In the meantime, we strongly encourage you to discuss this issue with your district technology and networking coordinator to ensure adequate capacity for access when considering the purchase of online resources. There are two options for entire districts that wish to offer online resources in every building. In both cases, a subscription must be purchased for each school, not just one subscription for the whole district. In this option, each school is treated as a separate subscriber and would fill out their own technical worksheet with information relating to their site only, as if they subscribed on their own. Each school would then be setup with a separate unique URL, which may be a link on a school's homepage or a bookmark.
Site based installation allows for usage statistics and different product packages for each site.
The district would then collect a technical worksheet from each school and supply one purchase order with the bundle of technical worksheets. In this option, one URL address would be provided for the whole district that could then be a link on a subscribing school's homepage or bookmarked. The advantage of setting up the subscription at the district level is that less paperwork is required and schools are able to access each other's databases. Only one technical evaluation sheet is required from the district. To subscribe to the OETC online resource offerings, issue a purchase order with an itemized list, the quantity of the products being purchased from the online resources price list and a completed technical worksheet for each school for which these resources are being purchased.