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Protected: Sanako Web browsing activity fails with Outlook web access

2014/03/27 plagwitz Enter your password to view comments.

Categories: digital-audio-lab, Glitches&Errors Tags: OWA, sanako-study-1200, web-browsing-activity

Sanako Web browsing activity not compatible with modern web infrastructure (SunGard Portal, Outlook Web Access)?

2014/03/26 plagwitz Leave a comment

To access campus resources – here an assignment in a Moodle course – our students need to log into a SunGard portal (with SSO – a pretty common product in higher education)l, but already the redirection after login fails with this session expiration error.
1. We could work around this problem by browsing to the target site and logging into Moodle directly. But our students normally do not know how to do that.
More problems arose when students tried to open an email in their campus OWA, in a popup window, which, however, gets redirected to the first browser homepage.
This was during an “open/prevent policy” web browsing-activity, where – to keep students on task – only certain sites (social web, webmail) were blocked.., as can be seen in this screenshot:

Categories: audience-is-IT-staff, digital-audio-lab, e-learning, Uncategorized Tags: OWA, sanako-study-1200, sungard-portal, web-browsing-activity

Protected: Block common translator, webmail and/or social web sites during LRC class by loading a RUL file in Sanako Study 1200

2013/01/29 plagwitz Enter your password to view comments.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, e-learning, Institution-is-University-of-North-Carolina-Charlotte, Notes, step-by-step-guides, websites Tags: sanako-study-1200, web-browsing-activity

Announcing new MS-Word templates for writing assignments during face-to-face-classes in the LRC

2012/11/08 plagwitz Leave a comment

Benefits
1. MS-Word is technology that has become “transparent”for most users:
  1. Have teachers focus on assignment pedagogy, not authoring technology.
  2. Have students focus on the target language, not authoring technology.
2. Document is protected (for restricting formatting to predefined Word-styles):
  1. Have students focus on form or content, but not on distracting formatting issues.
  2. Styles are designed to facilitate teacher monitoring students’ work using Sanako screensharing, like so:
3. Take advantage of MS-Office Proofing tools (templates are preset for your target language).
4. Take advantage of easy assignment file management with Sanako homework activity.
5. Take advantage of internet lookup process, especially pedagogical if you combine with Sanako controlled-web-browsing activity
Requirements:
1. Teacher
  1. The easiest is to save the writing template for your language in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033 (or if your run 32-bit MS-Word on a 64-bit Windows, C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033)
  2. Then base your writing assignment document on the template (e.g. by double-clicking the template in the folder you saved it to).
  3. Then save your writing assignment to your class material folder on the Sanako network share (from the office or in the LRC).
  4. In class, launch the Sanako homework activity.
2. Student: none other than downloading and submitting the Sanako homework.

Categories: announcements, audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, e-languages, office-software, Presenter-Computer, service-is-configuring-learning-tools, service-is-learning-materials-creation, service-is-programming, Student-Computers, Writing Tags: homework-activity, MS-Word, sanako-study-1200, screensharing, templates, trpStudentWriting, web-browsing-activity

How teachers restrict students to allowed web pages with Sanako Study 1200 web browsing (strict) activity–the ultimate training summary

2012/11/01 plagwitz Leave a comment

…using animated GIFs. Load the speed of your choosing (or several, use CTRL-Click to open links in a new tab) into the left screen of the teacher station before administering an oral exam, with the window active, press F5 in your web browser to restart the animation from the beginning:0.50sec,0.75sec,1sec,2sec,3sec,4sec,5sec,6sec,7sec,8sec,9sec,10sec

Condensed (instructions only) for recap: 100cs, 200cs, 300cs, 400cs, 500cs, 600cs, 700cs, 800cs, 900cs, 1000cs. And if you need to pause:

web browsing

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Categories: animated-GIFs, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, e-languages, hardware, Presenter-Computer, screenshot-albums, service-is-documenting, training Tags: dual-monitor, sanako-study-1200, web-browsing-activity

Sanako Study 1200 controlled web browsing–strict policy

2012/04/18 plagwitz Leave a comment

View an 80-seconds screencast showing how a teacher can set up a student activity where students are only allowed to access on web site.
In this example, the website is a common dictionary: http://www.dict.cc which the student will be allowed to access during an exam (in lieu of a paper dictionary policy).
Never mind that the voiceover is partially in German – the video should be self-explanatory. If not, here is a written step-by-step on Sanako controlled webbrowsing.

Categories: audience-is-teachers, classroom-management-system, documentation, e-learning, Presenter-Computer, Screencasts, Student-Computers Tags: sanako-study-1200, web-browsing-activity

Sanako Study 1200 student in-class web browsing activity caveats, errors&glitches

2012/03/01 plagwitz Leave a comment

If we put the full URI of the website (e.g. http://www.dict.cc), we experience the student web browser not opening up (either hanging at "verifying access" dialogue or empty browser window and definitely no table of contents browser window). Workaround: put just e.g. http://www.dict.cc.
CAVEAT: make sure you actually know which sub-pages will be loaded (and thus need to be allowable) during your web browsing activity
1. the address-bar is misleading when a your pages are loaded within a frameset. like in this example: . In this example, allow all links in the left menu.
2. your list of allowable pages should cover the entire workflow, including feedback pages that the student may receive
3. TBA: it is sufficient for a web page to be allowed/blocked if its URL string contains your listed URL as a substring
We have observed `the following issues:
1. that the sanako web browser may hang, on startup or later, but a common workaround is closing a hanging sanako web browser which will reopen it on the table of contents page.
2. that the “verifying access rights” window can disappear quickly, but may delay web browsing for a considerable time before your students are allowed to browse to a web page – please allow time for that (we are investigating whether the size of the class or the type of allow/deny list or individual allow/deny links cause this delay).
3. that the sanako web browser on some computers (despite them have identical software images?) arbitrarily opening new windows which muddies the waters considerably – and also seems to require more time for the verifying –, but does not make the exercise fail: