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Choosing the Name for Your Avatar in Second Life
You’ve heard the buzz about Second Life MMORPG and its instructional potential, but don’t know how to dress and name your character? Try this random name generator. It will generate random names that sound Greek, Elvish, monster-like or heroic, depending on y...
How do I obtain software at UCLA?
Software is available from many sources at UCLA. Where you get it from depends on several factors some of which are: Your status – Faculty, Staff, Student, Other Your department or schoolWhat kind of software you need – Commonly used or specialized Cost – Free...
Where can I go to see if a classroom has audio visual systems?
You can search for large lecture halls as well as smaller discussion size classrooms’ AVS availability by checking out this site here:http://www.oid.ucla.edu/units/avs/buildings/Please read the Office of Instructional Development’s AVS policies for more inform...
What services are available for enhancing instruction?
There are a lot of services on campus to help you enhance your classes, such as video, interactive media, research collections, etc. These resources are available on campus and are constantly changing as new technology are introduced. Each group has specia...
What are some labs where I can use special multimedia for my class?
Technology is constantly changing, and with that change comes new and innovative ways for instructors to present their course materials. On campus, there are many labs with a wide variety of multimedia tools available for instructors to tie into their regular...
What is the best way to send/post documents for my students?
The best thing to do with your documents prior to posting is converting it to a PDF. With Word documents, a lot of the times, when you save your document, other data is saved along with what you have on your document. This might occur when you have multiple w...
Can I send an email attachment to my class roster?
Social Sciences ClassWeb and my.ucla allows instructors to send mail to their class roster via their services. However, ClassWeb does not allow for email attachments, while my.ucla does. ClassWeb does not recommend sending email attachments to class rosters ...
Why is it important to use short names in Plone?
Short names become apart of the URL for Plone sites. Instead of an auto generated URL, you can create an easy to remember URL. For example, say you created a “General Information” page, your URL can show up like this: generalinfo or general-info, as opposed ...
How do you enable short names in Plone?
By default Plone 2.1.x generates short names for you based on the title of your document, folder, etc in the same manner https://kb.ucla.edu does.For example, if you create a document with a title called “Plone is Great” the short name becomes “plone-is-great”...
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...
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...
Innovative Teaching Ideas
There are probably many other collections of innovating teaching ideas and examples. Please add them to this page as you come across them. MERLOT ELIXR is a collection of digital case stories about innovation in teaching. http://elixr.merlot.org/case-stories...
Where can I find scanners on campus?
Scanners and scan services available for faculty and teaching assistants (restriction may apply to department/divisions): Center for Digital Humanities – CDH and each Humanities Administrative Group also have multifunction copiers, which convert single or mult...
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...