For security breeches, the school has had contact with CERT which is a free Computer Emergency Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University, that helps with security issues. Other specialized programs have been purchased but only to the extent of the number of machines that will be running these programs. For network use, the school uses Netscape and HTML Editor along with the helper programs with Netscape. All these, however, do not require a site license as they are free to educational institutions. These take lots of memory so memory requirements are constantly growing.
All students have EMail accounts on the school server.
They pick their own names to start their address. Teachers have accounts and home pages with resource pages that give course syllabus, expectations etc. They can also post expected readings or Internet Sites for perusal. Some teachers use Internet sources for group discussion or paper topics and some have organized units around Internet sources. Pre-selected resources can be downloaded or URLs assigned.