Technology Highlights
At Risk Students Technology Plan
- Currently Provides Devices and Internet Connectivity to Students (To eliminate barriers outside of school)
Began with resources for 100 students (Made possible through the Emergency Connectivity Fund)
Includes input from Principals to discern candidates
Puts them on FRC Radar if not already there
Places some responsibilities/accountability within the household during device usage
- Future Plans
Possibly provide similar supports to Tier 2 and Tier 3 students
May be a better use of 1:1 Chromebooks than current protocols
Network Upgrades
- State Cabinet Re-located to a dedicated Data Center (December 21st)
More stable environment/power supply = less down time per year
Chromebook Repair space
Currently have serviced nearly 50 Chromebooks
Currently have 45 in need of parts to go back into service
- State doubled our speeds from outside from 500 MB/sec to 1 GB/sec
This will help with all online testing (ACT, CASE, INSIGHT, Pearson, RTI)
Ensure Google Classrooms and Google Meets do not lag as often.
Previous monthly bill was $5,386.34 now will be $5,788.97 with speed to hubs doubled from 1GB to 2GB (80% discount) = $1157.80 per month
Gives us a 10GB main Hub (at Data Center)
Doubles our previous Spoke speeds from 1GB/sec to 2GB/sec
- Football Field Project
Current Projects
- Branching Minds Feature Additions
- POS System Upgrades for Food Service
- Interactive Displays for ELL/SPED
- Upgrade of conventional phone lines to Hosted Voice (ATT)
- Wifi Changes to enable varying levels of access/bandwidth
- Cooling Tower Project @ NBE
- Transition of Teacher Workstations from Windows to Google
- Projectors to Displays
- Virtual Machine Array Replacement/Backup Established
- Infinite Campus Clean Up
- Digitizing Board Forms from Policy when applicable.
- Bus Driver Training Room
- Transition of District Website from Schoolpointe to Finalsite