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WordPress Mobile App Setup

LPS uses WordPress for teacher websites, many school building websites and in a growing list of other situations. The folks at WordPress work hard to produce quality mobile applications for every mobile operating system (iOS, Android, etc.) so that you can easily add posts and pictures, or manage comments from your phone or tablet. Learn […]

Student Data Privacy in Google Apps

Over the past few years, LPS employees have begun to explore the powerful tools within the LPS Google Apps suite. Teachers and Administrators have observed many new opportunities to more efficiently collect, reference and analyze information in this suite, more so than in any tool previously available to all staff. With that in mind many […]

Web Content Filtering in LPS

Web Content Filtering in LPS Federal Regulations In order for the district to receive ERate funding that reduces the cost of our Internet access by by a large percentage, Federal regulations require compliance with guidelines provided in the ‘Children’s Internet Protection Act’ [47 U.S.C. § 254], also known as CIPA. CIPA guidelines require the restriction […]

Digital Content Resources for LPS Teachers

Many LPS teachers are unaware that our school district subscribes to a lengthy list of resources that puts rich digital content at your fingertips. To be clear, these are not your average web pages. These are web based databases of content produced by professional organizations geared towards K-12 classrooms. To access the logins & passwords […]

Embedding Videos in LPS Web Pages

Sometimes, a video is the best way to communicate a thought or idea. Unfortunately, a video’s file size is often much, much larger than you would ever want to directly upload to a web page. Don’t worry, if you have a video, LPS offers tools that can make it easy to add it to your […]

Maintaining a successful school web site

Keep it small Corporations and large non-profits have teams dedicated to planning and managing their web sites. Even with that committment they can find that keeping the content they want online organized and usable to be daunting. Given that the average school web master might spend an hour a week on the web site, expectations must be in line with […]