Ezra S F
Ezra S F
@Ezra@www.ezrasf.com
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  • My Cold, Cold Heart Chills to the Bone

    My Cold, Cold Heart Chills to the Bone, originally uploaded by Ezra F. I find the office overly warm. I wear short sleeves inside and a coat outside in Winter. Amy, pictured here, obviously disagrees… Sweater and USB heated mittens inside… http://www.usbgeek.com/prod_detail.php?prod_id=0356

  • Using An LMS As a Network Drive

    Ran across a video describing how to get the WebDAV info in CE6 (aka Blackboard Vista 4 Lite) for the purpose of using CE6 as a network drive. The narrator says this is a good idea because if the site has good policies, then backups are being made. In the event of a site disaster,…

  • Mmmmm Tasty!

    Mmmmm Tasty!, originally uploaded by Ezra F. Misty licking her nose. It’s been a while since I posted a picture. Here is one from January I have yet to upload. 😀

  • Section Archive Easter Egg

    Blackboard support wants a backup of a section to replicate the instructor claimed behavior. Fine. I started making the backup, but I ended up closing the browser to go home. This morning, when I checked, the backup was not in the Vista file manager at the course level where I created it. So, I created…

  • Happy New Year!

    It’s the Chinese Year of the Brown Earth Rat!

  • All Good Things

    A good one… It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. – Rene Descartes From Michelle so she can be quoted… If you don’t feel and don’t want…

  • Finding Sessions

    Clusters can making finding where a user was working a clusterf***. Users end up on a node, but they don’t know which node. Heck, we are ahead of the curve to get user name, date, and time. Usually checking all the nodes in the past few days can net you the sessions. Capturing the session…

  • User Interface v. SQL Reports and Tracking

    Blackboard Vista tracks student activity. This tracking data is viewed as a critical feature of Vista. Our instructors depended on the information until we revoked their ability to run reports themselves due to performance issues. Campus administrators can still generate reports (though some still fail). We doubt the solution to this is Blackboard improving the…

  • Who Is Benefiting From This?

    My employer does not pay for my cell phone or Internet service. When new administrators interview or schedule time a forum to talk to us, the question of them paying for one or both services usually is asked. Usually the response is something about it being complicated with a ton of paper work and an…