Staff Links

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Popular Links

My279 Staff Portal

Technology Support (must login to My279 Staff Portal to access)

Schedule Tri 2, 2022-23

Who to Contact for Technical Assistance (District Level)

Alphabetical List of Staff Links

Scroll down for Resources for Remote Instruction and additional tools for teaching

Apps

• App Request Form for Google Play Store or Self Service

  • Approved App list

Chromebooks

• Bootcamp

• Tips

• Training

Family & Student Resources

• Internet Access: low-cost programs Families with outstanding balances with Comcast are not eligible.

  • Affordable Connectivity Program (US Government-sponsored)

  • Internet Essentials: Comcast/Xfinity program for low-cost Internet access. 

• Mobile Hotspot Request Form (2022-23)

• Schoology Parent Access Parents will need an access code before they can complete the form. Any teacher of that parent's child can find the access code in the members section of their Schoology course.

• Student Handbook

Learning Commons, Library, Books

• Book Recommendation form (to recommend new resources for the Learning Commons)

• Book recycling: Donate unneeded books to Better World Books

• Computer Lab Sign-up for Staff: tinyurl.com/pcshlabsignup

• Copyright for Teachers

• Hennepin County Library Card Permission Form

• Lab sign-up for staff: tinyurl.com/pcshlabsignup 

• Media & Lab Schedules/ Booking Calendar

• Media & Technology staff development

• Virtual Media Center (District Level)

Personalized Learning and Flexible Learning Spaces

• Personalized Learning Spaces Procedures bit.ly/pcflexhow

Personal Project

• Personal Project Support Material

Phones

• Android Phone set-up

• Phone instructions for Mitel telephones

• Smart Phone instructions for District e-mail access

Policies & Procedures

• Acceptable [Technology & Internet] Use Policy #441, AKA "AUP"

• Instructional Materials Selection Policy 652 (Collection Development Policy for the district)

Printing

• 3-D Printer in the Learning Commons

  • 3-D Print Request Form

  • 3-D Printing Instructions

• Adding a printer to your computer

• Printing from a Chromebook (not a district-approved process)

• Printing with the District 279 Publications Department

  • Publication/Print Request Form

  • Phone extension: X27171. Phone number: 763-391-7171

Technology Instructions

• AirServer Instructions for iPads- screencast, courtesy of Donna Ohlgren

• Clearing Browser Cache

• Digital Learning

  • • SAMR Model Exemplars by subject (by Ruben R. Puentedura, Ph. D.)

    • SAMR Model - Tools by Rungs

    • PCSH SAMR Model Worksheet (Google Doc for a lesson)

    • PCSH SAMR Model Spreadsheet (Google Doc as a repository for PCSH SAMR lessons)

    • PCSH Digital Learning Vision & SAMR Model Presentation

• Digital Resource Standards for District 279

• Digitizing paper files using Evernote and Scannable

• Employee Email

• End-of-the-Year Media Instructions (Access through Osseo Apps or any Google Drive account)

  • Checklist: Protect Your Electronic Data

  • Classroom Technology Equipment Storage

  • Digital Checkout for staff going on leave or retiring

  • Setting your phone message to out-of-office reply

  • Lightspeed Amplification Systems - Summer Care Procedures

• Extending your computer screen

• Forwarding Osseo Apps e-mail to your regular address 

• G-Suite Training

• GoPro Hero Camera Tutorial

• Instructions for technological tasks

• Learn 360 Teacher Sign-up

• Microsoft Home Use Program - $10

• Microsoft Office 365 for Staff and Students - Free

• Microsoft Office 365 Subscription (must log in using your apps account)

• Multi-factor Authentication for district access on a personal device

• New Staff Device Request Form

• Outlook Web Access (link only works outside of the district)

• Password Reset Instructions

• PD360

• PDF editor - free: PDF Candy

• SMART Board introductory videos (Compliments of Mary Litwinczuk, Weaver Lake)

• Software Center: To add approved software to your computer, enter "Software Center" in the desktop search field. Open Software Center and search for the name of the software you wish to add.  Double click on the software to install it. 

• Staff Laptop User Guide

• Synergy

• Technology Instructions - How to do just about anything! 

• Technology Specialist Specializations and Contact Info

• Technology Support Form - to report issues with Osseo's foundational technology

• Technology Teaching Tools Staff Development Program Blog

• Textbook Manager

  • General Instructions

  • Printing Class Barcode Sets

  • Video: checking out textbooks to students with no barcode

• TIES Enterprise Menu

Other

• Announcements submission form

• ATPPS Quicklinks

• Copy Request Form - creating an Outlook signature

• District Instructional Technology Contacts: Who do I contact for what?!

• Fines: Staff request the addition of student fines here

• Flexible Learning Spaces Procedures bit.ly/pcflexhow

• Instructional Media & Technology Services Resource Catalog ("Media Manager")

• Morning Announcements (PCTV)

• New Teacher Checklist

  • New Teacher District Handout

• Osseo Area Schools Employee Handbook 2020-21

• PC Announcement Requests

• Recycle almost anything: Green Lights Recycling

• Registration Instructions for Staff

• Registration Survey Pilot for Selected Groups at PCSH

• Standards-based Curriculum & Instruction for District 279

• Student Teacher Information

• TTT Professional Development Program Information

• Video sources

• Warehouse Inventory Items (for purchase with a Central Stores Requisition, form PU-110)

• Website Update Requests: Log in to My279.org> hamburger menu>Services>Community Relations>Submit a Website Update Request

• Who to Contact with technology questions

Resources for Remote Instruction

• My 279 Staff Portal

• Adding your office hours to your e-mail signature

• Chromebook

  • Chromebook Accessibility Features

  • Chromebook Apps

  • Chromebook Camera use

  • "Chromebook Camp" training materials for teachers, designed for Middle School teachers

  • Chromebook dead, even though charged

  • Chromebook has a yellow triangle self-repair instructions

  • Chromebook pick-up request form 

  • Chromebook Repair Process during distance learning

  • Chromebook Tips and Tricks - self-repair options

• Copyright and Fair Use Guidance from District 279

• Database Usernames & Passwords for off-site access (must log in with Osseo Apps account)

• Discovery Ed Streaming Services

  • Login with passcode: 335D-4746

• E-book and audiobook access

• Family Resources

  • Brooklyn Park COVID-19 Resident Resources

  • Brooklyn Park Library Curbside pick-up information during COVID-19

  • Converting 4.0 Grading Scale to Letter Grades

  • Entertaining younger siblings - Parade Magazine's list of 125 activities

  • Federal Communication Commission Affordable Connectivity Program - eligible families receive up to $30 per month toward Internet services. 

  • Google Meet instructions for families (Chromebook)

  • Google Meet instructions for families (Computer)

  • Hennepin County Library e-Library Card Online Application

  • Internet Resources - Free or Reduced Cost 

  • Mobile Hotspot request form for 2021-22

  • Self-Help Technology Resources for Students and Families

  • Student Services - District 279

• Flash Player - how to enable it in Schoology

  • Simplified instructions for enabling Flash Player in Schoology (share with students)

• Google for Education distance learning resources

  • Google Meet-Office Hours tutorial - by Drew Dittmann

• Hovercam Video Recording Instructions

• Interactive Educational Tools

• Language Line: How to contact parents through an interpreter

• Minnesota Online Teachers Network webinars and resources

• New York Times Learning Network

• Online/Distance Learning:

  • COVID-19 Education Coalition Resources

  • Distance Learning Solutions from UNESCO

  • Google Drive - using your cell phone camera to turn a physical form into a shareable Google Doc

  • Google Meet - How to 

  • Google Meet & Airserver - to project to a large screen while presenting to distance learners 

  • "How To" Directions and Videos gathered & posted in Schoology by Tanya Drake

  • MDE Teacher-to-Teacher Distance Learning workshops

  • Online Learning Resources - developed by District 279 Content Leads

  • Parent-Teacher Conference Scheduling through TeacherVUE

  • Resources for teaching online during school closures - by the Edublogger

  • Distance Learning Student Support Referral Form

  • Teacher Technology Tidbits - a variety of handy things you can do

  • Teacher Tools - a list of quality online educational resources, curated by Sophia Joffe

  • Teaching Online - Practical Guidelines by Barbara Bray

  • Teaching and Learning Resources for COVID-19 from Sourcewell Technology

  • Video: 7 keys to Creative Collaboration

  • Video: Creating Digital Escape Rooms

• Osseo Google Suite Tools

• Personalized Learning Resources (Especially the Implementation Section)

  • Personalized Learning Collaboration of Best Practices by #PC-PLC

• Reading Aloud and Fair Use/Copyright Law

• Record from your Chromebook with Loom

• Schoology A to Z

  • 100-point worksheet - fixing it

  • Add Extended Flex Learning Resources to a Course

  • Chromebook/Schoology Camp

  • Creating Schoology Calendar events to keep up on assignments

  • Displaying posts in new window

  • EdPuzzle use with Schoology

  • Gradebook Set-up (80/20, 4 point grade scale) 

  • Gradebook - Missing and Excused assignments

  • Notification settings

  • Planning & preparing for distance learning in Schoology

  • Schoology Parent Access Code instructions

  • Sharing Google Drive Assignments with Schoology Course Administrators / Co-teachers

  • Video recording within Schoology - Screencasted instructions for staff

• Screencasting (recording a narrated video of you navigating on your device) - See Interactive Educational Tools, above.

• Staff Technology Self-Help Page (new link in 2021)

• Student Tools (a very long list of activities and resources for students)

  • Khan Academy - free online courses, lessons, tutorials

  • Student Virtual Backpack - Secondary

• Support Staff: Connecting with Park Center Support Staff

• Talking Points text message translator 

  • Overview video

  • Access Talking Points through Clever

• Uploading Videos to Schoology & Google Docs

• Website update requests - Kay Villella, Community Relations

Additional Technology Self-Help Pages  

If any of the links below do not work, go to this main link, then navigate to the information pages listed below. 

• • Microsoft Office 2016 Quick Start Guides & Training Links

  • Microsoft Windows 10 Training Links

  • Monitor & Projector Assistance

  • Network

  • Outlook Email

  • OWA Outlook Web Access

  • Password Assistance

  • Phones

  • Printers

  • Request Tracker

  • Smartnotebook

  • Software Center for Windows

  • Staff Retiring or going on Leave of Absence (LOA)

  • Transportation

  • All Pages

Additional Links and Tools for Staff