simpsonj

How did you find the switch over?

It's every staff member here, so we've really felt it! Unlikely to be related, but we've had issues with SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive shares randomly not working for people as well. Not a great start to the term for Microsoft tbh!

I was wondering why it had been so bad this term. Usually it's unreliable but generally works, this term the reliability has been awful. If it's any help, using the old ClassNotebook Add-in has been a successful workaround for us. The only issue is that every page that is distributed gets turned into an open page that needs to be closed after distribution.

Playing through Fire Emblem: Fortunes Weave. I'm getting the sense this game is enormous and will take many, many hours to complete. If you like Fire Emblem, this is highly recommended!

Would definitely seem like a Driver or Firmware issue to me. At a guess, likely the processor given you've changed everything else. Worth downloading all the latest drivers from the Dell website, then booting into Safe Mode and updating them all. Or, ideally, upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11!

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Is Bookish any good? I've had it recorded for ages, but have yet to take the plunge!

Signed up, happy to provide some feedback after a few weeks!

I've got SB680s, SB660s and SB560s, but sadly no SB640s

There is also a nagging thought in my head that you can't pull the attendance % for a set time period, so you have to pull the Total Sessions, and then the 'attended' attendance codes (/ and E?) for the time period, then do the calculation for the attendance % in the spreadsheet.

This isn't going to be the most helpful of posts, other than to say you can do this, but I remember it being fairly complicated. The main issue is that when you pull attendance data, by default it will just show the latest data %. My very limited memory is that you have to add the attendance data for each week, then you can change each instance of the attendance data (a little button to the right hand side?) to show the attendance for that particular week. But I no longer have SIMS, and my memory is extremely limited!

Neither can I now. *sigh*

502 error?

I haven't had RM Internet for around 10 years either! However, I've still got access to the RM Connectivity website purely to manage the DNS of the school website. It was just a thought, it might be that RM can give you a username and password for that? Otherwise I've moved other school websites using Nominet & Fasthosts, but that can cost £15 for the transfer, require the headteacher to prove ownership, or both!

Is there any chance you have a login to their DNS management system to make the change yourself? RM Connectivity Services