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Month: October 2021

Microsoft Teams automation – Part 1

Microsoft Teams automation – Part 1

Glossary: Team/s = Microsoft Teamsteam/s = curriculum area or group of staff In the session 21/22 the decision was taken to create a Microsoft Team for every taught course. An example would be DACC (HND Accounting). Although courses can have many cohorts (A, B groups etc.), it was felt that having a central point of contact for all students on a particular course would be useful. This is especially true early in the academic year when new students may need…

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Force Screen Resolution for Screenly ose

Force Screen Resolution for Screenly ose

We use Raspberry Pi units all round the college to do digital signage. These are very useful because they are cheap to buy and can be left to run for months without nagging us about updates or new features. However, it is not always simple to get the Raspberry Pi HDMI output to fill the screen. Here is a quick fix to force your Pi to output a 1920×1080 (1080p) video signal which fills the screen in many of our…

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