There were 47 new accounts created this semester, bringing us to a total of 965 users on campus. Congratulations to the 10 people who received Certificates of Completion in 16 different lynda.com courses this semester.

Below is a list of the top viewed courses for the spring semester. If you’re interested in viewing any of the courses below, please follow these steps:

1. Login to your account at: lynda.lafayette.edu
2. Enter your Lafayette Network ID and Password
3. Click on the link to the course you want to view below

Top 5 Courses (based on total views)

1. HTML Essential Training
2. PHP with MySQL Essential Training
3. Excel 2010 Essential Training
4. Access 2010 Essential Training
5. WordPress Essential Training

New Releases for Spring

• Bootstrapping: Adding Interactivity to Your Site
• Excel 2013: Advanced Formulas and Functions
• Developing for the Apple iCloud API with iOS

Interested in getting started with lynda.com? Please visit: help.lafayette.edu/faqs/lynda for more information.

ITS staff members Pete Hoernle and Chris Koch assisted EXCEL students, Nicole Catino ‘13 (Engineering Studies, German) and (not pictured) Stacey-Ann Pearson ‘15 (Civil Engineering) with the Metzgar Field Renewable Energy project.

Since November, the Metzgar Renewable Energy Project has been monitoring and converting wind & solar energy to provide electricity to the Metzgar maintenance building.

After a summer lightning storm, Nicole Catino ‘13 and Stacey-Ann Pearson ‘15 were tasked by program director, Dr. David Veshosky, with troubleshooting the wind turbine and solar data streaming systems at Metzgar Field that stopped collecting data.

ITS staff members Pete Hoernle and Chris Koch assisted the students in identifying the numerous equipment failures, ordering replacement parts, upgrading the outdated computer/peripherals, installing power management equipment, re-establishing communication between the solar panels and wind turbine to the data collection unit, restoring Internet connectivity, documenting vendor information and hardware/software configurations.

• Worksheets that display all degree requirements and classes taken to satisfy each
• Worksheets showing requirements that have not been completed and advice on how these requirements can be met
• A “What-If” scenario builder that allows students and advisors to see how completion requirements change when adding a new second major, minor or changing majors. The Look Ahead feature shows students how future courses may be applied to each new scenario.

DegreeWorks is designed to audit requirements against the new Common Course of Study and is therefore only available to students in the Class of 2016. Future plans include incorporating requirements for the Class of 2015.

Applicants may request up to $5,000 to help fund their proposals. Submissions will be accepted through March 1, 2013 and will be reviewed by the faculty IT and Library committee. Awards will be announced in May for Academic Year 13-14. Questions about this grant program can be directed to Courtney Bentley, Director of Instructional Technology, at 610-330-5504 or bentleyc@lafayette.edu.

For additional information or to submit your proposal using the online application, visit: http://its.lafayette.edu/teachingtechgrant/

If you want to upgrade your account before Google upgrades our entire domain:

1. Log in to your Lafayette Google Apps account at googledocs.lafayette.edu.
2. Visit drive.google.com and click the blue “Get started with 5 GB free” button.
3. Follow the upgrade prompts.

This update provides some significant improvements as well as some subtle interface changes including:

• Users are provided 5-gigabytes of cloud-based storage from Google.
• The “Documents” link in the Google Apps navigation header is named “Drive.”
• “Collections” is named more colloquially, “Folders.”
• “Owned by me” items are now stored in “My Drive.”
• Items stored in “My Drive” are synced and available from the “Google Drive” folder, which can be installed on your computer or from the Google Drive app available for installation on many popular mobile devices.

Google showcases some of these changes at:

Because this change provides the College with access to even more offsite cloud-based storage and an easier means to access it through both a desktop folder as well as mobile devices, please be sure to review and abide by the College’s Data Stewardship policy at:
its.lafayette.edu/policies/datastewardship/

For more guidance about the proper use of different types of storage, also see ITS’s recommendations regarding options for storing data.

Finally, the Aviary Suite, a Google Marketplace service enabled on our instance of Google Apps for EDU, will be retired Septmeber 15, 2012 as it is no longer supported by its developer. If you have files associated with this service we recommend you download them into a format that can consumed by other applications. Aviary offers a more thorough explanation.

If you have questions about these changes to our Google Apps services, please contact Jason Alley at 610-330-5884 or alleyj@lafayette.edu.

1. Hamilton House
2. PT Fainon
3. Press Box
4. Bailey Health Center
5. Bourger Varisty Football
6. The Spot
7. Pardee Hall
8. Lerch Hall
9. 2 West
10. 4 West (DU)
11. Easton Hall
12. Marquis Hall
13. DKE
14. Phi Kappa Psi
15. Farber Hall
16. Ramer Hall
17. Reuf_Hall
18. Keefe Hall
19. Simon Center
20. Oechsle Hall
21. Gates Hall
22. Watson Courts
23. 616 Parsons Street
24. Black Cultural Center
25. KDR
26. Sigma Nu 511 College Ave
27. Farinon Center
28. Kirby Law
29. Kirby Sports
30. Pfenning
31. Presidents House
32. Reeder House
33. Feather House
34. Kirby House
35. McKelvey House
36. McKeen Hall
37. Kunkel Hall
38. Ramer History
39. Scott Hall
40. Soles Hall
41. Van Wickle
42. Watson Hall
43. Williams Visual Arts