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SPRING 99
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ACADEMIC COMPUTING SERVICES COURSE CATALOG
Driver's Ed
FOR THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
Inside
GroupWise: A KU Standard for E-mail & much more 2
E-mail Protocol: IMAP v POP 2
The ACS Training Program 3
ACS Internet Classes 4-7
Connecting to the Internet 4
E-mail: Introduction 4
E-mail: Advanced 4
Join an E-mail Discussion List 4
Web Browsing 4
Finding Information on the WWW 4
Web Authoring: Introduction 5
Web Authoring: Intermediate 5
Web Authoring: Tables, Frames, & Imagemaps 5
Web Authoring: Cascading Style Sheets 5
Web Authoring: FrontPage 98 5
Web Authoring: Publish your Web Page on the Internet 5
Set up a PC or Mac Web Server 6
ListProc for New List Owners 6
ListProc: Archives 6
ListProc: Resolving Errors 6
Web Authoring: Forms and CGI scripts 6
Web—Database Integration 6
Comprehensive Web Programming 7
Graphics Formats and Scanning 7
Photoshop: Introduction 7
Lunch & Learn Video Series 7
The ACS Training Calendar 8-9
ACS Office & Statistical Software Classes 10-12
Access: Introduction 10
Access: Intermediate 10
Access: Forms 10
Access: Reports 10
Excel: Introduction 10
Excel: Intermediate 10
Excel: Functions & Data Analysis Tools 11
Making the Most of Microsoft Office Help 11
PowerPoint: Introduction 11
PowerPoint: Intermediate 11
SPSS: Introduction 11
SPSS: Intermediate 11
UNIX: Introduction 12
Windows: Introduction 12
Instructional Development and Support Workshops 12
Libraries Workshop Series 13-14
HTML 4.0: Design Control and more 15
Publish your Web page on the Internet 15
Computer Center & Budig Hall Parking Map 16
ACS installs adaptive technology in Computer Center, Budig labs
Beginning with the spring 99 semester, people who are visually impaired or use wheelchairs will find using information technology easier thanks to the adaptive software and hardware that are being installed in the Computer Center and Budig Hall student computing labs, according to Sue Silkey. ACS Microcomputer Systems Support Manager.
The Budig Hall-Student Computer Lab (10 Budig Hall) now features a Windows desktop computer with speech synthesis software that reads what is on the computer screen to users including all Windows-based applications and graphical Internet browsers. Duxbury, Braille translator software, allows users to translate computer files from several languages to Braille and can also be used as a text editor.The translated Braille document is output to the ET Braille printer (Brailler). Services for Students with Disabilities (135 Strong, 864-2620 V/TTY), directed by Lorna Zimmer, provided ACS with the Brailler and related software. The Brailler will be available to users on campus over
the campus network who have PCAnywhere32 client software installed on their computers.
"Instructors who do not read Braille, for example, could send information to visually-impaired students so that the student can listen to it and then print it out as
Braille," explained ACS Senior Programmer Doug Miller, who is installing the new technology.
The Budig Lab PC computer station for visually-impaired users will also have OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software, OpenBook, that will allow a user to scan and digitize printed materials for use as an electronic file to be read by a voice synthesizer.
The Budig Lab will also have three motorized computer tables that will make using computers more comfortable for people in wheelchairs.
The Herb Harris Student Computing Lab (202 Computer Center) will have four motorized tables as well as a station with the same adaptive hardware and software as Budig except for the Brailler, which users can access over the See Adaptive, page 15
Renew your KU dial-in account by Jan.31!
All KU dial-in accounts that will be used after January 31,1999, must be renewed by individual account holders online by that date. This is true even if the account holder chose the automatic renewal option for the account.
Account holders can renew their accounts online by filling in a form at www.cc.ukans.edu/account.htm.
Academic Computing Services (ACS) will not automatically renew dial-in accounts for the period
January 1 through July 31, 1999. Accounts that are not renewed
by January 31 will be turned off on February 1, and deleted from the
system on February 8. According to Wes Hubert, associate director of Academic Computing Services (ACS), this is necessary to rectify account renewal records. "While automatic renewal works smoothly for most of the KU community, some withdrawing students were billed inadvertently last semester," he said.
Once account holders renew their accounts, they will be billed See Dial-in, page 14