Google has released updates for Google Classroom. The updates include “question-driven discussions including debates and question-and-answer sessions. Teachers can now post a question, video, article or other content in Classroom, and ask students to answer the question or write a response. Teachers also have the option of allowing students to comment on each other’s responses.”…
I reconfigured Google Cloudprint this afternoon, it should work better now (I know the KMS was really struggling with it). Google Cloudprint allows you to print to the copiers and printers from Google Chrome. This works no matter where you are, so, for example, if you are away but would like to print something out…
I’ve update Chrome to version 44.0.2403.155 and Adobe Flash to version 18.0.0.232 in Managed Software Update for the Mac computers: The computer will automatically update if it is at the log in screen, but if you are using the computer you will have to press Update now to install the updates. To manually start the update, under the Go…
Scholastic Enterprise (Reading Counts and Reading Inventory) is now ready for the 2015-2016 school year. Students have been promoted and put into your classes. After I imported the students for the year, I noticed that there are several students that were held back and are now in the wrong grad year. I will be going…
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.
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…
On my Tech Fair Day 2012 course in Moodle I had listed some resources for using Google Talk and GMail. You can still enroll yourself in the course, but I’m also going to list those resources here to help you use Google Talk and GMail tips. Google Talk Go Google: Spare Tickets – YouTube –…
Set up GMail so that email from students bypass your inbox.
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.