DSpace is Allegheny College Institutional Repository’s. There are thousands of items in DSpace organized into a number of digital collections including college committee minutes, senior projects, and historical civil war letters. Some of these items are available to the public, but the majority of the items are only accessible to the Allegheny College community.
In order to access certain items, you must log in using your Allegheny College username and password. Check out this video to learn how to log into DSpace:
Google Meet now includes an option to reduce background noise on both desktop and mobile. Meet can remove background noises such as typing, closing a door, or the sounds of a nearby construction site.
Audio capture from screen sharing won’t be affected by noise cancelling.
Meet filters out noises that don’t sound like voices. Voices from TV, or other people talking at the same time, won’t be filtered out.
If non-speech sound is an important part of your call, like playing musical instruments, turn off noise cancellation.
Turn on noise cancellation in your desktop browser:
Before you join, on the top right, click More options
Choose Settings .
Click Audio.
Turn on Noise cancellation.
Click Join now.
In a video call
On the bottom, click More options
Choose Settings .
Click Audio.
Turn on Noise cancellation.
Tip: To check how much noise is cancelled out, next to your self preview at the top right corner of your screen, look at the Voice indicator . The Voice indicator reflects what others may hear. Sounds that are blocked and cannot be heard by others will not move the indicator line.
Turn on noise cancellation on mobile:
Tap the screen .
Tap More
Tap Settings .
Tap Noise cancellation.
Here’s an example showing the difference it can make:
A new feature in Chrome will now help you change your passwords with a single tap.
On supported sites, whenever you check your passwords, Chrome will look for passwords that may have been compromised. If it finds one, you will see a Change password button from the Google Assistant. When you tap the button, if the site supports this feature, then Chrome will not only navigate to the site, but also go through the entire process of changing your password.
Importantly, you can control the entire experience and choose to go through the change password process manually from the start, or at any point during the process.
And even if a site isn’t supported yet, you can use Chrome’s password manager to help you create strong and unique passwords for your various accounts.
Between May 5-12, users will not be able to download full eBooks to read offline from EBSCOhost, EBSCO Discovery Service, or the EBSCO mobile app. They will be able to read eBooks online and download eBook chapters, and any eBooks already downloaded will continue to be available to users.
If you have additional questions or need assistance, please contact the Infodesk by email at: infodesk@allegheny.edu or by phone at: (814) 332-3768.
If the forwarded call goes unanswered, it will roll back to the voicemail of the original extension.
Those who choose to have their calls forwarded can change their outgoing voicemail greeting to indicate that they are out. LITS strongly recommends this solution. The voicemail greeting can include a suggested alternative number for those callers needing an immediate response.
An additional measure could be to provide the voicemail PIN to someone else in the department, so that someone can check the voicemail inbox. This can be done remotely, or at the phone whose voicemail you are checking. When you return to the office, remember to change the PIN.
With Allegheny College’s newly implemented G Suite Enterprise for Education, faculty and other employees can now use breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller groups during video calls in Google Meet. Breakout rooms must be started by moderators during a video call on a computer. Any employee who schedules or starts a meeting will be the moderator. Breakout rooms currently can’t be live streamed or recorded.
You must be signed into your Allegheny Google account to participate in breakout rooms.
How to Create breakout rooms
On your computer, start a video call in Google Meet.
In the top right, click Activities Breakout rooms.
In the Breakout rooms panel, choose the number of breakout rooms.
Call participants are then distributed across the rooms.
To manually move people into different rooms, you can:
Enter the participant’s name directly into a breakout room.
Click the participant’s name. Hold down the mouse, drag the name, and then drop it into another breakout room.
To randomly mix up the groups again, click Shuffle .
You can also choose whether to rename the rooms by clicking on the room name itself.
In the bottom right, click Open rooms.
Use a Breakout Room Timer
You can set up a timer for your breakout rooms. Each room will display a 30 second countdown before the timer ends.
At the top of the breakout rooms panel, click Timer.
Set the timer amount then click OK.
You can edit or remove the timer at any time. On the breakout room panel, click Timer to edit.
You can also close breakout rooms manually:
In the Breakout rooms panel, at the top right, click Close rooms .
In the notification window that appears, click Close all rooms.
While out of the office for any extended period of time, you may wish to change the greeting that callers will hear before leaving a voicemail. Employees can change their greetings in the campus phone system whether on or off campus.
From off campus: Dial your extension’s full number (e.g., 814-332-xxxx, where xxxx is your 4-digit extension) From on campus: Press the voicemail button on your desk phone.
Press the pound key (#) when the recording starts.
Enter your 4-digit extension.
Press the star (*) when the next recording starts.
Enter your voicemail passcode (PIN). If you aren’t sure what your PIN is, please contact the InfoDesk at infodesk@allegheny.edu.
Press 8 for user options.
Press 4 to change your greeting.
Press 7 to record a new greeting.
Record the greeting, then press the pound key (#).
Press 7 to listen to the new greeting.
Press 3 to discard and try again, or 9 to save the new greeting.
If Meet or Zoom isn’t performing as well as expected, there are various things you can do to improve your experience.
Mute your microphone when you’re not speaking.
When your microphone is on, Meet and Zoom will devote part of your Internet connection to an audio stream for you, even if you are not speaking. Mute your microphone when you do not need it to free up bandwidth for your meeting or class.
Stop your webcam video when you don’t need it.
If your instructor or moderator is okay with you doing so, start your video only when you need to show yourself on webcam, and stop your video when it isn’t needed.
Consider disabling custom or blurred backgrounds.
Custom backgrounds can slow down performance during a video chat. If you’re comfortable displaying your present surroundings, disabling background options can improve your session.
Disable HD webcam video.
Sending high definition (HD) webcam video requires more bandwidth than sending non-HD. Disabling HD video or using a lower definition can improve the quality of your connection.
Free up bandwidth from other sources.
Close programs you’re not using on your computer, and close out tabs in your browser that you don’t need at the moment. If you’re using wifi, consider disconnecting your phone, smart speaker, game console, etc., from the wifi during meetings or classes, to conserve local bandwidth.
If color-coding is something that fits your organization style, you can color-code your Google Drive folders.
In your browser, just right-click (control-click on a Mac) on the folder whose color you would like to change. Choose Change color, and then select the color from the grid that pops up. The new color will remain until you change it again.
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