Parts of the lower school and middle school building have gotten much worse during construction for cell phone connections. I don’t think it will change unless a more powerful signal is put in our area. 

One feature that can alleviate this problem is “Wi-Fi Calling.” Some phones have the capability to use your Wi-Fi connection to help get your cell phone to connect for calls and text messages. 

This article explains more about the concept and gives links to instructions for different cell service providers and compatible phone information. Thanks to @bradleychambers on Twitter for the information!
http://boundless.aerohive.com/experts/How-To-Use-Wi-Fi-To-Elimate-Cellular-Dead-Spots.html

If you have tried this feature in the past and it did not work, you may want to try again. The IT Director recently made some firewall changes necessary to support it. 

An iPhone 6 Plus on AT&T has been tested and connected successfully to the service. Tests on other carriers or models have not been done. 

Let the IT Director know if you have a Samsung phone and you are connecting it. He would like to see the settings for that. 

​P.S. When connected on an iPhone  you will see the “Wi-Fi” letters in the upper left hand corner of your device. 

Office 365 has a new feature called "Clutter" which tries to filter out low-priority email from your Inbox to save you time. "Low-priority" email can be newsletters and other promotions that you don't often read. Unfortunately, I have heard from a number of  users that are seeing important email going into their Clutter folder. 

​To see if you have anything in Clutter, look on the left hand column of Outlook for the Clutter folder. It should fall right under "Deleted Items."

Check to see if you have any email in your Clutter folder. If it does not appear, then Clutter is not turned on for your email and  you don't have to do anything further.

TURNING CLUTTER OFF
If you would rather NOT have Clutter filtering your email, then you need to turn it off. 

In order to turn Clutter off, you will need to access your web mail at www.popcsmail.org. Log in to this website with your POPCS email address and email password. Contact [email protected] if you do not know your email password.

Once logged in, choose the "MAIL" option under your list of Office Online features. 

Once you are in your mailbox, look for the settings icon. It is a small gear shaped icon in the upper right hand corner of the windows. Click on the gear and choose OPTIONS from the list. 

Once you click on OPTIONS, you will see a long list of options available to you. Under the MAIL section and under the AUTOMATIC PROCESSING section, you will find CLUTTER. Click on this option and you will see the settings.

To TURN CLUTTER OFF, UNCHECK the 2 boxes that are shown below. Click on SAVE when you are finished.
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With Clutter turned off, you will no longer have any emails go to that folder in Outlook. However, you will still need to access the folder to see any email messages that you received before you made this change.

​Questions? Contact [email protected]