Purple Mash (coding) - playing a sound causes PC to crash...
Had a report yesterday from a teacher that whilst in our ICT suite using Purple Mash there was some problems playing sound... didn't sound important and they'd finished their lesson, so I said I'd look...
View ArticleLoom Desktop not showing
I have a teacher isolating at the moment, they are going to create Loom videos. They are using the desktop version of Loom, which was running fine for the first 3 videos, now when they run it, it...
View ArticleMost pain free way to deploy Minecraft Education edition
Hi All, Just wondering what the most pain free way is to install Minecraft Education Edition. We donÂ’t have SCCM but we have PDQ. The head of computing said that we can purchase Minecraft Education...
View ArticleSubject based software - what do you use?
We are evaluating our aging software library as we plan a move over the coming year to Windows 11. The software individual academic depts. use varies from paid for subscriptions like Adobe Creative...
View ArticleACDLabs ChemSketch Freeware Deployment nightmare
I've been asked to update ACDLabs Chemsketch software for our Science Department: https://www.acdlabs.com/resources/freeware/index.php I've found reference on this Forum to running the installation...
View Articleoff prem to 365
So we have now a hybrid solution for moving our mailboxes from on-prem to off prem I've created a test account and the mailbox and migrated the mailbox last night from on-prem to off-prem and this...
View ArticleStruggling to remove CS5 from computers.
Hi all, Long story short, we're ready to update to cc2020 (deploy works fine on our test machines). However that after we manually uninstall the older cs5 suite. CS5 was part of our "Golden image" and...
View ArticleRecommendations for CAD fashion software
I'm looking for recommendations for free or low cost CAD software which we could use with fashion students, so they can modify a design then see it on a virtual mannequin. Thanks!
View ArticleSibelius License Server
We recently suffered a cyber attack which took out all our servers including all backups so i am rebuilding the domain from scratch. I have the install files for the Sibelius license server and system...
View ArticleNeed suggestions for Blogging sites for kids
Hi all, I'm teaching ICT (don't ask) for a KS2 year group. They're learning Blogging. I'm looking for a decent website where they can put their article onto and the rest can view/comment. They're all...
View ArticleFLASH!!!!
Just had an email from a teacher requesting Flash be installed on his laptop as he wishes to use this resource: Ancient Greece - The British Museum (http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/) Obviously I fired...
View ArticleChromebook apps for KS1
Hi all, Just bought my daughter in KS1 a chromebook for xmas present as i know her school use google classroom/chromebooks and want to give her a head start and familiarise herself with them before she...
View ArticleSpeech recognition for Exams
Hi What software are you using for Speech recognition as a access arrangement? TiA
View ArticleTimer Software
Hi, can anyone recommend a piece of standalone timer software for IWB. I have a senior member of staff that wants to standardise across all classrooms. It needs to be free floating and count down or up...
View ArticleSurpass Secure Client
Hi all This software is such a pain, no matter what we do the software gets stuck in an update loop. We had to reopen the software 20 times before one exam just to get the software working.... We have...
View ArticleRead/Write (Texthelp) not working on Word
Hi Everyone Having a strange issue and hoping someone else has had this/fixed it We were previously on update 12.0.53 of read/write and had constant issues with it not working on Microsoft 365...
View ArticlePodcast software for Chromebook
Hi all, Our year 4s need to create podcasts for their computing planning. I am looking for a free podcast app for the chromebook that we can use to create the podcasts and then edit them. thx Sy..
View ArticleAfter School Club Registers
Hi, what does anyone use for their After School club registers. we currently use Schoolcloud, but it has no reporting, no alerting to parents if students don't attend, no read/write from SIMS and...
View Articlehttps://eclipse.microlibrarian.net/
Has anyone found the website that is being blocked by uBlock Origin- that stops the link in Manage Library working - with uBlock off it fully works
View ArticleAdobe CC home use entitlement
Hey all, anybody clarify this for me or point me in the direction specifically to educational use. We (the school) have user based licensing for adobe CC. Are students/staff allowed to install this at...
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