As Middlebury closes the MIIS campus, we are also closing our non-credit online offerings.1 The courses were in Canvas and they used Badgr/Parchment to award badges.2 Of course Instructure ended up changing the rules around using Badgr/Parchment half way through and so, absent money, it stopped working. Pro-tip folks, don’t use any freemium stuff for […]
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Scalar often frustrates me. Probably because I only interact with it on rare occasions and usually when something has broken. The name also drives me crazy because I struggle to find documentation or posts given how much math and other software turns up.1 Here’s hoping this eases someone else’s frustration. First, there are several empty […]
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I’m looking at creating k12 teaching portfolios aligned to Vermont’s teaching standards. On the plus side, I made a similar portfolio when I did my ITMA program at Virginia Tech.1 As someone who hired a lot of teachers in VA once upon a time I’ve also looked at hundreds of teacher portfolios. And, finally, over […]
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This is a tiny example of how the little things you learn along the way change how you think about options. Back around 2022, I’d used a little PHP function to scan a directory and build an index to the files there using scandir. At some point later, I used that to create an […]
There’s so much about how AI is for coding and that coding is a solved problem there. I am less sure, but I usually am. I see AI regularly returning an entirely wrong language, let alone providing good, secure, modern, and clean code. I keep messing around with it in various ways. Here is a […]
You got a problem? I got a problem solver.1 The problem was that we had videos that had transcript text already written in the video. Then, for some reason, Panopto insisted on displaying the captions no matter what the iframe parameters said. That resulted in captions over captions in a way that made everything hard […]
When we re-did our DLINQ site, I set up a custom reservation system mixing Events Calendar Pro and Gravity Forms. One piece was sending out confirmation emails that include a URL that would enable people who registered to cancel their reservations. It was just a URL in the email with a URL parameter that acts […]
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Someone in our group mentioned a possible need for a user controlled checkoff list. I made this a few years back to use Google Sheets as the source for the list but it broke when Google broke that. I think it was for a photography scavenger hunt but time dulls my memory and it was […]
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We’ve got a meditation course where the faculty member wanted to have a guided meditation track and an optional musical background track with independently controlled volume. Initially, the audio was hosted on Panopto and the background tracks were from a SoundCloud playlist. The SoundCloud embed doesn’t have an independent volume control. I started with a […]
Alan has been on top of some things happening with pinboard.in. It seems that public links to tags, searches, etc. have been shut off due to hackers attacking those urls. That’s been the social bookmarking site of choice for a number of people in my internet circles. I’m not super-social but it is important to […]