Important Notes Welcome to the first Tech Report of the school year! It has been a busy month so far: iPads were distributed the first week of school. Our web filter now filters devices at home. While it may not specifically block a website, we can see if a student access inappropriate content. We made Read More »
Hello Staff, Students, & Parents, This summer many changes have taken place in regards to technology at HAST. These changes have been part of a bigger overall plan over the last three years to update the infrastructure within the building. In the summer of 2015, all of our servers received massive OSX updates. Servers were Read More »
Important Notes NWEA & ISTEP • All Spring NWEA testing is complete. • ISTEP Part 2 will take place the week of April 24. This test is on the iPad. • Students in grade 6 & 7, please DO NOT update your iPads to iOS 10.3. Pearson has informed us 10.3 is not compatible with Read More »
Important News and Notes Statewide Readiness Test The Statewide Readiness Test for ISTEP took place on January 19, 2017 with 7th grade. The test ran very smoothly without error after it was realized students needed to update their Testnav apps. After the test, an update was pushed to 6th,8th, and 10th grades. All students should Read More »
Important Notes Testing season is upon us, yet again. Statewide Readiness Test for ISTEP will take place on January 19, 2017. This test will allow the state to gauge whether their servers are ready for ISTEP. The test itself does not count for anything. ISTEP Part 1 will follow February 28 through the first Read More »
Important Information Update on hastguest, Mac Spoofing, and Personal Devices In response to the Mac Spoofing attempts last month, we created the hastguest2 network where students were forced to register devices using their HAST email accounts. Many students did not adhere to the rules and used fake accounts and fake names. Those students were consistently Read More »
Important Information Mac Spoofing Yesterday, November 7th, we experienced two brief network outages with each lasting approximately a minute. After investigating it was determined these outages were the result of a MAC spoofing attempt by someone on our guest network and someone on the PLTW network. MAC spoofing is an attempt to change your Read More »
We ended with 62 support tickets last month. Our Highest categories were PowerSchool Password Resets (18), iPad Battery or Charging issues (12), and iPad Display/Hardware issues (7). Some other tech notes for the month: All NWEA testing was completed including makeups by October 3rd. I created a tutorial I sent out for a reminder on how to Read More »
HAST Community, Below are some updates from this month: NWEA Testing Over the last two weeks we have begun our Fall NWEA testing. The schedule is different from previous years. In order to avoid burning out students from taking four tests in two days, we have decided to conduct one test a week. For week Read More »