Super Tech Talks
Staff & Faculty Room O205 from 9/6 - 9/9 Technology Support Services, in conjunction with other NMC Departments, is pleased to present Super Tech Talks, a series of technology presentations and discussions that have been chosen for their relevancy to Faculty and...
Moodle Courses – Important Upcoming Dates
As we finish up summer courses and begin the fall term, below you’ll find a few important dates to remember as you wrap up your semester and prepare for the new one: August 18th: Summer 2016 (1603) courses turned off. Students will no longer have access to summer...
Do You Auto-Publish Your Lectures? Make this Change!
If you record lectures in the classroom and use a playlist to auto-publish them to your course, you'll want to update your settings. Because we are no longer using Camtasia Relay to record you'll need to change the auto-publishing setting to Ensemble Anthem. Here's...
So as I was saying…
"So I was reading The Chronicle of Education the other morning and………...wait, what was I saying. Oh yes, The Chronicle article, it was really interesting about analytics being used for student success and………..so yes, it was really interesting. Hang on, I just got a...
Introducing ReadSpeaker for Moodle
ReadSpeaker is a text-to-speech and document viewing service used by thousands of websites worldwide, and it’s now available for your Moodle course. By adding the ReadSpeaker block to your Moodle course, your students will be able to listen to nearly everything in...
Attn: Ensemble Anthem Update
Just another reminder that there was an upgrade to Ensemble Anthem to correct a bug. If you have used Anthem in your office, at home, or on your laptop, you will need to uninstall the application. The next time you launch Anthem it will then prompt the install process...
Using GoToMeeting? Important Please Read
Our GoToMeeting license is ending on June 30th. GoToMeeting will no longer be available, however we now have ZOOM! Educational Media Technologies has sent out emails to all of our current users to get them switched to the new ZOOM platform. ZOOM is very easy to use...
Coming Soon: ReadSpeaker
In April I was awarded the NMC Foundation Innovation Grant. With those funds I purchased a campus-wide license for a text-to-speech literacy tool. ReadSpeaker, LLC offers several products that read text aloud, highlight as it reads, and even translates into different...
Lecture Capture Reminder
We've already made a few announcements, but wanted to remind you that if you record lectures in the classroom, please be aware that we are now using Ensemble Anthem, not Relay. All classrooms are currently being updated with this change. If you want to learn how to...
NMC Writing and Reading Center
Grades were just due, but classes already start up again soon. For the summer, Writing and Reading Center hours will be Monday-Thursday from 10-2. We will open Monday, May 9th, and will be open until Thursday, August 4th. If you would like a tour of the center, or an...