Category: UP Tech Tips

Skype for Business is a powerful online meeting, video chat, and instant message tool available for any UP user. It works with your UP account and can be used to communicate with other UP community members, or to host an online meeting that you can invite anyone to (UP person or outside guest alike). You…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Meet Online With Skype for Business

Need to show a video as a part of your slides? Closing PowerPoint and linking out to YouTube can break the flow of your presentation, or worse: if you are in “Presenter Mode” you may find the video starts playing back on your podium or laptop screen, but not on the presentation screen. Awkward! You can…Continue Reading #UPTechTip: Embed Video into a PowerPoint

Do you use a spreadsheet app like Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, or Google Sheets to track student grades? If so, did you know adding your grade information to Moodle is as easy as copying and pasting? It’s true! The Moodle gradebook provides a transparent, private and secure way to share grades and feedback with students….Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Import Moodle Grades From a Spreadsheet

We have lots of great tech tools at UP that enhance teaching and learning. They really start to shine when they become integrated and work together, becoming two great tastes that taste great together, like peanut butter and chocolate. (Disclaimer: never put peanut butter and/or chocolate into your technology devices). Imagine the following scenario: you’re relaxing…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Sync Docs Between Moodle & OneDrive

Today’s #uptechtip is a handy way to create a table of contents in MS Word. This is something I’ve really found useful as I’ve been writing longer form content in my graduate studies – even if I don’t intend to include a ToC in the finished project it’s a great way to enhance navigation and…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Auto Create Table of Contents in Word 2016