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Online Learning Platforms

Teach from Home: A temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

Teaching from home is going to require a different approach

Here are some End-Of-Year Google Classroom Clean-up Tips:

In this episode Eric Curtis takes a look at six end-of-year tips for cleaning up your Google Classroom to help close out this year and get ready for the next. For more details and step-by-step directions see my blog post at: https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2019/05/classroom-cleanup.html

First day of ClassroomGet started with tips and videos from educators on how to set up and manage your Google Classroom.

Google Classroom

Videos and Resources to get you started.
Getting Started, classwork page, add a class, add students and parents, etc.

Other Features of Google Classroom

Schedule an Assignment to post at a later date: YouTube (1:56)
A Quick (4 minute overview) of Google Classroom for Parents: YouTube (3:53)
Google Classroom Quiz Assignments and Locked Mode:YouTube (4:27)
Google Classroom Quizzes Part 1: DCS Ligia Smith (4:47)
Google Classroom Quizzes Part 2: DCS Ligia Smith (3:17)
Impose Time Limits on Google Forms/Quizzes: YouTube (2:36)
Google Classroom - Settings, Creating Announcements and Assignments: DCS Dawn Lowery (17:30)
Google Classroom Questions: DCS Rebecca Jancic (4:00)
Google Forms Quiz Part 1: DCS Misty McCue (5:00)
Google Forms Quiz Part 2: DCS Misty McCue (3:00)
Create Materials Inside of Google Classroom : DCS Pam Cook (1:52)
Google Classroom - Remove Assignments from the Stream: YouTube (1:40)

Tarveracademy.com - Google: Video Tutorials on ALL GSuite Tools

Getting Started with Canvas

Welcome to Canvas! Canvas is a cloud-native learning platform and learning management system used by millions of students across the globe.

Other Features of Canvas

Canvas Tools for Online Learning - Instructure Website
Instructure's commitment to you during Coronavirus
Discover the basic and advanced features of Canvas and learn how to manage your students, classrooms, grades and video lessons like a pro! EdPuzzle Canvas Certification: 4 Modules

Google Hangouts Meet and Zoom

Control Alt Achieve from Eric Curtis

Website that provides both Google Resources and Subject Resources. All of the resources are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. For more information about this license see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

In short, you can copy, distribute, and adapt these resources as long as you give proper attribution and do not charge for them.

Remote Learning Options

DCS Remote Learning

DCS Remote Learning Presentation (Middle School Instructional Coaches)

This presentation includes resources to help with:

Screencastify
Flipgrid
Google Hangouts
Kami
ClassKick
and more!

PES Digital Learning Crash Course:

This presentation includes resources to help with:

Hyperdocs
Google Classroom
EdPuzzle
Google Extensions

PES Digital Learning Crash Course

Screencastify

More than 12 million people use Screencastify to easily record, edit, and share videos. Try it out and see what the hype's about 👇

Screencastify User Guide

Screencastify Help Center

Step by Step Instructions
Help! My Screencastify Videos Won't Play: Google Slides

Hyperdocs

Hyperdocs Pt. 1 Researching with the Explore Button: DCS Pam Cook (4:04)
Hyperdocs Pt. 2 Inserting Images and Links: DCS Pam Cook (4:04)
Hyperdocs Pt. 3 Inserting Videos: DCS Pam Cook (4:04)

Gmail

How to Use Groups in Google Contacts to create email contact groups: YouTube (8:08)
Blocking Individuals in Google Hangouts Chat: DCS John Marshall (1:43)

Google Drive

How to print to your Google Drive: DCS Robyn Koontz (0:45)
Shareable Link - Anyone at Davie County School with the link can view: DCS Misty McCue (1:03)
Sharing Google Docs, Slides, Draw, and Sheets: Google Slides

Symbaloo

Symbaloo Training: YouTube Series of 5 Videos (1:53 - 4:15 each)
Teachers can create and students can use (students cannot create their own)

Miro

Miro is an online collaborative whiteboarding platform to bring teams together, anytime, anywhere. FREE

Miro Online Whiteboard - The Basics: DCS Dawn Lowery (19:46)

Kami

Kami is the leading PDF & document annotation app for schools. Improve engagement and interaction in the classroom with Kami as your digital pen and paper.