The MCPS Web is all publicly accessible Web content for district, school, and office pages. There are 199 school sites, 175 office/departmental sites, and 35 sites dedicated to system-wide initiatives hosted on the MCPS Web.
The MCPS Web provides parents, staff, students, and the larger community with valuable information about and technical support for the academic, administrative, and operational aspects of the school system.
Find out more: Site Snapshot
Whether you are establishing a new site or updating an exisiting site, the principal or other administrator should have the following:
- Objective: What is the purpose of the site?
- Message: What should
the Web site convey?
- Audience: Who is the audience for the message/Web site?
- Staffing Plan: Who will create the site? Who will maintain it after it's creation? Who will maintain it if the webmaster moves to another school or office?
- Review Plan: Who will review the content (at least two times per year) to identify and update out-of-date information?
When ready to proceed, administrators must request access
to the Web server for their webmaster so the site can be made public. Only administrators may request Web accounts.
Web Services recommends that the administrator designate one primary webmaster for the school or office. The primary web master must be an MCPS employee. Multiple secondary webmasters may be designated.
If you are updating an existing site you most likely already have a webmaster. However, you may want to enlist other "content experts" to help with transition process from one site to another.
A public Web site is an open form of communication with a wide audience that
includes members of the community, county, and world. Principals and administrators
ultimately are responsible for the content of publications.
The principal or designee is responsible for reviewing pages before they are published. Web Services creates accounts for a few staff members for each unit (at the administrator's request)
who are able to publish, delete, and modify pages. Everyone else — staff, students,
and parent volunteers — can create pages, but only a few people can publish them
on the web.
Please refer to the Web Regulation FAQ about content standards.
- We maintain the servers that host the MCPS Web to ensure optimal performance and provide regular backups.
- We continually add supported features such as publishing
tools (calendar and newsbox publishers) and utilities (e-mail forms, search engine), database access, development environment, streaming video, and more.
- We develop processes and standards to assure the highest quality Web presence.
- We provide ongoing support to
webmasters and collaborate with the Technology Consulting
Team to provide training.
See our Services page.
Contact the MCPS Web Services Team webmaster@mcpsmd.org.
Visit the Web Services Web site for complete information
about Web services, training, guidelines, forms, and
background material.
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