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Macs and HP printer problem

After updating your MacBook’s operating system, you may experience a problem when trying to print to a HP printer. An error message that pops up indicates something similar to one of the messages below: It will want you to report the “malware” to Apple, but […]


Returning to campus with your laptop

Many faculty are returning to campus to teach in-person classes for the first time in quite a while. That means most people have not connected their laptop to the campus network nor to a classroom multimedia system in a while. There are also some reported […]


Zoom Immersive View

You can now put all your students’ videos together into one background in Zoom, with Immersive View! There are several backgrounds available; choose one based on your number of attendees. You can change it whenever you like, move people around, put everyone into one large […]


Change in Zoom Cloud Storage

See what recordings you have saved in Zoom’s cloud Go to zoom.us in your browser and sign in with your WFU account Click Recordings and make sure you are on the Cloud Recordings Archiving your recordings Information Systems has provided instructions for downloading files […]


Easily distracted? Try Immersive Reader Option

Do you find yourself distracted by modern webpages’ complex layout? Microsoft’s new Immersive Reader tool may help you. It strips off most of the unnecessary items from your screen. Multiple columns – gone. Video – gone. Fancy background – gone. Try Microsoft’s Immersive Reader option, in […]


Kaltura: Captions for Languages Other than English

WFU’s Kaltura has the ability to auto-caption videos if the language spoken in the video is one of the following: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian or Spanish. Captions are done in English by default. (So if you upload a video in which […]


Using Zoom Reports for Class Attendance

Zoom Reports allows you to determine who was on a Zoom session after the fact. If you ensure your students use their real names by turning on the meeting setting Require authentication to join , you can dispense with taking roll and use the Zoom […]


Wolfram Alpha as Your Secret Weapon

Although Wolfram Alpha appears to be a tool used exclusively by the STEM community, it might become your secret weapon in finding real answers to questions you or your students might have.  Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine per se, but a “knowledge and […]


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