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RE: Governor Glenn Youngkin (VA) Bans DeepSeek AI on State Devices and State-Run Networks

Posted By Melanie Hoag 02-17-2025 11:43:33 AM
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Texas • Governor Abbott Announces Ban On Chinese AI, Social Media Apps The first state to ban DeepSeek and others as well on all state-issued devices - January 31, 2025 Melanie Melanie Hoag, Ph.D. (she/her/ella) Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Instructional Design & Technology [IDT] ...

RE: NotebookLM

Posted By Melanie Hoag 10-31-2024 08:56:51 AM
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Good Morning! We have NotebookLM available for our students, faculty, and staff and also include it as one of the AI's we use/share in our AI workshops and other gatherings with faculty, students, and staff. I also noticed that the word Experimental is no longer present. There is now a Business/Education ...

RE: Exploring Interest for an AI Meetup event for Higher Ed

Posted By Melanie Hoag 05-30-2024 09:48:00 AM
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Greetings! This sounds very interesting and potentially fruitful! In addition to what Tom mentioned, to also consider is AI in different size institutions - large multi campus through small <2000 students, public and private, liberal arts through specialties such as medicine, etc. I am at a small liberal ...

RE: AI for 3D modeling?

Posted By Melanie Hoag 05-30-2024 09:21:00 AM
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Greetings! This past March one of sessions in our AI Explorations series for our community was "Text to Media." Within this and one the areas we shared was text to 3D object files. The source I used to explore what AI tools were "out there" was The Best AI 3D Model Generators in 2024 from All3DP. All3DP ...

RE: Archiving Student Records for Grade Disputes

Posted By Melanie Hoag 05-17-2024 12:24:00 PM
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Hello! This may not apply to your environment as we use a different LMS. For requests such as the one you mentioned - in fact we had a similar request this week - we use the log files of the LMS which logs "everything." The logs do not include the "information" of the event such as a grade but the activities ...

RE: Third Party Publishers

Posted By Melanie Hoag 07-12-2023 12:52:00 PM
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Hello! We also have third party publisher "connections" to our LMS [Moodle] but we do NOT have any sync enabled so not data is passed to Moodle's database. Basically the LMS is a portal to access the content elsewhere. I believe that when it was mentioned: ... any Canvas Admin can impersonate the instructor ...

RE: Unlocking the Power of AI: How Tools Like ChatGPT Can Make Teaching Easier and More Effective

Posted By Melanie Hoag 05-03-2023 10:46:00 AM
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Absolutely agree!! Very informative and great resources! Thank you for sharing! Best!Melanie Melanie Hoag, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Instructional Design & Technology [IDT] SU Makerspaces Southwestern University • hoagm@southwestern.edu A ...

RE: Requesting info about Moodle UX and plugins

Posted By Melanie Hoag 04-24-2023 09:56:00 AM
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Hello! We are currently on version 3.8.3 and will be moving to 4.x in the summer as well. We are also a Google for Workspace campus which handles all our email including messages and Announcements sent from Moodle. Our Moodle is not set to receive email. Plugins we have in place: Activity/BlocksA ...

RE: Student Clock In Systems

Posted By Melanie Hoag 07-21-2022 02:28:00 PM
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Hello! We are a Google Workspace campus so we use: Google Forms for check-in/clock-in and out - settings are so the student's email address is automatically captured and the collected responses have the time stamp of each submission. Google Calendar is used for scheduling student hours - a separate ...

RE: Question - Canvas Design Learning Opportunities

Posted By Melanie Hoag 01-27-2022 12:27:00 PM
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Greetings! Tagging onto some previous comments ... the important factors of what is being done in whatever one's "platform" are ... does it align, enhance, support the pedagogy of the faculty for the students to be successful in understanding what they are expected to "do" without difficulty and frustration. ...

RE: Translation Apps or Functionality within Google Meet or Microsoft Teams

Posted By Melanie Hoag 12-09-2021 11:22:00 AM
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Greetings! Live translated captions is in beta for Google Meet. I recently attended a live Google event done in Google Meet where the presenters spoke Portuguese and the real-time captions were in English. From my observance of body language and reference to materials/links there was no apparent delay. ...

RE: LMS and STUDENT SUCCESS

Posted By Melanie Hoag 12-01-2021 02:24:00 PM
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Hello! I don't have any quantitative data or research but through student feedback by way of advisors - we have both staff and faculty advisors - our Academic Success center, and informal conversations/complaints, it is very clear that students want consistent organization, behavior, labeling, and their ...

RE: Meet really unreliable in my office on Safari

Posted By Melanie Hoag 11-10-2021 07:31:00 AM
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Hello! No issue here ... just did a check ... currently on a late 2014 iMac with Big Sur and Safari Version 15.1 (16612.2.9.1.30, 16612) on our campus network. In general, I recommend folks use Chrome for Google Workspace apps and services but we have some who use Safari and Firefox. For HTML5 info ...

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