Information Technology Services produces technology news items called TECH Bits geared primarily to Temple University faculty and staff. TECH Bits are distributed via e-mail on a weekly basis during the semester. An archive of these messages appears below. For more information about Temple resources, visit the Faculty or Staff websites.
Need feedback on a presentation? Trying to figure out the best meeting time? Want to know who can attend your event? Try creating a Google form to send to your participants and gather information. Responses are automatically collected in Google Drive.
Before you begin, note that you can't have multiple Gmail accounts open when using Forms.
To get started:
If you're visiting another university for a major event such as commencement, be sure to check if the institution is an eduroam (education roaming) participant. If it is, you can enjoy free and secure wireless access during your visit without the need to obtain login credentials for that specific institution. Local participating institutions include Bryn Mawr College, Drexel University, Penn State and the University of Pennsylvania.
Logging In:
It's that time of year when many Temple faculty and staff are out of the office to enjoy some time off. Let your colleagues and coworkers know when you're not available by setting up automatic email and phone notifications.
You had a productive evening working on a final paper that's due tomorrow. You have all your citations, just finished a conclusion and saved the work to your laptop. Time to make a back-up!
Don't risk losing all of your hard work on the chance that your computer develops a problem and won't start in the morning. Use Temple's FREE cloud-based storage options to upload a copy of the paper so you have a back-up.
Hackers use all kinds of tricks to try and learn valuable information about you. Just last week a phishing email made the rounds at Temple disguised as a Security Update.
So what should you do to keep your information safe?
Hackers use all kinds of tricks to try and learn valuable information about you. Just last week a phishing email made the rounds at Temple disguised as a Security Update.
So what should you do to keep your information safe?
Ever get halfway done writing a report then realize that the information in one paragraph would look better in a table format? Tables are great to help organize those confusing thoughts/processes and make them clear for your audience to understand. Luckily, a feature in Microsoft Word allows you to easily convert text to a table or switch table to text.
Convert Text to a Table
Ever get halfway done writing a lab report then realize that the information in one paragraph would look better in a table format? Tables are great to help organize those confusing thoughts/processes and make them clear for your audience to understand. Luckily, a feature in Microsoft Word allows you to easily convert text to a table or switch table to text.
Convert Text to a Table
Are you getting ready to update your PDP? Or, perhaps you are submitting an online grant application or some other type of online form? If you plan to copy the text from Word or another program, you may find that the formatting gets messed up.
To avoid this problem, use a quick keyboard shortcut to paste only the plain text:
Alas, Spring Break is over and filling out those applications for summer jobs/internships are now on your mind. Writing a cover letter can be the worst part about the application, especially when copying and pasting it from Word messes up the formatting of it in the online application.
Next time, use a quick keyboard shortcut to copy and paste the text from Word and convert it into plain text. Note: The plain text version will remove standard formatting, like bold, underline and hyperlinks, but will retain bullets.