Other Resources

The programs listed have an application process. In general, if your family is eligible for the free or reduced-price lunch program you will meet the requirements. PCs for People has a broader income requirement.

Comcast: Internet Essentials service, $9.95/month, with the first two months' service free for new customers. Please call 855-846-8376 for more information.

Charter: Spectrum Internet Assist service, $15-20/month, with the first two months' service free to families with K-12 and/or college students and installation fees waived. Please call 844-488-8395 for more information.

CenturyLink: CenturyLink Internet Basics, about $10/month. Please visit centurylink.com/lifeline or call 888-833-9522 for more information.

PCs for People: low-cost unlimited 4G broadband access with mobile hotspots. They may be ordered online or in person at their store at 1548 W Alameda Ave Unit C, Denver (Alameda between Tejon and I-25).

Comcast WiFi: Comcast has opened access to Xfinity WiFi hotspots across the country to anyone who needs them for free, including non-Xfinity Internet subscribers. For a map of Xfinity WiFi hotspots, visit www.xfinity.com/wifi. Once at a hotspot, users should select the “xfinitywifi” network name in the list of available hotspots and then launch a browser.

Conifer-area public WiFi: The following businesses and public facilities have agreed to allow Conifer students the use their public WiFi from their parking lots to do schoolwork:

• Park County Public Library, 350 Bulldogger Road, Bailey: WiFi access information is posted of the book drop located outside of the building.

• Bean N Bakery, 16 Mt Evans Boulevard, Pine: open access WiFi available in the parking lot.

• Ernie's Mountain Bakery and Café, 30403 Kings Valley Drive #105, Conifer: please call 303-816-2880 to access the WiFi from the parking lot.

• Elk Creek Elementary School, 13304 US Highway 285: WiFi access available in the upper parking lot closest to the building; please login as a guest user. The school grounds and playgrounds are closed.

All four of these locations are providing WiFi for users to access in their personal vehicle only. Please do not gather as a group.

As you are helping to facilitate remote learning, you might see your student be prompted to log into Securly to use an internet browser. Securly is the application that manages web filtering on Jeffco-issued devices when they are being used outside of the Jeffco network. Your student’s @jeffcoschools.us address and password should log them into the application with no issues.

In addition, Jeffco is in the process of launching the use of the SecurlyHome app for parents/guardians to use to monitor their students’ activities on their Jeffco devices. This has been turned on district-wide, but the welcome emails are being delivered slower than expected. Visit the public website for more information about Securly and the SecurlyHome app.

If you are using a smartphone or tablet for remote learning, the following free applications should be downloaded onto the device:

Google Classroom (App Store / Google Play)

Google Docs (App Store / Google Play)

Google Drive (App Store / Google Play)

Google Slides (App Store / Google Play)

There are a lot of Chrome extensions that support learning by making material more accessible or providing tools that make it easier to do certain tasks. Here are a few our students use:

All Jeffco students have access to EquatIO, a Chrome extension that allows users to enter equations, formulas, and graphs into G Suite documents (Docs, Sheets, Slides) using a keyboard, a digital handwriting tool, or speech dictation.

Line Height Adjuster is a Chrome extension that allows users to adjust the spacing between lines on web pages for increased readability.

OpenDyslexic is a Chrome extension that can change any web-based text into the OpenDyslexic font, which assists people with dyslexia in decoding and reading with fluency. It works on all documents and web pages if the extension is running.

All Jeffco students have access to Read&Write, a Chrome extension with multiple literacy tools including text-to-speech reading, word prediction, and other tools to enhance reading comprehension and understanding.

Smart TOC is a Chrome extension that creates a floating table of contents for web pages that use HTML heading tags properly.

Voice typing is part of Google Docs and Slides when you are using a Chrome browser.