Help Desk Report 26 Apr 2021 – 2 May 2021

This year, for the new staff bootcamp, I put together a self guided tour of the technology available at Kenton City Schools. I thought others may be interested in it, so here is a link to the presentation. ⚠ Be forewarned, I talk at the start, so you may want to turn down your speakers….
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’ve started to collect the status pages for the various services used at Kenton City Schools. You can see all of the status pages, including Kenton City Schools’ technology status at the following address: https://go.kcs.me/status The page is also available on the technology department’s website at https://tech.kentoncityschools.org. This is another tool for you to use…
I’ve put together a help sheet for you to follow when you or your students are having issues on the internet or with a particular website. At the beginning of the page is a check list, tasks to be completed before submitting a help desk request. The most important step is to check the…
All Class Google Groups should be updated now, and old groups deleted. If you want to check your groups, you can go to http://groups.kentoncityschools.org and click on My Groups. If any of your class groups do not have you listed as an owner, let me know.
I’ll be updating this page throughout the year with tips and tricks. If you have a question or comment, check the page to see if it has already been added. Last updated: 2021-08-20 Initial set up – set resolution The first time you plug the TVs into your Macbook, you will need to set the…