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The WakeEd blog is devoted to discussing and answering questions about the major issues facing the Wake County school system: the reassignment of thousands of students, the conversion of traditional-calendar schools to a year-round schedule, the district's response to growth and the school construction program.
WakeEd is maintained by The News & Observer's Wake schools reporter, T. Keung Hui. While Keung posts information and analysis on the issues, keep us posted on your suggestions, questions, tips and what you're doing to cope with the changes in Wake's schools.
SPAN problems
Submitted by KeungHui on 08/21/2008 - 18:06
The timing for this computer problem could be better.
The computer network that allows Wake high school students and parents to access electronic records, including changing courses, is partially down. You can't access the network from home so you'll have to go to a school or administrative building to log on.
Bill Poston, a school district spokesman, said they hope to have SPAN (Student/Parent Access Network) fully up by Friday or this weekend.
Wake began using SPAN in March 2005.
The SPAN system is designed to give high school students and their parents up-to-the-minute access to their electronic records, including schedules, attendance, and grades.
A Millbrook High School student said she was denied access to SPAN while on campus today. But Poston said students could have used SPAN at an open house this afternoon.
UPDATE
SPAN access has been fully restored.Â
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Comments
SPAN follow up
Fri, 08/22/2008 - 09:44 — shank56Just answered my question by looking at the website. Millbrook uses the SPAN system for students to make Schedule change requests. But stdunts can not just log on and change their schedules. Guidance uses this as a communication tool. Looks like a good system , as long as the computer network is operational.
Are you sure about this???
Fri, 08/22/2008 - 09:32 — shank56"A computer system that’s supposed to allow Wake County high school students to change their courses"
Keung,
From our personal experience, students use SPAN to make course selections within a given time frame- the spring.
Over the summer, schedules and courses are put together, teachers hired and assigned to teach based on these course selections.
At our school, students DO NOT have free reign to change their classes thenselves through SPAN at this time. A visit to the Guidance office is necessary for any changes to course selection or schedule.
down ... really.......
Fri, 08/22/2008 - 09:14 — rr77rr99Actually.. I question if it's really "down" or was taken down. ?????????
All those high school scheduling problems coming back to haunt WCPSS and they took it down so parents would stop calling?
No Blackboard Access
Fri, 08/22/2008 - 08:08 — CarolineinApexI suppose Blackboard is tied into this, right? I've tried to access it to keep up with what's going on in my son's classes and it isn't working either.
There is no connection
Fri, 08/22/2008 - 09:23 — shank56There is no connection between BlackBoard and SPAN. BlackBoard is a site that teachers can use to post info on their classes for student and parent use.Â
Thanks for letting us know!
Thu, 08/21/2008 - 20:09 — rr77rr99Thank Goodness! I thought it was me! I tried for a week to get in and was denied, denied denied and then it was just down!
Then back up... denied entry again....
back down... back up....................denied.......................
Thanks for letting us know
SPAN works for me
Thu, 08/21/2008 - 18:21 — shank56From the parent side, it worked for me on Monday and again just now. I was online Monday , and am able this second to view our new academic schedule, GPA, personal info, etc.
?
Thu, 08/21/2008 - 18:30 — bigwinnie?
SPAN access
Thu, 08/21/2008 - 18:27 — KeungHui (author)Techs are working on the system now as part of a test. This means, during the test, you might have access. But they're saying it's not guaranteed and it could go out at any moment.