Communication with Students & Families
There are several tools available that will help staff maintain privacy and still allow them to communicate with families. The documents linked below will provide guidance for how to hide your caller ID, use Google Hangouts to place calls, use Remind for text messaging and how to check your school voicemail for messages. Google Voice is another option, but due to Google restrictions, it is not available for free using your FCPS account. If you wish to use Google Voice to set up an alternate phone number, you will need to do that with a personal Google account. We recommend the options below.
Keep Your Phone Number Secure
The document below outlines three options which can help with calls and texting.
Check Your School Voicemail Messages
To check your school voicemail messages, follow the steps in the document linked below. Please note there is a special set of directions for some schools.
Technology Tips for Teachers (NTI and Remote).pdfFAMILY Guide to Technology.pdfNTI WEATHER DAYS & REMOTE LEARNING RESOURCES
Technology Tips for Teachers (NTI and Remote) Guide
Family Guide for NTI Weather and Remote Learning Days
We have created quick guides for teachers and families with links to help with some of our platforms that can facilitate instruction and communication during NTI Weather and Remote Learning Days. Click the images in each guide for instructions from those platforms! Direct links to our FCPS training videos mentioned in the Teacher Guide can be found here:
More edtech tools, videos and instructions can be found under the Teaching & Learning Menu and our Digital Classroom Resources site above. Need more help? Fill out an OIT helpdesk ticket and we will contact you ASAP.
Student Email
Do your students need help accessing their student email account? Share the video below. It is also linked on the District NTI site along with other directions for students/families.
Students and Parents
Are you devices ready for next week? Check out these suggestions to get your devices ready for Google Classroom or Canvas! Click on the linked image to get started.
