How students can record their picture or photo presentations with PowerPoint 2007
2013/01/22
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- On the ribbon:slideshow, click “record narration”,
- click “Change quality”,
- change the quality to 16Kbit from the default of 8kbit (which caused audio break-ups when I tested),
- click OK and present, using the headphones,
- then Save As / Show.
- You can easily use the saved file to e.g. upload the assignment to your teacher’s Moodle / File Upload Assignment.
Categories: audience-is-teachers, multimedia-recording, office-software
2007, ms-powerpoint
Tivoli TEM console connect error
2013/01/19
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- Problem: I seem to have lost the capability to connect to the TEM console from my Office PC, with this error:
- Root cause : This error is due to these credentials:
- Solution: add its to the email addy.
Tivoli TEM console connect error
2013/01/19
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- Problem: I lost the capability to connect to the TEM console from my Office PC, with this error:
- Solution: Use not your username, but your full email, even if it is an alias you did not know delivered email to you (its).
LRC learning resources Moodle metacourses: Our list
2013/01/18
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UPDATE: The LRC Metacourses are being rolled over to MOODLE2. Metacourses having only an OldID are currently still unavailable in Moodle2. And the student enrollment needs to be updated manually until the end of add/drop. On the upside, teachers do not need to make course available to students anymore. The LRC can do this (Metacourses for languages saying #Ref are waiting to be rolled over, tell me if you need them)..
The following LRC Moodle metacourses for teaching materials are available to LCS and ELTI (including LRC-Resource with training materials for using language learning technology in and outside of the LRC, as well as for independent study languages).
The naming scheme follows the course abbreviations taught in the departments that the LRC supports:
These courses appear in the Training branch of the Moodle-courses tree-menu on the left (for all study programs you teach in):
The metacourse for a language (or field of study) is accessible to all students studying this language during the term of their study.
Categories: audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure, English, erepository, Farsi, French, German, Greek (ancient), Greek (modern), Italian, Japanese, Latin, learning-materials, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Translation
file-management, links, lists, metacourses, moodle
How to install the Sanako Lite Recorder without it auto-starting and auto-restarting
2013/01/17
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- Problem:
- For a personal installation, but especially for a faculty-wide deploy, the default installation of the Sanako Lite Recorder seems to have too much of a footprint: Sanako Lite Recorder not only auto-starts (see e.g. the student icon in the notification area) with Windows, but also auto-restarts when exited –
- a useful feature of the classroom recorder from which the standalone recorder is derived, but not so much for a standalone recorder rollout. The feature is achieved by installing a service (helper.exe) that itself is during installation set to SERVICE_AUTO_START (0x00000002).
- This architecture also makes the installation option to “associate media files” with the Sanako Lite Recorder too greedy, even though it could be useful during the actual work of faculty with the Recorder.
- Workaround (for either manual reconfiguration after the install or to be integrated into the automated deployment):
- Can one set the underlying helper.exe service that gets installed during the Sanako Lite install to SERVICE_DEMAND_START (0x00000003)? Not tested. At best, this would help between computer restarts, but not when a teacher is done with editing the study recorder and tries to exit it (helper.exe, if itself started, will restarts the student.exe).
- Can one entirely disable this helper.exe service from services.msc, will the recorder still start? Testing with starting the student.exe and playing audio files did work. So one should try also during a deploy, use value SERVICE_DISABLED (0x00000004) for keys HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Sanako Helper\Start (and, in case something goes wrong later: HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Sanako Helper\Start).
What is “Content location” in Sanako Study Student Recorder (including Lite) for?
2013/01/17
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- While working on rolling out the free Sanako Light recorder to all faculty computers in a more systematic, automated way, the question has come up:
- What is “Content location” in Sanako Study Student Recorder (Ver 6, including Lite) “Administrative Settings” for, and how can it accept a URL?
- No such field in Ver 5.51; no mention in the help file; no manual this new (free) version would help seems included with the download.
- I am trying to point the “My files” to a more shared and LRC-accessible location on our SANAKO network share. Should I try the same with “Content Location”, or is this (defaults to “Application Data”) a strictly temporary location for during authoring?
- Answer: Sanako seems to be planning using this for distributing their own learning materials, esp. for ESL.
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