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Using Microsoft OneDrive for Shared Documents
Microsoft’s Office365 OneDrive for Business application, available through our campus license, is a useful tool for sharing collaborative documents in a classroom or workspace. This can be Word documents for student group notebooks or assignments, PowerPoints for group presentations, or Excel spreadsheets for a department. Documents stored in OneDrive can be accessed and edited many different ways, including 1) via a web browser, 2) through an application from your desktop (Mac or PC), or 3) using mobile devices. The power of the OneDrive platform is that all editing and changes are synced up to the cloud, so you can access your files from anywhere you have an internet connection. Installing…
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WordPress upgrades
On Wednesday August 18th all WordPress sites, plugins and themes on commons.trincoll.edu will be updated to the latest versions. There may be short periods where sites are unavailable but the disruption should be minimal. If you notice any problems with your sites after the update please contact david.tatem@trincoll.edu.
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Sign up for Summer Virtual Design Studio: Building your own Website
Our 4-part July workshop series will teach you to create your own personal website to showcase your projects and skills. Learn to: focus on what content to feature on your site structure and present your content for the web in an accessible way build your site with Wordpress on Trinity’s hosting server Domains of One’s Own promote your site to a wider audience By the end of the series, you will have your own portfolio website to showcase your projects and skills. Research, Instruction, Technology (RIT) staff will host the Zoom workshops on July 20, 22, 27, and 29 from 12:00 – 1:15. There will also be two optional drop-in “office hours” on August 12 and 26 from 12 – 1:15 for those wanting additional…
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Sharing and Viewing Zoom Recordings
In this post you can explore instructions and hints on how to either view or share Zoom recordings, either if a Zoom recording belongs to you, or if a Zoom recording was shared with you (and it belongs to someone else). Generally the first scenario is more relevant for faculty and the second one for students, although there can be a lot of the overlap. You can also check out Zoom directions on Managing and Sharing Cloud Recordings using this link. Note that sharing a Zoom recording is not preferable to uploading the video to Kaltura and sharing it from the Kaltura video streaming platform. Zoom recordings should now automatically…
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Expanded language support and easier caption editing with Kaltura
We have recently upgraded our Kaltura video streaming software to the latest auto-captioning tools. Now, you can take advantage of a simple on-screen editor, which lets you tweak your closed captions on the fly. Kaltura will also generate closed captions for media sources in a wide range of other languages: Arabic, Dutch, Cantonese, French, German, Greek – there are currently 35 to choose from! Closed captioning is an important step in making your media accessible, whether you are using it in a course, presentation, or publishing on a website. Hearing impaired individuals will rely on your captions to understand your content. When you upload your video or audio to Kaltura,…
