Help Desk Year in Review 2017
Freshdesk put together a cool little video showing statistics of Kenton City School’s use of the Help Desk:
With the increased usage of Moodle, our web server has been taking a pretty good hit in the performance department. To alleviate the stress on the server, I’ve installed the Varnish caching software in front of the webserver.
I reconfigured Google Cloudprint this afternoon, it should work better now (I know the KMS was really struggling with it). Google Cloudprint allows you to print to the copiers and printers from Google Chrome. This works no matter where you are, so, for example, if you are away but would like to print something out…
Every desktop computer hooked to a projector or TV has a new 4K IPEVO document camera attached to it. The cameras can be used as a document camera or as a webcam for virtual meetings or creating screencasts. Using the document camera The software to use the IPEVO camera as a document camera is automatically…
The snow on Friday wasn’t an issue with the KCS tech, however, the thunderstorms and lightening on Sunday night were. Here is a recap of what happened: Fiber connection to WOCO went down. This connection was pretty much down starting around midnight until 6:45am Monday morning. Because of this, the Kenton City Schools website was…
On the survey participants were asked to answer the following question: What needs to change in regards to technology and technology access in the Kenton City School District? How would you recommend enacting this change? I’m going to highlight a few of the responses and try to clear up some problems and misconceptions: