Important
Technology News
May 2006
Summer Maintenance
Before
leaving for the summer, please remember to delete any files from the h drive
that you will not use again and save (to a CD or a Flash drive) any files you
wish to keep. The technology department will
remove classroom teachers’ files during summer maintenance as well as all
students’ h drive files.
Classroom
computers will not be reconfigured during summer maintenance; individual
classroom software does not need to be stacked beside the computer.
Any
questions should be forwarded to your technology resource teacher.
Email
Info
Mailbox sizes should not exceed 20 megabytes, so remember to
delete unneeded messages in your email box, including those in folders, on a
weekly basis.
Annual maintenance will be performed on the email server
this summer. All messages older than
Spam
Reminder: The Spam folder will be
deleted on the 28th of each month.
Do not forget to look in the Spam folder and see if there are any emails
you want to read or keep.
Laptops
At
the end of this school year all laptops will be collected and inventoried. You will need to back up any files saved on
the laptop’s hard drive that you want to keep.
Please label both your laptop and laptop case before turning it in. Click on this link (http://www.mcps.org/admin/Technology/Newsletter/laptop2006.pdf ) to
download the form. Complete it and
include it in the laptop case.
Technology will be performing Windows and Virus updates.
See
building administration regarding drop off location. Nurses, Special Education,
and Gifted Education will turn their laptops in to their home school.
Last
Day Before Leaving School
Turn
both your monitor and computer off.