DPS, Jeffco Public Schools Move Forward With Remote Learning After 1st Day Glitches

From CBS Denver:

By Shawn Chitnis

August 25, 2020

DENVER (CBS4) – The first day of school, virtually, for major school districts in Colorado saw some technical issues happening at the classroom level with other challenges because of glitches nationally for popular software. District leaders say overall their platforms were a success with Denver Public Schools and Jeffco Public Schools using various services and some schools choosing different software than their districts.

“I have four kids that were starting all today with normally in-person learning it would normally be spread out,” said Shaina Oliver, a DPS parent. “It was a different challenge, dealing with everyone in one day.”

Oliver enrolled two of her children in the new DPS charter school, American Indian Academy of Denver. This fall is their first school year and while they were unable to start at their physical location, they planned a virtual opening on Zoom. School leaders shared that families struggled to get their students connected in the morning because of a failure by the video conference calling software Zoom. The majority of DPS schools do not use that program, relying on Seesaw and Schoology.

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