Help Desk Report 22 Mar 2021 – 28 Mar 2021

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…
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…
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…
I’m installed a piece of software simply called Online Grades. It allows a teacher to post their gradebook directly from Easy Grade Pro to the web. I’ll be adding a link for students off of their MyCatPage to log them automatically into Online Grades, so you do not have to worry about distributing the student’s…
The new Cricut software can be installed on your Macbook without the administrator password. Download the application from Cricut and it will show a window to drag the Cricut application to Applications. This will not work. To install the application it needs to be put in your Applications folder, not the machine’s. Using the Go menu at…