2017 Roadshow
The Roadshow is returning to an academic building near you this summer. Please register for one of the dates on the PDC.
“Get Organized with OneNote”
Are you still using a paper spiral notebook to keep your notes in? Do you have digital notes, bookmarks, research spread over several files and programs? Do you wish you could get all of these organized digitally? Well look no further, we have Microsoft Onenote! […]
WebEx Personal Meeting Room
Can’t make it to campus for office hours? Need to hold class on a snow day so you don’t get behind on your course syllabus? Use WebEx Personal Meeting Room! You can even interview potential job candidates who cannot make it to campus! Each faculty, staff, […]
Accounts Compromised
Phishing emails have become very convincing (even to techies) and are getting much harder to spot. More and more people are falling for these devious plots to steal personal information. There can be serious ramifications when your account is compromised, up to and including Identity Theft. One […]
Qualtrics – Using Authentication in your Survey
Using Authentication in your survey will accomplish a couple of important tasks for you. The authentication protocol will first limit your participants to WFU users allowing the use of an anonymous link instead of having to create a contact list in Qualtrics. The second thing […]
Qualtrics – Add a Visible Word Counter to Text Entry Questions
One of the dilemmas encountered lately is how to limit the number of words a user can input in an open ended question. In this post, Qualtrics – Using Word Count as Validation with Text Entry Questions, solves this issue. Perhaps you would […]
Running Windows Software on a Mac
Now that many campus users have opted to use a MacBook instead of a Windows PC, you may have found that a few of the software packages that you need, or would like to use, are not available to the Mac user. Or, the version […]
Polling in the Classroom: Tech Tool for Student Engagement and Learning Assessment
Are you looking for a way to increase student engagement during a lecture? Or are you wanting feedback on whether students grasp a difficult concept during class? ZSR Library has been using an audience response system, or “clicker,” to enhance instruction in the classroom since […]
Group Work
In this post I have a several resources on managing group work for both classroom and online instruction. While I’m not a fan of using technology simply for the sake of using something “cool”, the productivity value of collaborative documents can certainly make life easier […]
Engaging Students on Snow Days
Faculty often lose class days due to university closure and/or delay during the first part of Spring semester. Students enrolled in a first-half of spring semester course are most often impacted. When classes are cancelled right before an exam or major project, you might consider […]
