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Where can I get the equipment I need for my class?
Audio Video Services – Listing of audiovisual equipment installed in classrooms or available for rental CLICC Laptop lending and instructional laptops Video Conferencing and Distance Learning Instructional Media Production – Instructional Media Production...
How do I use pivot tables?
The Pivot Table is powerful, but mysterious tool found in MS Excel that is similar to the “crosstab” analysis found in many powerful statistics programs. With pivot tables, you can create reports that sort and finds descriptive statistics (count, maximum, min...
Where can I find information about software licensing?
Software Central is responsible for negotiating, implementing and administering campus-wide software license agreements for UCLA.http://www.softwarecentral.ucla.edu
Where can I find information about statistical computing?
The statistical computing group is a team of four UCLA staff members who help UCLA researchers with problems with statistical computing using packages such as SAS, Stata, or SPSS. We offer a variety of services, including web pages on statistical computing, st...
Where can I find videos for class use?
The Instructional Media Collections & Services (IMCS) is UCLA’s central resource for the collection and maintenance of instructional media. The IMCS primarily serves faculty and departmental personnel who use media in the classroom. The IMCS has a collection o...
How do I login as a user in Moodle (for troubleshooting purposes)?
If you’re an administrator to a Moodle class site, you can actually login in as a user to duplicate the error the user is experiencing. You won’t need Moodle wide admin access, just admin access to the course (note, only admins can do this function, not cours...
How do I create non-printable PDFs?
If you have Adobe Professional, you can create non-printable pdfs by: Open your PDF document. Click on Document menu at the top of the page and select Security, then select “Show Security Settings for this Document.” A dialog box should open up, click on the S...
Why can't I add a photo using AT Photo in Plone?
If you’ve used the product ATPhoto or ATPhoto Album in Plone 2.1, but now it is breaking in Plone 2.5, before you rip your hair out, here’s what you need to do: copy the code from this site: http://dev.plone.org/collective/browser/ATPhoto/trunk/configure.zcml ...
Remove highlighting of search terms in Plone
If you haven’t noticed already, go to Google and do a quick search for your Plone site. Then click on your site. Plone will then highlight all of the searched terms.This can be helpful, but also distracting. Plone will try to match the highlight color with ...
How to clean up postings in the Moodle forums
You’ll noticed if you copy your text from a wordprocessor, such as Microsoft Word, you’ll see a lot of extra text appear on your Moodle posting after you’ve added it to the forum. The chunk of additional text is generally formatting codes from that wordproces...
When are grades due?
Typically, grades are due 10 days after the last final for a given term. The schedule for grade deadlines can be viewed via Registrar’s website: http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/Faculty-Staff/Grade-Submission-DeadlinesInstructors must submit their grades electro...
Two Turnitin IDs for one user
A student was getting this error message when she tried to submit her assignment to the Turnitin Activity on the CCLE class site: “Uploading user information failed because user email was changed to an address that is already associated with an account. UID: ...
Bulk print multiple files at a time
If you want to bulk print a bunch of files on your computer, you can do this on Windows 7 and up. The files need to be in the same file type (all PDFs or all Word docs) and you can only print 15 files at a time. To bulk print, open the folder that contains the...
Microsoft Translator for real-time captioning
Microsoft Translator is an AI-powered automatic speech recognition software tool. It can be useful for real-time captioning with the ability to export a transcript when you are done:https://translator.microsoft.com/.You will need an Office365.com account and i...
Making PDFs accessible in Adobe Acrobat
Getting startedThis write up is not meant to be the official way to make PDFs accessible. We encourage you to visit the Disabilities Computing Program (DCP) and check out their workshops held throughout the year. This article will cover two types of PDFs: If y...
Adding additional emails to MyUCLA roster emails
If the instructor wants to include emails addresses of those who are not enrolled in the course, the instructor can use the CC line. In the future, if the instructor sends another email to the class, the additional emails will appear in the CC line as well.
Awarding Extra Credit for Completing Course Evaluations in MyUCLA
Instructors can award students points for completing the course evaluation. A category and grade item needs to exist in the MyUCLA Gradebook (not the Gradebook Express) for the “Import to Gradebook” link to be available in the Evaluation of Instruction Reports...