Districts Working Through Virtual Learning Issues

Districts Working Through Virtual Learning Issues

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Both huntsville city schools and madison city schools told me everything is going pretty well as they've started back- both admit a few technology hiccups- but called them expected.

Craig williams, huntsville city school spokesperson "it's the first time we have ever opened school in a virtual way, and of course while there are some kinks we are working out and working to enhance overall it's been a very positive and productive week."

Ed nichols, madison city schools superintendent "i'm not going to tell you we haven't had hiccups.

There have been issues.

I think our tech staff has done a great job in trying to manage those."

Both huntsville and madison city school districts told me adminstrators spent months preparing for the start of school.

Huntsville spokesperson craig williams said the district is still navigating requests for smooth sailing.

Craig williams, huntsville city school spokesperson "one thing we have heard from teachers is they missed using the zoom that we used a lot at the end of last school year.

It's one thing we as administrators have used throughout the summer.

And one piece of feedback we have heard from teachers is we'd like to return to zoom if at all possible and that's one thing we are looking to do at huntsville city schools."

Williams also said the district learned more information about a nationwide outage from schoology- the learning management system the district adopted..

Craig williams, huntsville city school spokesperson "a data engineer had some files in the long location and so for our particular district and i'm sure many districts across america it was essentially not processing that data correctly and then once they figure that out it was a quick fix to get that resolved."

Superintendent ed nichols in madison city told me his technology team launched a help ticket for families to use-- the address any issues - and they're trying to work through them ed nichols, madison city schools superintendent"t o fix these issues that we have with mainly computers and wifi and that type of thing to get these up to date."

Nichols said right now - they're working on plans to get some of the remote students back inside the schools.

Ed nichols, madison city schools superintendent "we're meeting and have been this week to look at phasing in school-based learning .

" today- madison city schools told me it hopes to release more information next week on when and how students could return to the classroom.

Huntsville city schools told me it's still evaluating if it can get students back into the classroom before the end of the first nine weeks.

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