Day 2 at Guston Primary School

This is for LA1 on the investigating the work piece module.
Really it's just notes to assist me when I get to write it.
I apologise for boring the pants of anyone reading it.

Arrive at school at 09:05. HG asks me to have a look at the interactive white board in the classrom she's using. "No signal" message was being displayed on white board. I checked all the connections were good then restarted the laptop and the projector.
As the same error was displayed I decided to go and check the connections on a working installation. The plug inserted into the laptop was different to the one on HG's so I thought she may have put the wrong plug in. Went back but discovered she'd got the correct plugs in the correct sockets. As her class was starting we agreed that we'd leave it and wait until the teacher that normally uses that laptop was back from her course.
Some engineers were supposed to be coming to install 2 new white boards and I hoped that I would be able to watch how they set them up. I asked our receptionist to let me know when they arrived.
As all the pc's / laptops have manually installed ip addresses I decided that I needed to know exactly what was allocated to which unit. I also needed to check the Subnet Mask, Default gateway, Primary dns and Secondary Dns settings on all machines.
I had already got the required info from some pc's in the reception class and verified this with some documentation from EIS.
It took the rest of the morning to get the required info from classes 1 - 4. Class 3 had completely different information to the others and I amended them to have the same basic network settings. I have left their ip addresses as set (even though they're incorrect). As all IP addresses are manually set rather than allocated by DHCP i need to know which ones are correctly allocated before I can change the incorrect ones.
The main ICT headache facing the staff at the moment is the tempremantal printing to the main laser printer. AS it is set up as a local printer on each machine rather than networked printer I need to check each machine individually. It's incredibly time consuming and frustrating.
The Head acknowledges that their current network needs reaplcing and we have a quote for a company to hardwire the school. To complement this I have contacted EIS and arranged for someone to come and give us some advise on a newtwork server. He confirmed that he will be able to come at 14:00 on Monday 16th October. I checked with the Head that this was ok and she showed me where the school diary is kept to make a note of such appointments.
After Lunch I planned to get the IP addresses for the remaining classes. I was however asked by one of the teachers to assist her to print the slides from a powerpoint presentation.
I got her laptop to print a test page ok and some text from a notepad file, but couldn't get the damn power point to print
Eventually got 4 of the 8 slides to print from the laser printer and did the other 4 on her inkjet.
This took about an hour so I spent the last hour getting more IP addresses.
At about 5 to 3 ( I finish at 3) the Head introduced me to one of the schools governors who is involved in the LEA ICT support team. She was giving an after school meeting for the staff. I sat in on it to gain some more knowledge.