6-3-2025 Tuesday Tech Tips

          

In today's edition, you can learn all about: A neat Windows tool to take copying and pasting to the next level A reminder about Phishing emails Notes about saving in MyViewBoard The importance of regularly updating your Chromebook and more!  ➡️ ➡️➡️

💡 Quick Tip 💡 We highly encourage you to please update your Chromebooks regularly- and encourage your students to update, too!  Make that a "classroom job,"- have a class "Chromebook Update Encourager."  Or make it a classroom routine- every Friday morning, everyone updates.   To update, click on the clock, the gear, then on the bottom left, "About Chrome OS."  Then in the top middle of the screen, "Check for Updates." Updating can solve problems before they happen! Updating regularly is the best way to keep your device running efficiently After an update, the device will prompt the user to restart.  Restarting regularly is also a great way to keep the device running efficiently If you don't manually update, the device will eventually update on its own.   But if you update manually, it usually takes just a minute or two, tops- whereas waiting for the device to update on its own results in longer update times. Regular, small updates are quicker than occasional large updates.

Do you have a tip or idea for the Tuesday Tech Tips? Or a request for a topic or question you'd like to know more about? Please let us know! You can email us at joseph.lombardo@greececsd.org with your submission.

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Reminder- Don't Get Phished! About 90% of the Time, Cyberattacks Are Successful Due to Human Error.

Please take a few moments to review the poster above to see how to recognize and avoid phishing emails. These skills don't only apply to your GCSD email- your personal email is likely a target of phishing, too!

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Did you know you can access the history of what you've copied on a Windows device, and paste it easily any time? Using Windows Key + V is a great way to easily paste text that you regularly use over and over. You can also use this function to paste items other than what you most recently copied. This is includes both text and images.

Check out the video HERE, also embedded below, for an explanation on how to use this handy, time-saving tool for Windows users.

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Coming Soon....News on Summer Tech Camp 2025!

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MyViewBoard auto save only autosaves after you’ve manually saved once.

When autosave is enabled in myViewBoard, it automatically saves your progress every 10 minutes. However, if you haven't manually saved a file yet, the autosave feature does not work. It is essential to manually save your work using the Save as function to designate a specific folder destination on your local drive or cloud storage.

To ensure your work is saved correctly, follow these steps:

• Open File Manager

• Press Save as

• We recommend saving to Google Drive

• Name the file and press the confirm button to save

Yes, we learned this the hard way.

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