Tech Updates - Supporting Information

Tech Corner Updates 

• Tech Camp Sessions
• Filtering Games, 
• Restricting Chrome Web Store 
• Accessing home google account

Here is the supporting information :)

TECH CAMP

Total of four sessions for each grade level.  Check schedule for dates, content as well as who will be presenting the lessons to your class - info is also listed on the staff calendar.  We ask that ALL students attend these sessions by homeroom and invite all others to join a session with their homeroom pod buddy.

We are just trying to remove some of the distractions from the educational use of chromebooks.

FILTER - BLOCKING GAMES

Our plan is to filter and block the entire games category for students - this will not block anything that is tagged as an educational game but it should help in blocking the IO stuff and other games that students shouldn't be accessing.  Again, whatever lightspeed tags as an educational game, that will still work.  

This should be put into place within the next day or two - if there are any sites that no longer works after this update that you feel should work, please send me the web address.

GOOGLE WEB STORE

We are in the process of restricting the webstore so students cannot add non-approved apps and extensions to their school google account.

ACCESSING HOME GOOGLE ACCOUNT

We put a restriction into student accounts with our management software so student can no longer log into their home google accounts while logged into their school accounts.  We hope this will minimize their switching between accounts during class.  Note: In order to access their home accounts, they would need to log out of their school account and log into their home account.