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Benton Schools Technology Department Technology Resources for Panthers! Authorized Digital Resources Knowledge Base Password Reset Workorder Staff Workorder Student Workorder Cancel Workorder View/Edit Workorder Account Change Form A/V Tech Worker Request Get IP Address BPSD Email Contact Us Sticky Announcements Technology Alerts Google 2-Step Verification / Mutli-Factor Authentication Requirement Google 2-Step Verification / Mutli-Factor Authentication (2SV / MFA) will be required for all staff beginning April 3, 2024 in order to align with standard cybersecurity practices and better protect accounts and data . All staff must enroll prior to the deadline (April 3, 2024) to maintain access to school Google accounts. Please reference the following article for additional information and instructions for enabling this. https://it.bentonschools.org/?epkb_post_type_1=google-2-step-verification Continue reading March 14, 2024 - March 14, 2024 by Brian Lowrance Sticky Uncategorized New SMART Interactive Displays (Smartboards) Several new SMART Interactive Displays (aka Smartboards) have been installed throughout the district this summer. Traditional connectivity to computers at teacher desks often requires new cabling. In the meantime, these SMART Interactive Displays do not require a computer at all to operate. From the board itself, you can login, use the Whiteboard, present Google Slides, show Youtube video’s, draw or annotate on top of anything displayed, etc. You can also connect and present from your computer wirelessly using SMART Mirror (newest Smartboards) or SMART Screen Share (new Smartboards over the past few years). Finally, if direct connection from your laptop to the Smartboard is required and we haven’t reached you with new cabling, you can connect directly to the ports on the front, side or underneath the board. Using these USB ports, you can also directly connect a supported document camera and launch the Visualizer app to present and annotate from the front of your classroom! Please visit SMART’s short training videos to sharpen your skills in using Smart Interactive Displays: https://www.smarttech.com/en/professional-learning/interactive-displays-powered-by-iq We recommend that you start with #1 – Personalize, Sign in to the board” – This is where all of your settings, content, etc will be saved and follow you throughout the campus/district on these. We’ll be providing mini keyboards to help with sign-in, searching and general usage of the Smartboard as soon as we can get them to you. Teachers, if you did not receive one of the newest Smartboards, we are sorry . Unfortunately, it will take time and funds to get all older Smartboards replaced but the wheels are in motion and getting innovative teaching tools like this to your classroom is important to us! Continue reading August 8, 2023 - August 9, 2023 by Brian Lowrance Sticky Announcements Technology Alerts Windows BPSD-VPN Staff with a school issued Windows laptop. An update has been added to the VPN post to alleviate capacity and other issues with the state provided VPN. Please review this post: https://it.bentonschools.org/?p=56 Continue reading February 1, 2023 - February 1, 2023 by Brian Lowrance Sticky Announcements Technology Alerts MAC BPSD-VPN Staff with school issued Macbooks. An update has been added to the VPN post to alleviate capacity and other issues with the state provided VPN. Please review this post: https://it.bentonschools.org/?p=56 Continue reading February 1, 2023 - February 1, 2023 by Brian Lowrance Sticky Announcements Technology Alerts Connecting a Chromebook to home WiFi Your school-issued Chromebook can be connected to your home WiFi. If you are prompted with a list of networks: Select your WiFi network from the list Input your WiFi Network password in the box that comes up. This is often found on the back, side, or bottom of your home network router that connects you to the Internet. Once connected, you should be able to log in with your school credentials (or Clever badge if that is available to you) and access your Google Classroom, Clever, Lexia, etc. If you are not prompted with a list of networks, follow these instructions. Click the WiFi signal icon in the bottom right corner of the screen. Click Not Connected”. Select your WiFi network. Enter the password to connect to your WiFi network. This is often found on the back, side, or bottom of your home network router that connects you to the Internet. Once connected, you should be able to log in with your school credentials (or Clever badge if that is available to you) and access your Google Classroom, Clever, Lexia, etc. Visual Instructions can be found here! Continue reading January 30, 2023 - January 30, 2023 by Brian Lowrance Sticky Announcements Technology Alerts Internet Availability There are various methods to get your student and your family connected to the internet. We wanted to make sure you were aware of the multiple options available. The Benton School District provides student accessible WiFi in the main student parking area and around the PDC at Benton High School as well as in the Football/Soccer, Baseball and Softball field stands, and near the ticket booths at the Athletic Complex. The Saline County Library is open Mon-Thur 9am – 7pm, Fri & Sat: 9am – 4pm. They have high-speed internet available as well as library computers that patrons can use for 90 minutes a day. T-Mobile also has Project 10 Million” to provide free hotspots and internet service to 10 million eligible households. Link: https://www.t-mobile.com/brand/project-10-million Fidelity, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile , and others all service our area in various capacities and each provide a discount to qualifying households of up to $30/mo (or even free) through the FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) . For more information on the FCC’s program you can visit this link https://www.fcc.gov/acp Fidelity Link: https://www.fidelitycommunications.com/acp#ebb-form ViaSat Link: https://www.viasat.com/satellite-internet/affordable-connectivity-program/ HugesNet Link: https://www.hughesnet.com/acp AT&T Link: https://www.att.com/help/affordable-connectivity-program/ Verizon Link: https://www.verizon.com/home/promo/affordable-connectivity-program/ T-Mobile Link: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/offers/t-mobile-brings-the-federal-affordable-connectivity-program-to-more-customers-with-free-wireless-service-at-metro-by-t-mobile *Disclaimer: This post is informational only, the Benton School District is not endorsing nor promoting the providers listed or lack thereof . Continue reading October 13, 2022 - October 13, 2022 by Catherine Ward Sticky Announcements Technology Alerts Student Tech Help! Benton School District Technology Team is here to assist you with issues regarding your school account and/or school issued Chromebook, Macbook or iPad. Our technology workorder for students is located here (click here) ! We will primarily communicate with you via your school email address. Please be sure to keep an eye on that at https://mail.bentonschools.org . You can also review your workorder(s) by clicking theView/Edit Workorder ” link in the menu at the top of this page. Continue reading March 30, 2020 - November 5, 2020 by Brian Lowrance Announcements eSchool/TAC/HAC Links UPDATE 12/28/2020 – Apscn’s work on upgrading eSchool, TAC and HAC is complete. Your old shortcuts/links may not work. Use the following to access these resources: eSchool – http://www.bentonschools.org/eschool TAC – http://www.bentonschools.org/tac HAC – https://www.bentonschools.org/hac Original Post 12/15/2020 Planned Outage Alert – eSchool/TAC/HAC”: Arkansas Public School Computer Network (APSCN) Student Management Unit will be taking eSchoolPLUS (including TAC and HAC) offline Sunday, December 20, 2020 12:00pm (Noon) to begin work applying upgrades to the system. The system is expected to be back online Monday, December 28, 2020 . Continue reading December 15, 2020 -...