Today’s UP Tech Tip shows an easy way to see anyone with a UP email address’ calendar free and busy time. You can use this feature to quickly narrow down potential meeting times without sending multiple emails back and forth or setting up a shared calendar. This feature works for any UP email address and…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Use Outlook Scheduling Assistant to Find Meeting Time
Excel is a powerful tool for helping us record and analyze data. Whether you’re recording research results or keeping track of grades, one of the most useful and basic Excel skills is to be able to sort and filter data. Today’s UP Tech Tip, courtesy of Microsoft, covers how you can sort data to group…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip – Sort and Filter Data in Excel
Do you keep office hours or offer drop-in appointments for your students? Do you sometimes have a line out the door, and other times wait around only for no one to show up? Or do you sometimes waste time going back and forth through email trying to find a time that works for everyone? Either way,…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Schedule Office Hours in Moodle
Every faculty member at UP has an Office 365 account, and many also have an iPad, Android tablet, or Microsoft Surface. Like peanut butter and chocolate, Office and tablets are two tech flavors that work really well together. In today’s UP Tech Tip, I wanted to demo using Office Mobile apps (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) on an iPad to easily…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Tablets + Office = Easy Annotation
If you’re thinking about creating instructional media for online, hybrid or flipped classrooms, you are probably imagining creating video content. But it’s also a great idea to consider mixing things up by creating audio only content, such as a podcast or mini audio-lecture. Students benefit from class content delivered in multiple modes, and busy students will appreciate…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Try Recording a Podcast
Today’s UP Tech Tip is for instructors who create video assets for their courses. Did you know that you can easily insert any video you have stored in MediaSpace directly into Moodle? You can present video content directly in your course without sending students away to an external site or fussing with embed codes. Check…Continue Reading Add Videos From MediaSpace to Moodle