Resources - Technology Tips

General Tips

• All general tips...

• Computer requirements

• Improve PC performance

• Get an ISU netID

• Change ISU password

• Get an ISU Realserver account

• Copyright request forms

• Online teaching references

Email Tips

• All email tips...
  

• ASW mail services

• Mailman

• Outlook

• WebMail

WebCT & Clickers

• All WebCT tips

• WebCT browser tune-up

• Enable file download in
  Internet Explorer

• Make WebCT a trusted site in
  Internet Explorer

• Internet Explorer cache setting

• JAVA requirements

• Request a course account

Web page design, HTML

• All web design tips

• CHS web help site

• HTML Basics

By Product

All ISU students, staff and faculty now can access online
video training for a wide variety of software through
Lynda.com. (Oct. 2009)
See >> Lynda.com instructions

• Adobe Acrobat: create, edit, view files in PDF format. See Lynda.com

• Adobe Connect: webinar program

• Adobe Dreamweaver: See Lynda.com

• Adobe PhotoShop: image processing. See Lynda.com
  

• Adobe Presenter: voice over PowerPoint

• Audacity: audio editor and recorder

• Camtasia: captures action and sound from screen, edit

• Clickers (Turning Point Student Response Systems)

• iTunes U: podcast and videocast from ISU to iTunes

• LAME: MP3 encoding software (works w. Audacity)

• Microsoft Excel: spreadsheet. See Lynda.com

• Microsoft Outlook: email. See Lynda.com

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2007: presentation program. See Lynda.com

• Microsoft Word 2007: text based document creation. See Lynda.com

• Respondus: test bank generation, manipulation, works with WebCT

• Skype: voice over IP, teleconference, video capability

• StudyMate: FLASH study aids, games

• SurveyGizmo: online surveys

• Wimba: set of tools that work with WebCT, and stand alone