The student Chromebook device and accompanying stylus are essential tools for success in school now more than ever.

• Chromebook must be charged fully every night. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, students will not be permitted to charge their Chromebooks in the classroom.

• The stylus is the pen/pencil students will need to complete their work. Students who lose their stylus have to write with their finger. Students generally do not like this method. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, there will be no sharing of the stylus or loaners permitted this year.

• Students should completely shut down their Chromebook every night or morning before use. This greatly improves the Chromebook's ability to handle all of the tasks a student will use it for throughout a typical school day.

• Students should also learn to clear their cookies and internet data from their Chromebook and complete that task daily as well.

This is the student information portal. Please make sure your family information is up to date. This is where you will find:

• Grades - Assignment grades with comments if necessary

• Grades - Course Averages at the Interim and End of Each Quarter, the running average is only completely accurate twice a quarter.

This is the essential classroom hub. I have been using Google Classroom for several years now and students know how it works.

• Classwork and Lab assignments will be distributed to all students.

• Students will annotate the files and/or complete the assignments and turn them in to me. Any assignment not turned in will not be scored or receive credit, not turned in = I did not receive it.

• Students will use the topics in the classwork section to follow the class.

• The stream will only be used for announcements.

Kami is the leading educational tool for annotating electronic documents in the classroom. BCSD has the full edition for all faculty and students. The linked image will take you to the Chrome extension where you can download it if you do not already have it.

• Allows students to annotate documents, add images, use text boxes, and complete assigned course work.

• Is integrated with Google Classroom to provide seamless assignment completion and ability to turn in assignments directly.

• Has a wide range of tools that can be used for 21st century learning skills.

Go formative is a powerful assessment tool that allows the instructor to turn any pdf into an assessment.

• This will be used to practice Regents questions.

• This will be used for Regents question quizzes.

• There is a practice exam for every Unit exam that students will be assigned prior to taking the Unit exam.

• This will be used for Regents question Exams.

Quizlet will be used frequently for students to practice the course vocabulary section by section.

• Students will have unlimited practice opportunities on their own time.

• Students can use the built in feedback to improve their vocabulary understanding.

• Sections can and will be used for assessment tools.

Quizizz will be used frequently by instructor to assess vocabulary understanding as an entire Unit for each Unit.

• Units can and will be used for assessment tools.

• I have used this for assessment by giving students the ability to repeat the quiz as many times as necessary to get a 100. The student can always record a 100 on these assessments if they spend the time to truly know the vocabulary.

Google meet is Google's version of video conferencing software. It is one of 2 approved choices we have to use. There are advantages and disadvantages when using Google Meet. I will soon decide what video conferencing platform I will use to start the year, but I could switch at any time based on the ever changing features.

• Link is provided in Google Classroom automatically.

• Google Meet is integrated into Google Classroom.

• Google Meet takes attendance.

• Google Meet records the time a student logs in and out of the meet.

• Google Meet calculates the duration the student spent in the meet.

Zoom is the leading version of video conferencing software for higher education and business. Zoom ran into some difficulties with security but fixed those issues quickly with the Education edition. Zoom has a much better interface and very much better facilitator meeting controls. The down side to zoom is it uses more of the cpu on the Chromebook, therefore students need to clear cookies and restart their machines every day in order to successfully participate in the meetings. This is good practice anyway when using Chromebooks as they are no way near as powerful as laptop computers.

• Link is provided in Google Classroom by instructor.

• Zoom takes attendance.

• Zoom records the time a student logs in and out of the meet.

• Zoom calculates the duration the student spent in the meet.