This year, Bellevue East has been experiencing technological difficulties that students have been complaining about. Both students and teachers alike talk about how it negatively affects their classes.

Many students have had problems with connecting to Wi-Fi and other internet problems that ultimately hinder them in their classes. The range of problems have been a wide variety that has resulted in frustration from many people.

“Sometimes when I’m using my iPad my wifi  will just disappear and I can’t use any apps that require the internet,” sophomore Alayna Dunlap said. “The tech issue makes it take longer to do work and I’ll have to reset my iPad multiple times throughout class.”

Complications like Dunlap’s have been happening school wide throughout the year, but according to staff, temporary fixes are the current solution. These dilemmas have varying severities from missing just a class of work to needing to redo the entire week’s worth. 

“I’ve had a lot of students come to me with problems on their iPads, one student even had an iPad that erased all of their apps and couldn’t download more because it said they were in Canada,” instructor Abigail Ceremuga said.

As these issues continue to plague the school, no one has been able to determine the root cause or a lasting solution as of yet. Day to day technology problems are becoming a normality throughout East.

“Sometimes we are unsure of what causes these issues, it really is a case by case situation,” Building Tech Coordinator Nicole Burns said.

Though these dilemmas still occur, the teachers work diligently to ensure that students are still learning the material needed. Luckily a number of classes haven’t been affected as harshly and some teachers are able to continue teaching without being forced to make drastic changes to the schedules.

“I haven’t experienced the problem with Apple TVs or slow network like other teachers have,” instructor Nora Boyd said.

For some teachers this has been a small inconvenience that can be easily fixed and overlooked but for others they have become persistent. These technology issues have hindered both students’ learning and instructors’ ability to teach their classes.

“The internet has been so slow,” Ceremuga said. “Sometimes Schoology won’t load, sometimes on Securly students can’t make passes or the passes don’t go through, and sometimes nothing will load on the iPads and it’s been very frustrating. Some days it’s a big problem where I can’t even do the lesson I had planned.”

Teachers like Ceremuga work to make sure that students get the education that they need and they will be able to get everything done despite the struggles. Unfortunately, for some teachers this can include needing to create a new activity for the day when apps aren’t working.

“Which isn’t horrible but it is more difficult for me when I already had a plan in place and have to come up with something new,” Ceremuga said.

School wide technical problems range from slow loading to TVs not working properly and have set back many classes so far this school year. Though the vast variety of issues can make it hard to locate a single problem, both students and staff continue to do their best.

“Technology issues are always going to be popping up, you just never know when and for how long,” Burns said. “Most of the time they are quick fixes, but occasionally they do take a longer time to fix.”