Students and Faculty can now access campus software Remotely

Access to campus computer labs and software is now available to students studying Remotely.  A new service of the same name has been implemented over the summer in response to restrictions presented by COVID-19.  

To accommodate social distancing requirements, every other seat in campus classrooms and computer labs has been left vacant - reducing classroom capacity by at least half.  In computer labs with fixed seating, this meant that every other computer could not be used and would sit idle.  Seeing an opportunity, ITS worked to implement a solution that could use the computing power of the unused workstations to provide students studying remotely access to the same experience as those students sitting in the room.

To access campus computer labs Remotely, locate the following icon in Quicklinks or search for "Remotely":

The main page for Remotely contains a list of rooms available for remote access as well as instructions for accessing these resources.  All you need is a web browser!

Remote Teaching FAQ

Our Instructional Design team has created a Remote Teaching FAQ resource. This resource address some Moodle and Google Meet topics that pertain to teaching remotely.  

Please use this link to access the resource. 

Additionally, this link has been added to the Manhattan College ITS Blog sidebar for convenient access and a knowledge base article has been created containing the link.  The article can be found within the "Working Remote" category under "Remote Teaching FAQ".

Please follow these directions to subscribe to the ITS blog and be the first to see blog posts containing helpful tips and information. 

Podium Feature: "Video Mute" Projector Display without Powering Down

Using “Video Mute” aka “Video Blank” stops the projector display without powering down the whole system.

Need to work on the PC privately? Or do you want to switch between the whiteboard and the projector but not wait for cool down and warm up times?

Quickly stop projecting the PC display to the projector by following the steps listed below.  Your audience will no longer be able to see the PC display once the projector is “muted.”

From a Crestron podium select VIDEO MUTE to stop the projector from displaying.

From a White Hall podium select VID BLNK to stop the projector display.

In an unrenovated classroom press BLANK on the remote to stop the projector display.