Helpdesk report for 20 Sep, 2021 – 26 Sep, 2021

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…
The first issue of what I will be offering as a monthly newsletter on educational technology issues is now available. Staff members will receive a paper copy in their mailbox, and everyone can download a copy here. If you are interested in writing an article or are doing engaging and innovative work in your classroom…
On April 16th I was investigating issues with the Internet Gateway and decided to run the update and let it reboot. This procedure should have resulted in less than 5 minutes of downtime. But alas, this was not the case. A corruption of the config file caused the machine to not start back up. It…
Every desktop computer hooked to a projector or TV has a new 4K IPEVO document camera attached to it. The cameras can be used as a document camera or as a webcam for virtual meetings or creating screencasts. Using the document camera The software to use the IPEVO camera as a document camera is automatically…
With the increased usage of Moodle, our web server has been taking a pretty good hit in the performance department. To alleviate the stress on the server, I’ve installed the Varnish caching software in front of the webserver.