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FOL Howto

Julie Whitehead — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:49:53 +0000

I will be using this page to add pdfs on Howto do things on FOL for students and faculty

HowTo use the Dropbox

Learning Management System

Julie Whitehead — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:15:31 +0000

The Learning Management System (LMS) is the administrator of my course.

EVERYTHING for the course is on the LMS:

Weekly schedule
Grades
Assignments with Rubrics
Content (powerpoints, links to content)
Calendar
Email

Feel like you are answering the same questions over and over again -> Send them to the LMS

When students claim they are going to miss a class and ask what they will miss, I point them to the LMS.
When students ask how much something is worth, I point them to the LMS.
When students ask when something is due, I point them to the LMS.
When students ask how something will be marked, I point them to the LMS.
When students ask what their grade is on an assignment, I point them to the LMS.
When students want the answer to a quiz, I point them to the LMS.
When students ask what is a good website to use, I point them to the LMS which has a link to my delicous bookmarks.

EVERYTHING for the course is on the LMS.

PC Computer not opening a document with the right software

Julie Whitehead — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:47:01 +0000

Recently, I had a friend have problems opening a MS word document with their PC computer at home. The document had the extension .docx.

All files have a filename and then an extension: filename.extension
The document was called: course1024.docx.
.docx is the file extension for the latest version of MS Word

My friend’s computer, that uses windows Vista operating system, tried to open the document with an unzipping software. To correct this, I told my friend to do the following.

Your computer is set to open .docx files with a unzipping software. We need to change what software the computer uses to open a .docx file

save the .docx file on your desktop
right click on the file and choose properties
on the general tab, click the change button beside the “opens with”
hopefully Word will be one of the options, if not you will have to browse to it.
look under programs, Microsoft Office, winword

Now, whenever you try to open a file with the extension .docx, it will open in MS Word. You only have to do this once. The computer will remember what software to use when opeing a file with the extension.docx.