Category: General Articles

Elementary teachers may now log in and view their homeroom rosters in Sapphire. Subject “courses” have been assigned and teachers may begin using the gradebooks immediately. New this year is a consolidated year-long attendance portfolio for students. To access this report, go to any one of your subject courses, select a student, go to the…

On Friday August 17th Beth Campagna and I met with a small group of learning support teachers, special ed staff and psychologist for a preview of the new IEP writer from K12 Systems. What we saw both impressed us and made us decide that we need to keep the project in the oven for just…

Due to a power outage related to construction at Marticville Middle School, Internet access at Martic Elem will be unavailable Friday August 3rd to Tuesday August 7th. Denny Coleman tells me that power should be restored by the 7th. During this time, Martic Elementary’s printers, phones and file server will be available for staff inside…

At long last, CometNet has been reworked and updated. In addition to the new layout and design, CometNet has a framework that will allow authorized staff to automatically post files and documents. A big thank you to James Nelson for installing the new software and migrating our files and forms from the old server to…

Well, it looks like the main PBX unit at the District Office is cooked (a technical term for “very broken”). The AdminPBX, as it’s called, left me a voice message late Sunday night announcing that a power supply and a hard-drive had suddenly stopped functioning. Upon further investigation early Monday morning and a tech support…