Granite School District now has a mobile-friendly Gradebook application that can run on either an iOS or Android device. Please see instructions below for how to get it on either an iPhone or Android device. NOTE: This is NOT a native app, and it cannot be downloaded from the Apple or ...
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Track Your Bus from Your Smartphone
Parents and students can now track their Granite School District bus on the Here Comes the Bus app, available on The App Store and Google Play. This app shows the real-time location of your bus on a map, gives scheduled and actual arrival times for both home and school routes, and provides push ...
Reporting Abusive Social Media Accounts
Cyberbullying and online abuse often occurs through anonymous accounts that are set up to hide the identity of the perpetrator(s). This presents a challenge for school officials attempting to stop the online abuse. Fortunately, most major social media networks have features in place to help users ...
Smartphone Snares: How Kids Use Their Devices
Keeping track of how preteens and teens use smartphones is a difficult task, but the pitfalls of the digital age leave us no choice. Aside from potentially problematic apps, parents should be aware of time spent on a device, parent controls, acronyms/slang, and the common behaviors of young ...
Smartphone Snares: Popular Problematic Apps
Keeping track of how preteens and teens use smartphones is a difficult task, but the pitfalls of the digital age leave us no choice. The ease at which kids can be subjected to adult content, cyberbullying, illicit sharing of explicit photos, and direct communication with predators is alarming. Even ...
Video: What parents should know about smartphone apps
With the widespread use of smartphones among teens and preteens, the district is finding a number of apps being used for cyberbullying, sexting and accessing pornography. While many apps are used for wholesome purposes, we strongly recommend that all parents be proactive in monitoring smartphone ...
In today’s world, Internet and smartphone safety is critical
With the widespread use of smartphones among teens and preteens, the district is finding a number of apps that are a distraction in the classroom and are being used for cyberbullying, sexting, and accessing pornography. Certainly not all popular apps are harmful or dangerous. Many can be used for ...
School & Family Magazine
Welcome to the latest issue of Granite School & Family Magazine. In this issue, you'll find information on CTE courses, boundary studies, smartphone and Internet safety, teacher of the year, and other great stories. ...
Ninth-grader creates app for people with hearing loss
Churchill Jr. High student Aaron McKenney is one of two Utah winners in the Congressional App Challenge. The aim of the Challenge is to encourage students to learn how to code by creating their own applications. Thirty-three states and more than two thousand students participated this year in the ...
Popular smartphone apps every parent should know about
With the widespread use of smartphones among preteens and teens, schools are finding a number of mobile apps that are a distraction in the classroom and are being used for cyberbullying, sexting and accessing pornography, all of which are prohibited in schools. We strongly recommend that all ...