IT News and Notes - January 2022

Ohio Blended Collaborative(OBC)

Click to visit the Ohio Blended Collaborative Site and access grade-level content. Mentor Schools has had over 50 teachers involved with the Ohio Blended Collaborative over the last 4 years. These teachers have all contributed to the resources available on the OBC website. Accessing this site will provide you materials to support a blended approach to teaching your grade level content. Currently, the OBC has materials in all subjects in grades 4-12. Please visit the site and register for free access to all of the materials created by Mentor teachers along with over 25 other districts across the state.

Password Security

Always use a unique password for each program\website.
Don't use personally identifiable information.
Try using phrases or lyrics and adding random characters but don't place them in easy patterns.
Make sure passwords are at least 12 characters long and contain letters, numbers, and special characters. (This will be a requirement when changing your password going forward)
Click here for direction to change your password on a MacBook..
Click here for direction to change your password on a Windows PC.
Click here for direction to change your password on a Chromebook.

GIF of the Month

Each month our IT Techs (Joe, Josh, and Tim) will share a GIF to remind you of an important item related to Technology in Mentor. This month's GIF is for iPads and closing tabs within Safari. Oftentimes you won't realize that you have a large number of tabs open and this can cause issues. A simple solution is to close all tabs with in Safari and start fresh. This will take care of many of these problems.

IT Support and Video

In IT Tips and Tricks this month Todd shares some helpful hints in the case where the Dell Chrombook 3100 locks up. A great timesaver and saving you an email to it-support!

A Little IT Humor!

Doug always manages to keep things light around our office so we thought we would have him share some IT Humor each IT News and Notes with you! Lately, Securly has been more reliable and fortunately we have not had any interruptions. This image captures all (students, staff and even our IT Department) when these interruptions do happen!