Supported Products

Listed below are technology products that are supported by the District's Information Services department. "Fully Supported" means central technology staff has a high level of knowledge of the software and will install and assist with usage. "Partially Supported" means technology staff has some knowledge of the software and will troubleshoot problems to the best of their abilities, no usage support is available. Software titles which are asterisked below are also purchased from the central technology budget. A software title must meet one of the following criteria to be centrally supported:

1. Be used on the network across the entire district;
2. Be standardized to meet a need and used by all schools at a particular level, i.e. all elementary schools; or
3. Be used K-12 across a curricular area.

FULLY SUPPORTED

Network:
MS Windows 2000/2003

Operating Systems:
Windows 2000, XP, VISTA
Mac OS 9.x, OS X

Applications:
MS Office 2000/2003/2007
FrontPage 2002/2003
Expression Web
Inspiration 7.5, 7.6, 8.0

Databases:
SQL Databases
SIRSI Library System
ESD Financial
ESD Student
509J Student Information System
509J HR, Maintenance, Food Service

Browsers:
MS Internet Explorer
Firefox
 
Emulation:
IBM Client (i-series, formerly known as AS400)

PDAs:
Palm OS
Active Sync
Blackberry

Student Applications
PLATO
GED
Kurzweil
Read 180
Measures in Academic Progress (MAP)

PARTIALLY SUPPORTED

Applications:
Adobe Acrobat
HyperStudio
Type to Learn
Accelerated Reader
Mavis Beacon
MicroGrade
Read Naturally
Rosetta Stone

UNDER REVIEW

Network:
Linux

Operating Systems:
Linux Distributions

HARDWARE

Minimum Supported Specs:
        1.5 Ghz Pentium
        512 mg RAM
        40 Gig hard drive
        17" or larger flat screen monitor

FULLY SUPPORTED

Wireless (128bit encryption):
Cisco
Orinoco

PDAs:
Palm
Handspring
Jornada
NEC
Blackberry
HP Ipaq

UNDER REVIEW