http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/ Helping students create great papers! en-us 2009-11-04T10:42:58-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/202010.html The newest assignment in the Assignment Calculator has been featured in Bionews blog: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bioblog/bionews/2009/10/tools_to_help_with_lab_reports.html... katep 2009-11-04T10:42:58-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/187159.html We are pleased to announce the Lab Report assignment is live: https://tools.lib.umn.edu/ac/?assnId=180. Step 1: Understand your assignment. Attend lab and complete experiment. Step 2: Describe your materials and methods Step 3: Analyze and describe your results Step 4: Conduct... Enhancements katep 2009-07-31T15:18:08-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/187163.html We have a rough draft of a revision to the popular research paper assignment https://tools.lib.umn.edu/ac/?assnId=120 What do you think?... katep 2009-07-17T15:30:42-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/187161.html We have a rough draft of a Poster assignment: https://tools.lib.umn.edu/ac/?assnId=187 Take a look and let us know any comments or questions.... katep 2009-07-10T15:27:19-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/183213.html We have drafted a "Lab report" assignment for the beta version of the Assignment Calculator. We will be sharing this with faculty to get feedback and continue to edit. Take a look: https://tools.lib.umn.edu/ac/?assnId=180. Please let me know (katep@umn.edu) if... Enhancements katep 2009-06-11T15:45:08-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/166292.html The new Assignment Calculator was highlighted in the University of Minnesota Weekly Brief on February 11... katep 2009-02-12T09:31:37-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/165723.html Thanks to the fine folks at the University of Portland, we have been alerted to the possibility of the Assignment Calculator code (specifically "date.php") being susceptible to a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack. What this means is that using a GET... snackeru 2009-02-09T14:55:05-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/164368.html Enhancements jveldof 2009-02-02T09:10:39-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/162680.html After many hours of hard work by librarians, programmers and a variety of others we are please to announce a new Beta version of the Calculator is here. New features include: • New assignments (Video/Media, Speech/Presentation). • Instructor control... katep 2009-01-22T15:01:23-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/053564.html Hello everyone! There has been a lot of activity with the Assignment Calculator since the beginning of the semester and a lot of new installations. And while this list is hardly complete, Judy Siebert Maseles at the University of Missouri-Columbia... General snackeru 2006-09-21T10:38:53-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/035521.html Matthew Decker of Wayne State University has taken the time to rewrite some of the code for the Assignment Calculator in order to make it easier to install for everyone. We have now replaced the old versions of the AC... Enhancements snackeru 2006-01-18T09:16:05-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/004742.html Thanks to RIT for making some improvements to the code. We've added it to the Open Source distributed on this site. Here's a message from Jon Jiras explaining more: "Our web master Patrick Haney (pwhwml@rit.edu) rewrote the utils.js file the... Enhancements jveldof 2004-08-31T16:05:21-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/003883.html Many of you have asked for the code that the U of M uses to send email reminders to people that want to be reminded when different steps of the research process are due for their assignments. Well, here it... Technical Issues/Questions snackeru 2004-08-04T16:04:22-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/003589.html Creating the Assignment Calculator was a team effort with people from across campus. As User Education Coordinator I pulled together a working group in 2001 that included the Student Writing Center and the Center for Teaching and Learning Services. We... Content Related jveldof 2004-07-28T12:18:01-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/jveldof/calculator/001175.html The Assignment Calculator is very easy to install and configure. All you need is: Access to a PHP enabled web server. If you aren't sure if you have access or if you aren't sure you have a PHP enabled web... Technical Issues/Questions snackeru 2004-05-25T10:41:21-06:00