Tue, Sept. 5, 2023

Penney Matos

Centennial HS's Digital Learning Coach

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

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Testing Chromebooks for district testing

Our campus's Testing Only Chromebooks can be used for administering district tests! Each cart contains 15 Chromebooks. They are not touchscreen and have a slightly smaller screen than the 1 for All touchscreen Chromebooks. Poll your students prior to FISD testing to see how many do NOT have an FISD device. At this time, we have 10 carts available for reservation through Eduphoria's Facilities & Events. Share a cart with your team when possible.

FISD Testing = TIA pre/post assessments, Eduphoria snapshots, GT evaluation, ESL evaluation, STAAR/EOC

Limit: 1 cart per teacher. Share with your team, if possible.

Reservation directions. Select "Mobile Laptop Lab".

Remind all students that if they have an FISD device that they need to bring it fully charged on your testing day. Some students have an FISD device but choose bring their BYOD on a regular basis. Remind them to bring their FISD device!

Non-FISD testing: If you are administering a non-FISD test that uses the LockDown Browser, you can still reserve an iPad cart which contains 10 iPads. We only have 3 iPad carts. Limit 1 cart per teacher. Share with your team, if possible.

Canvas Corner

Lesson Plan Page Reminders

As you transition to this week's new lesson plan page (either 3-weeks or single week), don't forget to update:

On the Home page, update the "Current Week" link to the new lesson plan page.
On the Modules list, move the "Current Week" or "Current Marking Period" marker to be above this week's lesson plan page.

Google Assignments LTI 1.3 vs Google Cloud Assignments

I had planned on adding this graphic in the Tue, Aug. 29th Cen10 Tech Update but missed getting it added before the update was sent out. Please check out how Google Assignments LIT 1.3 and Google Cloud Assignments compare!

How to Add a Google LTI 1.3 assignment: Canvas- Google Assignments LTI 1.3

Graphic: Google Assignments LTI 1.3 vs Google Cloud Assignment

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