Classroom Video Conferencing

In Alpine School District, Google Meet is the video conferencing tool of choice. Alpine School District is a Google for Education District. This means we have a privacy agreement with Google, which makes Google Meet the safest video conferencing tool for ASD students and teachers.

The district encourages and trains teachers on the safest ways to use all video conferencing options. As educators in ASD we will do everything we can to promote the highest levels of student learning. Video conferencing is an important way to do this. We commit to keeping students safe when participating in video conferencing by:

• facilitating secure meetings. Usually this means teachers will utilize a waiting room and only allow their students to join a meeting.
• monitoring each meeting while students are online. This includes refusing unknown people from joining a meeting, watching the chat closely and removing a student from a meeting if they are inappropriate in any way and then following up with the student and parents/guardians at a later time.
• clearly communicating with parents/guardians and students about scheduled meetings they should attend. This includes clearly sharing meeting links and times.
• encouraging parents and guardians to be aware of when their students are participating in video conferences, and to follow up with their students about the video conferencing experience and learning