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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 2/12! All students in grades 6-12 have both network accounts to enable them to log-in to district computers and student e-mail accounts. Network account usernames are student ID numbers. E-mail usernames are available by logging onto the Infinite Campus portal and clicking on “Contact Preferences”. Passwords are shared between network accounts and student emails, and start as their first and last initials in uppercase letters. Students are prompted to change their password to one of their choosing on first log-on, and password resets can be obtained by contacting the helpdesk at ext. 10158. Elementary students continue to use one generic log-in for students. Teachers should NOT log students in under their account, as that would allow students to access and modify their documents and other restricted staff resources. For more information on the new student email system, please use the links under the e-mail section on the right hand side of the page.
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.