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CSUN Shines
myCSUNtablet
Potpourri
100
Eliminated printing of annual campus phone directory
What is the Online Campus Directory - PeopleFinder?
100
Rhyming with a curly-haired dog, this technology, used widely at CSUN, stands for Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment.
What is Moodle?
100
It was in this year that our name changed from San Fernando Valley State College to California State University, Northridge. Hint, this was also the year that J. Edgar Hoover passed away.
What is 1972?
100
These include Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Explain Everything, Socrative, Box, Adobe Reader...
What are the Core apps?
100
This newspaper was selected as best college newspaper in 2013, beating LA City College’s newspaper and the Daily Bruin at UCLA.
What is the Daily Sundial?
200
Replaced lead acid batteries for power backup in the MDF
What is a flywheel?
200
CSUN students are able to watch, rewind and rewatch faculty lectures. This highly valued technology is referred to as________________.
What is Lecture Capture?
200
CSUN and this University are the only two universities in the nation to offer a bachellor's degree in Deaf Studies.
What is Gallaudet?
200
These departments collaborated; Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES), National Center on Deafness (NCOD), Universal Design Center (UDC) and the Faculty Technology Center (FTC) to review.
What is accessibility?
200
A $50,000 grant to CSUN by this foundation will allow the first 500 students who are enrolled in a myCSUNtablet course and who purchase their iPad at the Matador bookstore to receive AppleCare+ at no charge.
What is the Joseph Drown Foundation?
300
Replaced paper checks for employee refunds and reimbursements
What is Direct Deposit for Employee Expenses (eRefund)?
300
This iPad app allows one to show a PowerPoint, add and draw on slides on the go, pinch and zoom the screen to see fine detail, and record for later viewing.
What is Explain Everything?
300
Of the following list of television and movie shows, this movie or TV show was never filmed on the campus of CSUN: Dexter, Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, Star Trek (the 2009 version), Back to the Future, Georgia Rule, and Legally Blonde 2.
What is Back to the Future?
300
These programs include biology, journalism, liberal studies, public health, physical therapy, kinesiology, and engineering & computer science.
What are the programs in the myCSUNtablet?
300
This magazine ranked CSUN first in the nation for bachelor’s degrees awarded to Hispanic students in journalism, in liberal arts and sciences.
What is The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine?
400
Centralized printing reduced the number of printers using energy and resources
What is networked multi-functional devices (printer/copiers)?
400
This term is used for eTexts that have never been in print.
What is "born digital" eTexts?
400
JADE, D.A.T.E. and the BLUES programs are CSUN programs student counseling service programs. Which of these programs has a name that is actually an acronym and what does it stand for?
What is JADE (Joint Advocates on Disordered Eating)?
400
Full payment due upon purchase or a 2 or 3 semester payment plan
What is the student purchasing plan?
400
This former CSUN president coined the term "California State University, Northridge, Regionally Focused, Nationally Recognized."
Who is President Jolene Koester?
500
Used by 13 CSUN units – scan, store, view and OCR (e.g. transcripts in A&R)
What is OnBase?
500
The term used to describe a zonkey, which is a mix between a zebra and a donkey is the same term used to describe a course that is a mix between online and face-to-face.
What is hybrid?
500
Of the following actors or actresses, this one was the first, chronologically, to finish their CSUN degree? Cheech Marin (of Cheech and Chong), Richard Dreyfus (of Jaws and Mr. Holland's Opus), Ellen Hunt (from As Good as It Gets and Pay It Forward) or Eva Mendes (Training Day Hitch).
Who is Richard Dreyfuss?
500
The first 500 students who purchase their iPad through the Matador Bookstore got this for free.
What is Apple Care?
500
This author of a blog entitled, The Day of the Locust wrote, "Today kindergarten kop and girly men signed a budget. Meanwhile the flames rose, licking away at the future..."
Who is Provost Harry Hellenbrand?