Grant Elementary School Technology falls into four major areas based on location, purpose and district support. The last section discusses work that results as part of the efforts in the first four sections.
This page describes "resetting" the school equipment for use for the new school year. Any items highlighted in yellow are unknown items at this time.
A summary of the various areas/equipment and their timelines are presented in the following table.
Priority | Equipment Area |
Project Point Person | Approximate Time Period |
Work Performed by... |
Dependency |
Steps/Requirements |
1 |
Domain Controllers (2) Terminal Servers (2) |
Alice & Ginny | Early August |
Server Contractor (with Emory Guidance?) |
Lab Coordinator identified needs and projects for this year |
-Meet with proposed Vendor -Get Proposal/Set up meeting with District/Emory -Schedule work |
1 | A6 |
A2 thin clients before A6
|
District Technician |
-Space in back of room in A6 for thin clients. -Table for teacher computer -Print server for printer. -A6 cleared of equipment. |
-Move A2 clients back to A6 (email to Support Tech) - Rename logins + new labels, etc. (Eric needs training on doing this item) -Order or re-arrange printer servers for A6 (Staff Room extra printer?) -Order teacher computer table for front of room (Ginny) - done 8/10 -Get table built by Tracy -Arrange for classroom technician to setup computer on table (coordinate through Lori). -A6 cleared of equipment |
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1 | Front Row Sound Systems | Catina | Early-mid August | Outside Vendor contract with PTA |
-Arranging for installation -Equipment |
-Ordering equipment/supplies (Ginny has sent email for quote; project lead needs to take over from there) - Ginny sent email to potential installers and Roger. -Determine additional cables if needed for connecting teacher PC. -Re-chargeable Batteries -Labeling -Training for new/refresher for previous trainer attendees. -Reimbursement to vendors/purchasers. |
2 | Classroom Teacher Systems |
Lori | Early August to 13th |
District Technician? Classroom Technician |
Domain Controller required
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-Accounts and machine names for remainder of systems - Ginny - August 18. -Password reset - August 18 - Ginny -Overview for teachers including resetting password and time lines
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3 | Computer Lab Student Systems + screen covers |
Ginny | First Day of School+ |
Lab Coordinator |
Domain Controller |
-3 new systems repairs and -maintenance of equipment -updates |
4 | Student System Moves/Issues (outside of A6) |
Lori | First Week of School+ | Classroom Technician |
- ordered Network Cord run for A5 & A4; Ports heated in A6, A5? Swap printer in B3 to D4 Printer for A6 (LJ4) Order print server for A6 |
-Swap B3/D4 printer(and print server) -Configure/request install of Neo2 for A5 -Replacement of broken/non-functioning equipment - A5/A6? Scanner - A5 Neos |
5 | Staff Room Edusoft #2 | On hold - system may be necessary for other use. Existing system still functional. | End of August or before 1st Benchmark |
District | ||
6 | Mobile Cart(s) Configuration | Classroom Technician | -Equipment needs to be secured to cart, add VCR for Mobile 1 | |||
7 | Copier/Printer Staff Room | Ginny | 1st Report Card period |
District and/or Classroom Technician |
-IT Exploration of Kyocera -Person to investigate Mopier use. -Where to store until investitgation? |
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8 | Network Switch Replacements/re-wiring/performance | Ginny | ?? | Emory & District/Sonoma Tech? |
Donated equipment + time to implement | |
9 or 1 |
Old equipment Recycle/re purpose | Lab cannot open as long as equipment is in the lab. |
-see list at bottom of page.
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4 | Teacher Requests | ?? |
-List of software per teacher system to install - D1 extra color printer - D4 Grading software |
All equipment is this section is the responsibility of the lab coordinator.
All student systems are desktops.
2010-2011 Year
The Lab Administrator system is being replaced after 6 years with one of the new refurbished systems. Unlike previous configurations, the lab administrator system is not a "test system" for the terminal servers. It will now be used (provided we permanently mount the projector) as the demonstration machine with sound support.
Peripherals, or supporting equipment, are any equipment that is broadly used by all systems or specifically for teaching or special projects. Alll support equipment is maintained by the lab coordinator.
The lab has two (three?) printers. One black & white printer and one color laser printers (two inkjet colored printers as well which we should use up before deploying the Dell Color Laser Printers)
Maintenance performed in 2009-2010 year. If Kyocera copies becomes network-enabled, the bottom drawer will be reconfigured for letter size paper rather than legal.
Optima Projector
Front Row
The servers come in two flavors. Some work is done by the lab coordinator; other work is done by the contractor. All work must be coordinated before it is completed and contractor work is best performed a week or two before users show up on campus and expect to use the equipment.
Lab Coordinator responsibilities are generally related to the data and user accounts.
Timeline: First week of school
The Server contractors provide the following "yearly setup" functions on each of the file servers.
Timeline: Early August
Grant has two terminal servers. These need annual clean out.
2010-2011 Potential Requirements
BGInfo on terminal sessions default (TSBackdrop)
Backgound on terminal session defaults (Dark Green?)
Timeline: Early August
Timeline: Early August
Classroom equipment is divided into student systems, teacher PCs and peripherals. The support strategy for the systems is based on what the district supports versus what we contract with a district employee to perform for the school outside of his district hours and responsibilities.
In 2010-2011, we are deploying refurbished equipment--one per classroom and support staff (reading, staff room, rsp, and speech). At the end of June, 7 systems out of 21, were deployed.
Student systems are a combination of thin clients using the terminal servers and donated PCs from SCOE using remote desktop. Although most of the PCs, could be used as standard PCs (no remote desktop), without a consistent method to clean them up each year, perform updates and deploy new applications, they are best used as "thin clients".
Some of the student systems have an alternative shell to provide four options for the user while others were deployed before this capability and remain a "hybrid" system where IE7 is used to access the internet and remote desktop is used to access Microsoft Office products. With the adoption of IE8 and Firefox in the lab in 2009-2010 along with the move to Web 2.0 applications, an open question remains on how best to deploy these systems along with the how best to continue support with our terminal servers.
Student systems are installed and maintained by the contracted classroom technician.
Each classroom has a network connected printer with either a built-in print server or an external print server. Some classrooms have 5-port switches to enable all student, teacher and printers (mostly D-wing). Additionally, some classrooms have flip video cameras, installed projectors, and FrontRow sound systems connected to teacher PCs. Once classroom has NEO2 using an IR scanner for uploads.
Classroom peripherals are installed and maintained by the contracted classroom technician.
There are currently two printers in the staff room. One is configured by the District as it supports Edusoft (see below). The other is an additional printers since the Edusoft printer has given us much more problems. This year, we acquired a Mopier 5 from SCOE, that may function both as a scanner and have the printing capacity needed for the staff room. We need to explore its use this year.
Mobile Projector carts are used outside of the lab, and, therefore, are lumped into the classroom equipment section. At the moment, there is one mobile cart with a laptop computer, a DVD player, FrontRow sound system and projector.
This year, the current mobile cart will be extended to include a VCR, thus replacing the old TV/VCR system stored in the Multi as the AV equipment.
A second mobile cart has been requested. It would be outfitted similarly as the current one with the following exceptions:
Mobile carts are outfitted and maintained by the contracted classroom technician.
The school has three "home" wireless routers. They require reconfiguration and deployment to be used. Most notably, the wireless router would be use by:
Wireless Networks fall under either the system contractor or the classroom contractor.
PTA has allocated funds to complete the three partial systems. Targeted classrooms are:
Remaining rooms without FrontRow equipment:
FrontRow systems are installed and configured by outside vendors.
The following systems are maintained exclusively by the District IT Business Services department.
Principal, Admin Assistant, Attendance Clerk, Nurse, Psychologist, Guidance Counselor & their associated peripherals.
Located in the staff room. This machine is identified for replacement with a refurbished system.
Located in the staff room. The Brother MFC is both a scanner and a printer. Printing seems to be an issue for it which is why there is a Laserjet 4M+? deployed in the staff room as well. These two systems might be replaced with the SCOE Mopier or one could be recycled provide the Kyocera copier became network-enabled.
Last year, the school looked into replacing the existing copier with one that had a network card with network access. This would alleviate the need for an additional printer in the staff room and allow the standardized report cards to be printed to the copier room rather than to the lab. This is still and option that should be explored.
All donated equipment (printers + SCOE systems) need :
This is tech committee responsibility and location and storage of the equipment until the time that it can be dealt with as a group is an issue!