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Aged Based Access for students

  A little while ago, Google rolled out Age Based Access Settings for all Google For Education users (That's us here at CCSD). What does that mean for us here??? Well, it means that students can no longer upload vidoes, create channels, etc in Youtube. Now, this does not mean that students cannot access videos from YouTube, just that they cannot upload their own videos. We have been asked about this by a few teachers and have come up with a way that students can still use video in projects.. All they need to do is upload their video into Google Drive and they can share that with whomever they need to. a teacher, coach, competition,etc. One thing to point out, this is a change to how Google is operating, not something we are doing by choice.. We will NOT change settings for a student claiming they are over 18 to allow Youtube use...  Please reach out with any questions!  Also, a short update on the internet bandwidth.. some of our mitigation efforts seem to be working as we've