I will be at the IC table in the student center from 11-1 tomorrow Tuesday May 1st. Please stop by with your SU Mac and let me install the Self Service app for you...or see if you already have it. I will have cookies and fireballs available. I can also answer your support questions. If you just want the cookie...well that's alright too. Stop by and say hello!
Monday, 30 April 2012
Friday, 27 April 2012
IMPORTANT: If you don't have the Self Service app installed on your SU Mac laptop please do so ASAP. I will be set up in the Student Center from 11 to 1 on Tuesday May 1st if you want to drop by with your laptop. It will only take about 5 minutes to install. If you can't make it Tuesday pleaqse plan to go to the helpdesk in Howe to have the app installed.
How will you know if its installed?
Look in your dock or in the applications folder for the icon at the left.
SU's Self-Service application allows you to load iLife, Adobe Reader, Google Chrome, the latest version of MS Office, Skype and many other useful programs onto your Mac laptop without having to make a trip down to the help desk. AND LION IS COMING SOON!!! Simply click the Self-Service icon, enter your username and password and then it’s just a matter of clicking the install button found in the icon for the program you wish to install. However please note that software available in SU Self Service is for use only on computers owned by Shenandoah University, which includes those in the iMLearning program.
How will you know if its installed?Look in your dock or in the applications folder for the icon at the left.
SU's Self-Service application allows you to load iLife, Adobe Reader, Google Chrome, the latest version of MS Office, Skype and many other useful programs onto your Mac laptop without having to make a trip down to the help desk. AND LION IS COMING SOON!!! Simply click the Self-Service icon, enter your username and password and then it’s just a matter of clicking the install button found in the icon for the program you wish to install. However please note that software available in SU Self Service is for use only on computers owned by Shenandoah University, which includes those in the iMLearning program.
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
The Office of Alumni Affairs has created a new Facebook application called Shenandoah For Life, which allows you to view yearbooks from Shenandoah University, comment on pictures, tag your friends and share with others. Here are the steps to see select yearbooks.
1) Click HERE and login to your Facebook account
2) Find your yearbook and begin turning the pages by clicking on the right side of the page.
3) At this point, you can comment on the yearbook, tag your friends and classmates and share with others.
1) Click HERE and login to your Facebook account
2) Find your yearbook and begin turning the pages by clicking on the right side of the page.
3) At this point, you can comment on the yearbook, tag your friends and classmates and share with others.
Only a few years are represented so far. Some years did not have a yearbook and others have not been funded yet. The cost to put your yearbook online is $500. You or a group of friends are invited to do this! If you would like to give to this project and see your yearbook online, contact Jane Pittman, associate vice president for Alumni Affairs, at 540-665-3489or jpittman@su.edu.
If you have any questions while looking at the yearbooks, please contact Meredith Cox, assistant director of Alumni Affairs, at 540-665-5574 ormcox2@su.edu.
If you have any questions while looking at the yearbooks, please contact Meredith Cox, assistant director of Alumni Affairs, at 540-665-5574 ormcox2@su.edu.
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
If you have not already downloaded the new ShenandoahU app (available from the iTunes Store) you will really be in for a treat! Not only does the app offer quick and easy access to the Shenandoah Directory, athletics, course catalogs and a list of events, the app also allows you to upload your own videos to share with your fellow students, your parents or the whole world. Add a video of that Frisbee game from last week you caught on your cell phone or that track meet ...even you know who slow dancing with whatshisname! (Just remember your video can NOT contains inappropriate material) . Go to the iTunes Store today and download the new SU app. Just search for ShenandoahU.
Monday, 23 April 2012
Make sure to stop by the Atomic Learning table on the main floor of the Student Center tomorrow Tuesday April 24th from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm to get a hands-on demo of exciting new online training packages. Atomic Learning offers video training on hundreds of topics including MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint...even Photoshop and Illustrator. With Atomic Learning you can train at your own pace 24/7. A member of the IC department will be at the demo table to offer guidance, an atomic fireball and other free giveaways just for stopping by, trying out the demo and answering a couple quick questions. Check out the subject list below and pick one that you would like to demo!
Atomic Learning Workshops
A
Access
Acrobat Connect
Acrobat Pro
Acrobat Reader
ActivInspire
ActivPrimary
ActivStudio
Address Book
Adobe CS5.5
After Effects
Aperture
AppleWorks
ATLAS.ti
Audacity
AutoCAD
B
Blackboard
Bridge
BrightLink
Bryce
C
Camtasia
Captivate
Clicker
Cloze Pro
Comic Life
Composer
Contribute
Creative Commons
Curriki
D
delicious
Desire2Learn
Digital Image Suite
Diigo
Discovery Education
Streaming
Dreamweaver
Dropbox
DVD Studio Pro
E
Easiteach
Easy Grade Pro
Edublogs
eFolio Minnesota
Encore DVD
EndNote
Entourage
Epson
Evernote
Excel
eZediaMX
eZediaQTI
F
Facebook
Filemaker Pro
Final Cut Express
Final Cut Pro
Finale Notepad
Firefox
Fireworks
FirstClass
Flash
Flash ActionScript
flickr
FreeHand
Freeway
FrontPage
G
GarageBand
Geometer’s Sketchpad
GIMP
Gliffy
Glogster
Gmail
GoLive
Google Blogger
Google Calendar
Google Chrome
Google Docs
Google Earth
Google Reader
Google Sites
Google SketchUp
Google+
Grade Quick Web
Graphic Converter
GroupWise
H
HyperStudio
I
I Can Animate
iCal
iDVD
Illustrator
ImageBlender
iMovie
InDesign
Inspiration
InspireData
Internet Explorer
iPad
iPhoto
iPod touch
iStopMotion
iTunes
iWeb
J
JSTOR
K
Keynote
Kid Pix
Kid Pix Deluxe
Kidspiration
KnightCite
KompoZer (NVU)
L
Lightspeed
Linkedin
Lotus Notes
M
Mail
Math Nerds
MaxData
MediaBlender
MediaWorks
mimio
Money (iPod/iPhone)
Moodle
N
NeoOffice
netTrekker
netvibes
Notepad
Notes (iPod/iPhone)
NoteTaker
Numbers
NVU
O
Office
OneNote
OpenOffice.org
OS X
Outlook
Outlook Web Access
P
PageMaker
Pages
Pages for iOS
Paint
Palm OS
PBworks
Photo Story
Photoshop
Photoshop Album
Photoshop Elements
Photoshop Lightroom
Picasa
Pinnacle Att. Manager
Pinnacle Gradebook
Pinnacle Principal Viewer
PowerPoint
Premiere Elements
Premiere Pro
Presenter
Prezi
Producer
Project
Publisher
Q
Quark
QuickTime Player Pro
Qwizdom PowerPoint
Plug-in
Quizlet
R
RoboLab
S
Safari
ScanLife
Scratch
SharePoint Server
Skype
Skype for iOS
SMART Board Notebook
Soundbooth
SPSS
StarOffice
Storyboard Pro
Studio Plus
Study Stack
T
TeamBoard Draw
Textease
The Graph Club
TI-30XS MultiView
TI-34 MultiView
TI-84 Silver Edition
TI BAII Plus
TI-Nspire
TimeLiner
twitter
U
unitedstreaming
V
Video Storytelling Guide
Visio
VoiceThread
W
WebCT (Blackboard)
Wikispaces
Windows
Windows Media Player
Windows Movie Maker
Windows Vista Calendar
Windows Vista Mail
Windows Vista Photo
Gallery
Word
WordPress
Y
YouTube
123
30 Boxes
Support Solution
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Next Tuesday April 24th that is. Come to our table set up in the Student Center and get your very own official personal ATOMIC FIREBALL courtesy of Atomic Learning. And while you are there munching down on your candy, sit down at one of the laptops we'll have set up and check out Atomic Learning, a new totally online training package IC is considering offering to Students and Faculty. Through Atomic Learning you can train yourself on MS Word, Excel, Working with Databases, even Photoshop and Illustrator...plus many many more topics all broken down into short easy to comprehend videos. Through Atomic Learning you will have those applications up and running like a pro in no time.
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
There were several inquiries yesterday from students at the MOB2 concerning downloading Lion through the Self-Sevice app. I spoke with our Mac guru here at IC and he stated that Lion will not be available on self-service until after finals.
If you haven't already had it installed, please contact the help-desk to get this invaluable app installed on your Shenandoah issued Mac laptop. With Self-Service you have the ability to install yourself with just a click many popular and useful programs including MS Office 2011, iLife'11, VirtualBox (allowing you to have Windows on your Mac!) , IBM SPSS plus many others. Again contact the help-desk to request the app put on. If there are several of you who wouldn't mind gathering together during a lunch period, you can contact me at bbsupport@su.edu and I will try to accommodate.
If you haven't already had it installed, please contact the help-desk to get this invaluable app installed on your Shenandoah issued Mac laptop. With Self-Service you have the ability to install yourself with just a click many popular and useful programs including MS Office 2011, iLife'11, VirtualBox (allowing you to have Windows on your Mac!) , IBM SPSS plus many others. Again contact the help-desk to request the app put on. If there are several of you who wouldn't mind gathering together during a lunch period, you can contact me at bbsupport@su.edu and I will try to accommodate.
Monday, 16 April 2012
If you haven't already, please go out to the apple store and download the new updated Bb Mobile app that's now available. The app runs on your iphone,ipad and ipod touch. (The app also comes in versions which run on Android and Blackberry). With the new app you can upload media as attachments to blogs, journals and discussions directly from their mobile device. Courses can also be marked as favorites so students can more easily manage the courses or organizations that they access most frequently.
We have done several Blogs in the recent past on using the app. Please search the Blog Archives for instructions on the use of the Bb Mobile app.
We have done several Blogs in the recent past on using the app. Please search the Blog Archives for instructions on the use of the Bb Mobile app.
Friday, 13 April 2012
Students have the ability to manage how and which Courses or Organizations they receive notifications from. You can define whether you want notifications to appear on your Notifications Dashboard, come via email or get sent to your mobile devices. Simply follow the steps below.
1) Click the My Places icon at the top center of your Bb Page
2) Click Edit Notifications Settings under My Preferences.
3) Select whether you want to edit the settings for an individual course or organization or bulk edit (several or all courses/organizations at once)
4) Then simply click the selection boxes next to the particular items you wish to receive notifications for. Click the top boxes to select all.
1) Click the My Places icon at the top center of your Bb Page
3) Select whether you want to edit the settings for an individual course or organization or bulk edit (several or all courses/organizations at once)
4) Then simply click the selection boxes next to the particular items you wish to receive notifications for. Click the top boxes to select all.
Thursday, 12 April 2012
If I send a Microsoft Word document which is a draft, I like to include a watermark. A watermark is faded out text or a background picture that shows on the page beneath your document text. The process for creating one is very easy. However remember that the watermarks won't show in Normal view. You need to be in Print Layout view to see them.
1. From the Office ribbon, click Page Layout.
2. In the Page Background group, click Watermark. A dialog will appear with images of common watermarks such as "Draft", "Urgent", "Confidential" and so on.
3. Click the watermark you'd like to use.
Your watermark will now appear on every page.
You can also add a nice faded picture in the background say of flowers or a coastline. Cheap and cool way to create your own personalized stationary! Play around with it!
1. From the Office ribbon, click Page Layout.
2. In the Page Background group, click Watermark. A dialog will appear with images of common watermarks such as "Draft", "Urgent", "Confidential" and so on.
3. Click the watermark you'd like to use.
Your watermark will now appear on every page.
You can also add a nice faded picture in the background say of flowers or a coastline. Cheap and cool way to create your own personalized stationary! Play around with it!
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Hide that Ribbon!
For many of us, the ribbon interface (illustrated above) used in Word is a great step forward, while others find it somewhat overwhelming. If you fall into the latter category, you'll be happy to know that the ribbon can be temporarily hidden to provide you with a larger working area and clear away the clutter. How? Simple...just click one of the buttons highlighted in red below.
Remove the formatting
If text has been formatted and you change your mind about how it should appear, click the word in question, or select a section of text, and press [Ctrl]+[Space] simultaneously. If the formatting has been applied with a style, press [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[N] and it will then revert to the default style.
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
This is a fun (and possibly useful) Mac function you may not have been aware of. You can make your Mac Talk to you. Whether you wish it to tell you what time it is or read that term paper you have written back to you, Mac Speech is a neat little utility!
You access Speech by clicking your apple on the upper left and choosing System Preferences> Speech. (Near the center on the 4th row) . When you open up the application you can choose the gender of your Mac Speech voice by clicking the dropdown next to system voice and if you click More Voices it will give options for some special effect type voices.
Clicking Speak selected text when the key is pressed gives you the ability to hear what you have typed (or read to you from an article on the Internet! )All you have to do is click the Set Key button and define the keystroke that will kick off the text reading. (I use Control Option S)
Have fun making your mac talk.
Monday, 9 April 2012
The following are some tips and items you should be aware of when taking tests or quizzes through SU's Blackboard System.
Be aware of timeouts. Blackboard times out after 90 minutes of inactivity. Your Internet Service Provider may time out sooner with no activity. Make sure you save your answers as you move through the test, so you can avoid losing everything if your service times out or your connection is lost.
Read the test directions carefully. The Instructor generally places test instructions under the test link. Information about the timing and availability of the test will be listed below the professor’s directions. Take note of whether the questions are delivered “All at Once” or “One at a Time”:
• All at Once: If all of the test questions appear on the page at once, the Save Answer button will appear next to each question. Click Save Answer after you complete each question. You can come back later and change the answer and re-save it.
• One at a Time: In this mode, you will have to click Save Answer after each question in order to move ahead with the test. Make sure you check the directions to find out if you will be allowed to go back and review the questions once they have been completed. Sometimes, a professor will give you one chance to answer a question without allowing you to go back and change it.
Read the test directions carefully. The Instructor generally places test instructions under the test link. Information about the timing and availability of the test will be listed below the professor’s directions. Take note of whether the questions are delivered “All at Once” or “One at a Time”:
• All at Once: If all of the test questions appear on the page at once, the Save Answer button will appear next to each question. Click Save Answer after you complete each question. You can come back later and change the answer and re-save it.
• One at a Time: In this mode, you will have to click Save Answer after each question in order to move ahead with the test. Make sure you check the directions to find out if you will be allowed to go back and review the questions once they have been completed. Sometimes, a professor will give you one chance to answer a question without allowing you to go back and change it.
"Finish" the test. Once you have finished answering the questions, click the Save All button to make sure all your answers are saved, and then click the Finish button to submit the test. (Clicking the Save All button will save your answers, but does not submit the test.) If you do not submit the test, you will receive no credit for your answers. You should see a confirmation message if the submission was successful.
I checked out a program over the weekend called Truecrypt which has the dual advantages of being multi-platform (Windows & Mac), and being free. It can work as either computer-based or run from the flash drive (the latter being Windows only). It’s a very powerful encrypting program that has many high-level capabilities, but once you learn to use the interface (it has very good step-by-step instructions), it is quick and easy to use. As with the Office documents, you will need to record your password since it cannot be recovered if you lose it! Go to http://www.truecrypt.org to download and read the very simple instructions on how to use!
Thursday, 5 April 2012
There are known vulnerabilities in Java for Mac OS X that are currently being exploited by malware through certain web sites. If infected with this malware, sensitive data could be transmitted from your Mac to others.
Apple this week released a patch that plugs the security holes and it is available in Software Update. All Macs at SU are running Java and need to be updated. It is very important that you run Software Update on your Mac as soon as possible and install all available updates.
To run Software Update:
1. Click the Apple menu at the top left of your display
2. Choose Software Update and your Mac will check for available updates
3. Click Continue, or Install, to install the updates.
After the updates have installed, Software Update will check again for any additional updates and, if available, you should install those as well.
Apple this week released a patch that plugs the security holes and it is available in Software Update. All Macs at SU are running Java and need to be updated. It is very important that you run Software Update on your Mac as soon as possible and install all available updates.
To run Software Update:
1. Click the Apple menu at the top left of your display
2. Choose Software Update and your Mac will check for available updates
3. Click Continue, or Install, to install the updates.
After the updates have installed, Software Update will check again for any additional updates and, if available, you should install those as well.
Next week, IC will push the update to systems that are on campus and have not had the update applied. If you have any questions, please contact the IC Help Desk at helpdesk@su.edu or 540-665-
It's always a VERY good idea to lock your Mac screen when you walk away even for a minute or two. There are probably files and data you would rather the whole world not be able to access!
A simple way to protect your files when you walk away from your computer is to hit Shift-Command-Option-Q to do a fast logout of your user. Your Mac will go back to the login screen. However, there’s a huge downside to this method—all of your currently-open documents will close, and any running applications will quit prior to the logout.
A relatively quick method of locking your Mac—while still leaving your programs running—is to activate the screen saver using a hot corner . To do this, open the Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences panel (by clicking the apple in the upper left) , activate the Screen Saver tab, and click the Hot Corners button. Decide which corner of your screen you’d like to use, then click the corresponding pop-up menu and select Start Screen Saver. Now when it’s time to walk away, just fling your mouse into that corner of the screen, and you’ll trigger the screen saver.
A simple way to protect your files when you walk away from your computer is to hit Shift-Command-Option-Q to do a fast logout of your user. Your Mac will go back to the login screen. However, there’s a huge downside to this method—all of your currently-open documents will close, and any running applications will quit prior to the logout.
A relatively quick method of locking your Mac—while still leaving your programs running—is to activate the screen saver using a hot corner . To do this, open the Desktop & Screen Saver System Preferences panel (by clicking the apple in the upper left) , activate the Screen Saver tab, and click the Hot Corners button. Decide which corner of your screen you’d like to use, then click the corresponding pop-up menu and select Start Screen Saver. Now when it’s time to walk away, just fling your mouse into that corner of the screen, and you’ll trigger the screen saver.
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
I came across this at and found it very interesting!
Search engine Google serves more that 694,445 queries
6,600+ pictures are uploaded on Flickr
600 videos are uploaded on YouTube videos, amounting to 25+ hours of content
695,000 status updates, 79,364 wall posts and 510,040 comments are published on Social Networking site Facebook
70 New domains are registered
168,000,000+ emails are sent
320 new accounts and 98,000 tweets are generated on Social Networking site Twitter
iPhone applications are downloaded more than13,000 times
20,000 new posts are published on Micro-blogging platform tumbler
Popular web browser FireFox is downloaded more than 1700 times
100 accounts are created on professional networking site LinkedIn
40 new Questions are asked on YahooAnswers.com
100+ questions are asked on Answers.com
1 new definition is added on UrbanDictionary.com
1,200+ new ads are created on Craigslist
370,000+ minutes of voice calls done by Skype users
13,000+ hours of music streaming is done by personalized Internet radio provider Pandora
1,600+ reads are made on Scribd, the largest social reading publishing company
Information obtained from http://www.go-gulf.com/blog/60-seconds
Information obtained from http://www.go-gulf.com/blog/60-seconds
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Note: Your instructor controls if the Mashup tool is available. If it is not available your instructor may have disabled it.
A Mashup combines elements from two or more sources. When you view a YouTube™ video in a Blackboard Learn course as part of the course content, you are experiencing a Mashup.
Mashups can also include Flickr® photos, SlideShare presentations, and Pasting from Word.
You can use this content in a variety of ways within a course: a standalone piece of content, part of a test question, a topic in a Discussion Board, or as part of an assignment.
Mashups are added through the Text Editor.
Default Mashup Types
Flickr: A website for viewing and sharing photographic images.
SlideShare: A website for viewing and sharing slide presentations and documents
YouTube: A website for viewing and sharing online videos.
Paste From Word . This has been mentioned several times in our blog as it is VERY IMPORTANT to remember not to cut and paste from word directly but rather paste into this mashup. If this mashup is not used then XML formatting included with new versions of Word will corrupt the course content.
How to Create a Mashup Item Using the Text Editor
1. Navigate to an assignment, journal, or other piece of content.
2. On the Upload Assignment page, click Add Mashup in the third row of Text Editor functions.
3. Select Flickr Photo, SlideShare Presentation, YouTube Video, or Paste from Word.
4. On the Search for Mashup pop-up window, search for content. Type the content name in the Search box and click Go.
5. On the Search Results page, you can click Preview to examine the items, or click Select to include
6. On the Create Mashup Item page, change the Name of the item. This is a required field.
7. Set the Mashup Options.
8. Click Submit.
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