Category Archives: For Faculty

Install Audacity on a Mac

Audacity is free, open source software that makes it simple to record and edit audio on your computer. Installing Audacity on a MAC isn’t difficult, there’s an extra step that’s often overlooked if you want to save your recordings as MP3s, rather than much relatively large WAV files. To download Audacity, go to the Audacity downloads page (http://www.audacityteam.org/download/) and choose the appropriate version. In this walkthrough, we’ll be looking at downloading and installing Audacity on your MAC.   There are...

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Build / Add Content, Computer Tips , Updated: March 30, 2016

Record audio with Audacity

Audacity is free, open source software that makes it simple to record and edit audio on your computer. This tutorial will walk you though the basics of recording and editing with Audacity. If you need to install Audacity, you might want to start with this walkthrough. 1. Make sure the right microphone is selected Before you start recording, you’ll want to make sure the right microphone is selected. If you’re using a USB headset, we recommend plugging it in before...

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Build / Add Content, Computer Tips Updated: March 29, 2016

Install Audacity on a PC

Audacity is free, open source software that makes it simple to record and edit audio on your computer. Installing Audacity on a PC isn’t difficult, there’s an extra step that’s often overlooked if you want to save your recordings as MP3s, rather than much relatively large WAV files. To download Audacity, go to the Audacity downloads page (http://www.audacityteam.org/download/) and choose the appropriate version. In this walkthrough, we’ll be looking at downloading and installing Audacity on Windows.There are two versions of...

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Build / Add Content, Computer Tips Updated: March 29, 2016

Hide a Grade Center column from Instructor view

Hiding a column from Instructor View can make your Grade Center page easier to manage. Some faculty hide columns they’ve finished grading (such as old attendance columns), or columns they’re not ready to deal with yet (future attendance columns). Columns that are hidden from Instructor view are still visible to students (unless they’re hidden from student view before they’re hidden from Instructor View). More importantly, columns that are hidden from instructor view are still included in gradebook score calculations. This...

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Grade Center Updated: March 28, 2016

Hide a Grade Center column from student view

Hiding a column from student view allows you to work with a column — record grades, etc — without students seeing the column or your changes on their My Grades page. Some faculty keep “scratch” columns in their grade center that never visible to students. Others have found making columns unavailable while adding grades reduces the number of emails they get from students (“My friend got a grade on assignment x, when am I going to get a grade?”). To...

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Grade Center Updated: March 28, 2016
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