Gmail signature image

I am trying an experiment with this blog post. When I made the image below openly available to the world, the only web address that would work from my signature would only last a few days. I hope this one is more permanent.

Forcing Google doc comments to be printed on landscape Word doc

When you add comments to a Google doc, the document can be exported into MS Word, and appears to be landscape, so that the font size is about the same and the extra width is used to house the comments.

BUT

When you actually print it, it prints portrait and shrinks the font size accordingly. To make it really landscape, you need to do more than just choose landscape in Page Layout Orientation (which is already selected), but rather go into the Page Setup dialog box and choose it...

Flippity make certification quiz

You can make an online quiz, that will produce a certificate of completion to those who've done well and email you (the author).

Make click on larger image in WP

To make a thumbnail open to a larger image in WP, load the regular big image, choose the display size you want the thumbnail to be, then choose link to Media file

lettered ordered list in WP

To get a lowercase lettered list in WP use:

<ol style="color: #000000;" type="a">

When you look at it in Visual, it looks like it didn't work, but when you publish it... 

It actually works!

The new way to print docs at document services

1. Login to MyMRU, If you get this Not Found error, just click the MRU logo, 







go to the Employee tab and scroll down and click Printsys












2. Register





3. Don't use the same password as your MRU password because this is an external service 





4. Login







5. Create a new project








6. upload a file, you will see it above, then click next 






7. choose how many copies and whether you want double-sided or not







8. scroll to the bottom, and confirm request

You will be asked for a FOAP number (that has to be put in again every time). Be sure to include the appropriate hyphens.

Campus bit versions

We use Windows 7 64-bit
and Office 32-bit

PowerPoint dual screen (in a classroom)

In the new classrooms (and eventually in every classroom) you can use the instructor monitor to show a special presenter view PowerPoint (see current slide, next slide and notes), and display the student view on the screen. Here's how:

How to post a Wiley online test with results in Blackboard grade center

Microsoft Home Use Policy on 2 computers

You are allowed to have your Microsoft Home Use copy of Microsoft Office on 2 computers, but only one purchase.

When you purchase and download Office you will get an email to initiate the download, and then another with the licence number. Keep these emails for when you want to download them on to a second computer. If not you can always phone Microsoft (1-877-248-1220) and get the emails sent to you again.

How to make and use an acrobat signature

Here's how...

How to Google Hangout with someone off campus

If you try to Google Hangout with someone off campus you will see that it says that this is a Google@mtroyal.ca only meeting. Click on that warning...

Change, Allow, then Close. 

Then try again.

Now you need to have a Google+ account in order to make a YouTube channel, in order to upload videos to YouTube

We tried to help someone who had an institutional Google account (that currently does not have Google+) and it just stalls on the page that gets you to choose your channel name!

When changing your password, do it in 3 places

1. Change your password first in MyMRU




2. Then change your wife password (forget it and put the new password in)





3. Then change your password in the Google account

Sometimes you need to clear Acrobat Reader cache

Acrobat reader sometimes shows an old version of a file, so it needs it's cache cleared.

In Windows Exporer, go to C:\Users\{your username}\AppData\Local\Temp and delete everything

Wikis don't import in new Bb course (unless you import the users)

Although first level discussion board threads do import over into a new Bb course (albeit as anonymous)

Wikis do not.

How to submit a Bb test for a student who didn't

Sometimes a student starts a test in Bb and "meant to submit it, but I had this thing come up..." and it's past now and you see their incomplete attempt! Just mouse over, menu, view grade details...

View Attempts

Click the chevron to expand test information (at the top) and Submit Attempt for them.

Bb crocodoc annotated download

You can add annotations to Bb submitted assignments using Crocodocs

that can be downloaded either as the raw (unannotated) Word document, or a PDF file that includes the annotations.

However you can only see it without comments in the Chrome browser pdf view

Whereas you can also see comments when opening it in Adobe Acrobat

Bb test to Word conversion

Blackboard tests don't print well so we use Respondus, or more specifically email Chloe and she'll convert it.

First go into course tools, tests surveys and pools, tests, mouse over the test, export

In the Respondus_conversion Bb site, go to the same place but import

Then email and ask Chloe, she'll send back a Word doc.

The Word document will have asterixes that can be removed by Ctrl+H, replace All

if iOS8 made Google calendar entries not sync...

1. restart iPhone
2. settings
3. mail, contacts, calendar
4. Exchange account
5. turn off calendar
6. delete entries
7. turn calendar back on
8. enjoy

You can subscribe people to receive emails

In Word Press, add the Subscribe2 plugin (not available in courses.mtroyal.ca)

Then mouse over Subscribe2 (now in the menu), Subscribers

Then add email addresses galore

Then, spam 'em good with every new post!

Course duration makes it so students can't remove the course

If an instructor keeps a course available but sets the duration to a set date that has past

Then students can see the course in their list (but can't go into it), but not in the list of courses they can hide!

The only way they can get rid of it is for the instructor to make it unavailable (preferred), or to change the duration to continuous, which would make it available again.

You do not have permission to enroll user(s):

This is a misnomer, because you do have permission. What it "should" say is "Blackboard is so confused, could you try again without hitting Browse?"

The offending button is Browse. Don't hit it (or even think about hitting it) unless the username field is EMPTY. If you know the username, just type it in and hit Submit instead.

Make custom YouTube thumbnail image

By default YouTube just picks some random point in the video to be the thumbnail. You can change this in the video manager. Edit the video you want, then Info and Settings

Then just click Custom thumbnail. It accepts jpegs or pngs.

Putting a title slide on a YouTube video

If you go to www.youtube.com/editor

You can choose a title slide (click "a")

Type a title, double click the small thumbnail to get to the place to type text. You may have to add spaces before it and make multiple lines to fit in the cropped edges of many videos. Make it white text and Blue (RGB 51, 102, 255) background.

Type a name for the project, go back to videos () choose on, then create video. It takes a while.