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Cascade CMS - Did You Know?
Posted September 13, 2023
by Curt Price
Cascade is the website content management system that SIUE has been using since 2013.
The move to Cascade from our previous system, Luminis, was a huge upgrade in terms of features, functionality, & stability.
If you are an end user who has access to Cascade, you can obviously update your department web pages using Cascade, but did you also know...
- On the Cascade dashboard, end users can customize the data on that page by adding or removing widgets using the "Add Widget" butt...
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Free PDF Tools
Posted September 13, 2023
by Curt Price
We all use PDF's at work and at home. But besides opening a pdf in Reader or Acrobat to read a pdf, or to save/print a word doc as a PDF, most people aren't Acrobat acrobats and aren't sure how to do other things.
To make things somewhat easier in terms of working with a pdf file, the website https://www.pdftool.org has a number of free tools that will allow you to do some very useful things. Such as Encrypting PDF's to protect secure documents, Decrypting PDF's, optimzing (...
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Yes! Your grade center organization matters!
Posted September 13, 2023
By IDLT
As we hit our stride in weeks three and four of the fall semester, it’s important to review your course organization and make sure it's working as intended for your students. By now, some work has been submitted and graded and you are providing feedback for your students.
The Blackboard Grade Center can be a confusing grid of columns, and it is especially challenging when you import content from a previous course. Transparency is important for you and your students. The e...
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