LRC Construction Update

In an earlier post, I noted that our district’s administrative office is under construction.  Our Network Engineer, Scott Crothers, and myself as still housed in the building to help make sure the network stays functioning all the way through the construction.

The project is coming along nicely, with finishing touches like carpet, ceiling, and lights going in now.  I must say that the designers for this building must really be into the following article… Why you must absolutely paint your walls gray.

Photos taken on Friday Sept 6th.

Teaching & Learning Services

Teaching & Learning Services

School/Community Relations

Registrars office and service area

Registrars office

IMC entry area

Nutrition Services

Typical Office area

Typical Office Area

Phenix Conf Room, 2nd floor

Instructional Materials Center

Instructional Materials Center

Human Resources… looking towards the new private office area.

Human Resources, in the new office area looking towards the Directors office.

Fairmeadows Conf Room

Community Education

Computer Lab on 2nd floor

Crossroad Park Conf Room

Crossroads Park Conf Room including the frosted glass that serves as a marker board.

Doorway between Administrative Services and the IMC, notice the entry way is walled off to help control heating and cooling.

Accounting Department

Administrative Services

Administrative Services

Community Room/Board Room

Community Room / Board Room

Accounting Department

TIme Lapse video of the cubical furniture being moved into the LRC…..

Had enough SPAM?

Had enough?

Had enough yet?

Since the start of school, our staff has seen a significant increase in incoming spam.  We’ve been following the recommendations from the company,  including various changes to the system and even updating to a newer version.  However, none of the suggestions are making things better, in fact, there seems to be more spam getting through since the upgrade.

A few weeks ago, we stated that if the problem wasn’t resolved, that we would shop for another solution – and that time has come.

We have a competitive product that we’d like to test out, but wanted to make sure that staff was aware that changing products will mean….

1) Staff will no longer receive the daily spam summary emails (none of the other competitors had this feature).  Instead, there is a website that you have to visit in order to see any messages that are blocked.

2) We will copy over as many of our existing preferences as we can – but its likely that shifting to a new product will likely allow more spam through for a short time period.  At least until we can adjust the system after its up and running.

3) Good news – the solution we will test allows each person to set their own preference relating to how much or how little spam you can tolerate.  This will be a welcomed addition, as each user tends to have a different tolerance level.

At this time, we have a competitive solution on-site and are working to configure it.  It will likely be later this week before we can put in place for testing.