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. […]
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. […]
UPDATE (2019-08-02): There is a simpler way of fixing this. Go to Apple Menu -> System Preferences Click on Printers. Click on Default Printer Select another printer as your default. Ignore these following directions These were my original directions on fixing the issue. There is an issue with the new copiers, Google Cloudprint, and Google Chrome where […]
I thought I would send out a quick refresher on the names of the most used software packages through WOCO. Since it is the start of the new year, it’s as good as time as any to reference the services by their correct names. DASL – Previously called DSL, no product has been called DASL for […]
Check out the new KCS Technology Status website! […]
As the students learn to use their Chromebooks, they find the Chrome Webstore and start installing everything under the sun. […]