Technology
The Lorain City Schools Technology Department is responsible for the ordering, inventory, installation, repair, and maintenance of all technology for both students and staff. This includes teacher laptops, staff desktop and laptop units, interactive whiteboard systems, computer labs, iPads, Elmo document cameras, computer carts and a host of other devices used daily by students and staff.
In addition, the department has overall responsibility for managing and monitoring the district's computer network, telephone system, and Help Line to support remote learning and technology problems.
General Monitoring Notice
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Lorain City School District is committed to providing students with seamless access to technology for educational purposes within the school environment. To that end, the District may issue students “school-issued devices” during the school year. These devices include hardware, software, devices, and accounts that the district, acting independently or with a technology provider, provides to an individual student for that student’s dedicated personal use.
Ohio law generally prohibits a school district or its technology provider from electronically accessing or monitoring
- the location-tracking features of a school-issued device;
- the audio or visual receiving, transmitting, or recording feature of a school-issued device;
- student interactions with a school-issued device, including but not limited to the keystrokes and web-browsing activity.
However, general monitoring is permitted in certain circumstances, and in any year a school district elects to implement general monitoring, parents of enrolled students must be provided notice of such general monitoring.
As a result, the District is notifying you that it implements general monitoring when:
- The activity is limited to a noncommercial educational purpose for instruction, technical support, or exam proctoring;
- The activity is permitted under a judicial warrant;
- The device is missing or stolen;
- The activity is necessary to prevent or respond to a threat to life or safety, and the access is limited to that purpose;
- The activity is necessary to comply with federal or state law;
- The activity is necessary to participate in federal or state funding programs.
If you have any questions about the District’s general monitoring practices, please contact:
Drew Stevens Executive Director of Information Technology Lorain City Schools 440-830-4035 dstevens@lorainschools.org.
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HELP DESK
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Custodial/Maintenance Needs
HELPLINE
(440) 830-4036
Ext. 44036
ACCESSING ACCOUNTS
PowerSchool
Marnie McCardle
440-830-4053 (ext 44053)
Angie Reynolds
EMIS
440-830-4089 (ext 44089)
Google/Clever
Mercedes Rivera
440-830-4090 (ext 44090)
Drew Stevens
Director
(440) 830-4035
Ext. 44035
Coordinator
(440) 830-4036
Ext. 44036