Help Desk Report 19 Apr 2021 – 25 Apr 2021

The main website for Kenton City Schools is getting a makeover this summer. The new website is designed to be secure, fast, and responsive, with quick access to information for families, students, and staff. You can check it out now at https://beta.kentoncityschools.org/.
As some of you have noticed, some sites that use Flash in Google Chrome have been asking you to download Adobe Flash. The reason is that the major browsers have begun to deprecate Flash because of security and performance issues. This will be a pain for students that use websites with Flash content. The students…
A help sheet on setting up Mozilla Thunderbird for email is now available at http://kcs.me/kdr. Thunderbird is completely unsupported software. Feel free to use it but any Help Desk Requests on its use will not be completed.
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…
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…