How not to have to join a Saba Centra online class from the LRC late, for...
Problem: We continue getting reports from teachers that students who try to participate in a Saba Centra online class from the LRC listening station computers (with analogue headphones) experience a...
View ArticleMake life simpler in the language lab by disabling extra audio panels
Problem: Having multiple audio panels enabled can led to too many options = sources of errors and confusion. Software (e.g. Saba Centra) may defaults to different audio panels (front “Microphone”...
View ArticleHow to workaround SkyDrive embed codes not working WordPress.com
Problem: I cannot seem to get the new embed code that SkyDrive offers now to work on wordpress.com....
View ArticleHow to access your Saba Centra session outside of Moodle
Watch this video on how Access a session link or create a new Centra event on http://centra.uncc.edu instead of Moodle: http://screencast.com/t/4glUbhJs. This shows you how to: if you already create...
View ArticleProtected: Why requiring manual configuration of the Sanako by students does...
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View ArticleSanako Study Tutor may crash if teacher lacks file share permissions
Problem: On start of the Sanako tutor 7 (have not seen this in earlier versions, although I have seen many teachers w/o Sanako share permissions), you may immediately be confronted with this...
View ArticleSanako recording during pairing won’t work
Now: Records one party only – bad if you have to find this out only after an exam… You can see this in the graph here – low audio is partner speaking, and not audible: and hear it yourself on campus...
View ArticleProtected: Sanako “Student audio is not available”…
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View ArticleWordSmith Tools are once again not licensed
StartingWordsmith from the desktop shortcut results in this: Didn’t I test and describe last summer how to fix this? Filed under: audience-is-IT-staff, Corpus-linguistics, e-languages,...
View ArticleRun-shortcut missing from student start menu?
Filed under: e-infrastructure, os, service-is-testing-troubleshooting-debugging Tagged: image2013, windows-7
View ArticleNew problem in Sanako Study 1200 version 7 with 2 student recorder exe’s...
UPDATE: Also an issue in the spring term on the teacher computer.. UPDATE: still an issue in the spring term. This cannot be good (brought this student down). How is this possible? Presumably the...
View ArticleJAVA warning dialogues to bypass during NanoGong activities
You may be prompted to update JAVA – likely a not a bad idea: Click “RUN”: Check (1) “Accept”and Click (2) “Run”: Click “Don’t Block”: Even more annoying when warning dialogues do not come to the...
View ArticleTroubleshooting NanoGong recorder assignments for students and rich HTML...
Once, when submitting, I got this error? But other teachers managed to test the NanoGong recording assignment application successfully when working as a “permitted student”? That may be related to...
View ArticleHow to shoot movies with the Canon Eos Rebel T2i– and “movie recording has...
If the camera stops recording after a short while with the error “movie recording has been stopped automatically”, you most likely have an internal memory buffer overrun (there is a bar chart visible...
View ArticleHow to run a microphone test before taking an ACTFL exam on languagetesting.com
To avoid having your test recordings rejected for quality reasons (and having to take the entire test again), please run this simple microphone test OUTSIDE of languagetesting.com: This microphone...
View ArticleHow to workaround AntWordProfiler error “Cannot open the file”
Seems a little bug in this otherwise great program. I started getting this on Windows 7 64-bit with for all files, no matter which size. It occurred to me to go to menu: Settings/ global settings /...
View ArticleUse CTRL+TAB to switch between tabs in Chrome kiosk fullscreen mode
On the reception desk, when you open the NINERMAIL after logging into 49erexpress, Chrome opens NINERMAIL in another full screen tab (which hides the 49erexpress tab) – unlike full screen Internet...
View ArticleHow students need to work around Sanako startup issues at start of 2014
UPDATE: Step 1 is not necessary anymore, Step2 (Microphone click) still is. Filed under: animated-GIFs, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, digital-audio-lab, e-languages, Glitches&Errors,...
View ArticleFAQs for issues with Respondus Lockdown Browser
New to Respondus Quizzes? Read the CTL’s write-up. No Photo ID (Niner ID or other state-issued)? Use the reception desk camera to take a photo with sheet, like below, we will forward it to the teacher...
View ArticleBad audio quality in Moodle Kaltura recordings on iMacs under ambient sound...
Symptom: See title. Cause: While speakers of the 3.5 mm headset take over from the iMac speakers, when plugged in, the 3.5 mm headset micro does not disable the webcam micro. The webcam micro remains...
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