Jesse - That is something that could be done relatively simply yourself (or whoever is administering your Skyward system). All you need to use Skyward security settings to disable the options in PaC as you enable them in web. If I'm not mistaken, this is the way Skyward intended the rollout to be. If that is really the way your organization wants to handle it, I would suggest gradually encouraging users to do certain things on the web, then after maybe a 2 week grace period, disable security to the equivalent features on PaC. That allows for a controlled transition rather than the abrupt change.
Also, keep in mind that PaC will continue to function after the officially EOL date - there just won't be support for it (except for the features that are still not fully ported to web). It would not be advisable to continue using it and it is certainly risky, but the reality is, it will still probably work for many day to day operations. -TS Thomas C. Steele Technology Director Manteno CUSD #5 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 12:17 AM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Skyward I'm using PaC with Windows 7 on several machines... however, it's hosted by ISCorp using the Citrix client so that might make a difference...? I can't get people to even look at the web version at this point. I'm pretty sure they won't use it at all until PaC is completely unavailable. I don't look forward to that "transition" (read: abrupt change). I think I would have preferred it if the element became unavailable in PaC when it was made available on the web. This would literally force people into the transition, though it would be a bit insane never knowing which version to use. -------------- On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Dana Fellows <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It seems like the Skyward PAC Client (not positive this is the right name) > doesn't seem to want to run on Windows 7. I thought that my users could do > everything from a web browser, is this correct? I looked on Skywards website > but the answer did not jump out for me. > > Dana Fellows > > Computer Technology Instructor / Network Administrator > Whiteside Area Career Center > > 1608 Fifth Avenue > > Sterling, IL 61081 > > Email, [email protected] > > Website, www.wacc.cc > > Phone: 815-626-5810 ext. 206 > > Available via phone between 2:30 and 3:30 PM Central Time > > > > MCP, MCSA, MCSE, A+, Network+, CIW > > AAS - Network Administration > BA - Information Systems > MS - Instructional Technology > > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
