5 Year old Unibody Macbooks – Ideas?

Technology has completed assignment of older 5 year old macbooks into carts for grade 5s in 5/6 splits, and provided for grade 7s in the district. If somehow we’ve missed you please contact me. We have 156 remaining along with some others we will hold back for spares for parts. These will receive end-of-life designation […]

Planned Outage @ Clearview

RFC# 118257 Location(s):                 SD60 – Clearview Elementary & Junior Secondary School Window:                     2014-10-17 00:01:00 2014-10-17 06:00:00 Impact:                       2 hour outage due to vendor maintenance

Network Switching – no hubs Requirement

Due to future changes with the Provincial Next Generation Network any network hubs must be changed to managed switches. No more small hubs will be purchased. We have not been using large hubs for several years but there are locations where a small hub was put in place to accommodate one or two extra computers. […]

Planned Outage – Sept 28

RFC# 115980 Location(s):                Fort St John RNC – All Users Window:                    2014-09-28 06:01:00 through 2014-09-28 09:00:00 Impact:                       5 minute network outage to all users off Fort St John and […]

The Last WWP macbook Inventory (and the 2nd for iPads)

We are at that time of year again for inventory of our WWP devices. This will be a landmark as it is the last year we will be doing inventory on our macbooks. Inventory Schedule Adapted from last year June 10 – Upper Halfway, Wonowon, Clearview June 11 – Buick, Prespatou, Charlie Lake June 12 […]

Purchasing of Devices and Digital Citizenship and Safety Planning Requirement

For purchases of devices that students will be using there must be a plan in place for explicit teaching of Digital Citizenship and Safety before deployment of the devices. (iPads/Chromebooks/etc) The Technology Administrator will discuss with the site Administrator prior to purchasing to verify that a plan is in place or will be in place […]

Planned Outage – April 9/10 – very short

RFC# 110517 Location(s):                Fort St John RNC – All Users Northern Lights College Hudsons Hope Northern Lights College Fort St John                                     SD59 – Chetwynd Secondary School                                     SD60 – Peace River North District Office Prepatou School Upper Pine Elementary Charlie Lake Elementary McLeod Elementary Bert Bowes Jr Secondary C M Finch Elem Enerplex Learning Centre Key […]

WWP off lease unibody macbooks

Our macbook unibodies are off lease as of June this year. Due to budget restraints we won’t replace them all next year for WWP as previously posted in December – http://www.prn.bc.ca/ts/?p=2037 These off lease laptops will be replaced with iPad minis in grade 6. Pro-d is being developed for May for teachers in grade 6 and […]

BCeID account creation – wave 1 done.

Between Ryan, Jody and myself today we built about 80 BCeID accounts in under an hour. It is yet to be seen how many of those accounts will have their password changed and the password hints set up. We will prompt groups in an email a few days before account creation so they are not […]