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SLC Workshops

Basic to Intermediate Photoshop Workshop Series

When: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1pm to 3pm EDT

Where: Heimbold Visual Arts Center 209A
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: In this two workshop series, you will learn how to work with various Photoshop tools for selecting, adjusting, resizing and how to import/export your images. Intermediate skills such as adjustment layers, fundamentals of color correction and advanced selection tools will be covered in the second workshop. Prerequisite: basic familiarity of Mac OS X

Mac Basics Workshop

When: Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:30pm to 1:30pm EDT

Where: Library E2 classroom
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Never used a Mac computer? Using the dual boot Macs in the Library E2 classroom, learn tips and tricks to navigating on Macs and the differences between Macs and PCs.

Basic to Intermediate Photoshop Workshop Series

When: Tue Sep 30, 2008 1pm to 3pm EDT

Where: Heimbold Visual Arts Center 209A
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: In this two workshop series, you will learn how to work with various Photoshop tools for selecting, adjusting, resizing and how to import/export your images. Intermediate skills such as adjustment layers, fundamentals of color correction and advanced selection tools will be covered in the second workshop. Prerequisite: basic familiarity of Mac OS X

Color Management Simplified Workshop

When: Fri Oct 3, 2008 1pm to 2pm EDT

Where: Heimbold Visual Arts Center 209A
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Have you ever printed out an image and the color is not quite what you see on your monitor? We will break down how color management works and steps you can take in maintaining the translation of your color images from the monitor to the final prints in the Heimbold Digital Media Lab.

WebBoard and MySLC

We are in the process of transitioning all discussion boards from the old WebBoard system into the Learning Management System within MySLC and no new WebBoards are being created. If you would like assistance with this transition, please contact Emily Sharp at esharp@slc.edu or x2464.

If you are seeing this page but have already transitioned to MySLC, you may be interested in the Discussion board documentation for faculty and/or students.

Update: WebBoard discontinuation date set for December 19, 2008. Read the full WebBoard discontinuation notice.

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Guide to the Learning Management System (LMS) for Faculty Members

A quick note: This guide is constantly evolving. Be aware of slight differences between some screenshots provided and the current look of MySLC. Please contact Academic Computing for any questions that arise out of these discrepancies.

In this guide, you will learn:

What portlets are and how you use them
Structure of a default course page in the LMS
How to locate your courses’ sections in the LMS
How to easily locate your past, present and future courses
The types of portlets automatically set up for you and their functions
- Syllabus Portlet (on the Syllabus page)
- Academic Announcements Portlet (on the Syllabus page)
- Email Class Portlet (on the Email Class page)
- Discussion Portlet (on the Discussion page)
  - Posting on the Discussion board (on the Discussion page)
- E-Reserves Portlet (on the Readings and Handouts page)
- Library Resources Portlet (on the Readings and Handouts page)
- Handouts Portlet/Downloadable Syllabus Portlet (on the Readings and Handouts page, Syllabus page, respectively)
- Links Portlet (on the Links page)
How to add special users and permissions to courses
How to add pages and add and rearrange portlets on pages
Other features in the LMS you can use
Answers to all of your questions about making the transition into a new school year with the LMS.

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Structure of a default course within MySLC’s LMS

This is the hierarchy set up by default for any course in the MySLC LMS.

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Navigating to Your Courses

There are three ways to navigate to your courses.

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Portlets

Portlets are customizable frames that you can put things into. You can use portlets to organize a collection of separate concepts or files. A portlet is recognizable by the following three characteristics:

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Creating and Editing Content with Portlets

To add content to a page, you need to be able to edit that page. To do so, click on “Edit Page” in the upper right-hand corner of the page and below the navigation tabs and breadcrumb navigation bar. This will take you to the Properties tab of the Customize Page window.

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Syllabus Portlet

The Course Syllabus portlet provides space to post a syllabus. You should create a separate element for each section or unit of the syllabus.

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Academic Announcements Portlet

The announcements portlet allows a faculty or staff member to make an announcement to the student body and/or students in their classes. The announcements portlet does not email the students (see Email Class) but rather displays the announcement in the announcement portlet anywhere that portlet appears when they are logged in to MySLC. In each announcements portlet on each different page each user will see all announcements targeted to them from any MySLC user.

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E-Reserves Portlet

This portlet appears on the Readings and Handouts page. It is for use by the library reserves staff only. If you would like documents scanned for your class and placed in this portlet on electronic reserve, please read more about E-Reserves on the library website.

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Library Resources Portlet

Reference staff are available to place links to relevant electronic databases, librarian-designed pathfinders, and RefWorks in this portlet. Contact your reference liaison for more information.

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Handouts Portlet

The Handouts portlet allows you to store files online for students to download. You can upload and store files of any type - Word documents, PDFs, images, even sound or short video files.

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Links Portlet

The Links portlet is used for posting web links.

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Discussion Portlet

Forums allow students and faculty to discuss texts and other topics outside of class. To get to the Discussion, click on “Discussion” in the left navigation bar.
More…

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Posting to MySLC LMS Discussion Boards

This is a guide for students to posting in the Discussion Board on MySLC.

Download this document in PDF format

Log in to MySLC with your ID number and password. If you do not know your password, enter your ID number with no password and click Login. There will then be the option to click to have your password emailed to you.

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Email Class Portlet

The Email Class portlet allows you to view the members of the class and send email to them.

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Other Features in the LMS

These features are not currently enabled by default. If you have an interest in using any of them or questions about what they can accomplish, please contact Academic Computing for instructions and/or a tutorial.

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Adding a page and rearranging portlets on pages

Adding a Page

The ‘Add a Page’ option is located on the left-hand navigation bar and marked by a large green plus sign.

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Adding additional users to a course and setting permissions

Adding a Custom Role on MySLC allows you to add people to your class that may not be a regular student. This would include such roles as audits, research assistants, guests etc.

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MySLC/LMS Faculty Meeting Presentation Handout

Missed the MySLC/Learning Management System presentation at the February 5, 2008 faculty meeting, didn’t pick up the handout, or new to MySLC? Download it here (PDF).

Topics: faculty, learn, lms, myslc, workshop

Using the My Courses Portlet

We’ve just added a new feature to the Home page of MySLC for faculty called My Courses. This makes it easy to navigate to any of your courses – past, present, or future – without having to do a search under the Academics tab.
More…

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Where did the links to last year’s courses go?

When the term ends, the links under My Courses will disappear. However, you can still access the course areas by using the search function on the Academics tab (or the My Courses portlet on your home page). Click on the Academics tab at the top of your screen and you will see the main Academics page. At the top in the middle of the page you will see the Course Search portlet.

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When will my new courses be in the LMS?

We import the new classes around June 15 of each year.

The 2008-2009 classes which are currently finalized have been imported into the LMS as of June 17, 2008.

If your course does not appear when searching, make sure you have correctly submitted it through the proper channels.

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How can I move materials from my old courses to my new courses?

There are two tools that will allow you to do this, the File Cabinet and Course Copy. If you have E-Reserves you want to move over, please take a look at the article on transferring E-Reserves first.

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What if I have E-Reserves I’d like to use again next year?

If you do use File Cabinet for E-Reserves or Course Copy for your Course Resources page this will break the links to the E-Reserve texts and your students will not be able to access them. You must email reserves@slc.edu to advise Reserve staff which readings you will be using for your new course, or use the online form (http://pages.slc.edu/~library/dbforms/ts/reserves/form/) to submit new requests.

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When do my students lose access to the course area?

Right now our policy is to maintain access to MySLC for students post-graduation, and access to courses after the term is over, which means they will be able to look back on materials from past courses. However, students will not be able to post new messages on the discussion board or have access to E-Reserve texts (for copyright reasons) after the semester ends.

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Creating Durable Links to Online Articles

The SLC Library subscribes to many full text databases, providing access to more than 10,600 periodicals. A complete alphabetical listing of the Library’s online periodical subscriptions may be viewed here.

Most articles in research databases have been assigned dynamic URLs. If you attempt to bookmark a dynamic URL or include a link to it in your syllabus, chances are it will be a dead link the next time you try to access it.

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