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Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Tuesday, 22 March 2016
SafeAssign course outline blurb
Here's a link to our tutorials on SafeAssign
And here's a Standard Sample Statement:
In this course, you will be asked to submit material in electronic form to a text matching service to which MRU subscribes called [xxxx]. This is a service that checks textual material for originality. MRU authorizes the use of text matching software for educational purposes. Limited personal information should be entered into the software. If software options allow it, it is recommended that personal information entered be limited to MRU identification number, institutional e-mail address and course work. Submitted data resides with the software company outside the University and is used to provide comparisons that promote academic integrity. Students have the right to opt out of using the software and may choose another form of originality checking, subject to the agreement of the instructor. Students must notify their instruction of their intention to opt out by _________________________. Inquiries can be directed to the instructor [title, business address and phone number]. More information about [software name] including training materials and the University's reasons for using it can be found at _________________________.
These procedures align with MRU copyright policies and guidelines.
Friday, 29 January 2016
Fix for WordPress Courses sites with HTTPS issues
by Jesse Patching
It's possible to accidentally setup a WordPress Courses site which automatically redirects to the HTTPS version of the site instead of HTTP. When this happens, resources required by the theme and images in the course may not load correctly.
It's possible to accidentally setup a WordPress Courses site which automatically redirects to the HTTPS version of the site instead of HTTP. When this happens, resources required by the theme and images in the course may not load correctly.
To fix this issue:
- Login to the Courses site as usual
- In the left hand sidebar, hover over "Dashboard" and click on "My Sites"
- On the "My Sites" page, click the "Manage Sites" link at the top left
- Find for your site in the list of Sites
- Hover over your site, and click "Edit"
- On the "Edit Site" page, click the "Settings" tab
- Make sure that the "Siteurl" and "Home" inputs start with "http://"
Thursday, 14 January 2016
install Wordpress from an xampp database
username: root
password: leave blank, there is no password using xampp (wamp uses "root" as the password)
password: leave blank, there is no password using xampp (wamp uses "root" as the password)
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
upload breeze ppt into Sharestream
As long as you don't have to make any changes to the breeze-ified PowerPoint, you can upload it directly into Sharestream as long as you make the loading htm file named index.
- In Breeze download content, download the output file
- Extract it into a folder with the same name.
- Go into that extracted folder,
- and rename the opening htm file
- "index", then go back to downloads
- and delete the original zip file
- Zip the folder
- And append the standard naming convention to it.
This can now be uploaded as an asset into Sharestream
Thursday, 8 October 2015
Add McGraw-Hill Connect assignments to Blackboard
McGraw-Hill Connect has assignments students can do online and then port their grades over to Blackboard. Here's how:
- After logging into the Blackboard site, open another tab and go to mhhm.com and choose the course and section.
- Choose the chapter you would like to assign. Note: if it was already assigned and the due date is past, you will need to change the due date to the future to be able to link it to Blackboard.
- Click on the yellow of students not started, and note their names. Then ,edit the assignment.
- OK, scroll to the bottom
- Click next: assign
- Make sure Blackboard is toggled on, thatthe date is in the future, and click assign
- You will be automatically moved into Blackboard (login if you are not in already), click Browse to where you would like to post this assignment, click the area you want it in, Submit.
- You will see it in that area
- You will also see it in the grade center
- Grades will eventually be posted automatically, but if you want to sync it manually, click Tools, McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
- Synchronize Individual Assignments
- Select the assignments that you want to sync, Submit
- Then go to the full grade center and enter zeros in for those who didn't do the quiz in step 3
- Now assign the McGraw-Hill online Quizzes as Quizzes by going into Manage, Column organization
- You can reorganize the order of the columns (since McGraw-Hill Connect will place these Quiz results in front of the columns set there before. Then place checkmarks in front of each Quiz, Click Change Category to, and set them as Quizzes. Submit. They will now calculate properly in the Weighted Total.
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