Digital Resources at Bren Mar Park Elementary - Parent Consent
Some of the digital resources your child may use this year require parental consent.
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Please complete this form in order to give your consent to using the below digital resources.
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.
Fairfax County Public Schools uses a variety of resources to support student learning. In cases where FCPS contracts with a vendor to host student information, FCPS requires that the vendor adhere to the security and privacy requirements specified in a confidentiality agreement included in their contracts. FCPS does not have contracts with every instructional tool vendor. Many valuable instructional tools are governed by Terms of Service (TOS) and include both free and paid tools. Some of the digital resources your child may use this year require parental consent.
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 at Digital Privacy in FCPS and a list of all approved digital tools is viewable online in the FCPS Digital Ecosystem Library which has links to the vendors’ privacy notices and other useful information.
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.
To provide your parental consent for each student in your family, please follow this link and follow the provided directions. (you may want to make the link a button as well for visibility)
Elementary School List:
Book Creator
- Students create multimedia eBooks
Boom Cards
- Interactive, self-grading digital flash cards and instructional resources
Breakout EDU Game Builder
- Immersive learning games platform
Digital Compass
- Games to teach students how decisions in their digital lives impact relationships and futures
Digital Passport for Kids
- Interactive digital citizenship games
Dragon Naturally Speaking
- Comprehensive speech recognition software designed to help writers
Educreations
- Video creation and screencasting software
Explain Everything
- Screencasting and presentation tool
FlipGrid
- Platform for student-recorded video responses
Flocabulary
- Hip-hop songs & videos to teach content vocabulary
Formative (Go Formative)
- Assessment tool with a variety of question options
Google Additional Services
- A selection of resources which go beyond the core services provided by Google Workspace for Education
Kahoot!
- Game-like program to assess student knowledge on a topic
Khan Academy
- Online learning and courses
Mote
- Voice Commenting for Google Docs
Ozobot Classroom
- Platform that allows teachers to assign and students to save coding projects for Ozobots
Padlet
- Online collaborative bulletin board
Plickers
- A useful tool for exit tickets and quick-checks for understanding
Quizlet
- Learning tools for students, including flashcards, study, and game modes.
Read Naturally Live (Read Live)
- Supports reading comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency
Sight Reading Factory
- Sight-reading and sight-singing practice
Smithsonian Learning Lab
- Resource for images, recordings, and texts to create online student lessons
Socrative
- Formative assessment app for quick checks of student understanding
StoryMap JS
- Tool for creating story maps
The Zones of Regulation
- Accompanying app for The Zones of Regulation curriculum
Type to Learn - Cloud Version
- Web-based typing / keyboarding program
Vocabulary.com
- Website for vocabulary instruction with online student friendly dictionary
Whiteboard.fi
- Online whiteboard tool