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Monthly Community Meeting dates for 2024

Posted By Cliff Smith 01-29-2024 01:19:00 PM
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Upcoming Group Meetings This year we've decided the best course of action for these meetings would be for us to continue to have them on the last Tuesday of each month through 2024. The meeting times will be moving to 3:00 PM eastern, 2:00 PM central, 1:00 PM mountain, 12:00 PM pacific time. If you or ...

RE: Struggling to understand Power apps

Posted By Cliff Smith 01-25-2024 11:42:25 AM
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There are some Microsoft pages that I continually refer to, even having had experience with things like this before. Just because I did it a year ago, doesn't mean I remember exactly what was done or how to do it. Pages like this one that describes and gives properties of the date picker control are ...

Seeking volunteers for leadership!

Posted By Cliff Smith 10-10-2023 03:34:21 PM
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We Invite You to Become a Member of our Leadership Team and Make a Lasting Impact! We encourage you to step forward and consider taking a leadership role within our community. Your expertise can make a significant impact, not only in fostering rich discussions but also in helping other institutions ...

Ready to lead the way? Let's connect today and shape our community's future!

Posted By Cliff Smith 10-10-2023 03:31:00 PM
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Hello everyone, I hope the fall term has treated you well so far! Over the past year, membership in our community has increased more than 60%, and new members are joining every day! This community continues to thrive and grow thanks to the active participation of its members. We sincerely thank each ...

RE: HECVAT accessibility

Posted By Cliff Smith 09-08-2023 09:43:49 AM
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Hi Jon, I'm in a working group with others to develop and distribute a set of suggested practices for managing third party integrations. We had a discussion yesterday about the accessibility of that product as it enters the distribution phase. It seems like a good idea to coordinate our plans with ...

July Group Meeting Canceled

Posted By Cliff Smith 07-21-2023 03:46:17 PM
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Hello all, Unfortunately, none of the current group leaders will be available next Tuesday, July 25 to host the monthly meeting. Because of this, the July meeting will be canceled. Please be sure to mark your calendars for our August 29 meeting. Meeting information can be found on this discussion ...

RE: PowerPoint Accessibility Checker has stopped reporting hard-to-read contrast

Posted By Cliff Smith 07-20-2023 08:38:10 AM
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I'm being told this is expected behavior. Since no background color has been applied, PowerPoint simply doesn't check the text because it doesn't know what to check the text against. That explains why your response from Microsoft talks about a "feature request". ------------------------------ Cliff ...

RE: PowerPoint Accessibility Checker has stopped reporting hard-to-read contrast

Posted By Cliff Smith 07-20-2023 08:15:04 AM
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Windows 10 machine. I'm getting the same thing. ------------------------------ Cliff Smith Instructional Technologist/Designer ------------------------------

RE: 🤔 Scheduling platform for tutoring

Posted By Cliff Smith 07-02-2023 06:40:28 PM
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Microsoft released a bookings connector for Power Automate sometime in the last several months. You could create a power automate flow that looks for individuals, counts their appointments in a week, and if they try to book another one, immediately cancels with a nice, but clearly worded email. ...

RE: LMS Mandate?

Posted By Cliff Smith 06-22-2023 07:49:00 AM
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Our university has a policy that requires the faculty to, at a minimum, place their syllabus in the LMS for each course they are teaching. There is, however, no auditing or enforcement of this policy. ------------------------------ Cliff Smith Instructional Technologist/Designer ------------ ...

RE: The HECVAT product distributed by EDUCAUSE is not accessbile

Posted By Cliff Smith 06-16-2023 10:45:00 AM
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Thanks Sharon! I figured someone was on this already, but I try to make a habit of pointing out issues like this when I come across them. Can't wait to see the next version. ------------------------------ Cliff Smith Instructional Technologist/Designer ------------------------------

RE: Training Management System

Posted By Cliff Smith 06-14-2023 09:23:13 AM
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We have been using Engage by Anthology (formerly campus labs) for student group activities for years now. We recently started using it for faculty and staff trainings too. It provides a way for the event manager to mark attendance, or a link that can be shared with attendees so that they can mark their ...

RE: Cross Post: Simple descriptions of Bloom's Taxonomy for Discussion prompts?

Posted By Cliff Smith 06-14-2023 09:08:10 AM
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This only barely fits with your question. A colleague of mine recently found the Bloom's Cognitive Taxonomy Slider from educationalblueprints.com and shared it with our team. A large percentage of our faculty still prefer physical objects like this one to computer apps or software. ------------------------------ ...

The HECVAT product distributed by EDUCAUSE is not accessbile

Posted By Cliff Smith 06-12-2023 02:55:00 PM
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I am just now becoming acquainted with the HECVAT. It seems like this might be the best place to bring this up rather than in the accessibililty community. My guess is the folks who might be able to do something to correct the issue do not tend to find themselves in the accessibility group often. Instructional ...

RE: Prompt engineering for educators – making generative AI work for you

Posted By Cliff Smith 06-12-2023 08:16:40 AM
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I've gotten fairly good results from having the bot help me craft the prompt. I took the idea from this youtube video: One prompt to rule them all. ------------------------------ Cliff Smith Instructional Technologist/Designer ------------------------------

RE: "In a Day" workshops

Posted By Cliff Smith 06-02-2023 08:52:50 AM
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I think it's helpful to note that these trainings are offered by vendors around the world. For folks whose first language is not english, it may be helpful to know they may be able to find one of these events in their first language. Reducing the cognitive load of mental translation may be helpful while ...

May 30 Group Meeting

Posted By Cliff Smith 05-30-2023 03:32:00 PM
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Thanks to all who attended! I've archived the meeting notes in the group library. In this meeting we had discussions surrounding: Managing Permissions when not a Tenant Administrator Using Power BI and automated data refresh schedules Migrating from Box to SharePoint/Microsoft 365 If anyone ...

May 30 Group Meeting

Posted By Cliff Smith 05-30-2023 03:20:19 PM
Found In Library: Microsoft Tools in Education
May Group Meeting - May 30 Thanks to everyone who attended and helped make the discussion a productive one! Here are the Meeting notes/Agenda (Microsoft word sharing link).

Has anyone installed or investigated Learning Pathways?

Posted By Cliff Smith 05-08-2023 08:55:00 PM
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We are looking for ways to support our faculty and staff as they learn microsoft tools, but are also hoping to not purchase any contracts or services. I stumbled across the Microsoft Learning Pathways today and wanted to know if anyone has any experience with it or chose not to implement it after investigating ...

RE: Video Platform Management System

Posted By Cliff Smith 05-04-2023 08:43:00 AM
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I work in the Minnesota State system of colleges and universities. We've been Kaltura mediaspace users for, I'm guessing, 6 years now. A recent RFP had 2 candidates, Yuja and Kaltura, and we did not see a large enough benefit, financial or in the form of their services, from Yuja to switch. I particularly ...