Blonde Tutorials: A Little Extra Help for the Blonde in Everyone!

NOTICE OF EISD INTERNET POLICY:
Early ISD provides Internet and network services to students and employees for educational purposes only. Employees may access these services for personal use after 3:30 PM and before 8:00 AM on weekdays and all day on weekends.

•Authenticating (Breaking a Block)• || •Requesting a Site be Unblocked for Classroom Use•

Authenticating (Breaking Through an Internet Block):
••When you get to a blocked website, you will see this page:

Username: this is the same name you use to log in to your computer every day (firstname-lastname).

Password: this is the same password you use to log in to your computer every day.

"click here": use this ONLY if

you need this site for your classroom (and it will still have to be approved by your campus principal)
it is after 3:45 pm and before 8 am and your username/password did not work

When you enter your username and password (after 3:45 pm and before 8 am), you will get a little window confirming that you are logged in to Lightspeed as an employee.
As long as you leave this window open, you should be able to access any appropriate Internet site.

Requesting a Site be unblocked for Classroom Use:
NOTE: All unblock requests are approved/disapproved by the campus principal.
••If you come across a site that you need for educational purposes in your classroom:

"click here": use this ONLY if

you need this site for educational purposes in your classroom (and it will still have to be approved by your campus principal)
it is after 3:45 pm and before 8 am and your username/password did not work

BEST PRACTICE: Test all sites that you want your students to use before you try to use them in class. Test the sites no more than 1 week before you intend to use them (the filter updates on a daily basis).
This cannot guarantee that you/your students won't get blocked during an activity, but it will reduce the chances.

After you "click here", you will get a window to enter your information for the request.

Please be specific as to why you need this site unblocked.
Include information on the class, the activity/project like "My Career Ed class is doing a project over marketing and purchasing online".

Please do not allow students to send in unblock requests.
If a student needs a site for an assigned activity, the teacher should send in the request.

This is the report that we receive when a request is sent in.

Blocked URL: this shows us only the domain that is blocked. (this is why we will often email you back asking for the "exact address")

Client's Host Name: tells us exactly what computer from which the request was sent

Client's User Name: tells us exactly who was logged in when the request was sent

Reason for review: gives the campus principal the information he/she needs to approve/disapprove the site

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