ICT Weekly Update

26th February 2007

Account Administration

ICT Rights to set Student P: Drives
The change in permissions to allow ICTCs to review and delete files in student P: drives is in test and should be available next week. Please contact anne.griffiths@nt.gov.au if you have an urgent need to review and reduce student storage and she will arrange interim privileges for you to do this at your school.

ePass is coming
Final acceptance testing for ePass is scheduled for this week in anticipation of a rollout over the weekend commencing Saturday 10th March. User notes and management guides will be issued later this week.

In the meantime please continue to use the standard spreadsheets to request new or modified accounts.

Hardware

Teacher Laptop Reallocations for Semester 1
We have received the new school staffing allocations for Semester 1 and are looking to reallocate Laptops to match the new teacher allocations over the next 2 weeks. The teacher allocations are based on the number of NT Government funded teachers at each school and the principals and assistant principals. It does not include staff funded through other programs such as PE coordinators. For more information please go to http://www.ict.schools.nt.gov.au/laptops/laptop_reallocations.shtml

We would also like to reiterate that the Optima Laptops will be returned to the Computer Fleet at the end of the leases in July. Please ensure that any Optima laptops that have problems are passed to the warranty agent for repairs as they must be retuned in working order.

School Purchases of Dell Computers and Notebooks
If your school would like to order Dell computers and have not received your account information please contact gregory.moo@nt.gov.au. When your account is established you can order the standard notebook and desktop models being used in schools and these will be loaded with the standard image including the Office Suite.

When the Dell site is used, the order needs to be printed after confirmation and faxed to Julia Jones at Dell. Her fax number is (02) 89726732. You can also contact Julia via email at julia_jones@dell.com if you have any queries about orders.

Investing in Our Schools Submissions
Congratulations to the schools that were successful in the third round of Investing in Our Schools submissions. About half of the successful submissions related to ICT initiatives. Schools who sought funds for computers should use the Dell contract to purchase desktop and laptop computers. Please contact clint.andrews@nt.gov.au if your school submission included local area network upgrades as we are looking at arranging a number of bulk contracts for cabling and related services for schools.

Software

Microsoft Home Licensing Agreement
Home usage rights have been negotiated as part of the Microsoft Schools agreement. This means school staff and students are able to load the latest version of Microsoft Office on their home computers. Schools need to ensure each user signs a home use agreement before providing the software. Click here for a copy of the home use agreement.

IT Services will supply copies of Microsoft Office to schools however you will need to make your own copies to provide to home users or you can load the software for them at the school.

Please contact sue.coward@nt.gov.au to obtain a copy of the Microsoft Office DVD for your school.

myHR
Most of the issues with the use of myHR in schools have been sorted out and we thankyou for your patience. There are a number of common problems that can occur when the Internet settings on a computer are not correct. Click here for the Tips and Traps in myHR. If you require further help please contact anne.griffiths@nt.gov.au.

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