Educational Technology
Adobe Student and Teacher Licensing Program
School District No. 23 is part of an exciting, new program that lets students, teachers, and staff purchase new Adobe creative software for use on their own computers—at amazingly low prices. The program provides discounts of up to 85% off the Suggested Retail Price (SRP) of commercial boxed products and up to 50% less than comparable educational box products. Four Adobe titles are currently available:
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Standard
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Web Standard
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium
Adobe Photoshop® Elements 7 & Adobe Premiere® Elements 7
To purchase Adobe software, you must be, or be purchasing for, a Grade 6 through Grade 12 student or be staff or faculty of School District No. 23. Prices are in Canadian dollars and include one physical install media DVD. Shipping and taxes are extra. All products, excluding the Elements Bundle are available for both Mac and Win. Operating system selection is made at the time of purchase. Prices are in Canadian dollars and adjust with exchange rates.
SD23 Microsoft Software Purchases - for Staff
For District Staff - Microsoft Office Work At Home Rights
Staff in School Districts that are members of the BC Educational Resource Acquisition Consortium and have signed a Microsoft Agreement with ERAC BC are entitled to Work at Home Rights (WAHR) for Microsoft Office. School District No. 23 is a member of ERAC BC. Eligible staff members are able to purchase a full copy of Microsoft Office for their use at home for work related purposes.
Only knowledge workers within the District are eligible for Work At Home Rights. Knowledge workers are classified as staff who regularly use a computer workstation and Microsoft Office to complete their assigned tasks. Generally this has been defined as using a workstation approximately 80% of the time to complete work related tasks. All professional educators are included in the Work at Home Rights agreement because all educators within the District have access to a dedicated computer workstation. Non-knowledge workers, such as maintenance, grounds keeping, noon-hour supervisors, cafeteria staff and other non-knowledge workers are excluded from Work at Home Rights. ERAC has an arrangement with the Learning Resource Center (LRC) in Alberta to provide online ordering and distribution of media for WAHR.
For full details and how to order, District staff should log on to FirstClass and go to the District Knowledge Base. The District Learning Technology Knowledge Base is located in All Staff in the Learning Technology conference.
Department of Learning Technology Work Orders
The Department of Learning Technology's Help Request system has been updated. You log in using your FIRST CLASS UserID and Password to submit a request. By logging in, the Help Request will automatically load your name, school, and email address.
If you are unable to log in, please contact the Help Desk or email contact Dan Campbell through FirstClass.
Once you log in, you can view your Help Requests by Status. Just click the My Requests link to see the requests YOU have submitted. School Administrators and site Technical Contacts can view ALL requests for their school by clicking the All Requests link.
Network Account and Internet Agreements
Internet Safety Links
Visit www.bewebaware.com. Be Web Aware is a national, bilingual public education program on Internet safety. The objective of everyone involved in this project is to ensure young Canadians benefit from the Internet, while being safe and responsible in their online activities.
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