ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0State testing came to a halt Wednesday across Orange County after an internet outage across the district.<\/p>\n
Students and teachers are now figuring out when to re-schedule those exams before school lets out for summer.<\/p>\n
Jack Hayes, an Orange County Public Schools Super Scholar Award recipient with a Presidential Scholarship to Florida State University, was in the middle of testing when the outage happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have nine individual exams for eight classes,\u201d Hayes shared.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Hayes was preparing to take two AP exams.<\/p>\n
He says the first ended smoothly at around 11:20 a.m. with the second set to start at noon. But just as he was ready to check-in for the exam, his class ran into some trouble.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was one of around nine or nine-ish people that could sign in, in the room of like 20,\u201d explained Hayes. \u201cAnd then we heard that it was a district-wide issue with signing in.\u201d<\/p>\n
That district-wide issue was due to an internet outage in the middle of the day.<\/p>\n
School officials said that the system came back online after 30 minutes and that they were still determining how many students were impacted.<\/p>\n
While brief, Hayes says the outage delayed his exam by more than an hour and a half. The delay worried some of his classmates who had prior engagements.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, a lot of people were really worried about this, especially people with jobs,\u201d Hayes said. \u201cLike everybody was concerned and were like, \u2018I have to get to my job because I told them I would come in at this time and if this test is pushed back, then I really can\u2019t make it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Hayes says their teacher did give students an option to make up the exam if they couldn\u2019t stay, but he stayed and took the exam.<\/p>\n
While he\u2019s glad the district resolved the issue quickly, Hayes says he\u2019s adjusting how he prepares for these exams moving forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always am going to allocate like an hour around everything I have to do for AP exams and if I go until 4:30, cool okay,\u201d said Hayes.<\/p>\n
That 4:30 p.m. end time seemed to be the deciding factor for Hayes\u2019 classmates.<\/p>\n
He says that out of the 20 students in the class, seven stayed to take the exam Wednesday, while the others chose to make it up in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014\u00a0State testing came to a halt Wednesday across Orange County after an internet outage across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4996,9995,14105,113,115,1335,139,141,140,835],"class_list":["post-261826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-education","tag-app-latest-education-stories","tag-brandon-spencer","tag-education","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}