MBA Tech Tips

Important Updates and Helpful Information Issue 6

Tech Tips

Your tech team would like to provide up-to-date and timely tech tips, updates, and information that will hopefully make your job much easier. If you have questions or training needs you'd like to share with us please fill out the form at the end of the newsletter. We are here to support you.

Thank you, MBA Tech Team

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Executives/Scholars having Wifi issues?

This tip is from Ms. Manning. Here are some troubleshooting tips to keep students online and learning.



Executives (with older model Dells) can’t connect to the wifi?

In most cases, when an executive is unable to connect to the wifi, it is due to the executive accidentally switching the wifi toggle to the off position, which then puts the device into airplane mode.

In order to turn airplane mode off, the user must flip the wifi toggle to the on position.


The wifi toggle can be found on the right hand side of the older model Dell Latitude laptops.

Photos of wifi toggle in the “ON” position

*At times the user may be required to click the “wifi button” in order to fully turn wifi back on.

STEP 1: Click the Internet access button

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STEP 2: If the Wifi button is grayed out, click it, and The available networks should appear.

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Try these trouble shooting steps and if unsuccessful please contact us.

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If you missed the webinar, don't fret. Below is a link to the webinar.


Here are some resources they shared after the meeting as well:


The webinar was on Lexia Customer Resources for Any Learning Environment. Below, you'll find the recording of the full webinar and some resources that were shared.


If you'd like to see Ms. Ashley Lane's filing tub system, you can watch her video explaining it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G04nac597E

Additionally, here are links to the resources that Meg shared during the webinar:

Lexia Help Center - https://help.lexialearning.com/s/

Core5 Class Overview Report Guide - https://www.lexialearningresources.com/tech/documents/reports_guides/Reports_Core5-Class-Overview.pdf

PowerUp Class Overview Report Guide - https://www.lexialearningresources.com/tech/documents/reports_guides/Reports_PowerUp-Class-Overview.pdf

Lexia Lessons Slide Decks Overview - https://www.lexialearningresources.com/shared/licensed/Lexia_Lessons_Slide_Decks_Overview.pdf

Digital Lexia Skill Builder Overview -
https://www.lexialearningresources.com/shared/licensed/Lexia_Digital_Skill_Builders_Overview.pdf

Lexia Decodable Readers Overview - https://www.lexialearningresources.com/core5/licensed/fluency_automaticity/Lexia_Decodable_Readers_Overview.pdf

Thank you for being part of Lexia Learning!


Please send your questions, comments and feedback to: tiffany.becker@lexialearning.com.

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Check out these updates in Smart Learning Suite to make your activities even more engaging.


  1. You can now add a question title to the Shout It Out! activities to prompt your students.
  2. You can now use Bing Safe Image Search to find royalty-free images when creating activities that support images.
  3. The new public content showcase contains standards-aligned lessons created by other educators that you can use for your class.When signed in you can save the lesson to your classroom and customize and edit it as you desire.
  4. Handout and Workspace activities can now be edited when opened in Editing Mode. This includes ready-made resources that are Handout or Workspace and pages that were converted to a Handout or Workspace activity.
  5. Now you can create a custom theme for Shout it Out!, Fill in the Blank, and Flip Out activities.
  6. Add images to question and answer sets in Game Show and Speedup activities.
  7. Now when you play Super Sort, FlIp Out, and Match 'Em Up activities that contain images, you can magnify the images if they appear too small to view them full-screen.


Below is a quick preview of the latest updates in Smart Learning Suite.

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There are several updates to TEAMS. If you have not updated your device in TEAMs click on your image/initials. Toward the bottom of the list you will see "Check for Updates" click on this and Teams will look for and update your Teams to the latest version.
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Presenter View in Teams Presentation Sharing

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Once the presenter selects a PowerPoint file from the Teams Share Tray, Presenter View is opened automatically. The presenter can see the current slide, the slide notes, and a thumbnail strip of all the slides in the deck for easy ad-hoc slide navigation.


This view is private to the presenter in control. If another presenter clicks “Take Control”, presenter view will be opened for the second presenter, while the previous presenter will be switched to the audience view without any access to the slide notes and the thumbnail strip.


Updates to meeting chat membership


A participants access to meeting chat will be dependent on how they were invited to the meeting:


  • Who can see the chat for a single meeting?
    • People who are invited to the meeting or forwarded the meeting invitation after it is scheduled have access to the chat before, during, and after the meeting (up to the 1000-person limit).
    • People who are added to a meeting after it starts using the Invite someone field on the Participants pane (or are provided the meeting join coordinates in another way) will have access to the chat from the time they join to the time the meeting ends. They will not be able to see chat that takes place after the meeting ends.


  • Who can see the meeting chat for a recurring meeting series?
    • People who are invited to the full series have access to the chat before, during, and after the meeting (up to the 1000-person limit).
    • People who are forwarded the invite of a single occurrence of the series or added to a meeting after it starts using the Invite someone field on the Participants pane (or are provided the meeting coordinates in another way) have access to the chat from the time they join to the time that meeting instance ends. They will not be able to see chat that takes place after the meeting ends.


Note: These changes do not impact channel meetings.


New file sharing experience in Microsoft Teams (Mid-March through Mid-April)


With this update, when users share a file from within Teams (desktop/web), they will have the option to create sharing links that provide access to:


  • anyone
  • people with existing access
  • people within your organization
  • specific people, including those in a 1:1 chat, group chat, or channels.


Before users share a file in a chat and channels, they will be notified if recipients don't have permission to view the file. The user can change permissions before they share the file (if they have permission to do so).



Microsoft Teams Revised In-meeting Share Experience


In Microsoft Teams desktop client on Windows and Mac, users will see a new design when sharing their screen, window, Whiteboard, or PowerPoint during meetings, as shown below.

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Enjoy this while you read these tech tips!

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Just some tech humor to lighten your day! Submitted by Mr. Fayyad

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