last time we started from “Add folder” to get to the handy drag-and-drop file upload control in Moodle 2.
This time we do not want to create a new folder, but work within an existing folder (better for categorizing lots of files).
Browse into the folder and click edit
click create folder
add name and click create
click to open folder
drag/drop files as zip in folder
oops, check the upper right warning :
Split your files into smaller segments
And be patient, there is no visual indicator of progress, or any action, after the drop), or else you get duplicates:
Just delete duplicates you might have created:
click on each zip file and choose “unzip”:
Delete the zip files (not needed anymore)
Finally, click “save changes”
Note, by working within a folder, you cannot link directly to the new folder you created. It should however be easy enough to navigate to it if you send the link to the root folder, here “Interaction”.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, e-learning, lms, training Tags: files, folders, moodle

First steps with Publish or Perish citation analysis software program

2013/12/03 plagwitz Leave a comment

Here is the result for a somewhat less basic query. You can (1) merge identical results by drag and drop, (2) sort by clicking the column header – for finding more duplicates and other examinations of the result set –, with the 1st sort level being the (3) checked/unchecked status. Note that the s”results”summary conveniently aggregates only the items from the query result set that you have not unchecked:
Common pitfalls:
1. Do not search author names without quotation marks, here is why:
2. Think about including multiple versions of the author’s name, especially first name:
You can export,
1. e.g. as CSV which you can import into MS-Excel (note that MS-Excel does not autodiscover all settings, you have to set these:)
3. and convert into an Excel table, for further analysis and distribution:

Categories: e-research, Learning-logs, software Tags: bibliographies, citations, google-scholar, ms-academic-search, publish-or-perish

Managing responses when organizing workshops with meeting requests

2013/11/25 plagwitz Leave a comment

You can use “copy status to clipboard”

to move to and manage in excel:

Use an excel table autofilter to drill down to the actual participants:

and paste them right back into an outlook message:

Outlook can handle that (“check names”):

Categories: e-infrastructure, office-software Tags: calendaring, live@edu, meeting-requests, ms-exchange, office365, outlook, scheduling

How teachers can collect any file from students’ computers with Sanako Study 1200 homework–the ultimate training…

2013/11/22 plagwitz Leave a comment

…using animated .gifs. Different speed? 0.25sec,0.5sec, 0.75sec, 1sec, , 1.5sec, 2sec, 3sec, 4sec, 5sec, 6sec, 7sec, 8sec, 9sec, 10sec. 1.5sec

Categories: animated-GIFs, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, e-learning, training Tags: homework-activity, sanako-study-1200

How to access Skype using the web browser plugin in your Outlook.com web mail

2013/11/20 plagwitz Leave a comment

Categories: e-infrastructure, web-conferencing, websites Tags: outlook.com, skype

Working around problems getting ELTI course worksheet out of Report Express

2013/11/20 plagwitz 2 comments

Problem: I used to, but cannot anymore get the course worksheet for ELTI out of Report Express. My choices:

Result set is empty:

Course enrollment does not work either:

I am still in a position to get the full class list out of the system, but that is not what I need, and is not the course worksheet sheet just a calculation based on the

Solution: Use “international programs” as the “department”.

It seems “department”and “subject” drop downs synchronize only with the selection of “college”, but selection of “department” can be in conflict with selection of “subject” (Is this a good GUI?).

It also seems that this affects only the “course worksheet", but not the “class list”(Huh?)

Another example: I seem to be able to get to the Film studies course list only if I leave all other drop down to “all”..

Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Learning-logs, websites Tags: report-express

How a student submits prior content from “My content” into a Moodle Kaltura video assignment

2013/11/18 plagwitz Leave a comment

Go to your video assignment in Moodle: .
Click “Add media submission”:
Jump through the hoops:
1. switch to “my content”
2. you have to click the “search” button to show content, leave search filed empty to show all
3. note that there may be more
4. you have to select a video
5. before that, you cannot click next
confirm on the next screen
You are done when you see this: , but hey, better press “continue” to be safe:
On the next screen, you can review:
Not so clear how you get out of there…
Troubleshooting: If you run into problems, the first thing to try usually is a different web browser.