iparent access

[Guest]

Our school district has service called "iparent" a way for parents to check
on the assignments and grades for their students. I presume this is a pretty
common service in most public school districts today, but I don't know.

Anyway, last March when we got our new computer with VISTA, I was initialy
able to log on and view my student's grades, etc. but after just a few times,
I was locked out. I called our school district's computer people and they
worked with me for a LONG time on the phone trying to get it to work and
finally said, they don't know what the problem is, and that I would need to
contact someone else. They wanted me to let them know when I found the
solution, as they are aware that other people in our school district (which
BTW is the size of Rhode Island) would likely to be getting computers with
the new VISTA program and this will need to be addressed.

I have not needed to access it over the summer, but now again it is an
issue. IDEAS Anyyone??

Heidi
Palmer, AK

 

[Dave]

I never heard of iParent before, but here's a few thoughts..

Can you get to the sign-in page?
Are you using IE7?
Is the school page in the Trusted Sites?
Is your firewall blocking the site?

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Heidi.

Are you a school teacher? Or administrator? Or a parent? Or a student?

I never heard of "iparent", but it took only a second for Google to find
over 50,000 hits for it. Here's the first one:
Instructions for i-Parent
http://www.ccboe.net/iparent.html

It looks like the first several hits, at least, are for other school
districts who are using the program, in GA, WA, NJ and other states - and
Japan?

When I Google for "iparent +vista", I get over 9,000 hits. (But at least
two of the first hits is simply your question - and Dave's
response -"mirrored" on different websites.)

I've not even been able to pin down for sure the company who writes and
sells iParent, but you MIGHT find clues at this site:
http://www.maximus.com/corporate/pages/SchoolMAX.asp

Your problem might be as simple as Run as Administrator - or not. :>(

You might have to ask the person at your school (or school district) who
actually bought and installed the program: Where did you get this and how
do I get support for it?

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)