Help Desk Report 12 Apr 2021 – 18 Apr 2021

As you may have seen, we’ve started converting machines older than 2006 into Google Chrome Browsers. These machines running Google Chrome are as fast as the Google Chromebooks, run Flash with sound, and are a great way to repurpose and use these older machines.
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:
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 added the ability to schedule the sending of emails. This feature allows you to schedule when emails are sent, letting you compose the emails now while you are thinking about it without worry about a notification being sent to the receiver until the email is actually sent. Why schedule? Work-life balance and mental…
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…