Think you can show it better than write it? Sometimes an idea you want to present to an audience is worth the words you put down on paper, but not so much the trouble of thinking about WHICH words you want. A fun project for you and/or your students is to say what you mean visually. Anyone who has a computer can make a digital media presentation if they have a cache of digital photographs. These could be photos they have collected from their own camera or they can be photos collected from the web under a fair use creative commons license. (more…)

 

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For a long time one would have to break out the old magic wand or lasso tool and carefully select around the portion of the image they wanted to remove the background. Then copy the selection and place it on a new layer or canvas. That is now a thing of the past! (more…)

The #1 issue we see with students goes something like this:

• You (the instructor) upload a document (Word, Powerpoint) file and place a link in the Course Content area of your WebCT course.
• You instruct your students to click the document link and print, download, or view the file.
• Students attempt to do so and get a blank screen indicating they can’t see the document or it isn’t there.

The Issue - This is a security problem with Internet Explorer and cannot be fixed by WebCT. (more…)

Paging Preferences - refers to the number of items in a list that will appear on the screen inside WebCT at any one time. Paging Preferences appear in lots of places such as the File Manager, Gradebook, Mail tool, Discussion Area, etc… If you have ever thought that you were missing data or not able to see all your students or posts, then you have run into Paging Preferences. The icon to change these preferences, when you have exceeded the default of 10 records, looks like a little stack of paper and appears on the bottom right side of the screen.

WebCT now allows you to set your default Paging Preferences globally so that you never have to change them again (unless you want to). Here’s how:

1. From the Course List page in WebCT, look for a link to My Settings.
2. Click My Tool Options.
3. Scroll down the page to the very bottom and look for the section called Paging.
4. Type the number of records per page that you would like for your new default (999 is the max).
5. Click Save to update.
6. Click the My Profile tab then click Done to return to the Course List page.

That’s all there is to it! You may never have to reset your paging options again.

The Wikipedia definition of skinning when it comes to computing refers to the ability to apply a theme or a custom graphical appearance to a piece of software in order to suit the environment to a users taste. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_(computing) ) (more…)

Did you know…there is a new tool in WebCT called the Roster Tool. This tool allows students and instructors to view each other’s profiles. Each student and instructor has the option of uploading a photo to their profile to share with the rest of the class. (more…)