Mon 25 Sep 2006

What is On WUSF 89.7, Your NPR Station?

Posted by Administrator under myUSF News , New Tools
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Listen Live WUSF 89.7 is Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota’s public radio station, offering over 250,000 listeners each week a wide variety of news, classical music, entertainment and jazz. Add the WUSF89.7 Radio module to your myUSF page(s) and listen live to WUSF 89.7 online!
Modules are packets of content that allow you to pull information from channels and other sources. To add the WUSF89.7 Radio module, click Modify Content on the upper right hand corner and check the box next to that module. Click Submit.

 

Wed 20 Sep 2006

Safe Assignment Update

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Safe Assignment has updated their servers and we have installed their recommended update. It should be functioning normally now. We have tested it as much as we could under the circumstances and time limitations, and it is much more responsive. We’re monitoring the situation closely, so if anyone has any problems, please email them to us at myusf@acomp.usf.edu or contact our Help Desk at 974-1222.

 

Tue 19 Sep 2006

Virtual Hard Drives for All Faculty, Staff and Students

Posted by Administrator under Blackboard , New Tools
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A designated amount of free disk space is provided to the USF faculty staff and students on myUSF. You can store your files, access them from anywhere, share documents between courses, organizations, specific users, and even with individuals outside of USF. To begin using your Virtual Hard Drive, simply click on the Content Collection tab, and follow the instructions on how to set up your WebDAV* folder. Additional documentation and quick guides are available online at http://wiki.acomp.usf.edu/index.php/Content_Management

*WebDAV is an Internet standard used for sharing files via the Internet regardless of platform (Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Sun Solaris, and so forth). When put into use with the Blackboard Content System, WebDAV is a means for each user to access content from the Content Collection as if it were in any other network drive or folder.

 

Thu 14 Sep 2006

Safe Assignment Issues

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We are currently experiencing several problems with the Safe Assignment functions in myUSF. Academic Computing is in communication with the company that developed this software, and we have identified that our current problems are emanating from their side of the application. They have been addressing the problems and assure us that there will be a solution forthcoming, but they have not been able to provide us with an estimated time when that might be completed. We are monitoring the situation closely and hope to have everything functioning properly soon. An announcement will be posted here when a solution is implemented. In the meantime, faculty who need to utilize a digital assignment tool in myUSF are advised to use Blackboard’s built-in assignment tool. Information concerning this tool is available here.

We apologize for the inconvenience and will inform the community as soon as a solution has been implemented.

 

Wed 13 Sep 2006

Test Drive your Browser!

Posted by Administrator under Blackboard , New Tools
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The new Browser Check added to the Welcome! page on myUSF tests your browser to see if it is correctly configured for Blackboard. It also includes a pop-up tester and sample files to try downloading. Go ahead, take your browser for a Blackboard test drive!