I have had a blog entry in my drafts folder ever since the previous IWS website redesign… which went live in January 2012. I never finished it. Except for some tweaks here and there, the IWS website has not had a major redesign since then. That initiative took approximately a year to implement. Earlier this...Read More
NoodleBib is a Research Manage Project System from the company NoodleTools. You can use NoodleBib to organize your research, track your sources, and produce proper citations. Modesto College has an excellent overview here. Service Update IWS pays annually for a subscription that gives faculty and students access to NoodleBib. Until now, everybody had to periodically...Read More
Things slow down for some departments immediately during the summer (especially after the June session), but not Technology! For those who are super curious about all of the little technical details, here’s what we’ve been up to for the last two months. Networking We doubled the number of wireless access points deployed in classrooms during...Read More
I’m afraid my move from the Washington, D.C., back to North Florida disrupted my blog updates here. I’ll cover as best I the Fall and Winter time periods in this update. Much of the last few months has been spent internally migrating to a new server for the local office. That move is helping ease...Read More
The oft-requested Google Hangouts feature is now available to all @iws.edu accounts. You can get started using this video conferencing feature today!Read More
On-Campus Changes We implemented a massive reorganization of our on-campus TCP/IP network. We’ve offloaded some network services onto several different servers/computers and segmented the network to provide stability to the different regions we cover. The changes worked, as we had the highest reported stability of in-classroom Internet access in years! That’s pretty good for two...Read More
May was a busy month! Performance Tuning To prepare for the update to Moodle 2.7, we installed the Zend OpCache extension for PHP. Easy enough with PECL. Translation: our server doesn’t have to work as hard and you get to browse pages more quickly (particularly helpful on Moodle, which is noticeably more responsive). Implementing Google’s...Read More
Would you like for IWS to automatically receive 0.5% of everything you spend at Amazon.com? It’s possible through Amazon’s Smile program! To sign up: Visit smile.amazon.com. Click the Choose your Charity box. Type in Institute for Worship Studies Florida Campus Inc. Visit smile.amazon.com for all your shopping needs. That’s it! Everything with your Amazon account...Read More
Have you ever wanted to be notified of updates to a Moodle forum–like maybe the IWS Job Board, or the Prayer and Praise Wall? Or maybe you wanted to stop getting updates to a Moodle Forum? Or change the kind of notifications you get? Keep reading for a look at what Moodle allows its users...Read More
