Distribution Lists are groups of individuals (or groups) that you want to email. If you find yourself emailing the same people repeatedly, there is a more efficient way to make that happen. Let's say that you are working on a new project and there are 40 other...
Technology Department News
Tech Tips
Passwords
Recently a SPAM email made it through our filters. In today's world, we all need to be wise about how we use computers. If you went to the site in the email, sign into a computer and change your password to something different than what you entered on that site. To...
Accessing MI-STAR from home
Some people have experienced trouble accessing MI-STAR from home. While we can't support every different computer and computer set up that is out there, here are some things that you can. These are the things that most often help people fix their problem. Update Flash...
Phishing
Eastern Michigan University has issued a nice reminder about Phishing scams and SPAM. I've received permission from them to repost that information here. With the holiday season upon us, we are seeing an increase in the volume and the quality of email phishing scams. ...
Hangin’ Out at Bryant
Chris and Troy had the opportunity to spend the day at Bryant Middle School. Ms. Shannon Peterson took us up on our offer to come to the school and hang out all day. Teachers can come down and get answers to their questions on using technology. Specifically, we focus...
HelpDesk
We are always looking for ways to be more efficient and to provide the best possible service. To that end, we have developed a HelpDesk Ticket. This helps us be efficient by making sure that we get all of the information that we need to help you. Quite frequently,...
Deleting Email
Our email servers are filing up. You can help. This is where you can help. Simply delete your "deleted items". [That's right, when you "delete" something, it doesn't really "delete" it. This is analogous to throwing something away in your kitchen trash bin- eventually...
Email Issue
We are aware of an email issue that is affecting those with last names staring with the letters A-C. We anticipate that the resolution will take at least all day today, Wednesday, to resolve. Thanks.
Moodle as an LTI Provider – The New Way to Share
I have been experimenting a little bit more with Moodle and LTI. I truly believe this is HUGE. I mean this is incredible stuff. LTI which stands for Learning Tools Interoperability is a new way for systems like Moodle, Wordpress, Joomla, MediaWiki, and other...
Teacher Filtering
As you are aware, the district is required to provide a filtered Internet experience. By federal law, we must filter access. However, the law has different scopes. For example, the filtering that we must do for students is different than the filtering that must be...