Gearing up for next school year

During summer we get ready for next school year.

working during the summer

While students and most of the staff takes the summer off, we technology people and other staff (maintenance, grounds, board office, etc) stay working through the summer to make sure we are ready for the next school year to start.

I am sure pretty soon there will be teachers coming in and out of their classrooms as the month of july goes by. I have worked in the school system for almost 10 years and it is always exciting for me getting ready for the first day of school. It is stressing too :) but we have survived it every time.

My tip for today is:

Enjoy your summer students, in the mean time we will get ready for the next school year!

Always, always log off

Students : always, always log off.

always log off

This is a very important rule to follow, students should always log off or sign out of the workstations they have been working on. By doing so, they would be sure that nobody else will delete files from their network drive or browse inappropriate internet sites using their credentials.

Also, when a student leaves a workstations and they are still logged on, it uses resources from the computer making it slower,  and sometimes locking the computer so it has to be forced to shutdown for other user to log in.

Our user credentials leave a footprint in all that is done on our network and internet too. User credentials is in a way a signature, so it must be treated like that too.

So my tip is : LOG OFF

It takes some of your time to log back in but I assure you it is worth it!