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
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
We all like to add flavor and visual appeal to our websites, slides and documents with images. With Google putting almost any image conceivable at your fingertips, it’s incredibly easy to find and take appealing graphics. However, as an educator you are highly advised to be aware of copyright and fair use when re-purposing media…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Finding Copyright Friendly Images