Minidoka County School District
Technology Dept Report
December 8, 2015
Classroom Technology
· We still have schools purchasing technology and we are keeping up with getting them provisioned where they go.
Teacher Laptops
· All of the teachers have received their laptops that were planned for this year. Next year is budgeted to get the last of the teachers a new laptop. (need qty 80)
Infrastructure
· Video Surveillance
o The plan is to purchase several different brands and models of cameras and to figure out what we want to purchase as our standard cameras.
o Challenges
§ Keeping them clean , focused, and positioned
§ Large amount of requests to move or re-angle
§ Several areas not covered.
§ Now that we have made it so easy to get to the video feeds we have more requests for moving or adding cameras.
o Info
§ Acequia and Paul are the only schools without the new Servers to be able to remotely view and manage video.
§ The plan is to have a set amount of Budget every year to replace, move, or repair cameras and servers.
§ We currently have 9 Servers; 269 Cameras; 29 Failed Cameras
· WiFi
o WiFi coverage is actually very good throughout the buildings. We still need to add units to be 1 AP in every classroom.
o The current WiFi Standard is WiFi-AC and we have several schools with WiFi-N units that will not be sufficient for new devices in the coming years.
o Paul Elementary, Minco, and Mt. Harrison’s systems need replaced in the next year while we can get eRate reimbursement on them.
o There is a chance that the state will not fund the WiFi at Minico and Mt. Harrison any more.
· Phones
o Cell Phones
§ Due to the board meeting being moved up a week, we will be presenting a solution to continue cell phone coverage that will be presented at the Board Meeting. We have an eRate timeline that does not allow us to pick a vendor until December 10th.
o Office and Classroom Phones
§ The district office is getting an upgrade to the phone system this week. This doesn’t change any thing as far as use, just helps in connecting to the other systems.
§ Rupert Elementary is getting an entirely new system for phones during Christmas break. They currently have 17 classrooms without functioning phones.
· Intercom
o We will be trying out some solutions at the DSC to determine new speakers and call buttons that will interface with the new phone systems.
Work Orders
Work orders are not a good judgment in amount of work completed because we do several things that are not put into work orders and we do not track time worked on each work order.
· October
o 106 New
o 139 Resolved
o 18 Incomplete
· November
o 92 New
o 85 Resolved
o 25 Incomplete