Skyward/Qmlativ Update

Within the next few years, Auburn School District will move from Skyward to Qmlativ. The projected shift is for the 2020 - 2021 school year. Qmlativ is Skyward’s updated Student Information System. It offers many changes and upgrades to the system Auburn has been using:

• Modern look and feel that is easy to customize by user

• Responsive design for ease of use on mobile devices 

• Intelligent search capabilities

• Faster and more efficient than Skyward

• Multimedia tutorials for quick answers to questions

Please watch for more information on our new student information system going forward.

For more information, check out Qmlativ's website.

Each month your Tech Tips Newsletter is highlighting teacher use of Chromebooks that addresses 21st Century Learning Skills in the classroom. This month's highlight features an example of collaboration in an elementary classroom.

Trina Lutes-Johnson, a learning specialist at Lake View Elementary, shares how her students practice paired programming skills during Computer Science instruction. Trina's students use Chromebooks to access Code.org and share the ownership of online problems similar to what happens in many modern workplaces.

If you are using technology in a forward-thinking way and would like to share your work with students and the 4 Cs in the newsletter, please reach out to your Instructional Technology Support Specialist.

Password Security

On March 8, 2019, the Department of Technology staff made two changes to network password requirements. All ASD network/email passwords now require the following:

1. Minimum password length – 8 characters

2. Password complexity which must include three of the following characteristics –

   1. Uppercase (e.g. A through Z)

   2. Lowercase (e.g. a through z)

   3. Number (e.g. 0 through 9)

   4. Special Character (e.g. !, @, #, $)

These changes take effect whenever you change your password. The network password is the password that syncs across your desktop, email, and Google account.

NOTE - these changes do NOT affect Skyward.

Please contact your Building Technology Coordinator if you have any questions. Thank you.

Student Extensions

Thank you to all those who submitted names of extensions that students are using to support their education. Instructional Technology staff have turned off student extensions that have not gone through an instructional and data security review.

To see which extensions are approved or denied, please check out the Data Security page. Scroll down to the "Terms of Service Review/Approved Extensions" spreadsheet and click on the "Chrome Apps & Extensions" tab at the bottom.

If you would like an extension added to the review list, please have your Building Tech submit a work order with the name of the extension, a URL to it in the Chrome Web Store, and what instructional activities students will be doing with that extension. Thank you.