There's a 2-Hr Distance Learning Delay Tomorrow, Wed. 4/15
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Anonymous
All schools have police officers who are probably itching for something to do. And with most people staying in their homes, no I really don’t think police officers have better things to do. I saw more police officers sitting on the sides of near-empty highways yesterday than ever before. I guess traffic duty is better than picking the link out of your navel but let’s face it, insurance companies are refunding customers because no one’s driving these days. |
Anonymous
Probably bc the guest link works even when the blackboard site crashes.... |
Anonymous
+1 Yesssss |
Anonymous
+++++++ |
Anonymous
| Anyone having issues logging in to blackboard even with 2 hour delay? |
Anonymous
In our school a student was suspended - out of school, at home suspended - for misuse of technology. (Great Schools 4) and in case you are worried about unequal consequences - NOT a student of color. |
Anonymous
The kids behavior was awful and inexcusable and they should be punished appropriately. However, that doesn’t mean that FCPS shouldn’t have realized there would be issues with security. Several teachers have posted that they had previously raised the issue with the administration but it wasn’t addressed. The county never should have allowed a system where there was no way to keep track of who was entering. So there are two problems here - the kids behavior and FCPS’s failure to establish a secure online learning environment. |
Anonymous
YES |
Anonymous
Yep. But I don’t know if it’s because it’s still being upgraded right now or because too many people are trying to get on. |
Anonymous
| Teacher here- this morning is a complete nightmare. Now we setup our blackboard collaborate ultra through blackboard for students to login. As every teacher is trying to do this within 30 min of school starting while also having to communicate changes to parents, blackboard is down. This will continue to happen. |
Anonymous
This is what happens when the decision-makers haven't been in a classroom in years (or ever) but also "know better" than teachers and tech folks on the front lines. Every teacher I know assumed we were using BBCollab because it could be automatically deployed from the SIS and require BB logins. When that turned out not to be the case it was confusing, and when we realized that the classroom links were essentially public, it was clear that FCPS admin really is clueless. Redoing the classroom links isn't really that big of a deal to me, but this is not an unknown issue and we should have had the last few WEEKS to work on this, rather than cramming it into a few hours at the last minute. Someone (or lots of someones) at Gatehouse & Sprague should lose their job(s) over this, but instead it will be teachers who bear the brunt of the community frustration, as usual. |
Anonymous
+1. We just moved out of NOVA and I told my HS student about these problems with distance learning and the two-hour virtual delay and she smiled and said, "Yeah, that sounds about right. I couldn't learn anything because of all the bad kids. FCPS is way overrated." And she was at a good school. |
Anonymous
| maybe they didn't require a Blackboard log in yesterday because ALL the Elementary kids and ALL the High School kids were on at the same time and they knew it would overload BB. |
Anonymous
| Did your kids really just start online learning?! |
Anonymous
2hr delay means classes start at 11am. Teachers are still in meetings learning and updating the new security system. Links no longer work. Maybe try Google Classroom? |