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Creating Conditional Release Assignments on Brightspace

Posted on 30 Jan 202531 Jan 2025 by Eric Myers
Assignments and other items on Brightspace can be configured for “conditional release,” which means that they only become available to students after some condition has been met. I’v... Read More
Block diagram of the various components of Microsoft Teams and how they are connected.

Microsoft Teams is Frankenstein’s Monster

Posted on 28 Oct 20238 May 2025 by Eric Myers
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that provides text, video and audio collaboration tools with shared files and calendars. The diagram shows how it is linked to Microsoft Outlook, OneDrive, and S... Read More

Signing Documents with Adobe Acrobat Reader

Posted on 27 Jul 20225 Jun 2024 by Eric Myers
It is possible to use Adobe Acrobat Reader to “sign” documents.  There are actually several levels of both security and complexity, so depending on what you want to do you can either choo... Read More

Collecting Student Lab Data with Forms in Office 365

Posted on 23 Jan 202225 Jan 2022 by Eric Myers
An on-line form can be an easy way to collect data from students during a lab or class, and with the data automatically loaded into a spreadsheet it can then be straighforward to work with the data im... Read More

Network Configuration for a Wi-Fi Access Point

Posted on 26 Dec 202024 May 2021 by Eric Myers
This page describes how to configure the network interfaces for a Raspbery Pi running as a Wi-Fi Access Point (AP). This is just one step in a larger list of instructions, which can be found on the pa... Read More
Home camera used to view a physics lab experiment.

Potential Use of Steerable Consumer Home Cameras for “local+remote” Laboratory Instruction

Posted on 12 Jun 20206 Jan 2021 by Eric Myers
In this article I report what I’ve learned so far about the possibility of using steerable consumer home monitoring cameras (“nanny cams”) to allow students to work together on labor... Read More

Raspberry Pi WiFi Access Point

Posted on 11 Jul 20184 Jan 2021 by Eric Myers
I have an old iPad which has been dropped so many times that a piece of wire fell out the side, and I think that wire was the WiFi antenna. The iPad can only connect to WiFi when it’s close to t... Read More

Raspberry Pi Access Point Routing

Posted on 20 Jun 201824 Jun 2021 by Eric Myers
This is the last step required to turn a Raspberry Pi into a WiFi Access Point. If you want to see all the previous steps, start with “Raspberry Pi Wifi Access Point“.   When you get to ... Read More

DHCP daemon on Raspberry Pi

Posted on 19 Jun 201826 Dec 2020 by Eric Myers
DHCP stands for “Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol”.    The DHCP daemon is the process which assigns IP addresses to computers when they join a network, and gives them other important ... Read More

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