Instructional Technology
The Little Chute Area School District partners with families to empower students to use technology safely, responsibly, and effectively while fostering digital citizenship, critical thinking, collaboration, communication skills, and innovative learning, ensuring learners are prepared to thrive in a dynamic digital world.
With strong support from the Little Chute community, students are provided personal devices to be used as an integrated tool to enhance and support learning. In addition, we use a variety of software to aid in teaching and learning. Keeping our students' privacy at the forefront of learning, we review applications prior to student use. We obtain permission if parental permission is required for our learners through the registration process.
The following information and resources support student learning and our mission for data privacy.
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Google Workspace for Education Notice to Parents and Guardians
The Little Chute Area School District uses Google Workspace for Education that is a set of education productivity tools, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Classroom, and more, that students will use to complete assignments, communicate with their teachers, and learn 21st-century digital citizenship skills.
This notice describes the personal information we provide to Google for these accounts and how Google collects, uses, and discloses personal information from students in connection with these accounts.
Using their Google Workspace for Education accounts, students may access and use the following "Core Services" offered by Google (described at https://workspace.google.com/terms/user_features.html):
- Assignments
- Calendar
- Classroom
- Cloud Search
- Drive and Docs
- Gmail
- Google Chat
- Google Chrome Sync
- Google Meet
- Google Vault
- Groups for Business
- Keep
- Migrate
- Sites
- Tasks
Google Additional Services
In addition, we also allow students to access certain other Google services with their Google Workspace for Education accounts. Specifically, your child may have access to the following "Additional Services":
Our district vets software used to support teaching and learning. We enable student access to additional third-party services with their Google Workspace for Education accounts and authorize the disclosure of data, as requested by the third party services.
Please see this complete list of software we have vetted.
Frequently Asked Questions
What personal information does Google collect?
When creating a student account, Little Chute Area School District may provide Google with certain personal information about the student, including, for example, a name, email address, and password.
When a student uses Google core services, Google also collects information based on the use of those services. This includes:
- Account information, which includes things like name and email address.
- Activity while using the core services, which includes things like viewing and interacting with content, people with whom your student communicates or shares content, and other details about their usage of the services.
- Settings, apps, browsers, and devices. Google collects information about your student's settings and the apps, browsers, and devices they use to access Google services. This information includes browser and device type, settings configuration, unique identifiers, operating system, mobile network information, and application version number. Google also collects information about the interaction of your student's apps, browsers, and devices with Google services, including IP address, crash reports, system activity, and the date and time of a request.
- Location information. Google collects information about your student's location as determined by various technologies such as IP address and GPS.
- Direct communications. Google keeps records of communications when your student provides feedback, asks questions, or seeks technical support
The Additional Services we allow students to access with their Google Workspace for Education accounts may also collect the information as described in the Google Privacy Policy.
How does Google use this information?
In Google Workspace for Education Core Services, Google uses student personal information primarily to provide the core services that schools and students use, but it's also used to maintain and improve the services; make recommendations to optimize the use of the services; provide and improve other services your student requests; provide support; protect Google's users, customers, the public, and Google; and comply with legal obligations. See the Google Cloud Privacy Notice for more information.
In Google Additional Services, Google may use the information collected from all Additional Services to deliver, maintain, and improve our services; develop new services; provide personalized services; measure performance; communicate with schools or users; and protect Google, Google's users, and the public.
Does Google use student personal information for users in K-12 schools to target advertising?
No. There are no ads shown in Google Workspace for Education core services. Also, none of the personal information collected in the core services is used for advertising purposes.
Can my child share information with others using the Google Workspace for Education account?
We may allow students to access Google services such as Google Docs and Sites, which include features where users can share information with others or publicly. For example, if your student shares a photo with a friend who then makes a copy of it, or shares it again, then that photo may continue to appear in the friend's Google Account, even if your student removes it from their Google Account.
Will Google disclose my child's personal information?
Google will not share personal information with companies, organizations, and individuals outside of Google except in the following cases:
With our school: Our school administrator (and resellers who manage your or your organization's Workspace account) will have access to your student's information. For example, they may be able to:
- View account information, activity, and statistics;
- Change your student's account password;
- Suspend or terminate your student's account access;
- Access your student's account information in order to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request;
- Restrict your student's ability to delete or edit their information or privacy settings.
With your consent: Google will share personal information outside of Google with parental consent.
For external processing: Google will share personal information with Google's affiliates and other trusted third-party providers to process it for us as Google instructs them and in compliance with our Google Privacy Policy, the Google Cloud Privacy Notice, and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
For legal reasons: Google will share personal information outside of Google if they have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary for legal reasons, including complying with enforceable governmental requests and protecting you and Google.
What choices do I have as a parent or guardian?
First, you can consent to the collection and use of your child's information by Google. If you don't provide your consent, we will not create a Google Workspace for Education account for your child, and Google will not collect or use your child's information as described in this notice.
If you consent to your child's use of Google Workspace for Education, you can access or request deletion of your child's Google Workspace for Education account by contacting your school principal. If you wish to stop any further collection or use of your child's information, you can request that we use the service controls available to access personal information, limit your child's access to features or services, or delete personal information in the services or your child's account entirely. You and your child can also visit https://myaccount.google.com while signed in to the Google Workspace for Education account to view and manage the personal information and settings of the account.
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