Tue, Sept. 26, 2023

Penney Matos

Centennial HS's Digital Learning Coach

Penney Matos taught for 13 years before transitioning to instructional technology classroom support at Centennial HS.

Status Dashboards

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Canvas Status
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Google's G Suite Status
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For Everyone!

Restart Reminder

This is your reminder to reboot your PC at least once each week!

It's also a refresher of the Sept 12th update that we should no longer be turning off PC computers (classroom walls, office desktops, etc)! They need to remain on so they receive updates.

Just for Fun!

Emoji Kitchen

Welcome to your new time suck. Access either way:

Google search "emoji kitchen" then click "Get cooking"
emoji.supply/kitchen

TCEA article: blog.tcea.org/emoji-makers

Try these fun creations!

Dog + skull
A colored heart + any other shape
Octopus + pine tree
Avocado + koala bear
Dog + poo (that one cracked me up more than it should) 😆

The combinations are endless!

In the Know...

Grade Grabber Tips

Here are a few things we've learned about Grade Grabber:

It does not like Canvas Gradebook Section filters. Remove Section filters to show all of your students in the Canvas gradebook and it will grab the grades for all students. It matches grades to student names in eSchool's TAC so grabbing all at once is not an issue.
It does not like Turnitin assignments. Sorry. You'll have to manually transfer these grades or download excel, fix the formatting, and import into eSchool's TAC.

If you haven't used Grade Grabber to move scores from Canvas to eSchool's TAC, you should! Read more.

Canva for Education

Canva for Education is set up and ready to go! I will have more information from Canva soon. If you would like to use it in the meantime, please reach out and I'll share what I know!

Collaboration Corner

Food Science: Wanted Posters

Recently Shelia Hooten and I collaborated on an assignment where students research an assigned pathogen then create a Wanted Poster to share required information in a visually appealing way. Students were given expectations and the rubric through Canvas and Shelia and I co-taught her classes to introduce the assigment and make sure all students were able to access Centennial High School within Canva so they have access to all that Canva has to offer for free! When finished, students will view each other's creations to learn about additional pathogens.

If you would like collaborate on a lesson/assignment, would like for me to co-teach with you, or just want support as you try something new, I'm here for you! Just reach out!

Canvas Corner

Student View & Course Navigation

If you haven't viewed your course as a student lately, you should! Look near the top right for the "Student View" button. Navigate around. Click on: Current Week, Course Resources, Modules, Assignments, Grades, etc. You can even submit an assignment or a quiz as a student to see what happens! If you would like help evaluating your course's navigation as experienced by your end-user (students and parents), let me know, and we can look at it together!

When finished, click "Leave Student View" in the bottom right. If you submitted something as Student View, using "Reset Student" will delete the submission(s).

Note: Student View does not have a Google account, so viewing Google Assignments while in Student View doesn't work.

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