Printing Webpages (or saving them for later)

Like all good green-blooded citizens, I try to refrain from unnecessary printing; especially printing of webpages. Invariably, the three paragraph article I've intended to print spits out seven pages of additional and unwanted text from my printer.

No more. Joliprint to the rescue. Joliprint will take a web article, remove the unwanted sidebar info (links, advertisements) and save the copy as a PDF. You can then easily print the PDF, or you can save it for electronic reading later. The PDF can be saved directly to your Google Docs, downloaded, emailed, viewed online, or posted to Facebook or Twitter for sharing.

There are two options for using Joliprint: 1) download the add-on application. You'll have a button on your browser toolbar. Click the button to make the PDF. Or 2) just use the webpage interface. Bookmark joliprint.com and anytime you want to preserve or print a webpage, simply copy and paste the URL into the big blank on joliprint.com.

Quick View of Forums in Moodle

This time of the semester always seems to drag a bit: we're still too far out to get excited about the Thanksgiving break, fall break has been forgotten and the work just keeps coming.

If you're finding yourself wondering 'why did I assign so many forum postings? I can't possibly get to them all?' then I have the short cut for you.

You can view ALL forum postings by a student on one page. You can scroll quickly through the postings, make sure your student have hit the mark, and then go on to the next student without clicking in and out of postings at the forum site.

To view all postings by a single student:

1. From within your course page, click "Participants" in the upper left-hand side
2. Choose a student by clicking his/her name from your participant list
3. From the tabs shown above that students' profile info, click "Forum posts" (see image below)
4. You are now looking at all the forums posted by this student. The "See this post in context" link at the bottom of each post writing will take you back to the original forum location.

Happy reading!