Approved Programs (Apps, Extensions, & Software)

Columbia County School District (“CCSD”) takes the protection of student data very seriously and CCSD adopts all reasonable measures to protect personally identifiable information (“PII”) about students. CCSD asks each company that requests or is provided PII about students to agree to the terms of or student privacy policy and procedure.

The following are educational digital content websites that provide free or paid academic programs but require student data to be loaded into them. The CCSD Office of Digital Learning reads and evaluates each program's privacy policy before CCSD staff and students are able to use them. The following websites/programs have been approved or rejected solely based on their student data privacy policies.

Please contact the Office of Digital Learning if you have questions about the Columbia County School District Student Data Privacy policy and procedure.

Please submit an ODL Ticket for software request, to begin the evaluation process of a site or vendor that is requesting student data.

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Student Online Personal Information Protection Agreement

Columbia County School District (“CCSD”) takes the protection of student data very seriously and CCSD adopts all reasonable measures to protect personally identifiable information (“PII”) about students. CCSD asks each company that requests or is provided PII about students to agree to the terms of the following agreement. The purpose of this agreement is to protect the students of CCSD. Accordingly, CCSD and operator hereby agree as follows:

This agreement applies to the operator in which PII of a CCSD student is:

  • Provided by a student or parent for school purposes;

  • Provided by CCSD or agents for the CCSD;

  • Gathered by the operator through the operator’s services that clearly describes a CCSD student or identifies a CCSD student.

The PII about students that is covered in this agreement includes, but is not limited to:

  • Information in the student’s educational record maintained by CCSD;

  • First and last name, home address, telephone number, email address, or other information that allows physical or online contact with the student and/or parent;

  • Date and place of birth;

  • Participation in officially recognized activities and sports;

  • Dates of attendance and graduation;

  • Discipline records, test results, special education data, juvenile dependency records, grades, and evaluations;

  • Criminal and/or juvenile court records, medical records, health records, social security number, any recognized disabilities;

  • Socioeconomic information, food purchases,

  • Text messages, student identifiers, online search activity, photos, videos, voice recordings, or geolocation.

  • Information contained in student records as defined by 20 USC § 1232g and 34 CFR Part 99

The operator is prohibited from using PII student data to:

  • Conduct targeted advertising on their website, mobile application, etc or use targeted advertising on other websites, when such targeting is based on information (as defined above or persistent unique student identifiers) acquired by the operator because of the use of the operator’s website or mobile app.

  • Create or gathering information about CCSD students and using that collected information to create a profile of the students, except in cases when the information is used for school purposes.

  • Selling student’s PII (including information defined above).

If the operator utilizes a subcontractor or other third party vendor to manage students’ data then, the operator shall require the subcontractor or other third party to prohibit the use of any PII about CCSD students for any purpose other than providing the contracted service to, or on behalf of, the operator. Also, the operator shall require the subcontractor or other third party to prohibit the disclosure or sharing of any PII about CCSD students with subsequent third parties, and shall require the subcontractor to implement and maintain reasonable information and data security procedures and practices.

Aside from the non-disclosure of PII about CCSD students, operators will comply with the following security and deletion requirements:

  • Implement and maintain security procedures to protect PII about students from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure;

  • Operator shall not release PII about students without parental or student (if age 18 or older) consent, other than the release of such information to authorized subcontractors and other third parties who provide services to operator to support operator’s service to CCSD under this Agreement;

  • Delete all PII about students if CCSD requests deletion of data under the control of CCSD.

  • The operator will indemnify, defend and hold CCSD harmless from any damages, costs, losses (including loss of state or federal funding), fines, claims, demands, suits, actions or causes of action in law or in equity, in state or federal court, or before any administrative body that are caused by or arise out of operator’s breach of this Agreement.

Operator may use PII about CCSD students for the following purposes, as long as all aggregated or anonymized data must be adequately de-identified :

  • Maintain, develop and improve the operator’s website or mobile app;

  • Legitimate research purposes as required by state or federal law;

  • Using de-identified data to improve operator’s products;

  • Learning purpose, such as for adaptive learning;

  • NOTE: You may also view the Student Privacy Pledge online.


Data Privacy Laws

Districts must following the following federal, state and local laws:

  • Child's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) - Schools and libraries subject to CIPA may not receive the discounts offered by the E-rate program unless they certify that they have an Internet safety policy that includes technology protection measures. The protection measures must block or filter Internet access to pictures that are: (a) obscene; (b) child pornography; or (c) harmful to minors (for computers that are accessed by minors). Schools subject to CIPA have two additional certification requirements: 1) their Internet safety policies must include monitoring the online activities of minors; and 2) as required by the Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act, they must provide for educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and response.

  • Child's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) - COPPA imposes certain requirements on operators of websites or online services directed to children under 13 years of age, and on operators of other websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age.

  • Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) - The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99) is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education.

  • Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act Amendment - Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue regulations requiring video services to prevent child pornography.

  • General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) - Only impacts those schools in the EU.


Websites to Protect Student Data and Privacy

APPROVED APPS, EXTENSIONS, SOFTWARE, & WEBSITES

District Provided Programs


District Purchased or Bulk Purchased Programs

Approved Programs

A

  • ABC Mouse

  • ABCya

  • Adapted Mind

  • Adobe Creative Cloud

  • AP Planner

  • Applied Educational Systems

B

  • Be Internet Awesome (Google)

  • Biblionasium

  • Blendspace

  • Blooket

  • Bloomz

  • Bookwidgets

  • Boom Learning

  • Book Adventures

  • Book Creator

  • BrainPop and Brain Pop Jr.

  • Breakout Edu

  • BuzzMath.com

C

  • Canva

  • Capstone Interactive

  • Carnegie Learning

  • Car Rider Pro

  • CK12.com

  • ClassCraft

  • Class Dojo

  • Class Solver

  • ClassroomScreen

  • Cloud Stop Motion

  • Code.org

  • Code Studio

  • CodeHS

  • CommonLit

  • Conjuguemos

D

  • Data Manager

  • Deck Toys

  • Delta Math

  • Desmos

  • Destiny

  • Discovery Education

  • Draw.io

  • Drone Pilot

  • doulingo

E

  • Easel.ly

  • Edia.app

  • Edmentum

  • EdPuzzle

  • Educators Handbook

  • Educreations

  • Edulastic

  • Emaze

  • Encyclopedia Britannica

  • Epic Books

  • EquatIO

  • ESGI

  • Eureka Online

  • EverFi

  • ExamView

  • ExpertTA

F

  • FastBridge

  • First in Math

  • FlipaClip

  • FlipGrid

  • Flippity

  • Flocabulary by NearPod

  • Flubaroo

  • Freckle

G

  • Galileo

  • GameSalad

  • Generation Genius

  • Gimkit

  • Go Noodle

  • Good Reads

  • Google Workspace

  • Goose Chase

  • Grinch Code

H

  • Hapara Dashboard/Clever

  • Happy Numbers

  • History Alive

  • Hippocampus

  • HMH

  • Hooda Math

I

  • iCivics

  • Illuminate Education

  • Imagine Learning

  • Impero

  • Infinite Campus

  • iReady

  • iStation

  • IXL

J


K

L

  • Language!

  • Language Live

  • Launch Therapy Center

  • Learning Ally

  • Learning.com

  • Learning A-Z

  • Legends of Learning

  • Lexia

  • Lightbot

  • Lyrics2Learn

M

  • Mathseeds

  • McGraw-Hill ConnectED

  • Mediacast

  • Minecraft Code

  • Moby Max

  • Moxie Reader

  • MyPLTW

  • Mystery Science

N

  • Nearpod

  • NewsELA

  • No Red Ink

O

  • Oodlu

  • Osmo

  • Overdrive

P

  • Padlet

  • PBIS Apps

  • Peardeck

  • Pearson/SAVVAS

  • PebbleGo

  • Pixton

  • Plickers

  • Popplet

  • PowToons

  • Prodigy

Q

R

  • Raz Kids

  • Read & Write - Text help

  • Ready A-Z

  • Reading Counts

  • Reading Eggs

  • Reading IQ

  • Reading Rewards

  • ReadNaturally

  • ReadTheory

  • ReadWorks

  • Reflex Math

  • Remind

  • Renaissance

S

  • Safari Montage

  • Scholastic - All

  • Scratch

  • ScreenCastify

  • SeeSaw

  • Sight Reading Factory

  • SIRS Discoverer

  • SIRS Issue Researcher

  • SMORE - Teacher Only

  • Snap! Raise

  • Socrative

  • SplashMath.com

  • Spelling City

  • Starfall

  • StemScopes

  • Stick and Split

  • StoryBird

  • Storyworks

  • Studies Weekly

  • Studio Code

  • StoryBoardThat

  • Study.com

  • Study Island

  • Study Stacks

  • Sumdog

  • SumoPaint

  • SWIS - PBIS Apps

T

  • Talking Points

  • Ten Marks

  • Thinglink

  • TinkerCAD

  • Tome Student - ALL

  • Tract

  • Turnitin

  • TumbleBook Audio

  • TumbleBook Math

  • Tynker Code

  • Typing.com

  • Typing Clud

U

  • USA TestPrep

V

W

  • Wakelet

  • Web Assign

  • Whiteboard.Chat

  • Whooo's Reading

  • Worldbook

  • WordWall.net

  • Write Score

  • Writing City

X

  • XtraMath

Y

  • Youtube

Z

  • Zearn

  • Zipgrade