Free WiFi, Rejoin in Zoom, YouTube Videos, and Clever Tips – Week 05

 CN Area Elementary Teaching Team:

Week 05 (Sep 14 - Sep 18)

Weekly Giggles:              Q. How do you talk to a giant

                                        A. Use big words!

Save the data! Just in case you didn’t get the memo, you have access to CUSD wifi on your cellphone. Yes. Save that data plan. You send emails from your phone. You use it for Remind. You use it for work. Yes, use the wifi. Here’s how:
     1) Head into settings for Wi-Fi.
     2) Choose CUSD_Guest.
     3) Sign in with your standard username: lukeskywalker.
     4) Use the same awesome password you use for everything CUSD.
     5) If you are asked to trust the certificate, choose TRUST.
**Remember to update this password when you update your CUSD password every 90 days.

Now, that tutorial was modeled on an iPhone, but with an Android, you would use similar steps with the same outcome.

What if you kick a student out of Zoom? Can they come back in? What if they cannot? How do you fix that? In the online settings, you can fix that. Half-way down the page, toggle this button on.

Zoom Chat. When I am in a Zoom with children, I typically shift that conversation space so they can only chat with me. Here’s how to do that:

1) Click on Chat.
2) Take your eyes to the bottom of that window. You will see a small button with three dots “…”. Click that button.
3) From there, another menu will appear. Yours will look a pinch different from this.  But, you will find where it says “Host only.” Click that. From that point forward, the children will only chat with you—for that session.

YouTube Content. Here are the most recent YouTube releases that may help your team. 

1) Help, Teacher! I ruined my assignment. This is from the STUDENT perspective. You can share this in Google Classroom to help kids who have deleted or ruined an assignment.
2) Help, Teacher! I ruined my assignment. This is from the TEACHER perspective. You can do this yourself to fix a ruined document. The video shows a Google Slide presentation, but you can certainly do this in a Google Document as well.
3) Email Notification for parents. Parents can get attendance alerts each day. And, they can get daily emails that show how the children are doing on their grades. The children do not have a folder of papers going home each week. So, how do they know how the children are doing? This daily email tool is very helpful. Add this to your website. Send via Remind. Share in your newsletter. Parents will thank you for it.

Clever Badges. Do you need to test out how things work for a student? Aren’t sure how to get into a child’s Clever account? Well, here’s how.
     1) You can head into your Clever account and click Classes. 

     2) When you do that, you will see the classes you teach. 
     3) Click on one of those classes. 

     4) Next, click on the button that says Clever Badges. A PDF will download to your computer. Now, using your cell phone, an iPad, or a student computer, you can zap that QR code when you go to clever.cusd.com. That will authenticate you and get you in as that child.
DO NOTE: This will not get you into anything Google. Google requires a higher level of security to get you in there.

Why would I use this? Have you ever asked yourself:

      a) What do my students see?
      b) Does this link in my Clever Teacher Page work?
      c) What happens when the kids access this link?

Now you have the ability to find the answers to those questions easily.

Launch an app. Are you working with kids in K, 1, and 2? Wouldn’t it be great to reach into their computer and click on something for them? Well, you can (to some degree). We will repeat a few of those above steps, but we’ll make one adjustment.
1) Head into Clever.
2) Click on Classes.

3) Click Launch an App.

4) Choose an app. This app (depending on the device the child/ren are using), this app will launch on their end if the child has Clever open on their end at that moment. If a child is using an iPad or a smart device, this will not work as nicely. But, you are activating this app for ALL children who have Clever open at that moment.

Image credit HERE.

You are making a difference,
Melissa Culver