Hi, Ben!

Russ or I will send you some interesting educational-aimed blogs you can share with her if further inspiration is in order.  Also, if your directions are content-oriented, please don't skip the more-technical options-setup steps listed on our wiki, at http://techwiki.cuip.net/Blog_setup .  

(As noted in a posting here, we have put a privacy password on the CUIP TechWiki.  You can use the nsp username with the same elemental password you use on the reporting blog; if you need to give a teacher a password for it, use username "teacher" and password "Web2Teach".)

What is ChildServe?  Let us know if it's something interesting and worth sharing with other teachers.  (I should have started by asking, Is it free?)   From the description of your installation procedure, maybe you were overlooking putting the shortcut into the All Users desktop.  If you're not entirely familiar with that, let Russ or me show you; or if you want to look for yourself, it corresponds to a folder in the filesystem somewhere like C:DocumentsAndSettingsAllUsersDesktop .

Nope, as you suspect the teachers' passwords aren't generated to pattern like the students' passwords.  They are individually and freely chosen (subject to the complexity constraint and non-repetition), and expire after about six weeks, when they are prompted to choose another.  For the most part you want to avoid knowing any teacher's password!

Sure, I'd be interested in seeing the vbs you used, whether sent in email or posted.  If you are inclined to post to the CUIP TechWiki, I've started a stub page called Login Scripts.  .http://techwiki.cuip.net/Login_scripts.

I don't know if E1 is the same one I'm thinking of, but indeed some of those NSIT Dells take a perverse delight in working or stopping unpredictably, and just when you think you have tamed them!

Thanks a lot!

  ==Mitch