Tuesday, August 23, 2016

by Job Requests

Posted on August 23, 2016

Shelly McGehee – asked about the system requirements on a student’s private laptop and using it with OdysseyWare. The laptop exceeded all requirements, but whether or not the student could work from home was referred to Mr. Walker.

Elementary Lab – checked up on the lab and discovered that some reorganization has been happening. I pulled out some cables, keyboards, and mice that we need to keep handy as spares and need to go back tomorrow to pick up obsolete items to store for next summer’s surplus and recycle.

Administrators – Today I discovered that the front page news articles on our web site had all expired and the middle of the page was totally blank. I got some help from Gabbart support to be sure that all our administrators had permissions to publist news articles. They gave me a link to use for creating new articles. I sent this information to our administrators along with a request for help in finding and posting news. This is really a project that everyone has to buy into or it will be an very embarrassing web site. To fill the void, I published the football and fastpitch schedules. I also emailed the entire staff reminding everyone that we all have teacher pages we can publish to and that they can send information to their building principals who will publish a front page news article. We need to bring this up at staff meetings. 

Betty Gallagher – reported trouble with loading the OdysseyWare web site pages. I checked immediately and saw that all the machines but two were loading pages. When I checked one, I was able to refresh the login page successfully. While I did that I saw that the other machine was loading as well. The problem must have been some offsite disconnect that cleared up after a few minutes. I saw no sign of problem on our end and the traffic graph didn’t show any disruption.

Casey Kelso – reported a problem with the projector not displaying his presentations. From his description, I could tell he had mirroring turned off. The procedure to correct is Apple Menu->System Preferences->Displays Pane->Arrangement Tab->check the Mirroring box.

Gabbart Communications – requested help with a “Section with multiple subpages” issue where an added blog does not show on the page. The solution was to remove the theme of the page to restore navagation links. 

Writing Lab – composed a new signup sheet using Google Docs to reflect the 8 period day. Printed and posted sheets for the entire year on the door of the lab.