Help Desk report for 8/20/15 – 8/26/15 – KCS Technology Department

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KMS Network anomaly on 9/1 post-mortem

Bycollinsr September 1, 2015

This morning at 9:21 we received our first help desk ticket that something wasn’t quite right with using the Internet at Kenton Middle School. The second request came at 9:36, after which I posted the first message to @kcsmstech alerting users to the issue. There was still connectivity, that’s why our monitoring system didn’t register…

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Helpdesk report for January 18, 2021 – January 24, 2021

Bycollinsr January 25, 2021January 25, 2021

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Approving Youtube videos

Bycollinsr October 1, 2015December 14, 2020

Edit: Updated graphics as of December 2020. Previously, Google had given school districts and other organizations the ability to filter search results and Youtube. Unfortunately, there are some organizations that were using this ability to spy on the users for marketing purposes, so Google is now forcing all searches and Youtube to go over SSL,…

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Online access to student grades

Bycollinsr January 3, 2007

I’m installed a piece of software simply called Online Grades. It allows a teacher to post their gradebook directly from Easy Grade Pro to the web. I’ll be adding a link for students off of their MyCatPage to log them automatically into Online Grades, so you do not have to worry about distributing the student’s…

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Shortening web addresses with go.kcs.me

Bycollinsr November 6, 2019

A URL shortener is a service that takes a long web address and makes it shorter and easier to share. If you’ve every used or seen bit.ly or tinyurl.com, you’ve used an URL shortener. I had written an URL shortener several years ago, and remnants of it still exist under kcs.me. It worked ok, but…

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Is the site down?

Bycollinsr February 17, 2021February 23, 2021

I’ve started to collect the status pages for the various services used at Kenton City Schools. You can see all of the status pages, including Kenton City Schools’ technology status at the following address: https://go.kcs.me/status The page is also available on the technology department’s website at https://tech.kentoncityschools.org. This is another tool for you to use…

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