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msgarcia
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I'm a Texan, born and raised, though I spent all of my years in college and graduate school in the northeast. I attended MIT, where I obtained a BS in Biology, and then received a MS in Cell and Molecular Biology from UPenn.
After leaving the northeast, I moved back to the Dallas area to be a bit closer to my family, and landed a job at Collin College. Initially, I was lab staff, and prepped and taught biology labs. I recognized early on in during my tenure that students across our campuses needed a consistent lab experience.
To address this, I set to work filming video lectures and reviews and posting them to YouTube. The problem then was disseminating the information to students, and not just those in my classes. To develop a central repository of these videos, and other content, I taught myself to code in HTML and CSS.
Over the last eight years, I have worked to better my understanding of web and graphic design. Along the way, I have picked up additional skills that have helped me to achieve this.
Now, as I work on new strategic initiatives and projects, I do so with very distinct objectives: create functional, student facing assets, AND, ensure that those assets are clean, concise and well designed.
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The home pages are a critical part of any course as they offer students guidance on where to begin when they first log in to a course. For many of our faculty, these pages serve a very specific purpos...
ChallengePros to embedding an html document in an iframeCons & Complications to embedding an html document in an iframeSolutionVideo TutorialStep-by-step TutorialWhat We Will NeedGetting the .html...
The ChallengeCanvas does a pretty good job of handling responsive design via the Rich Content Editor, but, if there is one thing that I have found I am not the biggest fan of, it is the video thumbnai...
The ChallengeWhile the Student View button is easily found under the Settings panel of the course navigation menu, many of the instructors at my institution still would prefer for it to be accessible ...
A New PerspectiveDemoWhat You Will NeedCreating a 360° Image with Street ViewSetupTaking Your 360° PhotoModifying the Photo for Mobile Device CompatabilityResizing Your PhotoUploading the Photo to img...
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cesbrandt I took your code and converted it from XHR to fetch, so between the two repos, yours and mine, we should have everyone across the spectrum of implementation covered for the foreseeable futur...
cesbrandt, this is most likely to Instructure's adoption of ReactJS. I had an issue with it in another implementation that I attempted to build for our institution. Because ReactJS relies on a pu...
cesbrandt and @thomast I have modified the original script as it was targeting an element that no longer exists (Instructure removed one of the identifying class names). I have the raw jQuer...
An update on all of this. I am currently working with my team at Collin, and I believe that we have developed a potential solution that would allow users to do something similar to this. Essentially, ...
Stephanie, have you checked the mobile app to make sure that it renders properly there. 740 may push it outside of the usable bounds in the mobile viewports. If it works, please let me know because th...
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