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CCLE (Moodle) Status Page
CCLE Shared System (Moodle) Status ccle.ucla.eduWelcome to the CCLE Shared Systems Status page maintained by members of the CCLE Support team. The information provided here is designed to keep CCLE users informed about new and ongoing issues including upgrades...
What to do about duplicate Knowledge Base pages
While we hope that everyone who adds a new article to the UCLA Knowledgebase will search first to avoid duplicating anything, occasionally it happens. Since the Knowledgebase is an experiment in community sharing, anything you can do to help solve the problem ...
Enabling Presenter mode in Powerpoint
Microsoft Powerpoint supports notes with each slide, yet the default slideshow view on most Powerpoint installations is a standard slideshow only, which hides the notes from the presenter.The Mac versions seem to be the notable exception in that more of them d...
Why do I get a 604010 error when logging in?
The UCLA Login system assumes that your IP address doesn’t change during your session, but some departments on campus (Med Center for one) run Network Address Translation (NAT) on their internal networks and this changes the IP address. The solution for the us...
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...
How are wikis being used in teaching?
Articles and Other Resources 3 Challenges to Wiki Use in Instruction – Ruth Reynard 02/11/09 Wiki as a Teaching Tool – Parker & Chao, Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects – Volume 3, 2007 Teaching, Learning, and other uses for Wikis ...
Second Life (SL) and Education
Second Life (SL) is a 3D virtual world developed by the Linden Labs. Basic accounts are free and provide you with an avatar. Once you have an avatar, you need to download SL software and go through orientation. See system requirements: secondlife.com/All objec...
Moodle Books
Online Version of Using Moodle Version 2 by Jason Cole & Helen Foster Review of Moodle Books from Pakt PublishingRelated Articles https://kb.ucla.edu/link/813/Using Moodle, 2nd ed is available through UCLA’s aggreement with O’Reilly Book/Safari Online : h...
UCLA related X (formerly known as Twitter)
UCLAhttps://x.com/uclaThe official account for the #1 public university in the nation 7 years in a row. Dedicated to research, education and service. IAMUCLAhttps://x.com/iamuclanewsLatest updates from the Identity & Access Management @ UCLA (IAMUCLA) Team U...
UCLA Experiences with Second Life
In order to give a feel for what people at UCLA are doing with Second Life, this article has been created. Please add anything you think appropriate. And please mention it to any instructors, grad students, or staff that use Second Life in their teaching or re...
Using Equation Editor in Word 2007
Microsoft Office 2007 has a new “ribbon” to replace conventional menus, and a new Equation Editor in Microsoft Word.To use the old Equation Editor 3.0 if you need easier access to advanced functions, per MTU:https://help.we.mtu.edu/index.php/Equation_Editor_in...
diff and patch
The Ten Minute Guide to diff and patch Using diff and patch
Converting messages from Thunderbird to Outlook
Instructions taken from: http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/th2outlook.php1. Compact your Thunderbird folders (optional)Thunderbird keeps messages in mbox files even after they have been deleted. If you don’t want to include deleted messages in the conversion, y...
Suspendable Requests for LAMP systems?
The traditional way of handling dynamically-generated Web content is to have the Web server use multiple threads, even keeping a thread pool. Then whatever program that generates the content acts as quickly as possible. As long as there are a lot of threads, t...
converting video files on PC
We have Handbrake on PCs, but the current version has some limitations when used on the PC platform: 1) Its performance is not stable; it crashes quite a lot; 2) it cannot covert files to .wmv; 3) although it can covert a file to .avi, we have to be very caref...
Local System Account(NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM) and network resource access
There comes time when a service or scheduled job running on windows machine needs access to a folder on the remote system. There are different ways to accomplish the task. Information below describes how to access remote share by mapping drive on the local sys...
Free office tools
If you are looking for web based and free tools for word processing, power point, database creation, and spreadsheets here are some tools to explore.Zoho www.zoho.com provides a wide range of basic office tools as well as options for managing email, taking not...
Free Statistical and Research Tools
I have come across a wiki and a web site with free resources to use in research, especially quantitative and survey research.The Impoverished Social Scientist’s Guide to Free Statistical Software and Resources http://maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/socsci.shtmlDigita...