In the second meeting of the Center for Teaching and Learning’s internal Technology SIG, someone mentioned a desire for having easier event sign-ins. Honestly, I don’t recall whether there were intervening comments, but something in the discussion reminded me of the Yale Student Technology Collaborative‘s homegrown software, cardswipr, that interfaces…
On January 13 14, 2016, we expect to have a short amount of downtime (should be less than 15 minutes) for CoursePress as we implement some upgrades. Most importantly, we’ll upgrade the core of our WordPress installation from 4.2.2 to 4.4.1. This post outlines some of the more important pieces…
The gift of instructional technology is tools: little tools that do one or two things brilliantly, big tools that do many powerful things quickly, the constant innovation which makes what is hard one day just a click away the next. And the bane of instructional technology is: tools. Little tools…
A large Thank You goes out to Heather Klemann of English for alerting us to a bug in WordPress’s handling of certain characters in filenames when you upload files to the Media Gallery. In short, there are certain characters that won’t get handled properly by WordPress, leaving you with a…
Some new things on this site or in progress: Twitter feed We’re not the most active tweeters in the world, and we RT as much as we tweet (possibly more than we tweet), but we do think that the things we mention or pass along in that stream are of…
Here are the notable changes to Academic Commons between February 1, 2014 and February 28, 2014. We’re a week late on this, in a sense, because we (that is, I) write this update only on Friday, and this is the first Friday after the close of February. New Plugins Just…
Here are the notable changes to Academic Commons since January 1, 2014. New Plugins Just one this month: WordPress Google Form From the plugin author, this plugin “[f]etches a published Google Form using a WordPress custom post or shortcode, removes the Gooogle wrapper HTML and then renders it as an…
Since we are in semester-open mode, I get to do one of the things I really like doing for ITG, which is getting out and talking with/to students and instructors in class. Nearly always — and such is the case right these days — I’m there to talk about Academic…
Some time ago (in the middle of 2013), Twitter changed how external applications (such as on your mobile phone or, say, your Academic Commons WordPress site) requested and received data. Consequently, your widget may have stopped displaying your tweets. Inexcusably, we have not published a how-to for fixing this until…