Activities such as e-mail and accessing curricularly appropriate web sites are the types of activities that are encouraged and recommended. Bandwidth or the amount of information that can be transferred to and from the Internet can be decreased as a result of specific types of activities. These activities not only negatively impact the users in the school where they are occurring but also all the WAN users in the division. A school based Intranet would allow locally networked computers to share information within their own network structure using standard Internet protocols. The teaching of Internet skills, HTML writing techniques and the archiving and retrieval of student work and lesson materials can be accomplished with an Intranet setup.
Internal pages can also use sound and video files to meet school educational objectives.
Schools that would like assistance in setting up an Intranet are asked to contact Ani Granson at the Information Technology Centre. The design of the Seven Oaks wide area network does not allow for schools to establish Internet Web Sites at the school level. In order to place a homepage on the divisional server a school will need to be assigned a home directory, a username and a password. These will be set up once individual school administrators fill out and submit the attached form. Each school will be allocated 10 Megs of disk space for their school homepage.