Loyola Support Documentation

How do I delete a post in Commons?

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Select the Commons tool from the Tool Menu of your site.

How do I comment/reply to a post in Commons?

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Select the Commons tool from the Tool Menu of your site.

How do I set permissions in Commons?

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Select the Commons tool from the Tool Menu of your site.

How do I create a post in Commons?

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Select the Commons tool from the Tool Menu of your site.

What is the Commons tool?

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Commons is a social networking style tool allowing posts with url to thumbnail expansion, and unthreaded replies, similar to Facebook posts. It may be used as an alternative to other communication tool options, such as Comments in Lessons, or Forums.

Note: Commons does not support grading or other more advanced Forums features, such as threaded discussions, group permissions, availability dates, etc.

How do I download assignments for grading offline?

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Select the Assignments tool from the Tool Menu of your site.

Checking content accessibility

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Note: The Accessibility Checker is a third party add-on for the Rich Text Editor. While it is open source software, the licensing guidelines do not allow it to come packaged with Sakai. If your institution has installed this add-on, the features described below will be available. If you do not see the Accessibility Checker icon, that means that your institution has not installed this add-on.

How do I log into the Zoom desktop application?

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If you are using a Loyola classroom or lab machine, the Zoom application is already downloaded. Otherwise you will need to download the application.

How do I update the location of my local Zoom recordings?

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Launch the Zoom desktop application on your computer and login.

How do I schedule a Zoom meeting?

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There are several ways to schedule a Zoom meeting. Below are instructions for each of the multiple ways a meeting can be scheduled.