IT Support

The New Kamar Portal for 2024/25

The old portal at portal.dunstan.school.nz is being depreciated and will no longer function from Decemeber 2025

Students can access the new portal at https://dunstan.school.kiwi with a Web Browser.

The portal is mobile friendly. Here is a link to the Kamar help file for the new portal. https://help.school.kiwi/? 

Also here is the link to create a web app on you mobile device home screen so it looks like the old app, https://help.school.kiwi/?03-saving-the-site .

Delete the old Kamar app on your mobile device, It will no longer work.

School Student Accounts:

• Students would have been given a network account name and password . Look after this password and share with no one. This password will give students access to computer's in the school.

• Appendend @dunstan.school.nz and students can login to their Dunstan Gmail and Google Drive accounts.

• The password also works with the new Kamar Portal. Students can access the new portal at https://dunstan.school.kiwi with a Web Browser. The portal is mobile friendly. Here is a link to the Kamar help file for the new portal. https://help.school.kiwi/? . Also here is the link to create a web app on you mobile device home screen so it looks like the old app, https://help.school.kiwi/?03-saving-the-site .

• You will need to use your network username and password to print from some school devices. i.e Library computers.

• On school computers file all data in your Google Drive. Most school computers use Guest accounts. When you logout all data is lost. 

• You can also save data to the shared folder on the  school computer but that data is only accessible only from that computer. Can also be lost if something goes wrong with the computer. Students can also save data back to grover file server. Use your school login name and password to access this server.

• The school Computers have three web browser's loaded, Google Chrome, Firefox and Apple's Safari. If a website is misbehaving or won't work as expected, try one of the other browsers. Although all browsers are good some go better on particular sites.

• The Force Quit application is under the Apple Menu, If a program hangs use this to force quit it.

Printing:

• Students can add printers to personal devices from http://oscar.dunstan.school.nz:9163/setup.
  Follow the instructions for your OS to use Mobility Printing.

• Students can monitor there printing by logging into the Papercuts Server with their network credentials. 

Student Device:

• Students can bring along their own device and should hookup to the open Dunstan-BYOD Wireless Network.

• This WLAN is faster than the other WLAN's to cope with more student devices.

• Make sure no proxy settings are set.

• Google Chrome seems to work best and is designed for the Google Suite, so make sure it's installed on your device.

There is Tech Support in S Block next to S1 at the times below. Also try asking other students if you have problems.