[KineJapan] Technical problems with online teaching

[Erik R. Lofgren]

Dear Susanne,

To your second question:

I am not sure it is possible to do what you want to do in the way that you
are seeing to do it.  I can offer, however, a kludgy workaround.

1) go to System Preferences –> Users & Groups; unlock the control panel
(bottom left), if necessary
2) Add a new account (say, "Teaching") and make it an Administrator (this
is not, strictly speaking, necessary, but it will allow you deal with
system-level emergencies, should they arise)
3) Click Login Options (below the list of users).  In the resulting pane,
click the "Show fast user switching menu as" box
4) Close System Preferences

You should now see, in the upper right end of the menu bar, a dropdown menu
of all users.  Choose your "Teaching" user and that will open to a "new"
user with a fully customizable environment (including, of course, the
desktop).  HOWEVER, it will NOT have access to "your" files.  I think it is
possible to get around this limitation if you have, for example, Dropbox.
Simply log into your Dropbox account from the "new" account and it should
sync with your Dropbox.  As long as your teaching materials are in
your Dropbox folder on "your" account, you should have access to them on
your "new" account.  Correspondingly, any changes you make to the file in
your "new" account will be reflected in the copy of the file you have on
"your" account when you switch back.

As I noted, this is hardly an elegant solution.  If anyone has a better
one, I would love to hear it.

Best,

Erik


On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 11:53 PM Schermann Susanne via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I prepare online classes now and I face two problems - any help or advice
> is highly appreciated!
> I use a MacPro High Sierra 10.13.6, and the software is updated.
>
> 1) In Power Point presentations, I use hyperlinks. However, those links
> don't work anymore when I use the presenter's mode (the mode when you can
> see the next slide at the right side of the PC screen, while the public
> sees only the current slide).
> Is there a way to jump to the internet by hyperlinks in the presenter's
> mode?
>
> 2) On my Mac, I would like to get a second desktop for online teaching (a
> clean one, just in case I happen to show it to students - which will happen
> at 100% in online lessons, I think). This is easy with Spaces, I just add
> another space.
> However, this new space looks exactly like the first space, and everything
> I do is synchronized. Any file I erase is also erased on my first
> desktop.... I just managed to change the background.
> If the second desktop is exactly like the first, I see no need to have a
> second desktop. I searched the net and could not get an answer.
> How can I stop the synchronizing in Spaces?
>
> If you can help me, thank you very much in advance!
> Susanne Schermann
>
>
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Erik R. Lofgren
Associate Professor and Chair (on leave, AY19–20)
East Asian Studies Department

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