Donegal School District Technology Services
Network and Technological Services
The Donegal School District depends on a fast, reliable, and affordable data communications infrastructure to meet teaching/learning and administrative goals. The Donegal School District’s Technology Services Department in partnership with Lancaster-Lebanon’s Intermediate Unit 13, provide a vast number of diverse and ever-changing technology-based services to the district’s end users.
These services include, but are not limited to:
- Internet Content Filtering and Monitoring
- Remote Content Filtering
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- Network Monitoring
- Circuit Usage Monitoring, Analysis, and Trending
- Network Traffic Analysis
- Network Troubleshooting
- Firewall Management
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Router Configuration
- Web Hosting and Content Creation
- Email Hosting and Webmail
- Email Archiving
- Circuit Capacity Planning
- Wired and Wireless Network Design, Construction, and Management
- Active Directory
- Listserv Hosting
- File Transfer Protocol Server (FTP)
- Workstation Imaging, Deployment, and Management
- Server Imaging, Deployment, and Management
- Help Desk Services
- Hardware and Software Consultation, Ordering, and Inventory
- Software Packaging, Deployment, and Management
- Virus and Malware Control and Management
- Follett Library Services Deployment and Management
- eTrition Food Services Deployment and Management
- CSIU Financial Services Deployment and Management
- Powerschool Report Card Creation and Grading Management
- Automated Phone Systems
- Data Backup and Retrieval
- ColdFusion Web Application Creation
- Technology Implementation Strategies
- Staff Technology Training
- Authoring and Implementation of the District’s State Required Technology Plan
The Donegal School District’s Technology Services Department currently services and maintains more than 2700 computers, with over 1500 being mobile computers (notebooks and netbooks), and 100’s of additional network devices including servers, iSCSI SANs, tape libraries, network switches, network printers, multimedia projectors, wireless access points, PDA's, etc. All told, the 3 member tech staff provides support for more than 3000 devices.
Technology Initiatives that are to be completed during the 2011-2012 School Year Include:
Deploy Windows 7 Enterprise Edition to the District's 2700+ workstations, notebook and netbook computers
Deploy Office 2010 to all District computers
Migrate the Dirstrict's virus and malware protection to Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection
Migrate the District's Internet Content Filter from Lightspeed Total Traffic Control to Microsoft's Threat Management Gateway
Install and configure networking hardware in the District's new High School to accomodate the school's data, telephone, and video communications
- Implement the eTrition, the District's new food service accounting system
Update the District's Student Information System to Powerschool version 7.
Author the District's Technology Plan, a part of the District's Strategic Plan required by PDE
Questions Comments: jbear@donegal.k12.pa.us
