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iTunes U is an Apple program to assist universities distribute their digital content using the iTunes desktop application. Apple offers institutions of higher learning free storage space and tools for uploading content, which is then available for download.In ...

Quick answer: http://take-a-screenshot.org/ (different tabs for different systems)Use these shortcuts to take pictures of the screen in Mac OS X. Screen shots are saved as files on the desktop as Picture 1, Picture 2, etc. If you want to put the screen shot in...

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.http://www.zotero.org/A good quick demo screencast can be found at:http://www.zotero.org/documentation/screencasts/introWorks only with Fi...

Easy Configuration of Bonjour (formerly Rendezvous) PrintersIf your printer supports Rendezvous, you can administrate it through Safari! Who would have thought? Try it out…• Launch Safari.• Go into Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks.• On the left side cli...

Moodle has a feature called “switch role” which allows users with enough access to choose other legacy roles (the Moodle default roles) and to view the site from the point of view of these other roles.Basics of Switching RolesThe switch roles function allows a...

Sometimes roles set at the site-level may not properly work because they are over-riden by a system-level setting. For example, see the following exchange on the Moodle forums:Q: “I’m using Moodle 1.8. I went to Users → Permissions → Define roles and for both ...

This article may be very old. Please reach out to local support staff if you have questions.This article is directed at Moodle support staff.Moodle users need to authenticate using UCLA’s Shibboleth service. If there is a problem in the authentication chain, u...

There is some confusion regarding the interplay between forum settings on Moodle. In one place you can set up a forum using group mode (which can be used to send messages to separate groups), but another setting “Forces all members to subscribe.”The question i...

The Moodle course management system has a feature called “Resource Name Auto-Linking” which as its name indicates, allows Moodle to automatically recognize and create links between site resources. That is, if a user creates a web page titled “Moodle Feature Se...

Here are the main differences between the Office of Instructional Development’s BruinCast service and UCLA on iTunes U: UCLA on iTunes U offers the faculty a place to log in and post their own content, whereas the content via BruinCast’s is solely class lect...

Below are the two ways to find the version number of Moodle. This can be important for support people, or people interested in version-specific features. Logged in or not, hover your mouse over the Moodle logo on the front page, and the pop-up tooltip will let...

The following table originated from various posts on the Campus Web Publishers listserve in July 2012. Campus Organization Plone Drupal WordPress Other CMS Custom or NonCMS Note Afro-American Studies: www.afro-am.ucla.edu X Hosted by Social Science ...

April 2013: Researchers have released the GDELT: Global Data on Events, Location and Tone dataset which promises to be an important addition to the social science research community.In a blog post entitled, The Future of Political Science Just Showed Up, Jay U...

1) Docear (pronounced “dog ear”)Academic Literature Suite of Applicationshttp://www.docear.org/“Docear is the complete solution for searching, organizing and creating academic literature such as assignments, theses, books and research papers. Just as an office...