This year continues the expansion of our 1:1 Chromebook initiative. Indian Hill School will receive 405 Chromebooks, with 324 Chromebooks in 12 classroom carts coming from the generosity of the HFEE. This 1:1 availability could potentially greatly reduce the number of days spent on PARCC testing next April.
The Village School PSA will be adding 50 touchscreen Chromebooks in two first grade mobile lab carts. The W.R. Satz School and Holmdel High School will add 180 and 150 Chromebooks in six and five carts respectively. Each student in grades 2-6 will have access to a Chromebook in their classroom. Grades 7-12 have Chromebooks carts in every English classroom, in addition to a large number sign-out carts and PC labs.
InfoSnap online student registration and annual student record updates enters it's second year of service after a successful roll-out this year. InfoSnap is integrated with PowerSchool.
This August will bring a major update to our PowerSchool SMS (Student Management System) with the release of PowerSchool Server 10. This update will finally allow teachers to maintain their PowerTeacher grade book on variety of devices such as Chromebooks.
The district is reviewing new website technologies that will optimize viewing on smaller mobile devices and is also considering a district mobile app for smartphones by summer's end in 2017.
This summer's tasks also include major endpoint protection, security surveillance and remote access updates, as well as six server hardware updates.
Our technology coaches will continue to develop ways to enhance our classroom instruction with technology enhanced lessons as new capabilities or improved access comes online.
