The no Wi-FI pain, feeling hopeless and less productive by the minute: you’re at home, scrolling through social media and the Wi-Fi is frustratingly slow. From Oct 1-9, this reality wasn’t just at home—it was alive and well at school, affecting classes campus wide. Due to class and homework mainly being online via Schoology, the problem caused difficulty accessing online sources.

This issue also greatly affected broadcast, who was unable to record Unleashed due to not having an ethernet connection Oct. 7 and Dec. 2-3.

”When the network went down, we weren’t able to broadcast Unleashed because our computers are connected together through a network connection,” Mr. Ben Barnholdt said. “Because of that, none of the equipment worked. So we didn’t have a show.” 

Teachers had to make adjustments to working on paper, such as printing all worksheets and other supplies needed in activities that would normally occur online with their personal devices In AP World History, Mrs. Katie Staggs also had to switch to no-tech in order to complete a quiz that was originally supposed to be done on Schoology.

 “We had to go paper, and I had to utilize the printers in the pod because there wasn’t enough time at the moment to send some papers to the office,” Mrs. Staggs said.

 “Instead of taking and using Schoology to randomize the quiz, I had to cobble together words and pass it out in class for students to handwrite.”

Language arts teachers were also experiencing the same thing, having to switch to paper. 

“It just makes more homework at home because I can’t really do much online and makes my time at home more stressful and leaves less time for me to relax and unwind,” Brooke Mckean said. 

Due to classwork mostly being online now on Schoology, this has created more work do to at home as well. “It makes it harder, like Brooke said earlier, you just have to do more homework. You have to do more work, when you have Internet access at home where we could have gotten the work done at school,” Mr. Barnholdt said.