The technical issues experienced during the October 20 province-wide trial of the online Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test (OSSLT) were caused by an intentional, malicious and sustained Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack—a type of cyberattack.
The electronic translation service on the Lakehead District School Board website is hosted by Google Translate, a third party service. The LDSB does not guarantee or warrant the reliability, accuracy or completeness of any translated information.
The quality of the translation will vary in some of the languages offered by Google. Google Translate is a free service and currently offers translation in over 100 languages, but does not capture all languages or dialects.
The basic translation goal is to capture the general intention of the original English material. Before you act on translated information, we encourage you to confirm any facts that are important to you or may affect any decisions you make.
The Lakehead District School Board is committed to equity and community engagement, and by providing this tool, we are making our information more accessible to families whose first language is not English.
