Information Technology News

Course Management System for University Extension

Distance Learning Center

NACS and UCI Extension have teamed up to enable UCI Extension courses to use the Moodle course management system, available at http://learn.uci.edu/ .
This new capability was made possible through “single sign-on,” a technology that allows students to move seamlessly among websites which, by sharing login and other information, eliminate the need to sign-in [...]

Macromedia Software Demonstrated

NACS is always on the lookout for opportunities to bring technical expertise and demonstrations of useful tools and solutions to campus.
Last month, Sylvia Bass coordinated a presentation from Macromedia for campus Web developers. Jaimi Groothuis and John Schuman of Macromedia showed their content management software, “Contribute.” Contribute is an easy-to-use, full-featured web site management package [...]