Promethean have released new software for all or their Interactive Whiteboards. The new Application is called ActivInspire and will eventually replace Activstudio. You can download the latest User Guide here.

Promethean provide extensive documentation on all their products on their website http://www.prometheanplanet.com/. In addition, they are currently providing free Online Courses for those interested in using ActivInspire in the classroom.

Many of you have been enquiring about creating email distribution groups, enabling you to communicate with groups of people on a regular basis without having to remember all of their addresses. The following outlines the basics for how to set this up. More details can be found by viewing the Help menus in your respective email programs.

Read on for details of how to do this in Entourage 2004 and Outlook 2007.

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Publishing media on the Internet is as simple as dragging a File on your Mac to a Directory in your Home Folder.

You can connect to your webspace on the internet using the following syntax:

http://www.southbank.net/~yourusername

As part of our License Agreement with DATA, we are please to announce that students can install and serialize ProDesktop on their own machines.

To facilitate this, a number of CD's are available in the Library at Portland Place. These can be borrowed overnight under the same arrangement as any other assets from the Library. Please note this Application only runs under Microsoft Windows. We can't support installations off-site, but can offer you some advice on the various issues relating to both Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Wherever you are, PDA access allows you to reach the Schools database through a portable, handheld device. ePortal supports a wide range of PDA's including Windows Mobile Devices.

Please point your device at: https://mis.southbank.net/eportal/

The school runs an extensive “Management Information System” which holds data about our Students. This information can be securely accessed via the Internet using a webservice called ePortal.

ePortal is the gateway to our database that provides attendance, behaviour, assessment, progress and personal data about each child in a simple-to-understand format through the web interface.

All stakeholders can have their own, secure log-in through ePortal so they can reach information tailored to their needs at any time from any web-enabled computer. Parents have access to their children’s data, teachers to each class, administrators and managers can reach summaries and overviews or drill down to specifics.

You can get to this site via a form in the Sidebar or the link on every page of www.southbank.net. Alternatively, if you have a PDA or Windows Mobile Device, you can access bespoke pages directly at https://mis.southbank.net/eportal/. For further information on Mobile Devices, please refer to this post

1. Open "Network and Sharing Centre" and select "Manage Wireless networks"
2. Click "Add" to add wireless network
3. Click "Manually create a network profile"
4. Enter southbank.net details then click "Next" and "Close"
5. Double click on your new network
6. Untick "Connect to my preferred network if available"
7. Click Security tab and untick "Validate security certificate"
8. Click on the Configure button and untick "Automatically use My Windows logon name and password (and domain if any). Then click OK on all open windows and close
9. You will the be prompted to add additional information and connect to the southbank domain. Enter username & password and 'southbank' as the domain

To see these instructions with screenshots, please read the extended entry below...

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Kensington teachers - in addition to an email that was sent to you, here is an archived copy of the instructions on marking your results in ePortal this year. Please file it in your Essential Binder

Download file

Staff and Students can access information from Schools' Management Information System (ePortal.) A direct link is always maintained on the front page of this website or you can connect to ePortal directly from here.

When prompted for your username and password, use the same credentials that you use to logon to computers in school.

This entry details how you can access your email from anywhere in the world, using Southbank Webmail.  Users who are used to working with a full-blown Microsoft Outlook mail client may find this article on Terminal Services access more relevant.

To start, visit the Southbank Intranet site (www.southbank.net). There is a link in the right-hand sidebar titled 'Webmail'. Click this link.

You will be prompted to put in your username and password. In most cases, the box that pops up will look like one of the boxes below:

As you can see from the boxes above, your username will need to be passed as:

southbank\User Name

You will now have full access to Southbank Webmail and all of the features you would normally find in Microsoft Outlook, including Tasks, Calendars, Shared Calendars, etc.