Disclaimer: CWS Software LLC sells a Parent-Teacher conference scheduling solution called PowerPTC, but the tips mentioned below should be helpful regardless of the scheduling method your organization uses. 1. Give Your Teachers Space Many school districts do not have enough classrooms for each teacher to have their dedicated space, so teachers must share classrooms. This can make scheduling Parent-Teacher… Read more →
Powerschool is a popular Student Information System in use by many school districts. If your district is larger than a few thousands students, you will likely need to scale out your installation to include multiple application nodes. Often it will be recommended that you pay a consultant to perform a high availability setup, but in my opinion this is something… Read more →
Content filters are expensive, they can degrade the user experience, add to your IT department’s work load, and generally they don’t work that well, especially with the rise of SSL traffic. For school districts, they are a necessary evil, the best we can do as an IT department is make them as minimally invasive as possible. For districts using Fortigate… Read more →
We are proud to announce that we have corrected the audio looping bug many users have experienced. With this bug, users would hear a distracting gap in the audio loop. For all users with a device running Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) or higher, they should no longer hear the gap in the audio loop. If you are running Android 4.1… Read more →
Today we released an update for Sleepy Time (Version 2.0.6) which includes a dialog on the first launch of the new version stating the following: “There is a bug in Android that causes a gap in the audio for users with newer phones. If it doesn’t impact you now, it may in the near future! Google has not responded or… Read more →