The Tallmadge City School District considers the privacy, safety and security of our staff and students to be one of our most important responsibilities. Keeping children safe and secure while online includes keeping their data private. TCS reviews online apps and resources to ensure they are appropriate for instruction, are compliant with federal student privacy laws and have measures in place to protect personally identifiable information.  

The list of approved TCS online apps and resources requiring student logins or student personally identifiable information is located here - TCS Approved Online Resource List.  This is a list of all technology providers that have access to students’ educational records for the purpose of providing curriculum, testing, or assessment services may be found by following this link. If you wish, you may review a complete copy of the District’s contract with any of the below technology providers, ask questions, or relay concerns by contacting Kurt Gwin, Director of Technology at  [email protected] or Courtney Davis, Director of Curriculum at [email protected].

Any online resource used with students that allows the creation of student accounts or the collection of student information is required to go through the TCS Online Resource Review Process. This process involves looking closely at the data privacy policies of the companies providing those resources so that we can ensure our student and teacher data is not being used for other purposes.  We have instituted this guideline to ensure compliance with student privacy laws and protect teachers and students so that personal identifiable information is not put at risk.  TCS also pursues Student Data Privacy Agreements with all of the approved resources as a condition of approval.

Please be aware that the District, either directly or through a technology provider, is electing to generally monitor all

school-issued devices (as that term is defined by R.C. 3319.325). The monitoring will include the following features:

student interactions with school-issued devices (e.g., keystrokes and web-browsing activity). The District generally

monitors these features for the noncommercial education purpose of instruction, technical support, and/or exam

proctoring. Additionally, these features are generally monitored as a necessary precaution for preventing and/or

responding to threats to life or safety.