Tech Tips

Kaltura Mediaspace Retention Schedule Update

This week’s tech tip features an article from Academic and Student Affairs at Minnesota State that focuses on the Kaltura Media retention schedule. To view this article, please visit the following link: Kaltura Media Retention Schedule Update In this article you will learn about: • General information about Kaltura MediaSpace...

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Quick Transition to Virtual Learning

Step 1: Create a Zoom Meeting link for your class  Minnesota State Zoom users must sign in to Zoom using SSO:  Visit minnstate.zoom.us   Select "Sign in"  Authenticate with your current credentials associated with your StarID  Instructions for creating a meeting link  For additional meeting security, consider setting up a...

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Creating Accessible Content Widget

This Tech tip is to draw attention to the new Creating Accessibility Materials widget on the D2L Homepages. This widget is a collection of  that tech tips that are focused on creating accessible content. This widget is searchable and scrollable for ease of use The scroll bar will appear when...

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Avoid Inserting Text Boxes into Slides

This tech tip comes from Academic and Student Affairs at Minnesota State. This tip is part of Digital accessibility that focuses on how to use slide layouts instead of text boxes when creating a PowerPoint presentation. To view this tech tip, please click on the following link: Avoid inserting text...

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Useful Articles for the End of the Semester

This week’s tech tip contains four articles that are useful for wrapping up the semester: Create custom Grade schemes in D2L Brightspace How to Request a D2L Extension for a Student Import D2L Brightspace final grades into eServices Release final Grades to students in D2L Brightspace These articles are also...

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How to Use Automatic List Formats

This week’s tech tip focuses on lists. Using the list option is more useful than manually creating a list because it lets screen readers know that there is an official list. This gives the user the opportunity to skip over the list if desired. The following from the ASA Newsletter...

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Microsoft videos that demonstrate how to improve accessibility in Email, Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets, and PowerPoint Presentations

This tech tip features videos by Microsoft that demonstrate how to improve accessibility in Email, Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets, and PowerPoint Presentations. Please use the following video links. • Email o Video: Improve email accessibility 5:02 • Word Documents o Video: Check the accessibility 1:10 o Video: Improve accessibility with...

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