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Schoolnet 22.1 Update Scheduled Please share with teachers:  The update to Schoolnet 22.1 has been scheduled for North Carolina!  Schoolnet ...

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TECHNICIAN TEAM SCHEDULE Beginning Monday, October 5, t he Technology Services Technician Team will temporarily be on a five day work week. ...

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Summer Updates 2016 Summer Updates 2016

Media News: Welcome Heather Pennica our new Lead Media Specialist, she will be your contact for media related topics. We a...

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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Schoolnet Upgrade scheduled January 22, 2021

Schoolnet 22.1 Update Scheduled

Please share with teachers: 
The update to Schoolnet 22.1 has been scheduled for North Carolina!  Schoolnet will go down on Friday, January 22, at 8:00 p.m., and will return to service no later than 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 23. Other Home Base applications will not be impacted by the Schoolnet update window. View the release notes for Schoolnet 22.1 here.

Additional Items Added to Schoolnet

In case you missed it: 
In December, a total of 7,834 new assessment questions were added to Schoolnet from the NCDPI Accountability team! 4,833 of those items were added to the NCDPI Released bank for use by teachers, and the other 3,001 items were added to the NCDPI Benchmark bank for use by PSU administrators. To find these items quickly, search by dates 12/14/2020–12/16/2020.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Important Information






TECHNICIAN TEAM SCHEDULE

Beginning Monday, October 5, the Technology Services Technician Team will temporarily be on a five day work week.  Their priority mission will be to support staff as they will be preparing for remote and face to face instruction.  Therefore, the tech schedule will be placed on hold until we work through start up.



Lexia has been able to find a patch that has fixed the issue with Chrome 74 and so now the Acer C720's are working with Lexia again.  



Fall Discards/Recycles  

Please read through the Technology Discards/Recycle Procedures document for important information.  Pickups will begin as soon as next week.  

Problem Attic, a digital item bank with Science, SS, Math items

Middle and High School math teachers we have added you and you should have gotten an email to set up a password.  Once you do that you can sign in through Classlink.  If you are a Science of SS teacher and would like an account, email Amy Stanley or Brittany Taylor.  There items for 3-5 if you would like to set up a free account you can.

Here is some training materials:

5-minute video on delivery/scoring

Ideas for distance learning

Links with more information

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Monday, August 15, 2016

Summer Updates 2016




Media News:
  • Welcome Heather Pennica our new Lead Media Specialist, she will be your contact for media related topics.
  • We are now hosting our Destiny through Follett so the URL for access has changed please update any bookmarks: https://johnston.follettdestiny.com/ is our new address.  We have experienced slowness and are working with Follett to correct the issue.
    • The data sync process is still the same through PowerSchool and new staff members will continue to be created manually using this link: bit.ly/staffpatron
  • MyOn was a huge success this summer with 9820 books read across the district and 2318 hours spent on the program - congratulations to Selma Elementary for being the top participating school.
  • WiseOwl - DPI indicated that the password for home access is being updated - look in the Media folder for information about the change.  They have also updated some of the subscription resources check here for more information: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B6tdCo4ORZfeYWlfTDRTVjFCTXc
  • Optional Media Specialists Meeting 8:30-11:30 in WCCC on August 19

ISD General News
We have had a few staff changes over the summer, so we wanted to update you!
  • Dana Jernigan (ext. 1007) is now the Director of Professional Learning, Tony Stewart left us to move to Florida and Kathy Price will be taking Tony's place as Executive Director of Professional Learning.
  • Christa Leverette (ext. 1011) will be returning to Stephanie Canning’s post in the Technology Services office.  Stephanie returned to Wake County and we are awaiting a replacement for Christa’s position as the AA for ISD.  
  • Jen Roberts (ext. 1015) will be joining the Digital Learning Team as a Personalized Learning Specialist
  • Heather Pennica (ext. 1029) will be joining the Digital Learning Team as Lead Media Specialist official start date is August 29th.

Technology News
  • This summer, many software and hardware updates have been pushed out to the computers to improve functionality, be sure you get out all chromebooks and laptops to power them up, turn them on and log into them so they can receive updates.  Likewise, all desktops need to be turned on and logged in to receive the updates.  Expect some delays during this process so it is best practice to do this prior to student arrival.
  • SMART 16 - We have created the latest version of SMART 16 for desktops.  If you have a teacher who wants the latest version put in a School Dude ticket to have the computer reimaged.  ALL new instructional and teacher desktops will receive the latest version when they are set up.  It is also recommended that if a board is experiencing issues you put in a request to have the software updated. (Note: If your current incident of SMART notebook becomes corrupt your computer will have to updated to repair it.)
  • Testing Update - new testing standards from DPI prohibit us from having monitoring and remote management software installed on testing devices.  We will provide further updates as we learn them.  Here are links to the testing calendars for your reference:
  • The Energy team has been around this summer unplugging things, so your first line of troubleshooting should be to check the power and the port that it is plugged into.  
  • Phones - Please make sure that you keep phones in their current location and update extensions using the update form which goes to Shirley Nixon. (you might coordinate with your principal and phone management person at your site)  If a phone was unplugged over the summer make sure you plug it into a port labeled with a “V” for voice.  Note: all phones are also plugged into the computer to work properly.
  • September 12 the technicians will start their new schedule.  Until then they will be working 7-4 and will work on prioritizing needs based on tickets submitted from each school.  Be sure you are adding your tickets into the system so we can get your needs addressed in a timely manner.
  • WiFi update - we are working to provide a fresh wifi password.  During the initial transition there will be 2 active SSID’s displayed on mobile devices, we will be pushing settings with the new information and after testing window 1, the old “jcswireless” will become inactive and the new one will be in place hopefully this will improve connectivity, as it will prevent many students from accessing it with their personal devices.
  • Mark your calendar: Meeting Dates for this year


We look forward to your return! 2016-17 is going to be a great year!
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