If you are planning on using the Internet with your class, YOU are responsible for training them how to use the Internet properly.

If a student DOES NOT have permission to be on the Internet, they are not to even be sitting at a machine watching someone else on the Internet.

All students must be in a special group in order to have Internet access.  If you are planning on having your students use the Internet, please get the Technology Coordinator a class list so the students can be put in the Internet users group.  Once they are put in there, they will be there until they are taken off of the list.  This is a nice feature because if there is a student misusing the Internet, we can take away their privileges. 

The only way a student can get on the Internet if they are not in the Internet users group is by a teacher putting in their own (the teacher’s) username and password when the student opens up Internet Explorer. 

This could be used in a situation where the student DOES have permission to be on the Internet, but you only want them to be able to use it in your or another teacher’s presence.  Another case where this could be used is when you are training the students on the Internet.  That way they can not get on the Internet until you have completed training them and given the Technology Coordinator the student’s name to be added to the Internet Users Group. 

This should NOT be used just because you haven’t gotten a list of students that need access to the Internet Users Group to the Technology Coordinator.  It should also NOT be used if you aren’t sure that a student has permission to be on the Internet. (Their parent permission form turned in and on file.)

If a student leaves the district – their Internet permission form is no longer valid and their Internet access will be terminated.  They will be required to get a new form signed if they return to the district at a later time.

INTERNET TRAINING GUIDELINES

Here are a few guidelines for you to follow when training your students.

Teach them how to get into the Internet

            *** Note:  They will NOT have access to the Internet under their own name until they have an Internet form turned in and have been trained.  For training purposes, when they start the Internet, it will ask for a user name and password.  Put in YOUR user name and password and it will allow them on the Internet for training.  THIS SHOULD NOT BE DONE ANY OTHER TIME!  If the login screen keeps coming up every time they get on the Internet, it is because they haven’t been given access to the Internet by the Technology Coordinator.  Please contact the Technology Coordinator with the name of the student and then that student will be given access.

Teach them how to use their back, forward, home and stop buttons. 

Teach them where to type in Internet Addresses

Teach them how to do searches

There are search engine links on the Teacher Resources page.  This is a good place to start.  You can also teach them how to type in search engine addresses.

Teach them how to use their address bar to go back to a site that they already typed in.

Let them know that even though we have a filter on the Internet, there are millions of new sites being created every day.  If they get to a site that is inappropriate, they will not get in trouble if they leave immediately.  They can do this by clicking on the Home button or by clicking on the Back button.

Tell them that you must approve all printing before they send it to the printer.  Teach them how to highlight the part of the document that they need and print only the highlighted part.  You could even teach them how to copy from the Internet and paste into Word.  Using that method, they wouldn’t even need to print from the Internet, they could simply print out their word document when they are finished getting references.