Centennial HS's Digital Learning Coach
Penney Matos taught for 13 years before transitioning to instructional technology classroom support at Centennial HS.
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If you do not see the CHS Staff Bookmarks folder on your Bookmarks bar in Chrome, right-click in the bookmark bar and select to show the folder. Students also have a CHS Students Bookmarks folder full of helpful links!
Orchestra was looking for a way to encourage student growth and mastery while not overtaxing the teachers with additional hours of videos to watch. Canvas Mastery Paths to the rescue! We collaborated on the best way to set up Mastery Paths that encourage students to show their best effort from the start. If a student achieves a certain score on their first attempt of the assignment, they are finished. If they receive a lower score they are assigned remediation before submitting again. If their score does not improve enough, they are then assigned tutorials. To make this function best, we also added Module requirements.
At first glance, Mastery Paths seem a bit daunting to set up but I can help make it much easier to understand and implement! If you would like to investigate differentiating your class with Mastery Paths in Canvas, please reach out! I ❤️ Mastery Paths!
High School teachers CANNOT set a schedule in Lightspeed's Classroom Relay! Because of our A/B schedule and because only 1 teacher can "watch" a student at a time, we cannot use the Schedule feature in Lightspeed's Classroom Relay. Instead, when students are using devices, open the class, select Ad Hoc and start a session. Directions. If the session duration extends past the end of your class, don’t forget to “Stop” the session when students leave.
If you previously set up a schedule, delete it so it does not interfere with other teachers' Classroom Relay sessions.
Read more: Digital Melting Pot: Lightspeed's Classroom Relay resources
Please reach out with questions!
As the STAAR EOC tests approach, a list of new STAAR question types and their correlating question types in MasteryConnect and Canvas Quiz could be helpful. Please keep in mind that these question types are useful in all classes, not just EOC tested courses.
Please reach out if with questions or if I can be of any assistance!
In Modules, there is an additional option to “Unpublish module only”
WeVideo is a video/audio recorder and editor. Editing can be done individually or collaboratively with teams. You and your students can join the FriscoISD domain for full access! Reach out for the link.
Recent updates:
Students can now combine edits with peers
Storyboard is back as the Simplified Editor