How a Student takes a Moodle Video Assignment in the LRC
2011/09/22
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- On one of the LRC iMacs, in the Safari web browser (open new window with COMMAND-key+n),
- go to your Moodle course, (1) find the video Assignment, read the assignment instructions (what your teacher wants you to record). Then click underneath the (2) button: “Add video Assignment”, to open the (3) submission window:
- Note that she will also have to allow the flash player to interact with her webcam first.
If you see no web cam video window, only a black frame, read in.- In the submission window, choose the tab “Webcam” (1), use the dropdown to select the camera hardware (2).
- Check the headset microphone audio: The external headset microphone on the iMacs did not work., but now it does, provided you do this: control-click on Flash’s a video preview window (= the window where you see yourself like in a mirror) for the web camera, and click on “settings”.
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- Click on the microphone icon :
- Make sure the USB PnP device is selected.
- You can bring up the settings dialogue, make sure the USB PnP device is chosen for audio and CRANK up the microphone input sensitivity! Then, by tabbing (don’t speak yet) on the headset microphone, test the volume levels with the built-in volume meter (should show lots of green bars when you tab). Unlike in the picture, do not choose “reduce echo ”.
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- Start (3) the video recording.
- Afterwards, the student can review (4) her submission.
- If you don’t like your first recording, (3) “record” over it and review again with (4) “Play”. If you do this and the video appears frozen, drag the timeline cursor forward to get the re-recorded video to play. If this does not seem to work, you are likely still able to submit your 2nd attempt, just not review it again.
- Click through all the “Next”etc. buttons:
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- until you get to the feedback page for the student (caveat: in IE9, the video does not fit into the frame provided on the page).
- Note, it warns you to be patient now:
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- LRC support:
- Depending on your hardware (webcam), software and network support, you can record your language speaking video assignments on any device that has a webcam and a browser that supports flash – and even more devices, if you are willing to post process and upload the video clip.
- If you run into problems or want to use a tested setup, we recommend using the LRC. Since our PCs have no built-in or added webcam (proposed), we can currently only use our 5 8 iMacs (see LRC Layout, see Classroom Calendar and iMacs Calendar for availability). Our (limited) tests worked better in Safari than Firefox.
Categories: Arabic, assessments, audience-is-students, e-languages, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek (modern), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Speaking, step-by-step-guides
audio, kaltura, moodle, recording, video
Protected: Exchange 2010 Resource Mailboxes: Running Log
2011/09/22
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Printing Problems in the LRC
2011/09/22
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- One problem
- Printer printing garbage like this?
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- To fix it, try power-cycling the printer
- Another problem
- Received this error, repeatedly with students trying from different LC computers.
- Until I told her to save the document (I thought she was authoring it), log out and log in on a different computer. Then miraculously she could print.
- Now I am left wondering: Did she open the document, maybe from Moodle, in her web browser, and the MS-Word browser plugin is not set up to print too our printer. Would be not a solution, but a workaround for this situation.
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How to allow students to reply to News Forum posts in Moodle
2011/09/22
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- E.g. with this: “I have seen this post. I have followed the instructions. It worked for me.”
- Answered here: http://moodle.bath.ac.uk/faq/content/12/182/en/can-students-reply-to-news-forum-posts.html
- Does not work in our installation which is being investigated – maybe with good reason: I every study is forced to subscribe and can respond, their tend to be email floods which rather hide than surface important information.
- Workaround:
- Hide the news forum;
- create a regular Moodle Forum, where students can respond by default
- ask your users to read it and maybe monitor reading with tracking
- do not force them to subscribe = receive email
- I also hid the “Latest News” block, in the hope that the “Recent Activity” block can replace it:
MS-Exchange 2010 and OWA: Set Resource Calendar Response messages for Automateprocessing
2011/09/21
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- You do not need your Exchange Admin to manage and change the ResponseMessages that your Resources Mailbox Assistants sent out by your Calendar Assistants.
- In OWA, impersonating the mailbox, in the upper right corner, go to “Options” / menu item: “see all options”, and then:
Exchange 2010 Internet Calendars Publishing: 404 and Access level restricted
2011/09/21
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- to access a calendar by its friendly URL (with mailbox name) and get error “404 – File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable”, like here:
- Check your calendar publishing settings: They are likely set to “restricted”, as opposed to “public” which results in an obscure instead of memorable URL, like here:
- Change the settings to “publish”and “save”, this will update the URLS, like here:
Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, Glitches&Errors
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LRC Outlook/Exchange 2010 Resource Calendaring: How students can view resource "Calendars from the Internet" in web browser and OWA
2011/09/20
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- Want a shorter version?
- Students, unless specifically TBA:invited, will encounter a permission problem when trying to view calendars like staff.
- Instead, students can use the scheduling assistant to view a basic version of the resource’s calendar. This works “out of the box”.
- Students can also view an advanced version of the resource’s calendars (one-time, or bookmark this link in your web browser – hope you know how to synch your bookmarks between all the devices you use…). This requires little work: click on the “view” link in the “student calendar” column of our list of LRC resources that you can book or check out, to see the current calendar in your web browser:
- For students who check the calendar of a resource regularly (e.g. to see when the LRC main classroom is available for your self-access/the tutor in your language, for help), it is better to “bookmark” the resources’ calendars in NINERMAIL. Here is how:
- Copy the URL for the calendar you just opened, from the web browser address bar:
- Go to NINERMAIL, click on the lower left “Calendar-icon”
to unfold the “My Calendars” list 
in the left pane, then right-click on “My Calendars”, choose “Add Calendar”
. - In the “Calendar URL” field, paste URL of the calendar you just opened, but replace “html” at the end with “ics”:
, click “OK”. - For on-premise users in OWA (seems OWA stirs on-premise users to the superior intranet calendars, which would be good. But what if the intranet calendar has not been shared with this user, but internet sharing is intended?), This may not work as advertised (neither with protocol http and webcal) OR just need a lot of time (~12hours?) to synchronize,
while it works (both with protocol http and webcal) when subscribing from Windows Live? 
. Most importantly for us (as we have now tested), it works for students with accounts in the cloud from NINERMAI. - OWA remembers your internet calendar subscriptions, and you can easily display or hide them, using the checkboxes it provides. To keep an overview over your calendars added from the internet, you need to rename them, by right-clicking on them, like so:
How to use the LRC Lists
2011/09/20
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- The LRC lists are built with MS-Excel Web app, one of the new features which came with NINERMAIL (live@edu, try logging into http://skydrive.com .
- Important benefits of MS-Excel Web app include
- sorting: click on column header / down arrow, and choose menu item: “Sort Ascending/Descending”
- filtering: click on column header / down arrow, and choose menu item:
- either “filter”,
, to choose from a condensed overview of all unique items that occur in the column, and e.g. filter out “Blanks” by removing the checkmark in front of it: 
- or the advanced “number filter” (in columns with numbers) or “textfilter”,
, to do more advanced searches, like for all items that contain “camera”: 
- sharing beyond viewing: Authorized users can click on an “edit link” below the list display to update the information from their web browser.
- either “filter”,
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