Library and Information Technology

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Monday, February 6th, 2017

Have you seen the new wireless projection station in the Courtyard?

Have you seen the new wireless projection station in the library courtyard? You can share your screen or multiple screens for collaboration. To see a…

Posted by Bud Hiller at 3:46 pm

Monday, October 3rd, 2016

Survey Tools for Faculty and Students

At Bucknell, we have three easy-to-use platforms for creating surveys: Qualtrics Moodle Google Forms Qualtrics (discussed in a related blog entry) is the most flexible…

Posted by Leslie Harris at 9:07 am

Wednesday, April 13th, 2016

New Collapsed Topic Format in Moodle

One challenge that students and faculty members face with large Moodle courses is the (over-dramatically named) “scroll of death.” In other words, when there are…

Posted by Leslie Harris at 2:25 pm

Monday, December 14th, 2015

Adding Links to Lynda.com Courses in Moodle

Bucknell has a site license for Lynda.com course content, allowing faculty, staff, and students to access the full catalog of courses available at Lynda.com. Lynda.com…

Posted by Leslie Harris at 10:24 am

Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

Using Moodle Scheduler for Advisee Appointments

As part of our integration with Banner, we have created “Faculty Advisor” courses in Moodle for all faculty members currently advising students, and we automatically…

Posted by Leslie Harris at 4:50 pm

Tuesday, September 1st, 2015

Phishing Emails – they want your account

Note: you should never ever ever provide your Bucknell username and password to anyone, no matter who asks! You’ll get emails that say that they’re…

Posted by Bud Hiller at 1:17 pm

Sunday, August 30th, 2015

Need to get a huge file to someone on or off campus?

Use Filelocker! Bmail has a limit of 25mb to email an attachment. You can upload whatever you want to Google Drive and then share the…

Posted by Bud Hiller at 11:23 am

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