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Help Desk – Filing a Ticket

Filing A Help Desk Ticket USE: Lincoln Public Schools provides technical support and troubleshooting for faculty, staff and students needing help with computing hardware and supported software. Support requests filed via the web are automatically routed to the appropriate technician regardless of location. LICENSE: Web access available to all LPS staff & students. LPS DOCUMENTATION: Instructions […]

MFD – Entering Accounting Information

The MFDs in LPS are equipped with badge readers that log users in and pass accounting information along to the device. When you complete tasks on the device that incur a cost, such as make copies or scan to Print Center, the accounting information stored in your badge will be used. Refer to these instructions to […]

MFD – Badge Registration

All Xerox MFDs found in LPS buildings have a badge reader. (Printers do not.) Your LPS ID badge will authenticate you to the MFD, saving you time when authentication is needed. Note that: You do not HAVE to authenticate with your badge when releasing print jobs, but it does save time. You may need to enter […]

Presenting (Teaching) to Stick

This page is a support resource for the staff development sessions “Telling Stories with Data,” “Presenting to Stick” and/or “Teaching to Stick.” DESCRIPTION: A presentation should communicate as clearly and simply as possible. We will discuss how a little bit of brain science, a little bit of graphic design and all the things you already know […]

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC: Printing PDFs

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC: Printing PDF Files Adobe Acrobat Pro DC was formerly named ‘Adobe Reader’, ‘Adobe Acrobat’ or ‘Acrobat Reader’ The default PDF viewer on LPS computers is called Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. Printing pdf files using the current version of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC may be different than it was with older versions. […]

Volunteers – Online Application

Volunteers – Online Application Program Beginning in school year 2013-14, any parent or community member who intends to volunteer their time in a Lincoln Public Schools building must first complete an online volunteer application. For instructions on the use of this online tool from the office or teacher perspectives, please refer to the following documents. PUBLIC: […]

School Messenger Translation Information

DO NOT use the built in language translation component of SchoolMessenger. Email your translation request to translations@lps.org. If at all possible, please send the request at least three days before you want the message to go out to families. Your request will be forwarded to the Language Liaison for translation. Please include the following information: Name […]

Spam: What to do about it?

Spam: What to do about it? Definition: “Spam” is a term used to describe an email message of any content (but often commercial in nature) that was sent indiscriminately to large numbers of recipients on the Internet. To qualify as spam, a message must be unsolicited. It is important to note that many annoying or […]

Passwords: Un-Remembering them in a Web Browser

When you change your LPS password your web browser (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.) does not know this and continues trying to log you in with incorrect credentials. That can create an awfully frustrating situation every time you try to login with your new password. NOTE: From a security standpoint, we recommend that you NOT allow your […]

Student Data Privacy in Google Tools

LPS employees use the powerful tools within the Google Workspace environment professionally and instructionally. Many may be using Google Forms, collaborative spreadsheets, Google Classrooms and other documents that are used in formative assessment or to aggregate and put form to the anecdotal records that have always existed in our schools. School improvement work also may […]