Want to know how many of each SEN category in the school you have? You can also expand the SEN type as seen below to view which learners have that SEN type. Here you can see that the name has been set to a hyper link that allows you to go directly to their profile from the widget. Notice also that the same colour idea has been carried forward with the review dates as seen with the SEN Summary and Review Reminder widget. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1YNW8WfFQsQ/UzVxrPIiDSI/AAAAAAAAAso/rauXkxfrmIA/s1
So, in the fruity corner we have the Apple TV. In the red, green and yellow corner we have the Google Chromecast. Which is better? There's only one way to find out!
Ahem, sorry.
I've owned an AppleTV since just after Apple released the second generation iOS version so probably for two and a half years. It's been sitting underneath my TV ever since doing stirling service streaming from Netflix and playing content streamed from my iPhone. Google announced general availability of the Chr
This is strange.
Set up 2 dhcp boxes on the guest wireless to replace proxies. Proxies no longer needed, only dhcp to hand out county addresses.
First one works fine. Its a debian base install with only isc-dhcp-server, dnstools, ntfs-3g, dhcpstatus & ssh. It's super quick on a dual core HP workstation!
the second one is a failover handing out the 2nd half of our allocated range. I was writing the documentation whilst I did that one. Sort of a record of how to set another up if so
Another covering-the-basics tip this week, but again - you'd be amazed how many don't know the difference. You'll see people copy then delete, or cut and paste twice, or copy every time they want to paste... sometimes it's worth spelling things out obviously: ICT Tip 064 - Cut, Copy & Paste.doc
Background
Building a PC to do studio recording / sequencing is not something I’ve have to trouble myself with for a number of years. After all, at university, I had access to a number of high level facilities, and after I had left, I bit the bullet and bought a Macbook Pro - whilst not the best outright, it did most of what I needed with little or no fuss (and for close to £2,000 you would expect no less!).
However, I was contacted by a customer this week who had been asked to look int
A very general tip this time out, though I suspect it will still be news to a few people you work with ICT Tip 063 - Home, End, Page Up & Page Down.doc
There's nothing wrong with a bit of competition and here's a widget that will allow you to tally up the positive behaviour points for a date range by House and Year.
Why not create a dashboard with 3 of these widgets configured to show the dates of each term.
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Download
A slightly different version by reg group and gender.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com
This may or may not be relevant for your environment, but if it is, it's only ever a help for your users to know how to use the feature. ICT Tip 062 - Previous Versions.doc
Introduction
Assuming that you're interested in this, I would suggest that you read my previous three blog posts first. This will put this new post into some context and it saves me having to write it all again! Links to the previous posts:
http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/norphy/1982-adventures-macland-my-experiences-configmgr-2012-macs-part-1.html
http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/norphy/1984-adventures-macland-my-experiences-configmgr-2012-macs-part-2.html
http://www.edugeek.net/blogs/norphy/2
Form tutors, with great ease this widget will allow you to view the attendance percentage for your tutees, even providing a ranked list. Why not try and encourage some healthy competition!
Alter the parameters/settings appropriately and this widget will also be great for Head’s of Year to keep an eye on all their learners without constantly reviewing attendance reports each week or even less regularly. Perhaps at the end of the year or each term, your SMT could view all the learners and easi
If you've worked with Windows 7 for any length of time, you're sure to have come across this error sooner or later. Most of the time it's relatively easy fix involving the registry, which you can find here (this works for Vista, windows 7 and 8:
User Profile Service failed the sign-in - Fix in Windows 8
However this one laptop was not playing ball. I'd ran through all of the above steps, and nothing, no new accounts could be created, the guest account wasn't working and I was in a state of
Intro
One (of many) things that created discussion from my last blog post was the total amount of storage we provide to our users in school. Unlike some schools we do not limit quotas for user or shared areas but we do keep it very well maintained via automated and manual processes. Many people seemed to be surprised our total data store was only 500GB for a school with over 1,000 users. People mentioned figures such as 5tb to 20tb of storage which seemed very large to me. Some other network ma
There are plenty of discussions within this forum with regard to how machines are setup to allow scripting, coding ,etc. With the GCSE Computing and this drivel from the government regarding getting kids coding they obviously needs the tools to do this.
In an ideal world, we give them the tools on the desktop for this, things like Python, Small Basic, Eclipse, etc, but we work in schools where for obvious reason, we keep things pretty much locked down. I'm sure many Network Managers have sh
Intro
I've been doing this job for many years and one of the biggest targets I have had in that time is to make our entire ICT ecosystem "Stable". By this I mean that things work as they should in a classroom or for our admin staff and dont break too often. In fact when something breaks it should be a surprise or an extraordinary event, not something that inevitably just happens. We all see jobs of "the projector is broken" or "the hard disk died" but these are entirely preventable if you buy
View today's, yesterday's, or the last 7 day's behaviour by registration group. In fact, add the widget twice to show positive and negative events. Or even create a SLT/SMT Behaviour Dashboard showing summary behaviour for each year group.
Build relationships further by commenting on positive behaviour in other classes. Make students aware that you know if they've had a poor lesson and provide support/sanctions.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M8puTfaRllE/UvkiGNhNf2I/AAAAAAAAAiY/odFuuw5q73Y/
So after a bit of a break to let me build up a buffer between work and here again (as not every tip I send out round school is relevant to everyone, so some get skipped), regular service can resume.
Picking up from the last proper tip, ICT Tip #59 - Searching Emails (Outlook 2010) - Blogs - EduGeek.net, this week is ICT Tip 060 - Searching Webmail.doc. This is based on the Webmail service of Exchange 2007, so may not be relevant to everyone, but you might get some mileage out of it.
Dear All
At the BETT show this year I met up with a Danish company called "Wizkids". They are a company who customise the whole Google experience specifically for the education sector. The solution uses all the Google+ facilities eg Google drive (30Gb per user) , Apps etc and includes the equivalent of Sharepoint web parts for mail, assignments etc. The really interesting thing is the automatic provisioning of accounts and groups from SIMS which are used both within the mail and within the a
Ok, so this post needs to start with an apology to the team that gave up their time to speak to me - namely Phil Neal, Graham Cooper and Cath Lane for excellent organising skills as always.
Back in the Summer, I was privileged to attend the Capita SIMS Annual Conference - where I was treated to the latest news and developments from the inside. This post serves both as a record of the event - and as a eye-opener to where Capita are taking SIMS. There's some really interesting things coming up,
Here's a first for me - a guest blog! Whilst Ive been busy writing new articles (there are about 5 part written at the moment...note to self, must finish those) - technology continues to move on. Xbox One, Google Glass and many more - and with BETT around the corner, that list of "new" will continue to grow! So, it was quite fitting that I was approached by Cath Lane and her team (http://www.catherinelane.co.uk) with an interesting post about how technology can be used to bring equality. Now, th
