The first day of virtual school in North Carolina started with a statewide system crash.
Virtual school is, of course, supposed to start, not with announcements over the loudspeaker or homeroom, or the teacher taking roll or any of those normal school activities. It starts virtually, which means students and teachers are logging on to computers. But in North Carolina, the first day of school was interrupted, not by a fire drill, but because the virtual system for North Carolina public schools crashed preventing students and teachers from logging on.
The announcement on the Guilford County Schools website at noon, Monday, August 17 was:
“Important Message”
“Access to the Canvass learning platform is unavailable across the state right now. We apologize for the inconvenience. We will let you know when the state has the system back up and running. Thank you for your patience.”
The News & Observer in Raleigh reported at 10:19 a.m. that according to the State Department of Public Instruction the system was back up and running Monday morning after being down shortly.
Perhaps no one told Guilford County Schools that the system was back up and running or perhaps bad information was given to the News & Observer.
The Guilford County Board of Education voted to go virtual the first nine weeks of school this year with no in-person instruction before Sept. 11. With the system down to teach virtually, instruction couldn’t begin.
The NCEdCloud system used for accessing Canvass crashed so that students couldn’t log in. The problem, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, was with NCEdCloud and not the underlying programs and NCEdCloud caused the entire system to crash statewide regardless of the program being used.
And with the system down, students and teachers can hardly be expected to sit at their computers all day staring at the screen waiting for the system to come back up.
Why am I not surprised. The system is govt contracted. Just like ObamaCare. It took more money to get the Obamacare “system” up and running, than it did to fund WWII. Where did all that money go? Anyone? Then a machine enrolled people who didn’t have a clue how insurance worked. Insurance salespeople were, and are required, to study, attend class, pass a test, in order to sell health insurance. So how can a machine talk to a lay person, and explain your options? Most govt employees on call did not have an insurance license
Coop-out!
hay miller go fly a kite must be a trumpy bear supporter
I’ll trade you one insult for another. “Hay” means “there is” or “it is”. Duzzn’t mean “hello”. Try putting a complete sentence together. Then I’ll know what you mean.
WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM A COERCIVE GOVERNMENT MONOPOLY?
We homeschooled our children and did well.
May you also choose that path.