Technology

The Valley Center School District's technology environment includes a high speed networked system extending from all classrooms and provides internet access for students and staff to explore the world. The computers, Chromebooks and iPads in classrooms, labs, offices, and libraries provide a technology-rich environment for all users.

Our changing society and workplace demand citizens who can take responsibility for their own learning and well-being. Educational opportunities that can develop these "leaders of tomorrow" are dependent on the successful integration and delivery of technology to support the new educational goals of the 21st century.

Technology provides educators the unique ability to track student work and creates the opportunity to develop and refine individual learning profiles for all students.

The Valley Center School District recognizes the necessity to provide our students with the technological skills necessary to be productive members of society and achieve world-class results. Students need to be able to define tasks, access information, manipulate data, synthesize concepts, evaluate results and creatively express ideas to others. Technology use in an educational environment promotes cooperative learning, which in turn improves student problem solving, critical thinking skills, communication and cognitive growth.

Technology Resources

Help and Support

Technology Plan

Web Filter

Our Internet filter requires daily authentication on iPads and other non-Windows devices. If you are having trouble using a program or accessing the App Store, please open a browser (Safari for iPads), go to a website (any website) and an Internet Usage Policy Login page will be displayed. Then just login with your district computer login credentials. You will have to do this at least once a day, every day.

Again, if there is an app or program not working, the first thing to check should be opening your browser to see if you can connect to the internet or if it asks you to login. If you previously had Safari open to a website you will need to go to a different website before the filter will prompt you to login. Please contact the Help Desk if you have any questions about this process.

Staff BYOD Wireless

All USD262 staff can connect to our USD262-wireless with personal devices by following the steps below:

For laptops, connect to USD262-Wireless and sign in with your firstname.lastname and network password.

For Android phones follow the steps in this PDF.

For iPhones follow the steps in this PDF.

Android 11 and higher users will need to install our Network Certificate here

Fax Server

We have an email-based fax system. Sending a fax from the fax machines and copiers does not work.

To send a fax, open a new email in Gmail.
For the TO email address, enter the phone number you are trying to send the fax to, followed by ‘@fax.usd262.net’. Remember you still need to include the 8 before the phone number if you are sending the fax to a number outside the district, the same as if you were dialing the number from your desk phone.
Click Send. You will receive a message from ‘fax@usd262.net’ verifying that the fax was successfully sent. If the destination fax machine is busy then the fax server will try re-sending the fax several time, so it may take up to an hour before you receive a successful/failure notification back from the server.

The Subject and message body are both optional, but will be included in the fax if filled in. The subject line will be included on the cover sheet, which is automatically generated by the server and included with the fax, so it is a good way to show the name of the person or department the fax is for. You can attach documents to the email, including Word and PDF files. The attachments will be appended to the fax. The faxes you send will show that they have come from your building fax number. For example, faxes sent by District Office staff will show 316-755-7001 and Abilene staff faxes will show 316-755-7021 and so on.

If you are having trouble sending an attached Word document or Excel spreadsheet, please save the document as a PDF and resend. This usually fixes the issue.

Incoming faxes will be delivered to the secretaries at each building. They will forward the fax to the intended recipient.

Please contact the Help Desk if you have any questions or need help sending a fax.