Monroe Central School Corporation

With this being the last week of school for the students, the tech department has been working on getting ready for the summer schedule of maintenance and updating of technology equipment.  Teachers are to report any maintenance issues of equipment needed before they leave for the summer.  Our summer schedule of work will be ongoing [...]

The technology department has again been very busy this week with a variety of things:
Switching our staff over to Google Apps has occupied our time this week with nine appointments with staff.  This is a training session for e-mail, e-locker, calendars and staff web site creation.  All of these applications are available through Google Apps [...]

This week the technology department was again a busy place.
Helpdesk issues involved rebuilding PC’s, hardware problems, software issues and network printing problems.  Also we had several staff members that switched to our new e-mail system for next year.  To help save money we are transitioning to Google Apps which is free for schools until July [...]

The technology department has been working on a variety of fronts this week.
Helpdesk issues were about normal with several requests which we were able to keep up with.
On Thursday morning at 6:00 am we had a scheduled power outage from Indiana Michigan Power which required an hour of power down before and an hour power-up [...]

The technology department has been resolving more than normal helpdesk issues this week.  We are not sure why because it is not even a full moon.  We have however been able to keep up and get things resolved in a timely manner.  Also, we have completed Google Apps training for teachers and have several more [...]

The technology department completed the final draft of the student database information and sent it to Edulog (bus routing software) to begin setting up the website for the transportation department.  This information will be then combined with GPS maps to locate where students in our district need to be picked up from for school.  Bus [...]

The technology department has been focusing on getting our student database information updated so that we can transfer our current data in to the Edulog bus routing and scheduling software.  Correcting addresses, updating biographical and other information is almost completed.  Once completed it will be sent to Edulog to be imported into their web based [...]

The technology department has been involved in a variety of things this week.
On Monday we were involved with finalizing the setup on the new time clocks for the school district.  These new clocks will allow for hourly employees to able to clock-in or out at either building because they will be running off of our [...]

The technology department has been getting labs prepared for the upcoming NWEA assessments that will be taking place after next week’s spring break.  Testing will be done in grades 2 through 8 using four computer labs.  We are hoping for a smooth and successful environment for the students.
We have also been working with the transportation [...]

The technology department has been working on changing e-mail accounts of our staff from Groupwise to Google Apps and G-mail.  This we hope will create a more suitable place for teachers to be able to get e-mail, save documents, work on the their website and keep up their calendar for students and parents.  As a [...]