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 […]
Source: SlidesCarnival – Free Powerpoint templates for presentations, Google Slides themes and Canva templates Sure, Google Slides is pretty powerful, but it seems like Google Slides presentations start to look alike after awhile. So, spice up your presentations with SlidesCarnival! After navigating to SlidesCarnival, you can browse through the templates on the front page, or […]
Short answer: You don’t. Adobe Flash is on its way out, and web browsers have started to make it harder and harder to run Adobe Flash content. By December of 2020 it will be impossible to run Adobe Flash in any browser. You’ll notice this happening when you try to view Flash content and the […]
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 […]
If you have an account with any of the WOCO services (StudentInformation, GradeBook, EMIS-R, etc.) you will receive an email to reset your password. There is a good chance that if you are a staff member at Kenton City Schools you will need to reset your password. The email looks like this: The link to […]
Google is offering an 8 week email course on getting started with Google for Education. Each lesson comes to your inbox on Tuesdays and will take less than 15 minutes to complete. The lessons are video based tutorials on Drive, Docs, Classroom, Forms, Sheets, SLides, Drawings, and Gmail. There is no cost for this course. […]
Google Classroom Sync to GradeBook is now available for use. This tool will allow you to sync your grades in Google Classroom back to GradeBook without manual copying. It will be a big time savings for teachers grading in Google Classroom. The sync is a one time transfer and must be repeated for each assignment if […]
Adobe offers Spark free to schools. What is Spark? It’s an online service that allows you to create graphics, webpages, or edit video, from any computer with a web browser. I used it to create the graphic above. All of the staff and students have accounts in Adobe Spark, and they can log in with […]
Youtube access at school is filtered, but teachers can approve videos for students. The problem arises when students are using a brand account instead of their Kenton City Schools’ account. Google is phasing out brand accounts which will fix this issue, but until then, the student will need to switch Youtube back to their KCS […]
Be sure to update any bookmarks you have for SAM, SRI, SRC, and SMI to the following. For students, the new link is http://sam.es.thekcs.net:55888/slms/studentaccess. For staff, the new link is http://sam.es.thekcs.net:55888/slms/educatoraccess. […]