Hi all-

I just thought I'd update you on something that's been coming up in the last few shifts. It looks like the Intro to Engineering class was assigned a project with a proprietary piece of software (the project is about designing bridges.) The students are trying to print it, but they are having trouble exporting a file that they can email to one of our computers to print. I worked with one of them and found a work-around. First, you try to print as a PDF. If this works, you're done, but with some of the Windows 8 computers it seems like the print to PDF option isn't there. If it isn't, you can tell the students to print to an XPS file and screen shot it (by doing control, print screen, it takes a picture of the full computer screen, and the student can crop it in paint.) By printing the XPS file, the program formats it in the way that the instructor wants. They can email the screenshot to themselves and print it out.

The students will be rotating through assignments for the last two weeks of the semester, so they might be coming in for help over the next two weeks.