Specialized software
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Getting Started with Skype for Business at Trinity
For login issues, read Logging in to Skype for Business on mobile/mac. This post explains how to get started using Skype for Business at Trinity College. At the bottom of the post you’ll find four additional resources: a PDF of this file; a screencast showing what this looks like at Trinity; the slides from the presentation in July; and some good Lynda.com resources. Using Skype for Business at Trinity These instructions assume you do not have Skype for Business installed on your machine. You can also skip down to the ‘how to set up a meeting’ instructions below. Especially on Windows, Skype for Business (hereafter S4B) is pretty self-installing. However,…
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TOW: Sharing a work space using Office 365 Groups
Assigned to a staff or faculty committee that needs to produce collaborative documents? Tired of emailing competing versions of files back and forth? One strategy is to start using the power of Microsoft’s Office 365 Groups. Groups creates a workspace where you can set up meetings for your committee using the Outlook calendar, monitor a shared discussion board, and perhaps most importantly, collaborate on shared documents in a browser. Groups can be public so that anyone can join, or private by invitation only. Invites can also be sent to non-Trinity collaborators at other institutions. The Groups functionality is part of a suite of apps available through Microsoft Office 365. To…
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ToW: Make Everything More Accessible with SensusAccess
Keeping up with reading is a critical part of college success, and so making sure course materials are available in a variety of accessible formats is important. For example, some faculty and students with low vision use screen readers to navigate the web and read documents. Others need documents in Braille. Anyone can require accommodations at different points–for example, students with concussion often can’t look at a screen, but need to be able to keep up with coursework. To respond to this need, Trinity has subscribed to a software service called SensusAccess, which converts files from less accessible formats into more accessible ones. To take only the handiest example: SensusAccess…
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Using Qualtrics for Survey Research
There are many ways to field a survey online including free services such as Google Forms and Survey Monkey. But what if your survey requires some complex logic or you need to track participants and automate the process of sending reminders and follow up emails? Trinity College has a subscription with Qualtrics, a powerful and flexible survey tool used by many top researchers. While it does take some getting used to it is easy to use and is powerful and flexible enough for any survey research you can throw at it. To get started simply go to http://trinity.qualtrics.com and create an account by clinking the link for “Trinity Single Sign…