![]() ![]() I wasn’t necessarily pleased to see every last activity in my life for the past 10 years show up in Outlook! Ok, I thought, I wouldn’t mind holding on to this information (you never know when it might come in handy) – but I’d prefer to keep it private. I decided to try importing my Palm Pilot calendar into Outlook – and much to my surprise, it actually worked. Here at IT Training, we use Microsoft Outlook and the Exchange server to share calendar information. The fact that I didn’t need to share my calendar with anyone made a big difference. Since replacements were cheap and easy to find on eBay, and I had my data synced with my office computer, I saw no immediate reason to change. I bought it for myself in 2001, and have been using it for everything since then. Every course taught at IU automatically gets an Oncourse site.Before starting my job with IT Training, I had my personal and professional calendar organized using a Palm Pilot m125. Oncourse provides a place for collaboration and learning for faculty and students. ![]() (Technically Oncourse is our version of Sakai). Oncourse, the open source learning management system that is used by IU, was created right here – and is constantly being revised, tweaked, and improved. In addition they… Read more » Oncourse is your new best friend Under Settings, instructors can specify delivery dates for their assessments, including whether or not to accept late submissions. Students should pay attention to these options too, as different settings might change their test-taking strategies. Oncourse’s Tests & Surveys tool lets instructors change a wide variety of settings in the assessments they create. I was spending way… Read more » Oncourse Tests & Surveys tool: Set it up What I really did was come to the conclusion that I was done with paper. This might come as a bit of a surprise to my Spanish students, as they still have to do homework and write research papers. Any time I see two… Read more » Oncourse Assignments: No more paper cuts!Ī few years ago I made the decision to stop grading papers. My virtual desktop is almost completely empty, save a few shortcuts. No one looking at my office (or my house) would suspect it, but all of my computer files are very neatly stored and nested, sub-folder within sub-folder. ![]() I’ve encountered a problem I never thought I’d have: I’m too organized. Join us! it2go – The IT Training Podcast Follow us on Twitter Like Us on Facebook Add us on iTunes The (too) long path home On this week’s episode, we’re talking about some of the Welcome Week Workshops we’re hosting online and in classrooms at IT Training the week of August 26th. Most of our workshops are available for special request, which means we can teach your class (or… Read more » it2go Episode 66 – Welcome Week Workshops Did you know that IT Training can provide workshops specifically for your class? All you need to do is ask. It can be hard to teach effectively if your students don’t have the basic technology skills they need. Use audio-visual materials like video to capture the… Read more » Need training for your class? Request it! Best feature about the migration tool is that it puts a copy of your migrated data… Read more » The next phase of Next.IU – Video Solutionsĭo you use video with your class? Have you been waiting for a tool that makes it easier to pull it all together? This fall 2014, we will pilot various video management tools as part of Next.IU (the ongoing investigation into next-generation learning technologies at Indiana University). The Canvas Migration Tool should be used by February 2017. If you haven’t moved your Oncourse data by then, you may be making much more work for yourself than you need to. Oncourse becomes retired on August 30, 2016. Oncourse Hurry up with your Canvas migration. ![]()
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