Learning management systems provide a digital framework for many aspects of the learning process.

Staff and students in the Germantown School District will exercise good digital citizenship practices:
• Use school technologies only for teaching and learning-related activities; 
• Follow the same guidelines for safe, respectful, responsible behavior online that I am expected to follow offline; 
• Be cautious to protect the safety of myself and others; 
• Treat school technology tools/resources responsibly and alert staff if there is any problem with their operation; 
• Encourage positive, constructive discussion when collaborating or communicating;
• Alert a teacher or other adult staff member if I see threatening/bullying, inappropriate, or harmful content (images, messages, posts) online; 
• Respect the intellectual and digital property rights of others by citing sources when appropriate; 
• Recognize that use of school technologies is a privilege and treat it as such;
• Be mindful of media balance and monitor how much time I am are spending in front of a screen

Information for Parents
Teaching children good digital citizenship skills requires a partnership between the school district and families. It is important to have conversations with your child about best practices when using technology and modeling those best practices at home.  

For more information about how to have conversations with your child or resources on digital citizenship please visit: Common Sense Media.

Additional Resources
8 Ways to Be a Good Digital Citizen
Are you web-aware? A checklist for parents

Borderless Classroom
Borderless Classroom is a Chromebook management platform that allows teachers to monitor student devices during school hours (7:00 am–4:15 pm, Monday–Friday).

Teachers will be able to:
• Share live video with students
• Share their screen with the class, groups of students, or individual students
• View students’ screens in real time
• Redirect student devices using browser tab control
• Lockdown student devices for testing
• Block or allow website access as needed for class
• Send messages to individual students, groups of students, or the class
• Receive automatic class attendance records
• Generate individual activity summary reports

Teachers will NOT be able to:
• Turn a device on or off
• Turn a device’s webcam on or off
• See a student’s screen or webcam view when the device’s camera is in use

Additional Resources
Chromebook Handbook

Julia Leeson
Director of Instructional Technology
jleeson@gsdwi.org
262-946-9100

Tech
techsupport@gsdwi.org
262-502-7170