Fayette County School District has decided to change the Wi-Fi passwords to keep students from weighing down the Wi-Fi network.
Many IFP’s and other technology were crashing during classes causing an issue with teachers and students being able to complete their work.
“The district and their networking team investigated it and found that a lot of students with their cell phones were on our Wi-Fi,” said Melissa Brewer, “so it was weighing down our network as a whole causing teachers to not be able to get there work and the things they needed for curriculum to be covered in the classroom”
Only issued devices will now have access to the Wi-Fi, so that the technology will not crash.
“The district’s view in the change is that you should have a Fayette county issued device that is on the Fayette county network, ” said Brewer. “So if you have a teacher issued device or student issued device through the district then everything should be fine.”
Consequences of students found on the Wi-Fi are unclear, since students shouldn’t be able to get on it anymore.
“I’m not sure that students can get on anymore,” stated Brewer, “but that would be a job for an administrator. I’m thinking at this point no students can even get on the Wi-Fi.”
This not only is a change in Fredrick Douglass, but the whole Fayette County School District.
“It is not just a Fredrick Douglass thing because it was also affecting other schools as well,” said Brewer. “All of the high schools have gone through this and it was a district change that they have decided to do.”
Frederick Douglass seems to have had this problem for a while, even before the district issued Chromebooks.
“A long time ago we used to have BYOD (bring your own device to school),” remembered Brewer “but it was just weighing everything down so bad, so I think it was okay for a while with you guys just having phones, but now it is just too much with the additional things that are going on with the district with technology.”