By Lauren Nguyen, Staff Writer
All Huntington Beach Union High School District (HBUHSD) students are bestowed their very own school Google Account.
The Google accounts are assigned under the special HBUHSD domain in order to enable easy automation, communication, collaboration and privacy. The account allows students to connect easily with their teachers and peers, sign into certain educational websites like Peardeck, Edulastic and Snap & Read without having their information being read and make sure names of students are appropriate. Students can also benefit from using their school email account because certain websites like Lucid Press are paid for by the district.
Most students use their accounts for all four years in class for all their school-related work in order to separate their personal and work emails and files. After they graduate though, the email address along with all of its data are erased, since the student is no longer attending a school of the district.
The HBUHSD accounts are not automatically deleted after a set period of time but rather, they are deleted only after a long period of inactivity of 90 days. After 90 days of inactivity, the accounts will be fully erased along with all of its data, which will still be able to be recovered after deletion, although it would be much harder to do so.
“We take the stance that data that was deleted is deleted. Recovery would only be attempted under strict circumstances for example a request by the user themselves or to comply with law enforcement,” said the HBUHSD Educational Technology and Information Services Department.
In order to prevent the loss of valuable files or have to take the long way to retrieve them from the archives, students can instead request for their account to be kept active for a certain amount of time. The time frame is intended to allow students to fully transfer and store their data before their account is inevitably erased.
