Do you mean as in a point-of-sale station?  We continue to explore that.

We have taken cash in the line in the past but discontinued the practice 
because it holds up the line too much.  We still take cash in the ala carte 
lines but we don't run them through Skyward (at this point).

Thomas C. Steele
Technology Director
Manteno CUSD #5



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Tobin
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 9:54 AM
To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List
Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Skyward

Anyone out there using Skyward for lunch and taking cash?

Brian Tobin
DeKalb Community Unit School District 428
901 s 4th st
DeKalb, IL 60115
[email protected]
[email protected]
W815.754.2284
M302.468.6246
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Steele, Thomas C [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 9:49 AM
To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List
Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Skyward

We have been training new employees on web for the past couple of years.  
Unfortunately there are still a number of things that require PaC such as State 
Reporting, Food Service and Fee Management.  Those that start out with the web 
tend to find PaC confusing - it is all about what you are used to.

Thomas C. Steele
Technology Director
Manteno CUSD #5



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dana Fellows
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 7:47 AM
To: 'Tech-Geeks Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Skyward

I there any valid reason why they can't use the web interface? We have some
new employees and I figure why have them learn PaC when they will have to
change anyhow.

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


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steele, Thomas C
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 6:44 AM
To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List
Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] Skyward

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
>
>
>
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