Help Desk Report 22 Mar 2021 – 28 Mar 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…
The Moodle server for the 2017-2018 school year is now installed. To request a course, click on the Click here to request a course link from the main Moodle page available at moodle.kentoncityschools.org. Log in with your school username and password, and then complete the form to request the course. It will ask why the course is needed,…
The process of printing and copying with the copiers is now changed. Staff will use the copier pin that was sent to their email, while students will use their student ID #. Students are limited to ~20 pages a week, which will probably need to be adjusted as the year progresses. To begin, you will…
Google has released updates for Google Classroom. The updates include “question-driven discussions including debates and question-and-answer sessions. Teachers can now post a question, video, article or other content in Classroom, and ask students to answer the question or write a response. Teachers also have the option of allowing students to comment on each other’s responses.”…
If you have an account with any of the WOCO services (StudentInformation, GradeBook, EMIS-R, etc.) you will receive an email to reset your password. There is a good chance that if you are a staff member at Kenton City Schools you will need to reset your password. The email looks like this: The link to…
Set up GMail so that email from students bypass your inbox.