Technology

Spring Lake Public Schools has a district-wide Student Technology Acceptable Use and Safety policy.  All students are subject to this policy while using school provided technology devices and resources at school or at home.

SL Student Technology Acceptable Use and Safety

Each school has a dedicated student handbook which further defines student responsibilities with school provided technology devices and resources.

Jeffers Elementary – Student Handbook

Holmes Elementary – Student Handbook

Intermediate School – Student Handbook

Middle School – Student Handbook

High School – Student Handbook

The Spring Lake Public Schools 1:1 Technology Program provides every student with a learning device. Students are allowed to take home their school issued device and charger.

An annual student device agreement is required to be completed by a parent/guardian before each student will receive their assigned device.

An annual technology fee of $12 is required for each student. Payment should be submitted online at the end of the agreement form.

SL Student Device Agreement for 24-25

Proper care, operation, and responsibilities for use of a student device are outlined in the corresponding handbooks.

SL DK-4 iPad Handbook

SL 5-12 Chromebook Handbook

Student safety is a top priority for all Spring Lake Public Schools’ admins, teachers, and support staff.

We strive to not only adhere to CIPA (Child Internet Protection Act) and COPPA (Child Online Privacy and Protection Act), but also extend protections beyond these requirements when possible.

Each school software application or service is reviewed for COPPA compliance, and we actively work to keep student data sharing to the absolute minimum required.

Internet access is filtered and logged on all student devices both inside and outside of school.  Each school building has a detailed filter policy on top of a district level CIPA filter policy.

Students who use a school provided Chromebook can browse the ‘filtered’ internet while their device is off-campus.  We encourage parents to be our partner in making sure student screen time is monitored and regulated.  We also encourage parents to set expectations with their student for safe technology use at home.

All Chromebooks should be enforcing the district’s filtering policies off-campus, which includes forcing ‘SafeSearch’ options within search engines such as Google and Bing.

Parents can verify filtering is working by visiting a restricted site, such as www.unsafewebsite.com, on their student’s device while at home.  If there are any signs filtering is not working, we highly encourage parents to stop the device from being used further and report the issue to their student’s school office.

Here is an example of what a blocked site should return:

Students who use a school provided iPad should not be able to browse the internet while their device is off-campus.  We encourage parents to be our partner in making sure student screen time is monitored and regulated.  We also encourage parents to set expectations with their student for safe technology use at home.

Teachers currently send iPads home with directions to use specific apps for homework or to use certain resources for exploratory learning.   School provided iPads should only be used for school related learning purposes.

Students are not allowed to download apps onto their iPads.  The app store has been removed from all student iPads.

If a student opens the Safari web browser and attempts to browse to any site that is not on the authorized resources list, they should be presented with a connection error.

We encourage parents to test this security while their student’s device is at home.  Parents should try common websites such as google.com or bing.com and Safari should return only a connection error.  If there are any signs this restriction is not working, we highly encourage parents to stop the device from being used further and report the issue to their student’s school office or teacher.

Here is an example of what a restricted site should return:

All students in 5-12th grade have access to device support through their school Media Center.  Students are welcome to bring their device at any time for help with questions, failures, or damage.

We encourage students to bring their device in for help to avoid longer term problems that may interrupt their classroom experience.

All students in K-4th grade should report issues or damage to their teacher.  We will address these issues one on one in the classroom.

In all cases, if a student device needs to be repaired, we provide the student with a ‘loaner’ device in the interim.

Parents or students are welcome to email questions or issues to homesupport@springlakeschools.org.