Archive for November 2007

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Training Schedule for the Week of November 26th

Excel - Advanced Course, Arts 110A November 26, 2007 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm and November 28, 2007 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm Dreamweaver Website Design Tools - Intermediate Course, Arts 110A November 27, 2007 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm...

Discussion Forums and BlackBoard

In the new BlackBoard, it IS possible for course designers to set up discussion forums so that the students can come back and edit their posts AFTER they have posted them... This is different than the old days, when...

Training Schedule for the Week of November 19th

SiRIUS Class Maintenance Advanced, JM 281 November 19, 2007 9:00 am - 12:00 pm UniFi - Extended FAST Queries, 281 John Mitchell November 20, 2007 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Updating & Maintaining an Existing Website, AGRIC 3D85 (iMac Lab...

Aligning Pictures in a Mac Version of MS Word

There's at least two ways to line two pictures up exactly to each other on a page in an MS Word document on Mac: The Quick, Easy, Less Snazzy way: 1. Set up a table with 2 columns in...

What can you do, if a student needs an extension for an assignment within your BlackBoard course?

If the assignment availability and cutoff dates have already passed, but you have or more students that need an extension you can do the following: 1) Change the availability dates within the assignment a. Select the Action Link and...

Training Schedule for the Week of November 12th

PowerPoint - Introduction Course, Arts 110A November 13, 2007 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm and November 15, 2007 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm EMAP - Audio Production using Garage Band, Ag Computer Lab 3D85 November 13, 2007 12:00 pm...

Use Excel sheet tabs to manage worksheets in a workbook

In Excel, you can move, copy, rename, and colour various worksheets within a workbook. To move a worksheet, simply drag the sheet tab in the bottom to its new position. If you wish to copy an entire sheet, hold Ctrl...

Training Schedule for the Week of November 5th

SiRIUS (v7) General Student, John Mitchell 281 November 6, 2007 9:00 am - 11:30 am SiRIUS (v7) General Person, John Mitchell 281 November 6, 2007 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Mac OS X - Introduction Seminar, iMac Lab Agriculture...

Playing with iLife '08 - Tech Week - Nov 7 9 - noon

iLife '08 for the Mac includes major upgrades from previous versions. The iLife suite built for MacOSX includes iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, GarageBand, iTunes and iDVD. This integrated digital lifestyle suite makes it easy to create your own tunes, play...

What is FileMaker Pro?

FileMaker Pro is an easy-to-learn Mac and PC-compatible relational database solution that can be used for a multitude of small, medium or large-scale databases. The FileMaker Pro client software can share databases on a limited basis (5 users or...