To help make our procedures easier on campus, there’s now a Printing Credit Top-Up Request Form linked in Staff Portal (staff.ncpachina.org) > IT. Teachers and TAs who run out of credit should submit this form. Main office staff should continue to e-mail helpdesk@ncpachina.org.
Over the summer changes to Office 365 have been made that require your action and/or attention. Receiving Group/Team Messages Don’t worry, you are receiving all staff emails. But for your department groups and other Office 365 teams, the following applies: Microsoft updated the Outlook web interface over the summer. You need to find your groups […]
At the beginning of the school year, each department’s grade 9 teachers teach a lesson to help orient students to their technology. 2019-20 Skills Matrix: an overview of what skills will be covered by which departments/classes for grade 9 students First Two Weeks folder: contains all the PowerPoints and videos needed to cover the above […]
New hires, now that you’re at NCPA, we’ve removed the feature that forwarded work e-mails to your personal e-mail account. If you’d like to forward your mails again, you can follow Microsoft’s instructions.
If your predecessor actively used Canvas, you’ll be able to access their old Canvas course. In the left nav bar, go to Courses > All Courses: You’ll see your predecessor’s courses under Past Enrollments: You can also copy content from those old courses to your new course – either item-by-item or everything at once! Follow […]
Sometimes you want to use some paid software, hardware, or process to support your teaching that isn’t part of NCPA’s standard technology package. When this happens, you can now apply to start a technology pilot program. A successful application will give you and other pilot participants access to funds needed to purchase and evaluate these […]
After looking at usage patterns for the eLC, we’ve discovered that in the vast majority of cases people booked both eLC-East and eLC-West for their events. In cases where each side was booked by a different event simultaneously, the users found that noise from each event interfered with the other. Therefore, to improve the user […]
Over 50 teachers, TAs and administrative staff attended last month’s Saturday Certificate Sessions: [advanced_iframe src=”https://twitframe.com/show?url=https://twitter.com/RiskePEteacher/status/1106780498003673090″ width=”100%” height=”600″] Feedback was great – and the lunch catered by Liberty probably didn’t hurt. So here’s more good news – to meet the need for relevant, connected training in Office 365 and other educational technology tools, there will be […]
We’re looking for four innovative, collaborative teachers to be Tech Ambassadors! This is a new stipended opportunity for the 2019-20 school year. The application deadline is Tuesday, April 30. [advanced_iframe src=”https://sway.office.com/s/XcPmUVizaGoqXzN0/embed” width=”760″ height=”500″]
In the past, NCPA was a Google Apps school. Teachers needed to use a VPN to access their e-mail, calendar and documents, so we provided ExpressVPN as a benefit so that teachers could access their work-related files from home and other off-campus locations. We also provided the Cisco Anyconnect VPN, which connects users to the […]