Archive for July, 2008

Blackboard Upgrade and Training in August

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

This summer, we will upgrade our Tri-College Blackboard Learning Management System to the latest version, and offer several workshops on old and new features. If you have immediate questions about Blackboard, please contact any member of our ITS/Library Support Team.
In order to carry out the upgrade, Blackboard will be off line for a few hours.
Planned [...]

Office 2007 Line spacing tip

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Members of the Swarthmore community have shared valuable feedback about ITS’ Microsoft Office 2007 implementation as noted in this blog from our colleague, Cathy.
During a recent overview session, we discussed line spacing options and modifications.
By default, Microsoft Word 2007 applies a line space of 1.5, however, our colleague, Cathy found that we can reduce the [...]

Thunderbird Features

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

As Thunderbird is being introduced to the community, ITS would like to point out some features available in the program. Thunderbird is capable of the following:

Creating and using mailing lists
Applying filters and rules for message handling
Tagging, color coding messages
Dragging/dropping messages to/from folders
Creating subfolders
Customizing the interface (move fields)
Sorting by fields
Creating and using signatures

To find out more, [...]