Helpdesk report for 25 Jan 2021 – 31 Jan 2021

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…
Our student ID #s are either 5 digit or 9 digits. The student ID # is the best way to reference a student, whether when you are talking to the technology department, using the student in the various online services, or talking to other teachers and/or the office. However, there is a tendency to drop…
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…
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…