Digital Resources at South County Middle - Parent Consent
PARENT CONSENT FORM
Digital Resources at South County Middle School - Parent Consent
This information is provided in compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to provide you with information about the measures FCPS takes to keep student data secure when using digital tools. By completing the digital form linked below, you provide permission for your child to use the FCPS-approved online tools listed below as part of an instructional program.
Listed below are the digital tools that are used at your child’s school that require parental approval, and not all tools will be used by every student. The tools have been carefully reviewed to ensure that they align with the FCPS Learning Model and FCPS conducts the same technical evaluations for all products that use student information.
For information about the specific tools that will be used by your child, please contact your child’s teachers. You will be notified if additional tools are added to this list and given the opportunity to opt-in to tools that require parental permission. Additionally, FCPS may use digital tools that do not collect, use or share any personal information.
You can find more information about FCPS’ commitment to student privacy and how resources are vetted at Digital Resources in FCPS.
This permission will expire at the end of this school year, and can be revoked at any time by contacting the school. If you have questions about any of the digital resources listed below, please contact your child’s school.
Please use this form to provide parental consent for each student in your family.
Middle School List
- Reading platform for ELA, science and history texts
- A selection of resources which go beyond the core services provided by Google Workspace for Education
- Platform for transcribing primary source documents
- Students take a civics-related challenge, gather evidence, and make a case
- Create and play personalized learning games and activities
- Tag and describe primary source documents from the National Archives
- Classroom management platform
- Interactive online coding courses
- Coding and computer science curriculum
- Resource for helping students learn coding skills
- Online tool for teaching with primary source documents
- Comprehensive speech recognition software designed to help writers
- Web-based supplemental language learning platform
- Video creation and screencasting software
- Screencasting and presentation tool
- Digital books designed for World Languages courses
- Platform for student-recorded video responses
- Business simulation software
History Unfolded - Holocaust Museum
- Allows users to transcribe historical documents
- Interactive civics curriculum resource
- Tool for adding interactivity to websites
- Primary resources from the Holocaust and other genocides
- Online learning and courses
- Web-based, adaptive, differentiated, vocabulary learning tool
- Application to support language acquisition
MIT AppInventor and Emulation Software
- Programming tool to build Android apps
- Build mathematical models and solve problems
- Sight reading platform
NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program
- Creative writing platform for students
- Digital primary source artifacts and other resources from the Newseum
- Assessment platform
- Resource for supporting individuals with disabilities with independent life skills
- Platform for dialogue with peers from different backgrounds
- Online collaborative bulletin board
- Platform for facilitating discussions
- Schoolwide PBIS management system
- Online platform for facilitating peer feedback
- Tool for creating visual media
- A useful tool for exit tickets and quick-checks for understanding
- Polling website that engages students interactively in the classroom
- Curriculum, resources, and support for SEL (social-emotional learning)
- Writing and grammar activities for middle and high school
- Learning tools for students, including flashcards, study, and game modes.
- School-home communication tool
ROBOTC and Robot Virtual Worlds
- Cross-robotics-platform programming language for educational robotic systems
- Introductory web-based programming software for elementary students and students new to coding
- Screencasting tool
- Sight-reading and sight-singing practice
- Web-based 3D modeling software
- Allows students to record music and get feedback from teachers
- Resource for images, recordings, and texts to create online student lessons
- Tool to visualize data about the United States
- Formative assessment app for quick checks of student understanding
Storyboard That (paid version)
- Create, share, and publish storyboards online
- Tool for creating story maps
- A web-based approach to captioning, note-taking, translation, and speech generation.
- Package blended lessons by organizing content in one space
- Online tool for creating interactive images.
- Personalized close reading and argumentative writing lessons
- Easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding
- Web-based typing/keyboarding program
- Platform for creating virtual concert videos and hosting rehearsal sessions.
- Career exploration resources
- Website for vocabulary instruction with online student friendly dictionary
- Digital worksheet builder lets students show learning in multiple ways