GoGuardian is a fantastic tool that helps teachers direct their students instructionally. Here is the official announcement from the district in regards to our GoGuardian purchase and intended use.
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00:17 Setting up your account
00:43 Importing your classes
01:08 Starting a session
01:42 Session tools (screenshot, lock devices, open a new tab, and close tabs)
02:08 Chat feature
02:31 Opening a new tab
02:50 Dashboard tools (timelines, saved screenshots, and off-task alerts)
03:30 Ending a session (recorded summary and email)
04:00 Scenes (Allowed or Blocked Scenes, tab management)
06:05 Starting a session with a Scene
07:08 Classroom Calendar
07:33 Student Reports
Excluding a Student from a scene:
Excluding a Student from a scene:
Need to apply a scene to only part of your class? You can exclude those who don't need it.
Creating "Scene Groups":
Creating "Scene Groups":
If you have a group of students that you'd like to filter content for that is different than the whole class (more or less freedom), you can create a "Scene Group."
Choose Custom Groups to create your own.
Name each Group.
Select students to add to each Group.
Name the set of Groups to reference later.
Save & Create the Groups.
Apply different scenes for each Group.
Is a student showing up "Offline":
Is a student showing up "Offline":
If a student appears to be "Offline," even though you see them working right in front of you, the student might be logged into the Chromebook as another cftigers user (friend or sibling), and then adding their account in Account Settings:
It is a violation of our district's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to use someone else's account, or to allow another student to use their account. Students should be reminded of this agreement, and reported so that can be disciplined if they are out of compliance.
If you have a student showing up on GoGuardian as "Offline," here's what you should do. Take the student's Chromebook and see who is actually logged in to the Chromebook:
If you wish to use GoGuardian every day at the same time during the same class period, you might want to schedule the session. You can do that within classroom settings > scheduling.
Manually Add a Student in GoGuardian
Manually Add a Student in GoGuardian
If you wish to add a student to GoGuardian that is not in your one of your synced Google Classrooms, you can only do that by adding a new class. Then within that classroom's settings, click Add Students. Enter the email address of each student you wish to add (if you don't know their email address you can look them up at contacts.google.com).
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