Friday, November 8, 2013

Excel Spreadsheet on Mac shows up blank

Recently a staff member on a Mac started having a problem with Excel spreadsheets showing up completely blank, even though the content was still there.  If she double clicked a cell, she could see the content, but the whole view was not showing the spreadsheet.

This happened with both spreadsheets she had created, as well as ones other people sent her.

Changing the font, font size, or other attributes fixed the issue temporarily.

In looking at her Mac home folder,s he had an older copy of the font Arial in her local ~/Library/Font which was getting substituted for the one in /Library/Fonts and which appears to have been corrupt or no longer valid.  The font was dated 2001.

Deleting the fonts in her local font directory solved the issue.  The Mac is running 10.6.8 and Office 2008 with SP 3.

Friday, November 1, 2013

Changing Teachers from Comprehensive to Focused in eVAL System

When you log into eVAL, you should see an additional item on the "Evaluate Teaches" or "Prepare for my Evaluation" drop down menu, called "Administration".  If this does not show up, your district Data Security Manager needs to assign you the role of "eVAL Building Administrator" to make it show up.

When you click it, you'll get a different color coded menu across the top, which includes the yellow "assignments" option.  




When you choose that menu item, you'll see a list of your teachers at your site, and you can choose the radio button for either comprehensive or focused.  If you choose the radio button for focused, you will get a pop up asking you to select the criterion they're going to work on.



If you want to make a teacher drop off your list, just uncheck the box next to their name in your "assigned" column.