Most of SD60 schools now have one or more 3D Printers. Instructional support is available from Laurie Petrucci and technical support is available through Technology Services helpdesk. Local Area Network Specialists JP Wood and Kyle Drew have expertise with the 3D Printers and work together with Laurie. Please do not hesitate to contact them for […]
Category: Communication
New Learning Together Calendar
The Learning Together Calendar has been moved to www.prn.bc.ca/LT/ . We’ve tied it to a Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/sd60LT Here’s an example of an upcoming event – http://www.prn.bc.ca/LT/2017/10/03/an-afternoon-with-wordpress/ An Afternoon with WordPress – Nov 23, 2017 Session Description: Over a quarter of public websites run on WordPress. The majority of SD60 websites have run on WordPress for […]
Summer Helpdesk Hours
Technology Services staff work through the summer with an adapted schedule. Phone and in person support is available during the summer from 7am-3:30pm Online support for SD60 staff available via Work Order at helpdesk.prn.bc.ca or bit.ly/sd60help for self service.
In School Tech Support Strategies
In May 2017 the Joint Technology Advisory Committee met to discuss use of labs and strategies to support students and teachers in schools. Here is a summary of some of the ideas that were shared. In School Strategies to Support A survey was held for school administrators and they shared the following supports they have […]
4 year old iPad minis – ideas?
It was announced last week that we would be refreshing the 1:1 grade 6 iPads this summer, see http://www.prn.bc.ca/ts/?p=2502 for more on that. At our last refresh of devices we replaced macbooks with ipads. The macbooks were then repurposed into carts at middle schools, made available to grade 5s in a 5/6 split, and as for the […]
Pre-Registered Kindergarten numbers for 2017-2018
Below is a chart that we are updating several times a week with a few data points about kindergarten registration numbers. The red line is a projected number provided by a third party. The green line is local projections provided by each school. The orange line includes number of students newly pre-registered in the system plus […]
Outage – Assess – Friday, March 3, 2017 – 8am-11am
PSTGI (the vendor) will be performing an upgrade on the Assess portal from 8am – 11am local time on Friday March 3, 2017. An outage is required and may last all three hours.
Planned Outage – Assess – Wednesday, February 15
Our vendor will be doing some work with the Behaviour + module in Assess on February 15, 2017. The work is expected to take 4 hours during a window of 6am-12pm MST. The system may be unavailable during that time.
Ticket Charts
Below are two charts that we keep monthly(ish) stats on our current work orders. The first chart shows Active (all types other than closed), Open, Scheduled/Pending, Waiting for parts. We have a few other ticket types that are traditionally low numbers so they aren’t included on the chart. The Active line is a sum of […]
3yr Department Plan
Our running 3yr department plan is available in the menu above