I met with you know who yesterday and one of the things we talked about was the use of icons. She was "blown away" (her words!) by the fact that using our personal file area to store images worked! She couldn't believe that students would be able to see it and was (a bit smugly) going to show me that they couldn't see any of the icons I had added by giving me a test student again. But, oh my, the icons DID show up for students.
She told me repeatedly that I should put them in my LOR or add them to the file for each individual class. I asked her how we could navigate to the LOR from the "icon URL" browse option. That didn't seem to be possible. So she showed me how to use the LOR to use icons and I asked why anyone would do that when the other way works and is MUCH easier. She kept saying she couldn't believe it worked because that area is supposed to be similar to our "W" drives and only accessible by the individual instructor. I asked then why would the browse option direct you to that area?
To be fair she did help me reduce the size of one icon that was life size previously. Her son Luke was there and I think he was working on HCC classes. He asked a question and the conversation sounded like (but remember I can't hear) she was giving him directions to input class data! I didn't address that but I am not thrilled about a child having ANY thing to do with our classes.
Over all I think I gave her more information than she gave me. She answered some questions but her methodology was so convoluted I am not sure I could repeat it if I wanted to.
Friday, June 15, 2007
Sunday, June 3, 2007
memory issues?
Okay I think I am running into a file size issue. Nancy didn't you say you talked to Sarah about limits? I don't recall what explanation you were given.
I spent several hours looking for and finding great icons to use in my courses and have uploaded them successfully but they do not appear in the image file. It is so irritating to finally have the technical skills to do this and possibly have it blocked by arbitrary limits. Of course I don't know this for sure or where the limits have been set (HCC or Angel) or why, if they have been set locally.
I spent several hours looking for and finding great icons to use in my courses and have uploaded them successfully but they do not appear in the image file. It is so irritating to finally have the technical skills to do this and possibly have it blocked by arbitrary limits. Of course I don't know this for sure or where the limits have been set (HCC or Angel) or why, if they have been set locally.
I just finished reading the email from Sarah about document security. YIKES. I sent Sarah the questions below but am wondering if anyone else has similar questions or answers.
I have a couple of questions about the file security. 1. Do I have to go into past classes and change the settings to "students"? Can't the whole class be set to be inaccessible? 2. If I set the upper level files, which appear when you click on Content to be viewable by students only, will that protect the files within the folder? Or do I really have to go in and reset each individual document to be accessible by student only? I have a list of documents 4 pages long, so I hope there is another option.
I have a couple of questions about the file security. 1. Do I have to go into past classes and change the settings to "students"? Can't the whole class be set to be inaccessible? 2. If I set the upper level files, which appear when you click on Content to be viewable by students only, will that protect the files within the folder? Or do I really have to go in and reset each individual document to be accessible by student only? I have a list of documents 4 pages long, so I hope there is another option.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Orientation/
Just wondering how the orientation went.
And I wanted to expand on why I was encouraged about orientation becoming a reality by my meeting with Linda and the parking lot mini meeting with Pat East. After talking to Pat about how Datatel interacts with Angel, it seems clear that we don't know if we can incorporate the adaptive release cababilities of Angel for a pre or post registration interactive guide for potential students AT THIS POINT. But Pat said there is a new version of Datatel coming out this summer and with Angel 7.2 coming out this fall, the chances hopefully increase that an orientation component can be accomplished.
The encouraging for me part is the willingness and the potential to work on this issue. The online committee is going to expand to include several new people including more faculty, some different reps from B. Center, and from CIS (who understand Datatel and can work with the committee to actualize the potential) and the registrars office. Instead of discrete groups, unconnected with different perspectives working separately on different parts of the problem we will have the potential to put all the peices together and work toward a commonly understood goal. I hope anyway.
Cindi
And I wanted to expand on why I was encouraged about orientation becoming a reality by my meeting with Linda and the parking lot mini meeting with Pat East. After talking to Pat about how Datatel interacts with Angel, it seems clear that we don't know if we can incorporate the adaptive release cababilities of Angel for a pre or post registration interactive guide for potential students AT THIS POINT. But Pat said there is a new version of Datatel coming out this summer and with Angel 7.2 coming out this fall, the chances hopefully increase that an orientation component can be accomplished.
The encouraging for me part is the willingness and the potential to work on this issue. The online committee is going to expand to include several new people including more faculty, some different reps from B. Center, and from CIS (who understand Datatel and can work with the committee to actualize the potential) and the registrars office. Instead of discrete groups, unconnected with different perspectives working separately on different parts of the problem we will have the potential to put all the peices together and work toward a commonly understood goal. I hope anyway.
Cindi
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