As the school year gets into a groove, you may find a need for Go Guardian. For those of you already using it, enclosed are some troubleshooting tips.
For those of you new to Go Guardian, it is a web based Chromebook monitoring program so that you can monitor what students do on their Chromebooks. It can be a tool to guide your students to the right sites or direct them away from certain sites. With the basic monitoring, you are also able to take a snapshot of their screen, close their tabs and chat with them without leaving your desk (although walking around the room to gain proximity is always a great idea as well ). If you haven't used it yet this year, setup is a breeze! Here are some terms you may need to know.
Classroom- this is the term for the groupings of students you put in either through Google Classroom, importing a spreadsheet or having students enroll using the class code (easiest way).
Session- when you start a session, you begin monitoring students in your class on the Chromebooks they are using. You can set up a schedule in advance to automatically run sessions at certain times or you can "start session" whenever you get out the Chromebooks.
Scene: Not only is this program good for monitoring what students do on their computers, it also has tools to help you lock students into the tabs/websites you choose and in doing so, blocking all other sites, called a scene. Scenes can be helpful during a testing period, research projects or as a general safety measure for every class. You can apply a scene to a classroom (for every time you run a session with that class) or just during a session (such as with testing or a research project). Scenes overview and block vs allow mode tutorial videos.
Troubleshooting Tips
If your schedule doesn't start and end when you want it to start or end.
Delete your schedule (by clicking the garbage can next to the day).
Recreate your schedule.
Wait 24 hours and check your reports to see if the schedule ran on time.
If you have an allowed website that students can't seem to access.
Have students go to that website (where they get a message saying their teacher doesn't want them on that site).
On your teacher dashboard, you will see a message to "allow site for the scene".
There are many positive ways to share the good things happening in your classroom. The goal of the social media team is to help you do that through understanding the guidelines and policies, defining your purpose for sharing, and working through the actual process of posting.
Here are some positive ways to share the content from your classroom (with parents/guardians):
For day-to-day things...
Seesaw at the elementary levels is the perfect way to share things with parents. It is a private way to share pictures, student work and feedback and only have the parents of the tagged student see the post.
Submitting pictures to the Weekly Highlight Video folder. Once the highlight video is posted, feel free to share it to your personal page.
Here are some positive ways to share the content from your classroom (with students):
Google Classroom is a great way to communicate with students. Through this you can share assignments, announcements and photos from events in the form of a link to a Drive folder.
Seesaw is not only fantastic for parents, but for student communication as well. They can see assignments, announcements, pictures and videos all in a safely closed portal.
Remind is a great way for coaches, advisors and leaders to send out announcements to their students
Social Media is NOT a district-approved way to communicate with students (Snap Chat, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tik Tok, etc). If communicating with students, please use one of these above methods or good old email.
Here are some positive ways to share the content from your classroom (with any audience):
For special events...
Use this Social Media Submission Form (can also be found on the Social Media Website or in Classlink) to submit pictures of your special event for Mandy or Jen to post to the district/building social media pages. * Once the post is posted to the ASD page, feel free to share it to your personal page to promote ASD and the good things happening here!
*For either way, please remember that student work, names, and photos of private events are not to be shared on your personal or public social media feeds. See the below diagram to clarify.
According to Hattie, “Feedback is among the most critical influences on student learning.” One of the things that great teachers do, and have done for years, is provide feedback to students.
With feedback, students can better gauge if they are on the right track. As a teacher, you do this daily with verbal coaching/praise, written notes, and small group conversations.
Technology offers several benefits when offering feedback to your students.
You can give feedback to students on the same platforms into which they turned the work in.
Technology can help you keep your Feedback timely and effective.
Seesaw at the younger grades is a great way to hear students' thought processes and see a sample of their work. You can give them feedback through recorded voice comments (for nonreaders) or through typing or emojis. Ways you can give feedback in Seesaw include:
Editing student post to include a tutorial video and feedback (Tutorial video on this technique here). You can also use this method to include stickers or text feedback.
You can add voice or written comments to the bottom of the student post.
Google Classroom, for the older students, offers private comments on student work that is submitted in Classroom. Learn more about how to add private comments here.
Comments in Classroom can be saved so you can have a comment bank for future feedback.
Rubrics can be used with assignments in Classroom to help guide your feedback and give you specific things to address.
Screencastify is for when you want to specifically give educational feedback to help reteach or give specific details where showing is better than telling Try using Screencastify to make a screencast of your feedback. Then you can share the link in private comments, email the link to the student, or share in Seesaw.
This is an especially useful tool when giving feedback in math when you need to demonstrate something along with verbal feedback. Pro Tip- Use the mirror feature in Screencastify to flip your writing if it shows up backward in the video.
Flipgrid- You can have students demonstrate their thinking and knowledge with Flipgrid (which integrates nicely with Classroom with a simple link). You can then give voice recorded feedback, video feedback, or text comments privately or publicly to their Flipgrid response. Giving video feedback is a great way to humanize and demonstrate something in your feedback instead of just typing a comment.
If you need assistance with any of these methods, let me know and I will be happy to help. :)