Over the past 4 years, students in Brighton Area Schools have been using personal Google accounts (@gmail.com) to transfer work from school to home, collect research from online library databases, submit assignments to teachers, and collaborate with other students on group projects. Starting in the Fall of 2011, the District will be creating specialized Google accounts for all students in grades 5-12 using the email address user@brightonk12students.com.
As part of the implementation process, the District Technology Committee sought feedback from parents about the policies that should govern these student accounts. The results of the survey are available at http://links.brightonk12.com/studentgooglesurveyBased in part on that feedback, and on the educational priorities of the Committee, the following restrictions will apply to these brightonk12students.com Google accounts: - Accounts will be created for students in grades 5-12
- Students will be able to send and receive email to the outside world
- Students will have access to both the teacher directory and the student directory
- Parents will be given their student's account password, and students will not be able to change it
- Students will not be able to publish documents to the public web
- Students will not be able to create public Google groups (they can still create mailing list groups in their personal contacts)
What online collaborative tools provided by Google will be available to students? What are the District's policies for these student accounts (@brightonk12students.com)? - These accounts are intended to be used for appropriate educational purposes and access to these accounts would be considered a privilege, not a right, for students.
- These accounts are governed by the District's Acceptable Use Policy.
- Parents may opt out of all Internet access for their child, which would also opt out of access to these brightonk12students.com Google accounts.
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