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Scotia-Glenville IT plans student help desks, moves from PowerSchool to SchoolTool and tightens cybersecurity
Summary
Megan Johnson outlined IT initiatives: student-run help desks at middle and high schools, migration from PowerSchool to SchoolTool, multi-factor authentication in 2025, centralized printing with secure release, and Chromebook inventory and repair improvements.
Megan Johnson, speaking for the district IT team, gave the board an overview of current and planned technology initiatives intended to improve classroom services, security and user support across the Scotia-Glenville Central School District.
Johnson said the district will launch student-run help desks at both the middle school and high school next week to provide device repair, loaner Chromebooks and basic technical support. "We're going to be launching our 1st student help desk at both the middle school and the high school," she said, and described training that will allow students to perform Chromebook repairs, website and app projects and 3-D printing tasks (Megan Johnson, IT department representative).
The district will replace PowerSchool with a new student information system, SchoolTool, next year after a committee vetted multiple platforms. Johnson…
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