Updating Blizzard Bags Assignments
District policy states that if we exceed 5 snow/calamity days, the next three days can be addressed through the use of blizzard bag assignments that students can work on from home.
Loading Staff and Students into Lexia (My Lexia)
The school purchased a reading program called Lexia. The technology department was asked to develop a way to upload staff and students into the database to prepare it for usage. This is something that may have to be done from year to year, after a roll-over.
Installing Turning Point Software (2017)
The following is the process for installing the Turning Point software on the new Windows 10 machines.
Setting Up Kiosk Mode on Chromebooks
This post will discuss how to setup chromebooks in kiosk mode which can be used for the state testing or other chrome applications.
Changing Class for Daily Attendance
From year to year, we sometimes have issues where the correct class is not setup correctly to take daily attendance. The following will help you make those modifications and/or corrections.
Fixing Adobe as Default–Again if needed.
We are not sure what is causing this issue, but sometimes a browser such as Chrome or Edge will take over and become to default reader for Adobe files. This is not helpful for many reasons for our school district. The following will explain how to fix this issue.
Adding Teachers to the Detention Checklist
There are occasions where we need to give teachers access to the detention checklist in order to check off that the students attended the detention. This is part of the SIMS Detention Software. To make the change, you need to modify a program. Future versions of the software will have a flag built into it […]
Print Jobs Going to Suspend Mode
We had an issue with the HS Copier when we created the new print queue over the network. When the jobs were sent to the copier to print, they would automatically go into “suspend” mode, and you had to click a button on the copier. It was requesting that the paper be changed.
Removing User Profiles Manually
If you need to remove a user profile manually, the following procedure is hidden within the Windows 10 operating system.
Using the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT)
The Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) replaces the KMS Server in regards to keep track and installing product keys and activation the workstations on the network. This post will discus in detail on how to add a workstation from the network and how to activate the Microsoft license from the VAMT program.