The IT Help Page

Kathy Gryta's IT Help Desk

Help me help you! Take my Technology Training survey

Technology Resources and Procedures at WMS 2009-10
(flash presentation) -- view here

Helpful Links

Hays CISD Home Page

SmartFind (substitute system)

ClassroomPlus (gradebook)

FirstClass (email)

MidWeb (for students)

MidWeb (for teachers)

Blackboard (2008-09 proficiencies)

Eduphoria (training database and AWARE)

CSCOPE (curriculum)

Voicemail directions

Here's a good explanation of some of the bad guys and threats on the Internet.

The Lexicon of Online Evil (Ask Bob Rankin)

Online Textbook Resources

Most of our textbooks now come with online support and resources for parents and students to access from home. These can range from extension and enrichment activies to the entire content of the textbook delivered online, a real boon to absent students and concerned parents.

If your class is one of the ones listed below, then consult your Teacher's Edition of the textbook, or come and see me about setting up your class for online support and providing that link on your class webpage!.

6th Grade Language Arts
6th Grade Math
6th Grade Science
World Cultures

7th Grade Language Arts
7th Grade Science
Texas History

8th Grade Language Arts
8th Grade Science
U.S. History

Health
Spanish
French

First Aid for Computers

What to do when it stops working...

Welcome to my help desk

I am here right to help you integrate technology into your classroom, facilitate lab lessons and project based learning with your students, and help you to get the just-in-time training that you need in order to do your daily work here in HCISD. Please contact me at grytak@hayscisd.net and tell me how I can better help you.

My old IT Help Desk site

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