Author Archives: Brian Abeling

About Brian Abeling

Director of Technology, serving West Des Moines Community Schools

Echo web address is changing on Nov 4th

capture* NOTE *  This only impacts those involved in New Tech at IH, ST, Crestview, and Clive.

We were notified by New Tech Network that the web addresses for Echo will change on Nov 4th, as they are moving to https://  instead of http://    This will impact staff, student, and parent access, please check your bookmarks and shortcuts to be sure you are accessing the new address.

 

Indian Hills was  http://indian-hills.echo-ntn.org/   and is now..  https://indian-hills.echo-ntn.org/

Stilwell was http://stilwell.echo-ntn.org/ and is now   https://stilwell.echo-ntn.org/

Crestview was  http://crestview.echo-ntn.org/ and is now  https://crestview.echo-ntn.org/

Clive was http://clive.echo-ntn.org/ and is now  https://clive.echo-ntn.org/

 

Update on Missing Assignments Notifications

emailA few weeks ago, we were notified that the weekly missing assignments emails were not working correctly and the following is an update:

Q1. Is it resolved?
A1.  Yes, the customization that provides the weekly email has been fixed and weekly email notifications will resume on Thursday evenings.

Q2. Why did we get email notifications on dates other than Thursdays?
A2.  In order to test if the fixes worked – we needed to run the custom programming, which released notification emails on dates other than Thursdays.

Q3.  Could you tell us more about these weekly email notifications…  who are they delivered to?  and how is it determined who gets the messages?
A3.  Each Thursday night, the system goes through all grade books and looks for “M’s” (which stand for Missing, which are manually marked by teachers.)   It only looks through the current term/quarter, so if there’s a missing assignment from a previous quarter, that won’t be counted.  Once it has a list of which students have a missing assignment,  an email is then generated  to the primary and secondary email addresses of all guardians.