BLKBRD-L Notes

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From: blkbrd-l - A list for Blackboard course administrators and faculty
[mailto:BLKBRD-L@asu.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Nielsen
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:17 AM
To: BLKBRD-L@asu.edu
Subject: Re: [BLKBRD-L] Fixing tiny font size in Netscape

While we're on the subject: IE users have the problem too, but there's a
different fix. In IE go to "Tools" --> "Internet Options"
and click on the "Accessibility" button, lower right corner. Check the
box "Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages." Does the trick.

Brian
At 10:20 PM 8/3/2005, you wrote:
>(Sorry if this has been discussed recently. I searched the 2003-2005
>archives and didn't see any notes about this issue. It seems to come up

>for us every few weeks, and today I found what seems to be a solution.)
>
>Sometimes users complain that the text displayed by Blackboard is too
>small. These callers are almost always using Netscape, and they are
>usually (though not exclusively) using Macintosh systems. I do not
>recall hearing about this problem from Firefox users. As suggested in
>many Bb help documents, we have directed the Netscape users to adjust
>the "text zoom" from the View menu, but that makes other items on the
>screen (especially the words on the course menu) larger too, and it
>gets very ugly.
>
>For better results, go into Netscape's Preferences panel. Inside the
>Appearance section, under Fonts, there is a control labeled "Minimum
>font size." This is rather different from specifying a font size for a
>typeface. On my Macintosh system, where normal text from Bb was indeed
>very small, the default value for the minimum font size was 9, and when

>I changed it to 12 or 14, the visibility of the text in Bb improved
>greatly and the menu buttons were not affected. On my Windows system,
>the default value for this setting was "None" and the normal display
>was quite readable to me, but I'm sure some users will benefit from
>shifting this value to 12 or 14.
>
>Firefox (on both platforms) offers the "Minimum font size" control
>through the Tools--Options menu.
>
>Hope this information is useful to others!
>
>Gene Kleppinger
>Eastern Kentucky University
>
>
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// posted by Bill @ 8:00 AM

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[mailto:BLKBRD-L@asu.edu] On Behalf Of Brusca, Frank X
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 2:22 PM
To: BLKBRD-L@asu.edu
Subject: Re: [BLKBRD-L] prevent test printing in app pack 3

We've been using this code in exam instructions. It prevents printing
and copying (but not saving).

Frank Brusca
Instructional Technologist
Department of Information Technology
Roush Hall 015B
Otterbein College
Westerville, OH 43081
(614) 823-1875
(614) 823-1335 FAX
fbrusca@otterbein.edu

Basic Release 6.3.1.374/Win 2003/MS SQL 2000 SP2

<STYLE type=text/css>@media print {BODY
{display:none}!important}</STYLE>

<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>

var omitformtags=["input", "textarea", "select"]

omitformtags=omitformtags.join("|")

function disableselect(e){
if (omitformtags.indexOf(e.target.tagName.toLowerCase())==-1)
return false
}

function reEnable(){
return true
}

if (typeof document.onselectstart!="undefined")
document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false") else{
document.onmousedown=disableselect
document.onmouseup=reEnable
}

</SCRIPT>

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// posted by Bill @ 8:17 AM