DIGITAL RESOURCE APPROVAL PROCESS

Approved digital resources and the process for requesting approval of additional resources

Greece Central School District policies and regulations regulate the use and selection of Instructional Materials (texts, media, and digital resources such as websites, software, extensions, app, etc).

Per these policies and NYS Education Law 2-d, staff members may NOT use unapproved digital resource that meet any of the following criteria:

1. requires installation on a district device, OR

2. collects any personally identifiable information (last name, email, id, address, pictures/videos, personal questions, biometrics, etc). This includes any resource requiring individual student accounts, OR

3. exposes students to advertising or the potential to create individual accounts.

Browse the master list of District Approved Resources and get more information by visiting:

PROCESS FOR REQUESTING ACCESS/APPROVAL OF ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

If the resource meets ANY of the 3 criteria above, discuss the resource with your Instructional Technology Teacher or Curriculum Standards TOSA or Administrator and then complete our Instructional Digital Resource Request Form. This request will be reviewed by the technology team and related curriculum standards administrator. Finally, a signed data privacy agreement as required by New York State will be pursued with the vendor by the technology department. This process can take time and applies to both FREE and PAID resources.

If the resource does NOT involve criteria 1, 2, or 3 listed above but is only blocked by our web filter, complete a "Blocked Site/Resource" request at webhelpdesk.greececsd.org. Sign in with your network credentials. If we determine that the resource does involve any of the criteria, you will be redirected to the process below.