Her primary responsibilities will be support of faculty, students, and staff in the use of Desire2Learn and Respondus; as well as assisting Marc Routsong, Online Education Support Coordinator; in the administrative functions of Desire2Learn.
Qing has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Design and Technology from Emporia State University. She has extensive experience presenting at conferences on topics such as: Integrating Digital Tools into the Classroom, Teaching and Learning with Mobile Devices,and Using Google SketchUp in Teaching and Learning. Qing was also a graduate teaching assistant at Emporia, co-teaching courses such as Advanced Instructional Technology for Educators and Technology in the Classroom.
Qing will start at Washburn tomorrow. Help us welcome Qing to Washburn. We are excited to have her join our staff!

Qing Zhang -Online Education Support Specialist II
Henderson Learning Resource Center-room 3A
qing.zhang@washburn.edu
785-670-2381

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This guest network will have some important limitations and is intended to provide access the most commonly used Internet services.  Because of its open nature we have taken measures to limit misuse and abuse.  If you are hosting guests who will need access that exceeds the limitations noted below contact ITS at support@washburn.edu or at 785.670.3000

•  Visitors will have to provide their name, e-mail address, and phone number and accept our terms of service in order to use the network.  You can preview the sign-in page here:  https://netreg.nix.washburn.edu/wuguest.shtml (note that this link will not work off-campus)
• Visitors will be able to use WUGuest for up to 3 days at a time, after 3 days they will be locked out of WUGuest for another 3 days before they can access the network again
• Access to websites will have the same content restrictions in place at Washburn Institute of Technology.  Because of K-12 students there we are mandated to restrict access to certain types of content (e.g. pornography and other material considered harmful to minors), we will extend that content filtering to this guest network
• While we are not currently a member of Eduroam, we will be following Eduroam access standards as listed here: https://www.eduroam.us/node/69

The following services can be expected to work normally:

• Standard web browsing (HTTP and HTTPS)
  • Web-based e-mail like Gmail, Outlook.com/Office365, Yahoo, and most corporate webmail clients
  • Basic video services like YouTube
  • Any publicly-accessible Washburn web services
• Dropbox or similar file storage services that use web-only protocols
• IMAP, POP3, and Secure SMTP for e-mail
• VPN connections
• Windows remote desktop
• SSH connections

Due to restrictions on the guest network, the following services will not work in most cases:

• Insecure SMTP for sending e-mail (port 25)
• Network printing
• Many chat programs
• Most videoconferencing applications
• Enhanced video services such as Netflix
• Most peer-to-peer file sharing applications
• Most multiplayer online games
• Anything determined by the content filter to be potentially harmful to minors

We will still register visitors sponsored by faculty or staff for unrestricted Internet access on WUPublic on request.  Current faculty, staff, and students will still be able to register their own devices for unrestricted access on WUPublic as well.  Note also that WUPublic will be renamed WUCampus on August 1st.

We invite your feedback on this and other issues as we continue to work on improving services to campus.

We’re doing this to reduce confusion between the new WUGuest wireless network and WUPublic.

No other changes to that network are planned at this time, nor will we be making any changes to WUPrivate.

The new version has already shown up on new computers and students, faculty, and staff are able to purchase Office 365 which includes Office 2013 for their personal computers.  Microsoft always allows for backward compatibility and in this case it is no different.  Office 2013 will be able to open older versions and there is a conversion tool available to be able to open 2013 files on older installations.

By July, we will have reviewed Office 2013 to determine if there are issues that would delay us to a later date for the update.

If you are like me, I have a lot of files and sometimes need to find a file with a specific phrase in the document.  By default, Windows 7 searches for your search phrase by the file names and not within the files.  This can be changed by doing the following steps:

1. Open Computer (Start > Computer).
2. Click Tools > Folder Options (Atl-T).
3. Select the Search tab.
4. Select the second option for “Always search file names and contents (this might take several minutes)”.
5. Click Apply and then OK.

After making this change, the Windows 7 search will search file names and within files for the item you are searching.  I found that making this change has helped me to locate files much easier.

Running Windows 8 and want to make this change, directions can be found at http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1963993&seqNum=18

If you have questions, please contact ITS User Services at support@washburn.edu.

If your computer does not appear to be running the new version, please reboot your computer.  If rebooting does not resolve the old version from being displayed, please call ITS User Services at 785-670-3000 or send email to support@washburn.edu.

Purchasing is aware of these scams and should prevent any purchase orders from being processed. We have no need to purchase toner for the Savin copiers, that is included in our maintenance contract. If you are contacted, please get as much information as you can from the caller and e-mail that information to support@washburn.edu

Never heard of a MOOC?  Nope, it’s not a cow with a cold… it stands for Massively Open Online Course (MOOC).    Still confused?  You’re not alone.

Massive – targeting large numbers of students

Open – anyone can enroll and there is no fee

Online – uses new web-based technology for delivering content

Course – activities for meeting a set of learning objectives

A number of independent projects or services for providing MOOCs have emerged over the last year and while they are managed in partnership with institutions of Higher Education, like Coursea which grew out of  Stanford University, they have also raised questions about the future of these institutions.

To learn more, check out Wikipedia.

However, you should know that MOOCs don’t provide college credit.  Yes, you can take and hopefully complete a MOOC and receive a certificate, but you will not receive any college credit for your work.  Or is that about to change?

In a recent article in The Chronicle, the American Council on Education is now recommending credits be given for individuals who successfully complete one of five MOOCs.

So, what might this mean to institutions like Washburn University?  Will it be disruptive?  Let us know what you think… if you care to post a comment.