Active Desktop Gadgets And Launch Pad
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The document discusses providing common interfaces for students, faculty, and staff through Active Desktop, LaunchPad, and Gadgets/Widgets. It describes setting up an Active Desktop with common links and campus landmarks. LaunchPad is described as providing administrative links, training areas, reporting functions and help. Instructions are provided for creating Gadgets and Widgets as alternatives to Active Desktop for newer operating systems.
Active Desktop Gadgets And Launch Pad
- 1. Active Desktop, Gadgets & LaunchPad: Custom Interfaces for the Internal Audience Grayson Gordon Campus Web/Database Specialist Missouri State University-West Plains
- 2. Objectives Provide students a common interface Provide faculty and staff ease-of-access Promote various information sources Promote campus identity
- 3. Active Desktop LaunchPad Gadgets/Widgets
- 5. Active Desktop HTML-based desktop background Common links for students Campus landmarks
- 6. Common Links Campus Landmarks The Campus Desktop
- 7. Active Desktop Setup Create HTML page Store page in network share Set page as background in desktop properties Copy profile to Default User
- 8. Active Desktop Usage Current initiatives can be linked Current announcements emphasized Links to new items On most open access systems (classrooms, labs, etc.)
- 10. LaunchPad
- 11. LaunchPad administrative system interface links to training areas links to reporting functions links to administrative system help related sites
- 12. LaunchPad
- 13. LaunchPad Setup HTML page baseline (client/server) access to administrative and training systems web-based access to administrative and training systems other links (local and external)
- 14. LaunchPad Usage Baseline - behind-the-scenes - Staff Web-based - self-service - Faculty/Advisors and Students Reporting - privilege-based - Faculty and Staff Help/related functions - Faculty and Staff Most staff have copied shortcut to desktop
- 15. Staff Client/Server Access Faculty/Advisor and Student Access LaunchPad
- 16. Gadgets/Widgets
- 17. Gadgets/Widgets Active Desktop not supported (Vista/Mac) Provides similar access Distribution obstacles Maintenance issues
- 18. Grizzly LaunchPad
- 19. Gadget Creation! Directions: Microsoft息 website http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/vista/gadgets-pt1.mspx Note: Not the site I used originally, but seems more thorough. Manifest (XML) file HTML file Rename folder with .gadget extension Install gadget
- 20. Manifest File
- 21. Manifest File
- 22. HTML
- 23. Grizzly LaunchPad
- 24. Widget Creation Open gadget HTML in Safari Copy to dashboard Highlight Note: Dashboard must be running in Developer mode to place widget from the dashboard onto the desktop
- 25. Widget Creation in Safari
- 26. Grizzly LaunchPad
- 27. Questions? Comments. Suggestions! Grayson Gordon Campus Web/Database Specialist Information Technology Services Missouri State University-West Plains GraysonGordon@MissouriState.edu http://www.wp.missouristate.edu