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    WiFi Access for Personally Owned Devices (BYOD)

    The district has extend its current “Bring YourOwn Device” initiative to staff, allowing for the professional use of the Internet on wireless devices that are personally owned by staff members. BOE Policy 2360 “Use of Technology” and 2361 “Acceptable Use of Computer Network / Computers and Resources” provide guidelines that pertain to network use, whether with district-owned or personally-owned devices. Staff members may connect to the District_Staff network on their personally owned devices using their network logon credentials.

    Students are NOT permitted to use district network resources at this time on personally owned devices unless parental permission has been granted via an available form. Student device use is at the discretion of the teaching and administrative staff, and it is strictly for the purposes of education. Rules for students and the use of personally owned devices may be found in BOE Policy2363 “Pupil Use of Privately-Owned Technology”.

    The District_Guest network is hosted by the district to provide visitors (e.g., consultants, presenters, service technicians, PFO/BOE members, etc.) with Internet access on the devices they bring in for special purposes on a temporary basis. Building guests must obtain logon credentials from the building administrator's office.

    Visitors have no need to access district network resources, so communication with these is disabled on the District_Guest network. District network resources are all accessible to authorized users on most district equipment, and both students and staff members have ample access to computers and other devices within our schools. All student and staff use of district network resources, whether via district-owned or personally owned equipment, must be in compliance with Board policy

    In providing this service, we need to be responsible for securing access to our internal resources (e.g., servers, appliances, switches, routers, etc.) and data, especially since the Wi-Fi signal can be reached in our parking lots, on our grounds, and in some cases, in surrounding neighborhoods. Threats may come not just from would-be hackers, but also from the potential transfer of malware from devices we neither monitor nor protect from infection. Infected devices on our network can generate significant network traffic, either as the source or destination of unauthorized file transfers, source of spam mail generation, initiators of denial-of-service attacks or a host of other unwanted conditions. Network traffic is monitored, and any rogue or misbehaving device will be removed without notice.