Posts Categorized: Security

Malware: Simple Definitions for Common Types

Definitions Malware: a general term refering to programs that are intentionally designed and distributed to damage and/or control computing devices and computer networks. Malware is short for Malicious Software. The following terms refer to... Read more

Reporting Suspicious Email

The IT for Learning Department has developed a new automated process for reviewing suspicious email sent to spam@sd61.bc.ca. This procedure helps us review reported emails more efficiently, and act quickly... Read more

Banishing Notification Pop-Ups

If your laptop, desktop or Chromebook is displaying unwanted pop-ups the first place to check is the settings in Google Chrome. Most of the pop-up issues being reported to IT... Read more

Student Privacy & Go Formative

What is GoFormative? GoFormative is a powerful digital tool for gathering student responses to visual and/or text-based questions created by teachers. The web documents created by the application are called Formatives.... Read more