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Requesting a WordPress Site Faculty and staff members may request an individual WordPress site for use in conjunction with their work. To request a site, go to the Tools and Links bucket in your Faculty or Employee Portfolio, and select Blog & Wiki Request. Once you agree to the usage policies for the Web 2.0 […]

If you have more than 100 students in a Moodle 2 course, and if you use the LAE Grader Report, be advised that the report will show only the first 100 students. We are looking into a solution, but in the meantime instructors with large classes on Moodle 2 should use the simple Grader Report […]

We recently upgraded MATLAB on our compute server to 2012a. This is the installation you would use over ssh in a terminal session. Some users also use the license manager on this server version to launch their software locally. Since the upgrade, however, we have found unanticipated difficulties launching the local installations. We are working […]

Our consortial partners have identified a problem where the latest version of FireFox (11) does not readily allow a user to edit more than one rich-text area on a single page. They have also found a short-term workaround and a long-term solution for the problem. Problem description: On a page with more than one rich-text […]

For a brief period after the power outage, the automatic listing of WesScholar Works on faculty pages failed sporadically.  We have found the source of the trouble and made corrections so that it should not recur. Many thanks to the faculty who reported the trouble and helped us with their feedback to correct it quickly.

A ticket is a cryptic URL that you can share with readers or collaborators so that they can access your materials without having to sign into WesFiles. Tickets are especially useful when working with people who do not have Wesleyan accounts. We have found at least one oddity, however: Tickets do no behave as expected […]

Over the past week we have seen occasional odd behavior on our WordPress sites (such as uploaded images seeming to disappear). We have determined that the oddities have to do with caching on our server, and we are on the trail of a solution. In the meantime, we believe that clearing the cache regularly should […]

Pages on a WordPress site can be organized hierarchically so that you have “parent” and “child” pages. If you are using page hierarchies, then you might like to know what happens to the visibility of the child pages when a parent is set to “draft” status. The answer is: Child pages that have been published […]

We’ve installed a new contact form plugin. It’s more current than the plugins we have been using, and it offers a lot of options. Look for the Fast Secure Contact Form in the list of plugins.

We’ve just added a couple plugins with some handy functionality The “SlideShare” plugin lets you easily embed slide presentations hosted on, well, SlideShare The “Hackadelic SEO Table Of Contents” plugin lets you drop a table of contents into any post or page simply by adding a [toc] shortcode anywhere on the page. The table is […]