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Google Apps Collaboration: Sharing Files & Folders
May 28, 2013
Tags: Collaboration, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Teams
In Google Drive, you can share one or more of your files or folders with people by sending them a link to your file or sharing the file with an individual’s email address or a mailing list. To share a file: 1. Go to your Google Drive. 2. Check the box next to the file […]
Protecting your Chromebook
October 20, 2013
Tags: 1:1, Chromebook, Student Devices, Students
As Mr. Hopkins, the principal at Holmes Middle School, likes to recount, in 1976, calculators made their way in to the classrooms of 7th and 8th graders to change, improve, and deepen mathematics instruction. In the following years, the first computers and computer labs appeared in our schools. In 2009, as a result of the […]
Staff Laptops: An update
June 3, 2014
Tags: Staff, Staff Laptop, Staff MacBook
UPDATED (26 June 2014)-While additional details about the specific device and timeframe and steps that staff members need to take in order to prepare will still be forthcoming, the move to new devices for staff members will begin following the start of the school year–around October 1st. Currently, nearly all certified School District 21 […]
New Google Drive launches
July 30, 2014
Tags: Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Office 2011
Since June 2013, School District 21 staff members have been transitioning from local file storage and Office 2010/2013 (Windows) and Office 2011 (Mac) to Google Drive. This move has gone tremendously well thanks to the efforts of students and staff members. Throughout the organization, staff members are collaborating in Google Drive, and the tools provided […]
Inform: Measuring Student Growth with MAP
April 24, 2013
Tags: Inform, Rising Star, SIP
Always start a new query by clicking first on the “Reports” tab and then clicking on the “Create” button as pictured below. Next, as pictured below, you will complete these four steps: (Steps are below the picture!) Select either “Reading” or “Mathematics” from the Subject pull-down menu. (The year should already appear as the current […]
Inform: Measuring Student Growth with Aprenda
April 24, 2013
Tags: Inform, Rising Star, SIP
Always start a new query by clicking first on the “Reports” tab and then clicking on the “Create” button as pictured below. Next, as pictured below, you will complete these six steps: (Steps are below the picture!) Select “Reading” from the Subject pull-down menu Select “Display results by Proficiency Levels” Select “General Growth Scale 2012” […]
Inform: Measuring Student Growth with MAP for “At Grade Level” Students
April 24, 2013
Tags: Inform, Rising Star, SIP
Always start a new query by clicking first on the “Reports” tab and then clicking on the “Create” button as pictured below. Next, as pictured below, you will complete these five steps: (Steps are below the picture!) Select “Reading” from the Subject pull-down menu Choose the group “Meets/Exceeds Reading-MAP & Aprenda” from the Student Group […]
Inform: Measuring Student Growth with MAP for “Below Grade Level” Students
April 24, 2013
Tags: Inform, Rising Star, SIP
Always start a new query by clicking first on the “Reports” tab and then clicking on the “Create” button as pictured below. Next, as pictured below, you will complete these five steps: (Steps are below the picture!) Select “Reading” from the Subject pull-down menu Choose the group “Below Reading 3-Year MAP & Aprenda 09-10” from […]
Google Apps settings (& more settings)
May 19, 2013
Tags: Calendar, Chat, Contacts, Email, Gmail, Google, Google Apps
Each component of Google Apps (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, etc.) has its own settings that the end user (staff member or student) can set for himself or herself. While there are a handful of settings that have been set at the District-level for either students, staff, or for all users, most settings have been left […]
Google Drive: An overview
May 19, 2013
Tags: Google, Google Apps, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Forms, Google Keep, Google Sheets, Google Slides
Over the past number of years, CCSD21 students and staff members have been taught to store their files in their Documents folders or on their Desktops within their home directories. This is now coming to an end with the move to Google Drive, the new location for file storage for CCSD21 students and staff members. […]
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