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Technology Services |
Employee Purchases
Certain Waterloo Schools staff are eligible to purchase MS Office for work-related use on their home comptuer at dramatically discounted rates. Click here and select the product you want (note “Microsoft Campus Agreement Office Professional Plus 2010 (WAH Download)” is the lowest cost option for MS Office).
Waterloo Schools staff and parents can receive members only pricing on all personal PCs from Dell. You can order by calling 1-800-695-8133, or by purchasing online at www.dell.com/epp. You will need to reference member ID# KS15941399.
Please note that technology services cannot support personal computers you choose to purchase. Additionally, purchases are through a 3rd party vendor (Dell). While we do conduct school district business with this vendor, we do not have control over your transaction and thus are not able to assist you with the purchase process.
Security
Security reminder
Please remember that WCSD tech services, or any other legitimate organization, will never ask for you to reply to an email or click on a link to supply passwords or other personal information.
If you ever receive an email requesting you to reply or click on a link to provide passwords or other personal information, please delete without responding.
Always remember to employ common sense when dealing with electronic communications.
Fake anti-virus
Please click here to read an informative bulletin from the state regarding avoiding fake anti-virus software.
News & More
Student accounts
Updated 8/12!
A reminder that all students in grades 6-12 have a network account to log-on to district computers, as well as an email account and an Infinite Campus portal account.
Computer/network accounts
- Students should always use their own network account when logging onto district computers. Never give students, or anyone else, your password.
- Student account usernames are their ID numbers.
- Student passwords have all been reset to their first and last initials in lowercase letters (John Smith’s would be js). <Carver staff, I realize this is old news to you…they have NOT been reset again since you started>.
- Upon logging on the first time, they will be forced to change their password. They need to put in a password at least 6 characters long, or it will not work for their email account.
- We did not wipe out student files that were in their directories from last year. This was based on requests we had from a number of teachers to allow students to build a portfolio of their work throughout their WCSD career.
Email accounts
- For more information on student email accounts, visit the following URL: https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?cid=79ccd679f4f87549&resid=79CCD679F4F87549!166&parid=79CCD679F4F87549!101&authkey=!ANX_gFOgvSan3-w
Infinite Campus portal accounts
- The Infinite Campus portal allows students to track their progress and information just as parents can.
- Usernames are their ID numbers.
- If they have never logged onto the portal before, their password starts as <first name initial><last name initial><birthdate MMDDYY>
- John Smith with a birthday of June 24, 1995 would have a password of js062495
- If they have logged onto the portal before, they had the option of changing their password, though they are not forced to.
Contact the helpdesk at https://helpdesk.waterloo.k12.ia.us or ext. 10158 with questions. Password resets are done through the helpdesk.
Software
Teacher Toolkit
Log into EmployeeNet to access Toolkit.
Windows 7
Technology services has begun migrating select computers to Windows 7, Microsoft’s newest operating system. For excellent informational/instructional videos on Windows 7, please visit Atomic Learning by clicking here. Contact your building’s media specialist if you don’t know the username/password. Please note that atomic learning has other excellent videos on other software, such as office and activInspire.