Archive for 2012Page 2
Moodle – Unenrolling a Student from your Course
* NOTE FOR STUDENTS: This is NOT the process for dropping one of your classes. That must be done through the Registrar’s Office. This process is simply unenrolling you and removing you from a class roster in Moodle. Ever wanted to remove students from your class roster on Moodle? The Assign roles link, which can […]
Need Copyright-Friendly Photos?
Ever wanted to utilize pictures to enrich a lesson, but were unsure of copyright issues? Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library designed for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting. Photographers from around the […]
Firefox Tip: Deleting 1 item from History
Have you ever wanted to delete one item from your Firefox browsing history? Maybe that misspelled site that you keep visiting when you type a URL with a similar name because you type too quickly? Gogle instead of Google? It happens. To delete this one item from your history, follow these 3 steps: 1) Start […]
2012 Commencement Time Lapse
Want to watch the 2012 Gustavus Commencement ceremony but don’t have 3 hours to spare? Here you can watch the entire day compressed down to just over 1 minute. This video was created from a series of images captured by the webcam which lives in the stadium press box and provides a view of the […]
Gone the Way of the JoeJoe
There’s no way to sugar coat this. The web team is going to be severely understaffed starting in July. Personal circumstance has led me to search for, and take employment in Indiana. I have taken a job at Saint Mary’s College in South Bend, IN as the Assistant Director of Web Communications. The Gustavus community […]
Introducing Rides
Rides is a new look for the campus rideboard. The video below explains pretty much everything you need to know about it. You can also opt-in to receiving emails when users post to Rides by going to Rides preferences checking the box and clicking save. Feel free to leave feedback and comments below, or on youtube […]
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
My past 11 years at Gustavus as student-turned-employee have been wonderful, but this is my last month at Gustavus. It is now time for us to part ways. It is difficult for me to let go of something that I have spent countless hours thinking about and working on: the Gustavus website. But, I know […]
What software is available to employees?
Visit the Technology Services wiki to learn about what software is available for employees on Gustavus owned computers. https://gustavus.edu/gts/Software#Software_available_employees Contact Us Phone: 507-933-6111 Email: helpline@gustavus.edu Web: https://gustavus.edu/gts Blog: https://gts.blog.gustavus.edu Remote Support: https://sos.gac.edu System Status: https://gustavus.freshstatus.io
Internet Upgrades
Over break we made four major changes to our connection to the Internet. For the most part, they won’t impact how you use the Internet on a day to day basis, but they should improve our systems behind the scenes. We upgraded to a newer router which should be able to take better advantage of […]
Brief Internet connection downtime Tuesday April 3rd
On April 3rd GTS will be upgrading to a new Internet router and increasing the redundancy of our Internet connection. We anticipate that there will be a brief outage sometime between 7am and 8am (probably about 7:30am) as we switch to the new router. Adding the redundancy during the day should not cause any downtime, […]