How to upload a swf

1. Navigate to the folder you want to add the zip file (with an index.html in it) to, and add asset
   
2. Add title, your name and change to zipped media, then go to asset media file
   
3. Browse for the zip file and make it Streamable
   
4. Right click on the uploaded file and choose Show Deeplink
   
5. Take off password protect and copy the URL. OK.
   

Set front page in WordPress

To set the front page in WordPress,

1. Dashboard
2. Settings
3. Reading
4. A static page
5. select it
6. Save changes

Uploading a Word doc into Google Drive (converting)

To upload a Word document into Google drive as a Google doc...

1. Click on the gear, then settings
   
2. Check convert, done
   
3. Click New, File upload
   
4. Choose the Word doc, Open
   
5. It will upload, you should see it in your files, or click locate to find it.
   

Make Bb banner with image with colour overlay

If you would like to add a banner to your Blackboard site that has black and white images with a colour overlay, here's how to do it:

1. In Photoshop click File, New. Type the file name (Banner), and set the width to 1132, and the height to 200. These are not fixed numbers, you can choose others.
   
2. Find and image from the web or wherever that you would like to use, and save it (downloads is a nice place).
   Then in Photoshop, File, Open.
   
3. Find the image, then Open.
   
4. Set the image height to be the same as your banner height  by clicking File, Image size, height 200, OK.
   
5. Copy the image (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C)
   
6. In the banner, paste the image (Ctrl+V). It will create a new layer with that image.
   
7. Use the move tool (type the V key) and drag the image to where you would like it.
   
8. Make the image black and white (unless it is already) by clicking
   
   Image, Adjustments, Black and White.
   
9. OK
   
10. Click File, Adjustments, Photo Filter.
    
11. Pick a general colour, then a specific hue, OK. Then set the density.
    
12. Click the Type tool, choose a colour, click in the banner and type text. You can move the text by clicking and holding outside the text area and dragging.
    
13. Save the file as the default psd so that you can edit it later if you need to. Save this in your Google drive or H drive so you can always access it.
    
14. Also, save the file for the web (jpeg) so the web version can be posted in Blackboard.
    
15. In Blackboard, click Customization, Teaching Style.
    

Scroll to the very bottom of the page, Browse My Computer, choose the jpeg version of the banner, Open, Submit

Then click Announcements to see it.

Download failed? Too big? Try Firefox

I tried downloading a huge Bb export the other day (4GB) and it failed 4 times in Chrome. Jamie tried it in Firefox and it worked!

However the biggest upload you're allowed to do is 2.5 GB, so I'm moving big files before the download next time.

È French keyboard

Sometimes you in inadvertently change your keyboard into a French keyboard by holding down Ctrl and Shift at the same time.

Fortunately, you can get back to an English keyboard the same way.

How to get = to align in LaTeX

There may be instances where a few lines of equations look bad because their equal signs are not aligned, like this one:

The way to do it is to start by declaring you are starting LaTeX:

[latex]

Then tell it you are using \begin{align}

[latex]

\begin{align}

Then put in the first line of LaTeX code with an & where you want to align it, so in our case, before the = sign:

[latex]

\begin{align}

y &= 3(x)^4(2x -5)

At the end of the line, put a space backslash backslash ( \\). This makes a line break.

[latex]

\begin{align}

y &= 3(x)^4(2x -5) \\

Then you might want an empty line to separate the next line more, put another space backslash backslash ( \\).

[latex]

\begin{align}

y &= 3(x)^4(2x -5) \\

 \\

Put in the next lines of math similarly, remembering the & before the =.

[latex]

\begin{align}

y &= 3(x)^4(2x -5)\\

\\

\dfrac {\delta y}{\delta x}&=3x^4(2)+(2x-5)12x^3 \\

\\

&=6x^4+24x^4-60x^3 \\

\\

&=30x^4-60x^3 \\

At the end, close alignment with \end{align} and close LaTeX with [/latex]

[latex]

\begin{align}

y &= 3(x)^4(2x -5)\\

\\

\dfrac {\delta y}{\delta x}&=3x^4(2)+(2x-5)12x^3 \\

\\

&=6x^4+24x^4-60x^3 \\

\\

&=30x^4-60x^3 \\

\end{align}

[/latex]

The finished product will look like this: