How to use Google Calendar to sign up for your FSA tech support

The following video shows you how to sign up for a google account and how to use google calendar to sign up for your FSA tech support. Google Calendar How-to (zoomed) Google Calendar How-to (external link) Google Calendar How-To (internal link only, must be in SD60 Network) Give this a try as your technology challenge […]

New Office filetypes (docx etc)

The new XML file types that microsoft is using cannot be opened by old versions of office unless you install a free converter from MS. PC MAC Otherwise you have a couple of options. You can purchase Office 2008 through tech services, or you can download a free version of open office for the mac. […]

Environmental Sustainability Procedure

Technology services will reduce our environmental footprint whenever possible. Our department will be environmentally and fiscally sustainability. With this in mind we will do the following: -reuse or sell devices when appropriate rather than recycling -recycle computer parts when they reach an end of life and cannot be reused or sold. (before recycling a hard […]

listserv’s – Jan 16th update

Listserv’s have been created for all the schools, admin-l and secretary-l have been finished. bcesis-l library-l wwp-l still need to be created.

Haikus from Mail Outage

In my usual way I asked the staff over at NPSS to respond to a test email, but asked that if they had comments about the service interruption to please put them in Haiku format. Points for effort, but not all follow the Haiku that I know. went to get my Email no mail made […]

Services Update ~ Jan 15th

January 15th 9am. Mail is up and running. There may be some slow downs as everyone accesses and retrieves their emails. January 14th 11:22pm. Mail is up and running. We may have to take the service offline occasionally for some further adjustments. Thank you to our dedicated consultant, Jeff Dyck, for his valuable contribution. Unfortunately […]

Next Practice

http://www.innovation-unit.co.uk/ This website speaks about the power of next practice.

District Wide Login

For over a year we’ve had a district wide login (DWL) for many services. Some services are still using unique usernames and passwords however many use the DWL. Starting in January 2009 you will begin to see the DWL logo on services that use DWL. Clicking on the DWL Login image will take you to […]

How to change your DWL password

How to change your domain password The short video above in (m4v itunes) format shows you how to change your DWL (district wide login) password. Your DWL is the password you need for email, windows, network shares, moodle, ichat, helpdesk etc. This is not for your BCeSIS password. If you do not have itunes try […]

Service Interruption – Jan 12, 2009

11:54am Update. Majority of services are up and running. Helpdesk needs to be configured and hopefully will be up today. 9:17am Update. We’ve had a cooling failure at 4:30am that has resulted in an automated shutdown of services. We’ve got a temporary work around in place for cooling and we are getting services restored as […]