BPS Desktop provides access in and out of school to all of your BPS files and computer programs. By adding the BPS Desktop link to your personal devices, teachers and students now have 24/7 access to the documents they have saved in their H: drive. BPS Desktop also allows you to use district software on your personal device including: Adobe Photoshop, Comic Life, Inspiration, and the latest version of Microsoft Office. By providing access to BPS Desktop at home, learning no longer has to end when the school day ends. Now, students can use BPS Desktop to finish their assignments and school work at home as long as they have internet access - no matter how old the device.
BPS Social Studies Teacher, Keith Hughes explains BPS Desktop technology
With BPS Desktop we can now deliver the same experience to all of our users on a variety of devices such as: desktop computers, laptop computers, tablet devices, e-Readers and smart phones both at school and at home.
How do I start using BPS Desktop at home?
Setup of BPS Desktop on your personal device is safe, simple and secure. After completing this one time installation process on your personal device, you will have easy access to all of the benefits of BPS Desktop.
You can begin this process using your home device to visit the BPS Desktop Webpage. This website will instantly detect the device you are using and will customize the setup and instructions for that device.
Additional Benefits of BPS Desktop
Personalized User Experience
Faculty and students will have the ability to customize their desktop and application preferences and can expect those settings to carry over to whichever device they use to access BPS Desktop. Users can bookmark websites, add shortcuts to their favorite programs right on their desktop and access any documents saved in their local network H: drive.
BPS Desktop allows for a flexible, consistent, reliable teaching and learning environment, tailored to each user, regardless of the device they are using to access the applications and information in the data centers.
Positioning for the Future – Electronic Textbooks
BPS Desktop already provides students direct access to digital copies of many of their textbooks, workbooks and readers. Simply click on the BPS Textbooks icon which appears on BPS Desktop for every teacher and student.
The Buffalo Public Schools Information Technology Department has allocated resources over the past two school years to support this transition to a Data Driven Instruction (DDI) culture. In that time, BPS has on- boarded three new systems that have dramatically increased our ability to collect and utilize data.
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Virtualized Learning
Home Access to BPS Computing Resources is now here as BPS Desktop is live and ready for use!