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Class Presentations

Media Equipment

Multimedia Services
253-535-7509

As you prepare presentations for classes you may wish to use media equipment such as digital cameras, camcorders, and cassette recorders to capture images, video, and sound for your presentations. To make reservations for equipment visit the Media Reservations Request form.

Presentation Production Tools

Digital Media Center
253-535-8728
dmc@plu.edu.

The Digital Media Center includes workstations, software, and knowledgable staff to asssist you with digital media projects such as creating presentations. Flatbed scanners can be used to capture images from photographs, books, journals, etc. and images may be edited with image editing software like Adobe PhotoShop. Video can be captured and edited with Adobe Premiere. And finished presentations can be burned to CD-ROM or DVD discs.

Classroom Equipment

Multimedia Services
253-535-7509

Some classrooms are fully equipped with VCRs, computers, and computer projectors for making presentations. Check with Multimedia Services to find out whether your classroom is equipped with the equipment you need. If not you may reserve equipment for delivery to the classroom for your presentation. To make reservations for equipment contact Multimedia Services or visit the Media Reservations Request form.

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Computer Labs

A number of computer labs are listed on the Computer Lab Index which includes contact information, hours, and access information. Two general computer labs are located in the University Center Lab and the Haley Information Center in the Library.

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Copying/Printing


Black and White Copying

Photocopy Machines (located in the Library lobby)
253-535-7500

To make a copy in the Library, you'll need your LuteCard with PLU Point$ on it. Copies cost 5 cents per page. Every January 1 and September 1 full time students receive Copy Points credits on their LuteCards for 100 FREE prints or photocopies. Additional PLU Point$ can be purchased at http://www.plu.edu/~lutecard/plupoints.html. The 100 FREE prints or photocopies, if not used, will expire December 31 and August 31.

Color Copying and Printing

Multimedia Services
253-535-7509

Multimedia Services provides color copiers for making transparencies and copies of an original print, paper, book, magazine, computer file, etc.

Black and White Printing from Computer Labs

To print from computers in the Library’s Haley Information Center and the UC Computer Lab you'll need your LuteCard charged up with Point$. Printing costs 5 cents per page. Every January 1 and September 1 full time students receive Copy Points credits on their LuteCards for 100 FREE prints or photocopies. Additional PLU Point$ can be purchased at http://www.plu.edu/~lutecard/plupoints.html. The 100 FREE prints or photocopies, if not used, will expire December 31 and August 31.

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Multimedia Equipment

Multimedia Services
253-535-7509

Need equipment for recording materials for your course projects? You can check out camcorders, digital cameras, and cassette recorders from Multimedia Services on the first floow of the Library. To make reservations for equipment visit the Media Reservations Request form.

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Web Pages

Digital Media Center
253-535-8728
dmc@plu.edu.

Every ePass account can have a web site associated with it. To set one up go to https://www.plu.edu/htbin/protected/webpage.pl?sub_opcode=2. If you don't have a web site and access the web page registration function, you will be told you have no web site and given a chance to create one. For students and personnel, this creation involves only the click of a button. If you are setting up a web site for a department or organization account, you also have the option of entering a description for your web site link on the PLU web site index page.

Once you click on the button to create the site, it will take about an hour for the request to be processed. If you access the web page registration function before the processing is complete, you will be told that the request is still pending. When processing is complete, the registration function will tell you that you do have a web site and display the link to your site. The link will take you to the default "template" page that the system created for you. The link to your site will also be placed in the appropriate PLU web site index page, listed with either your name or a department/organization description.

So, how do you go about putting your own pages up instead of the default page? The most common way is to use an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program to copy files into your web page space. The details will vary according to the FTP program you use, but here are some things that will be the same, no matter what program you use:

So, what if you no longer want you web site listed on the PLU web page index or accessible to the Internet? You can use the web page registration function to remove your web site. Note: Doing this doesn't get rid of your web pages. It just makes it so no one can get to your site from the Internet and it isn't listed anywhere on the PLU web site. If you change your mind, you can always re-enable your web site. Doing this will not hurt your web pages. The default home page is only created if you don't already have one in the "public_html" directory on the web server.

Removing access to your web site is essentially the reverse of the creation process, in that the system takes up to an hour to process the request. The web registration function will tell you that a remove request is pending until it has been processed.

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