[nabs-l] Has Anyone Ever Used Moodle?

[Misty Dawn Bradley]

Hi Katie,
Thank you for the advice. I will try it and see if it helps.
Thanks,

Misty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Katie Wang" <bunnykatie6 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Has Anyone Ever Used Moodle?


> Hi Misty,
>
> I also ran into this problem with viewing pdf files from the Internet
> a while ago and was able to fix it by adjusting one accessibility
> setting in Adobe Reader by going to Edit > Accessibility >
> Accessibility Assistant. You will be taken through a series of screens
> (I believe there are four of them), and you will find the option
> "Display documents within web browsers" on the last page. This option
> is checked by default, so just uncheck it and click Finish and you
> should be all set. In the future, when you click on a link to a pdf
> file, the document will be opened in a separate Adobe Reader window
> instead of within your browser, and you can choose to either read it
> right then or save it to your computer by going to File > Save As. The
> Save Target As method Arielle mentioned is also a good one to know and
> can save you a lot of time if you want to download the pdf documents
> without opening them, but unfortunately I have found that it doesn't
> work with all websites. Hope this helps!
>
> Katie
>
>
> On 8/22/12, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Misty,
>> Try right-clicking on the PDF link instead of clicking it with Enter.
>> This should bring up a context menu, from which you should click "Save
>> target as" (or in Firefox, "Save link as". Then save the file to your
>> computer.
>> HTH,
>> Arielle
>>
>> On 8/22/12, Misty Dawn Bradley <mistydbradley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I just found out that the problem was only with the pdf files. The
>>> Microsoft
>>>
>>> Word and Powerpoint files seem to download just fine, and I am able to
>>> submit assignments. I will probably look at my settings to see if I can
>>> get
>>>
>>> the pdf files to just save to my computer rather than just automatically
>>> opening in the browser, because I think that may be what is causing the
>>> problem.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Misty
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Hope Paulos" <hope.paulos at gmail.com>
>>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
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>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 5:00 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Has Anyone Ever Used Moodle?
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have used Moodle as an instructor. It's accessible with Jaws!
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 22, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Carly Mihalakis <carlymih at comcast.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Good afternoon, I have found both Turnitin and MOODLE to sights which
>>>>> happen to both be used at my school damned near unaccessable.. So, for
>>>>> this reason, I insist on simply emailing the assignment. Perhaps you
>>>>> wanna try that? Seems, life is way too short trying to make those
>>>>> inaccessable, things work for us.At 12:58 PM 8/22/2012, Misty Dawn
>>>>> Bradley wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> I just started school this year at my local community college, and
>>>>>> they
>>>>>>
>>>>>> are using an online system called Moodel. Moodel is similar to
>>>>>> Blackboard, but I think it is from a different company. For the most
>>>>>> part, it is accessible, but I cannot get any of the files that the
>>>>>> instructors upload to the site, such as the course syllabus and
>>>>>> handouts, to work with JAWS, because it seems that it will not let 
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> download it to your computer and that you have to view it on the 
>>>>>> page.
>>>>>> The file does not show up on the page even though the page says it is
>>>>>> there. I have tried with both Fire Fox and Internet Explorer with 
>>>>>> Jaws
>>>>>> 10 in Windows XP.
>>>>>> Have any of you ever used Moodel with your school? All of my classes
>>>>>> are
>>>>>>
>>>>>> using it, even though they are face-to-face classes.
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>> Misty
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