Berkeley Unified and Oakland Unified in the San Francisco Bay Area are scrambling to tighten up online security after two breaches this week revealed weaknesses in the ways they were communicating with students and families about virtual classroom meetings.
Brent Stephens, superintendent of Berkeley Unified, notified families and staff Tuesday that the district was pausing its use of Zoom and Google Meet for online class meetings because a man exposed himself to an online Berkeley High class Tuesday after somehow obtaining the meeting ID and password. The district is taking a few days to compare different platforms and reviewing security protocols and training in the hopes of resuming Zoom or other online classroom experiences for students next week, Stephens told EdSource.
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