RRISD Device Information
ROUND ROCK ISD TECH UPDATES - Chromebooks
With the first day of school quickly approaching, I would like to review the chromebook plan with everyone to make sure we are good to go with the 1:1 student chromebook program this year.
The expectation is that every student has a fully charged district chromebook with them each day for all of their classes. This device will be taken home each night and brought back each day. How you can help make this happen:
Complete the Student Device Agreement form in Infosnap (the RRISD student registration online forms). Parents need to complete this each year.
Talk with your student and find a place in your home to charge the chromebook each night.
Help your student get in the habit of plugging up the device each night and putting it back in their backpack each morning.
If you do not have a chromebook yet, we will work on getting one to your student during the first 2 weeks of school.
Students are welcome to use their own device, provided it can do what it needs to for each of the classes. Tech support is not available for personal devices. Personal devices will need to be onboarded on the district wifi. The directions are provided below. Students and parents are welcome to come up to school and work through these directions before school starts. We have wifi access in the small parking lot and under the bus canopy.
If you already have a chromebook, please do a quick check-up on the device before school begins:
Turn it on and make sure it is working properly
Clear the cache (should be done once every few weeks)
Update Chrome - should be done once a month.
If you find that the chromebook has developed some issues over the summer that the above steps did not solve, you can bring it up to Stampede the Canyon on August 12th to have it checked out. Depending on the issue, you may have to leave the chromebook with me so it can be ready for the first day of school.
I look forward to working with your students this year to serve their technology needs.
Angela Castro
Canyon Vista Instructional Technology Specialist