As a result of COVID-19 an infection charges in Linn and Benton counties nonetheless don’t meet state metrics for reopening faculties, GAPS made preparations to start the college 12 months with online-only lessons.

However lots of of scholars discovered themselves unable to entry the district’s community on Monday due to a widespread pc glitch.

Apparently, the corporate that gives filtering {hardware} and software program for the community modified the settings on Friday, blocking most college students from logging into the community to make use of Zoom and different remote-learning instruments, in keeping with GAPS spokesperson Andrew Tomsky.

Because the scope of the issue grew to become obvious Monday morning, the district’s info expertise division was in a position to make a software program patch to repair it, Tomsky stated.

He added that the issue seems to have affected solely college students utilizing GAPS-issued Chromebook computer systems to entry the web, however that represents a lot of the district’s enrollment.

“The excellent news is correct now we expect now we have it mounted,” Tomsky stated Monday afternoon. “We must be positive for (Tuesday).”

Tomsky despatched an e-mail to district households on Monday letting them know the difficulty had been resolved and that their college students wouldn’t be marked absent for the primary day of sophistication if connectivity points prevented them from doing schoolwork.