Help desk report: 10/1/15 – 10/7/15

Setting up Chrome on the laptop and desktop There are a few steps that you’ll want to complete to get going with Google Chrome: Putting the icon on your dock, signing in to sync, and setting Google Chrome as your default browser. Once you’ve completed those steps, Chrome will sync your bookmarks and passwords. These…
Set up GMail so that email from students bypass your inbox.
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to complete the survey for me. I will be using these results along with a student survey to examine what is going well and help address issues in technology usage. In today’s world, a technically literate society is now a requirement. The personal computer…
I’ve created sub accounts for the teachers at Kenton City Schools. There are two accounts, one for computer access and one for Google access. This means teachers can share materials with their sub account in Google Drive, and the substitute teacher will be able to access them. The sub accounts also have access to GMail,…
In the beginning, there was the Google Drive app. It ran on your laptop or desktop, syncing your Google Drive files to a folder. For personal Google accounts, the Google Drive app was replaced with Google Drive Backup & Sync while Google Drive File Stream was used for corporate and education accounts. Because Google is…
In March and April a student technology survey was sent home to completed by the students and parents to help the district gauge where we are with home technology. Six hundred and fifty responses were received, allowing a confidence interval of 3.1 at a 95% confidence level (survey results are +-3.1%). Preliminary results: Homes with…