You can do one of two things:

1. Go the the Media Center in your School. They can assess you a fine so that you can pay using My School Bucks.

OR

2. Go directly to the DELL store. You can purchase directly from their website and have it shipped to your home.

Ensure one of these links are being used:

www.dell.com/mpp/smcps (click Shop Recommended Solutions to get to the discounted power cords)

www.dell.com/mpp/smcps-chargers (leads directly to the purchasing portal)

What is "Destiny?"

Destiny is the management system used for all SMCPS print and tech resources. This is where we check out novels, textbooks, laptops, and consumables.

This is also where we assess any fees or fines for:

1. Lost and damaged laptops and chargers
2. Lost textbooks and novels
3. Lost library books
4. Fees for instrument rentals

Please pay attention to your email for notices coming from the email name "Destiny: Library Checkouts and Fines".

We send out notices every few weeks just to let students know WHAT they have on their accounts, what is overdue, and what fines may have been assessed.

These notices always include CURRENT checkouts. This does not mean those items have to be returned. All students keep their laptop and charger YEAR round. They only return those when they move or graduate.

Use my School Bucks for cafeteria purchases OR to PAY FOR INVOICES for technology debt & library books.

REMEMBER: adding money to your student's cafeteria account DOES NOT transfer over for paying invoices for tech/library debt.

When a media specialist marks anything as lost or damaged in Destiny, that fee AUTOMATICALLY shows up as a "real time fee" in My School Bucks. (*again, do NOT add funds to the cafeteria account. Use the Pay Invoice option.)

Please refer to this information on My School Bucks and your school library.

If you need to pay over time, consider making PARTIAL PAYMENTS.

Questions: resources@smcps.org

Students are held accountable for laptops all year, including summer.

Here are the guidelines care.

1. Keep your laptop in a secure place. You are responsible if a laptop is stolen or lost.
2. Please review the procedures in our Accountability Document for "Care of Laptops Offsite"
3. If you need help with your device please submit a helpdesk ticket using these directions.
4. All students are issued a school laptop.
5. It is your responsibility for the care and upkeep of your device.
6. A school laptop costs 350.00.
7. Laptop charger replacements cost 35.00.

If you break a laptop, there is a repair cost. Please take care of your device.

Laptop and Charger Information

While SMCPS understands that there may be typical wear and tear issues associated with devices, if a student intentionally destroys or through severe misuse damages a laptop, there is a repair cost. Please take care of your device.

Laptop and Charger Information

Additionally, students that damage another student's laptop can be billed for the repair.

There are disciplinary consequences to inappropriate laptop use.

Please see Code 810 in the Student Code of Conduct.

Please see this guidance on how to run updates on your laptop. Please update your laptop regularly.

Students have textbooks checked out in their names in most grade levels and classes. Textbooks have barcodes starting with a TB and then up to 15 digits.

Those books need to return those textbooks and novels prior to the last day of school.

Any resource NOT returned prior to June 15th is mark as LOST. Anything LOST will incur a fine.

Fine notices will be emailed in July. If you have the resource you can return it to the school.

Textbooks MUST BE returned at the end of the school year.

A consumable is a resource that students have checked out to them that can be written in. Examples of consumables at the elementary level are Bridges Student book and Number Corner.

Examples of consumables at the middle school level are the science modules, Springboard and My Perspectives for ELA, and the Carnegie Math books. At the high school level students also have consumables in math and ELA courses.

While students do not have to return these, they are held accountable if they lose them and need a replacement.

Consumables do NOT get returned at the end of the school year.

Make sure you return and/or renew your library books. Anything not returned will be marked as a LOST book and a fine notice will be emailed. Find those books or renew them to keep reading them. Questions on LIBRARY books? See your media specialist.

Student Withdrawal

When students leave SMCPS, the following items must be returned prior to withdrawing.

• All textbooks and resources

• All technology (laptops, chargers, iPad/charger, hot spots)

• All Media Center books and resources

• If anything is not returned a fine will be assessed for the cost of the materials and technology.

• The Media Specialist at each site has a record of what each student has checked out.

If you are a student who is transferring schools within the county, here are the procedures you need to follow:

• Media Center Books: These stay at the school you are leaving. Those resources will be returned to the Media Center.
• TEXTBOOKS and Consumables: These do not get returned and can be taken with you to your new school.
• Laptops, chargers, hotspots, and iPads (all TECH): This stays with you.
• Information on resource fines and accountability is located in the this document. Fines are assessed on items not returned to the school they belong to.

Students are held liable and accountable for checked out resources, (textbooks, consumables and technology). If anything is lost, stolen, or broken fines are assessed to the student's account.

Each consumable, textbook and media center book has its own price which can be found in Destiny OR by asking the media specialist.

Technology device repair and replacement costs can be found HERE. Click on "Pricing".

New for 2022: My School Bucks and your Media Center