Digital Content Solutions

The vendor is required to provide digital content solutions that include specific research-based, digital tools geared towards supporting learning experiences with high-quality, and k-12 digitally aligned content.
- Provide products that support the design, delivery, and assessment of content across k-12 classrooms.
- Specific or cross curricular that provide content for a variety of different subject areas and provide digital content solutions that include specific research-based, digital tools geared towards supporting learning experiences with high-quality, aligned digital content.
- Provide a solution where the digital content product or program includes cloud-based capabilities that allow for the following:
• Instructional design that empowers educators and students to access aligned content resources, create, modify, and share instructional content and learning experiences within and outside of the platform.
• Offer assessment functions, features, or activities that encourage students to practice with content and demonstrate their understanding.
• Customization options to meet specific learning objectives and preferences.
• Provides options for accessing data to monitor usage and student engagement.
- The successful offeror(s) shall provide a solution for a teacher/student to access aligned digital content resources to support the design, delivery, and assessment in a learner centered environment; products may be content specific or cross-curricular.
- The successful offeror(s) shall provide resources that are accessible 24/7.
- The proposed solution shall allow students and their teachers who are enrolled in any of our alternative program centers (i.e. grad, plc) access to any division wide purchases made at the k-12 (75 schools) or elementary (46 schools) or level at no additional cost.
- The teachers and students exist as their own entity in power school and clever but would need access to division-level purchases and resources provisioned by their homeschool; see attachment j for a listing of these schools and program centers.
- Browser Support – the proposed solution shall:
• Have compatibility with the current versions of multiple browsers- at minimum, current versions of Edge, Safari, and Chrome browsers.
• Maintain compatibility with listed browsers and future versions/updates/releases of the listed browsers for the contract.
• Only require standard browser plugins.
- The proposed solution shall be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements for accessibility.
- The proposed solution shall be cloud-based and delivered via the Internet over wireless LANs to the client’s browser.
- The proposed solution shall provide an intuitive user interface that allows for ease of use by teachers and students.
- The proposed solution shall support mobile technology including but not limited to the specific mobile devices currently used in county (iOS, Chromebooks, and Android Platforms)
- Integration and Reporting:
• The proposed solution shall provide methods for user account administration that are easy to use and maintain.
• The proposed solution shall support a single sign-on solution that does not require staff or students to have a separate account or password for accessing the vendor’s application.
• The proposed solution shall allow for LTI, azure active directory or LDAP (lightweight directory access protocol) as a method of authentication and authorization.
• The proposed solution shall provide a means to identify the individual or client using the application, authenticate the individual and determine the authorities and rights granted to that individual as well as a reporting engine for tracking usage and progress.
• Any requirements for students, staff, course, roster, or school information must be supported through a common specification; the exchange of data must be through a common protocol and not require the installation of vendor-specific software in the county internal infrastructure; county currently supports the following means of exchanging student information in order of preference but will accept other non-vendor specific protocols:
o LTI integration as a tool provider (TP) with our LMS (learning management systems) solution (chorology)
o SIF - student information framework
o Exchange of information through clever - a third party vendor for exchanging common data for school systems; the successful offeror is responsible for any costs incurred with clever implementation.
o file exchange to a vendor-supported SFTP server
• Data integration shall be provided at no additional cost to county.
• Solutions that allow for seamless integration of their product through the IMS global interoperability standards are preferred.
- Accessibility and Web Accessibility
• The digital reading/writing resource must comply with the information technology accessibility act (code of state - 2-2-3500) which requires that information technology developed, purchased, or provided is accessible to individuals with disabilities.
• The solution shall be accessible to persons with disabilities, including:
o blindness, color blindness, visual impairment
o deafness, hearing impairment
o speech impairment
o mobility, strength, dexterity or reaching impairment
• The solution shall support the use of commonly available screen readers.
• The solution shall follow federal web accessibility standards act.
• The solution shall meet level A and level AA guidelines as specified by the w3c's WCAG 2.0 guidelines. - Infrastructure and System Administration
• Options to implement the system using either the Software as a Service (SaaS) model or the self-hosted, on-premises model, shall be clearly shown. If there is a technical reason to prefer one model over the other, this shall be clearly shown; county preference is a SaaS system and hosting the solution on a 3rd party, such as Azure or AWS (Amazon Web Services), is acceptable.
• The proposed solution will provide a secure, web-based system for data in transit and at rest.
• Successful Offeror(s) will document compliance with all local, state, and federal laws related to student data privacy.
• The proposed solution shall hold neither commercial content nor serve as a vehicle to market goods and services.
• The proposed solution shall be able to manage at least 60,000+ concurrent county users with less than 30ms latency; offeror(s) must provide comprehensive documentation to show the ability to accommodate concurrent users based on data collected from a similar environment.
• If the solution is reliant on agency authentication, county will only accept a defined external ip address to allow firewall transactions and will not accept the allowance of entire network segments.
• County shall have the ability to send requests for an alteration of the digital content (including additional supporting data, modification of current data, or removal of data considered inappropriate by county) via email or web-based forms embedded in the digital content.
- Device, software, and network specifications
- district-wide staff, high and middle school students
• Windows laptop
o software
• OS (operating system) – windows 11: 64-bit
• Browsers – google chrome 129.x or above; Microsoft edge 129.x or above
• PDF reader - embedded within chrome and edge
• M365
o hardware- dell laptops
• Specifications
o displays: 11”-14” depending upon model
o network connection: wireless
o hard drive: 128-256gb SSD; depending upon model
o memory: 8gb
o chrome books (primary device for all elementary students)
o software
• Chromium OS 129.x+ or above
o    hardware
• Dell chrome book 3100 (touch and non-touch):
• Specifications:
o display - 11.6” HD (1366 x 768)
o network – built-in wireless card
o processor – intel Celeron n4020
o memory - 4gb
• IOS devices- elementary and secondary
o software
• IOS version -16.x, minimum
o safari browser
o hardware (based on ipadmr7f2ll/a)
• Display - 9.7-inch (diagonal) led- backlit, multi-touch with IPS technology
• Wireless-a, wireless-ac, wireless-g, wireless-n
• Networking environment
• District internet bandwidth
o2 Comcast Eni circuits to provide a total district bandwidth of 16 Gbps of internet service to the data center which is then distributed to the entire district via the size and type of wan circuits.
• Firewall protection
o cisco firewalls
• Local area network and wireless infrastructure
o All schools/ sites use either 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps fiber backbone connections between their MDF and IDF network closets.
o All schools/ sites use wireless access points capable of supporting Wi-Fi 6 (ieee802.11 ax) wireless standard and are connected at 1 Gbps, or greater, to multi-gig switches.
-  Professional development/ training
• The proposed solution shall include training for implementation and for continued professional development on-site and/or via web-based seminars.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year