District Website- External vs. Internal (What's the difference?)

As of November 2012, Rocky Hill Public Schools has a new website. The web address for this site is www.rockyhillps.com (rhps.com was already taken). This tutorial will show you how to use the new website and how to access the private site.

Inform Link

With the need to input data into Pearson's Inform recently I have been getting a few questions regarding our link on the internal website. Unfortunately this click can appear more confusing than it actually is :)

Messages Stuck in your Quarantine Summary Report?

Lately I've had a few teachers email me about accessing emails that are getting stuck in their daily quarantine summary report junk email. To access your quarantine message center sooner than that daily email comes through click on the little blue "message center" in an old quarantine summary junk report email (see below).

Best Practices & Tips for Laptop Use in the Classroom

As more and more mobile laptop carts are purchased for the district the topic of "Best Practices & Tips" for use is important to share. Below are common problems and simple solutions for the use of laptops in your classrooms.

Classroom Content Linked to your Website

Recently, I have had many teachers come to me about creating classroom websites to help improve their communication with parents/students. One of the major functions teachers want of their website is for classroom content/documents linked to their sites. I have personally shown many teachers how to use the "File Manager" function of their website, to upload documents to their site, but there is actually an easier way!

New Feature in GMail

You're probably used to downloading email attachments, but each of those files takes time to download, eats up space on your device, and can get buried deep inside your "Downloads" folder. With the most recent update to Gmail, you can skip that whole process. Instead, you can view attachments and save files directly to Google Drive without ever leaving Gmail, making it easy to access them later from whatever device you’re on—computer, phone or tablet. 

Java Issue with PowerSchool

As you may or may not have heard, the latest version of Java breaks the ability to launch the Grade-book in Power Teacher. There is a fix coming from Pearson to allow the use of the latest version of Java, however for now the only way to workaround this issue is to uninstall the latest version of Java and install a slightly older version. Please follow the directions below carefully.