Helpdesk report for 9/24/15 – 9/30/15 – KCS Technology Department

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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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Upcoming technology changes for the teachers of KCS

Bycollinsr September 21, 2021September 21, 2021

There are three big changes coming up for teachers of KCS. Once the new technology is in place, we’ll be scheduling PD classes on moving forward! I don’t have a timeline for the changes, it is dependent on when Apple will release the new computer models and how quickly they can be shipped. Hardware Desktop…

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Post-mortem on April 16th downtime

Bycollinsr April 17, 2015

On April 16th I was investigating issues with the Internet Gateway and decided to run the update and let it reboot. This procedure should have resulted in less than 5 minutes of downtime. But alas, this was not the case. A corruption of the config file caused the machine to not start back up. It…

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Google Chrome update version 49. Printing and you.

Bydeanj March 11, 2016

The last update in Google Chrome has caused some issues with the desktops and print preview. When you go to print in chrome the preview will look like this. If you click print it will go thorough as normal. This is a flaw in chrome and they will hopefully issue a fix in the next few…

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ProgressBook Suite Information

ByJoe Funkhouser August 20, 2020October 22, 2020

Teachers, here are some notes about ProgressBook for you. ParentAccess I just found out that ParentAccess was turned off over the summer by WOCO. I enabled it in the evening on 8/19/2020 so students and parents should now be able to log in. Google Classroom Sync As you are adding assignments in Google Classroom, please…

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Substitute teacher accounts

Bycollinsr November 4, 2015

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,…

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