Hello Friends! So I am going to spend the next few Tuesday's showing you ways to control cheating on Schoology. It is not a fix all and won't prevent it but it sure does slow it down and make it more difficult to cheat. The first thing I always do when administering a test or quiz on Schoology is check my settings! The picture below shows several settings that I use to help with cheating. Randomize Order: I always randomize the questions as much as possible. So that no one person is on the same question at the same time. I also tell students this so that maybe they will think " I can't look at my neighbor because they will have a different question." Resumable: I always set resumable to NO on a test or quiz because if they go out of schoology it will not let them back into that test and they will have to come see me to be let back in. Then I can ask them why they got out of the test/quiz. Now with this setting you will have...
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Using a Split Screen in the Classroom Macbooks® This is one that I JUST learned about, and I am a MAC girl💁 When using a web-browser or any application, hold down the full screen button in the upper left. As you hold down the green button, your screen will shrink and you can drag it to the left or right hand side of your screen. Release and then you can click another window or application to open on the other side. Miss S. Burton
This week’s tip can be used for all grade levels!! Kahoot is an online multiple- choice quiz that is played like a game show! It is an excellent review for the big test tomorrow or a pop quiz! You can create the online quiz then share the Game pin so they can log into the quiz on their iPads! It will keep track of who got the correct answer and its also timed! The kids love it too!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_XcHUwlLcY
So last week Daniel showed you how to screen shot from your computer. So how can you use it in Schoology? If there is a photo, chart, graph, equation, or maybe a paragraph/story you don't want to retype. You can screenshot it and use those items in a test, quiz, assignment, or even an announcement. In Schoology when you create a test, quiz, assignment, or announcement there is an option to insert a picture: At the top in the toolbar click on the Insert Content button: Then click on image/media to insert a photo. Then click on attach file and upload your image. Sometimes the image comes through really large but you can always click on the image and slide it in to make it smaller or larger depending on what you need. I use this feature all the time in creating a test/quiz for math or science. I find the question I would like to use and then just screenshot and insert it in. ...
Google Docs has lots of templates with different designs and formats to fit your needs. When creating a new doc from Drive, select "New", "Google Docs", "From a template" If you are creating a document inside Docs, just click on the Template Gallery. Inside each gallery, you have an option for Templates from Goodpasture Christian School . We don't have much in there right now, but you are able to add things you think others might need. Last night I was writing a recommendation letter and ended up creating an "unofficial" letterhead inside Google Docs and adding it to the template gallery. Feel free to use it. Lots of schools and the Common App now accept Google Documents so this could be a way to ease that process. These templates can be used for lots of things including letters, reports, lesson plans, etc. Students can use them for reports and projects. Let me know if you have any...
Last Thursday I presented at a Early Childhood Technology Conference here in Michigan. After my presentation was over there were a few attendees who came forward to ask what app I was using to control my Google Slides™ presentation with my iPhone. Therefore, I thought this topic would make a great blog post because there are many options for turning your phone into a presentation remote. Here are a few I have tried in the past as well as the one I chose to use last Thursday. My Pick☝ I ended up using Unified Remote last week. My presentation was in Google Slides™ and I needed to go back and forth between slides to refer to images in my presentation. Also, I needed to be able to click on links that would take me to outside web tools. Unified Remote (Free with Paid Upgrades) I did not pay for any upgrades. Since I needed the basic functionality of advancing and returning to slides, I ended up just using the slideshow remote feature: The tool does allow for you...
Videos are an Excellent way to engage your students in learning. This site provides great videos on all topic and grade levels K-12. You can sign up for a free 45 day trial and have access to all the features. Let me know if it would be something you are interested in using long term. Tammy https://www.flocabulary.com/
This week's tip is for all of you that teach Math. Math happens to be my favorite subject!! I use to tell my students that I could teach Math standing on my head, and with my eyes closed!! I use to have a cabinet full of tubs with various manipulatives to give my students the "hands on" approach often needed to teach math. Now with all of the marvels of technology there are various apps and websites that digitally offer those same manipulatives. Glencoe has a site for PreK-8th grade that offers various "workmats" and manipulatives to teach anything clocks and currency to place value and geometric solids. The site is below. Check it out!! http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html I also really like the app Virtual Manipulatives (brought to you by ABCya.com ) If you are working on Decimals, Fractions, and Percents, then this app is great!! If y...
Did you know your students can air drop you an assignment to your computer if the file is too large to upload to Schoology or email? This will also work if you are trying to share pictures too. 1. Go to your finder (the smiling face at the bottom of your screen) 2. Click on Air Drop on the top left 3. Where it says "Allowed to be discovered by" be sure that is change to everyone 4. Students can then go to the assignment/picture/etc. and choose to air drop it to you. 5. A message will show up on your computer for you to allow and open. You may choose this option and then save the file to your computer after it has downloaded. Let me know if you have any questions! Tammy
Here is a Google Slide show for using Apple Classroom . If you need help setting it up or want to know more about it, feel free to use this as a guide. Daniel Knox and Amanda Cross can help you set this up.
Screen Grabs! Daniel Knox Today's tip is a special request. It's something I use all the time and I'm sure a lot of you do, too. If you want to take a screen shot on your MacBook, there are multiple ways to do it. You can access Grab inside your utilities folder (or just search for Grab inside the finder). It offers a few options of things you can do. But a couple simple shortcuts are built in to access the two main options. 1) Screenshot - If you want to capture exactly what your screen shows at that instant, hold down Command, Shift, and 3 (at the same time. If your sound is on you will hear a camera shutter and a picture of your screen will save to the desktop automatically. 2) Selected Screenshot (Snip) - If you only want to take a picture of a portion of the screen, hold down Command, Shift, and 4 at the same time. Your cur...
Google Timer: Daniel Knox Here's a simple one. If you need to set a quick timer in class for something, Google has got you covered. Just google "timer" followed by the number of minutes you want and it will automatically start a timer in your browser. If your computer is connected to the projector, you can even select an option to show it full screen so students can keep up with the timer as they work. Google has lots of other fun search features as well. Play around and enjoy. Have a great day and let me know if you need anything! Daniel
Schoology: Amanda Cross Hello everyone! I am joining the Tech Tip Tuesday. I am going to give tips on various tools you can use in S choology . I hope the below information will help. If you are like me, you may use schoology for tests or quizzes and once you create a question more than likely you will use it again at some point in the school year or at the very least next school year. I would hate for all of that time creating questions to go to waste. So remember to always save your questions in your personal resources. Click options and then "Add Questions to Bank." You can add all of your questions or just the ones you want to save. In order to find them later they will be located under Resources and then Personal. I hope this helps and if you ever need help on how to do something in S choology let me know.
5th/6th Tip: Sarah Burton As a part of our technology program, I will be sending you tech tips every Tuesday. They will range in complexity and purpose, but I promise to only send you ideas that I think are worth your time. This week’s tip comes from the blog The Techie Teacher and involves using an iPad stylus on your computer trackpad. I played around with it last night and found that it was very helpful when it comes to drawing or writing a signature on the computer. http://www.thetechieteacher.net/2017/08/using-stylus-pen-on-computer-trackpad.html Using a Stylus Pen on a Computer Trackpad A few weeks ago I learned that stylus pens also work on computer trackpads. How did I not know this? As soon as I made this discovery, I grabbed my 99 cent iPad stylus pen, opened Google Autodraw and tested it out on both my MacBook and Chromebook. It worked like a charm! I posted the image on the left to both ...
Elementary Tip: Renae Bixenman There’s an App for that!! Running Records are a fantastic way to assess individual student reading levels. I don’t know how you organize your assessments, but I always had multiple copies of each leveled assessment in a big binder that took up a lot of space!! I recently came across an app on the Facebook page Technology Erintergration that I think would be beneficial to those of you that use Running Records to assess reading levels. The app is “Record of Reading” and it allows you to do your Running Records digitally. One of the features that I also like is the ability to record the student as they are reading. Great to play back for parents during conferences!! It also allows you to become more of a “paper free” classroom. The app is free and available for the iPads only. You can save, and file a student’s records for the year and access easily. I gave it a try on my own child and found it to be bot...