Guest+Networks

GUEST NETWORKS Post information and links you are willing to share. If you have any questions or comments, please use the Discussion tab on this page. > > That said, you do want to craft policies and guidelines that outline clear expectations for personal student devices. Our policy indicates that personal devices may used for legitimate, teacher approved instructional activities only. Non-instructional or disruptive use of a tethered laptop or smartphone would be considered a policy violation. || The wireless, AUP and personal student devices polices are on our techblog: [] ||
 * School || Comment || Links ||
 * Penn Manor - Charlie Reisinger || * has permitted student devices on our guest network since last December (2009)
 * is a true guest network- devices are not required to first be registered
 * restrict guest network access to filtered Internet only. Guest devices are segmented away from production network, printers and servers.
 * Functionally, a tethered laptop or netbook is no different than an Internet capable mobile phone. However, my understanding of CIPA is that a district must monitor/filter traffic on their own network. A tethered laptop, cell phone, iPad 3G etc. would not touch your eRATE eligible infrastructure. As such, it would stand apart from CIPA requirements.
 * Chartiers Valley - Mike Leonard || * have allowed outside devices for years
 * maintain 2 district wide wireless networks. First is "CVSD Trusted" which requires a key and is only available to district owned devices. The second is "CVSD Public" which has no encryption key and is filtered as well as restricted to port 80 traffic only. This configuration seems to work very good. This spring we budgeted to purchase a Network Access Controller (NAC) so students and faculty could "plug in" their devices to out gigabit wired connection. At any given point during the day between lunches and study halls in the internet cafe we have several hundred personal cellular/wifi devices connected to our "Public" wifi with no problems. ||  ||
 * Hempfield SD - Vicki Reed || * We setup a pilot program in spring last year and this year have opened up more access.
 * separate student network running where students authenticate with their active directory usernames and passwords. We have a number of students connecting with their iPod touches and recently, I have noticed an increase in the number of students bringing in their laptops. ||  ||