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Information Technologies: News
Friday, April 18, 2008
How Faculty Can Help Students Decrease Printing
With the pilot of GoPrint (a print management system for printing in the student computer labs and classrooms) this spring semester and summer, students receive an allotment equivalent of 650 pages printed on one side. During the pilot students are not charged for any printing beyond their allotment. However, with the full implementation this fall, students will need to pay for printing once they have used all of their allotment.
Below are some ways that faculty can help students reduce their printing:
- Save PowerPoint documents that you post in one of the following formats:
--outline mode “slide outline” This avoids the heavy graphics and creates a text document.
--3 , 4 or 6 (or more slides per page)—any of these options are better than printing each slide as a full page slide
--once you have selected your preferable way of having the slides, you can save it as a pdf document
or Word document. Pdf’s are universal and typically decrease the formatting issue
To do this, when you select “save as” you have the option for ‘pdf’ (in 2007)—select that; then you
select options and then under publish what select handouts, then how you want it –3, 6, etc, outline
and the orientation. You can also select to frame the slides—or to unframed them and save ink. You
then hit ok, publish and you title it and post it on your course’s site.
You can also send a power point document to “Word”—go to the ribbon and select “publish”, then select
publish as handout in Microsoft Word. It gives you options for what you want it to look like. You can
preview it, edit it and save it as your handout. Post it to your course.
- Accept some or all assignments/papers with double sided printing.
- When creating your resource files on Oncourse, create a file for those items to be read/viewed and those to be printed for use in class.
- Encourage students to bring their laptops to class for note taking on the downloaded slides you post.
- Take time in class to show students how to access and use posted documents and handouts.
- If your eyes can take it, Oncourse has many features that allow you to grade things electronically. Electronic submissions allow you to run papers through “turnitin.com.” However, the idea is NOT for the faculty to print off student assignments.
- Consider creating course packets which can be photocopied and sold in the bookstore. This may only work for courses that do not change a lot. (an old fashioned idea but people did mention it)
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