Moving into the new year, the NVD technology team has decided to update the security features on students and staff computers to increase safety. The recent talk of NVD amongst teachers and students has been the laptop migration, which many are confused about. The majority seems to be unaware of what the migration is, and what it does to the school’s laptops.
Lead technician, Sam Cewulka, explained the laptop migration process from Jamf Pro to Mosyle Classroom Manager was done mainly for the security features. Many students are referring to the new feature as migration, as it is the process of going from one database to another.
“We moved over to Mosyle for the ease, and it does pretty much the same thing but has added security features along with being cheaper for the district, we also got it for free for a year,” Cewulka said.
Many students are worried that this is a way for teachers and staff to keep a closer eye on students and invade their privacy.
“All students thought that the migration was made to spy on them and it is not, it is replacing Dyknow with Apple Classroom and has a Mosyle classroom manager,” Cewulka said.
While this is one of the most discussed topics in NVD right now, many students and staff are unaware of what this program really does.
“I don’t really understand what it fully does and or why we had to get it. Like what was the point,” sophomore Allie Arefiev said.
Staff members took measures to ensure every student was migrating their computers, but students were not informed of what migration was or what it was doing. Many students avoided the process, which made it extremely difficult and long.
“At first, I did not want to migrate my laptop because I did not want teachers to look at my screen and I wanted to continue to use Chat GPT,” an anonymous student said.
There have also been many complaints about the migration removing certain applications from student computers.
“And also, it restarted my entire computer, got rid of all my games, my GPA calculator, I had to redownload everything,” Arefiev said.
A different student said it removed many other resources from their computer.
“I was mad because ChatGPT was banned. However, now that I completed the migration, ChatGPT came back and after slight tech issues, my computer is working fine,” they said.
