Network Changes

Recently, our filter underwent some changes and BYOD devices may not fully function on the Frisco-ISD wireless network. If your or your students’ BYOD devices are having trouble, FORGET the Frisco-ISD network and select:

• Network SSID = FISD-BYOD

• Log in =  FISD username (student ID or staff username) and FISD password

Authenticating (logging in) may be required daily.

FISD devices should remain connected to the Frisco-ISD or the FISD-Managed networks. Reboot if having trouble. If you continue having trouble from an FISD device, submit an Incident IQ ticket. Students & Staff = Select your FISD device --> Connectivity

Found Chromebooks, Chargers with names, and Books

When Chromebooks, chargers with names, and/or books are left in your room/space, please send them to the Library/B100 that day. Students routinely stop by asking if their device, charger, or book has been turned in. We tell them to check with the teachers in all of their classes but sometimes these end up in other rooms/spaces. Do not hold onto found Chromebooks, chargers with names, and books hoping the student will come back to get it.

Canvas Semester Switch

Important Dates

• 2025 Sem 1 (S1) courses

  • The “Sem1” Term archives (moves to Past Enrollments) at 11:59 PM on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024 

    • S1 students lose access at 6:00 PM on Mon, Jan. 6, 2025 

    • Teachers have full access to S1 courses through 11:59 PM on Thu, Jan. 9, 2025

    • Designers lose access to S1 courses at 11:59 PM on Sat. Dec. 21, 2024

• 2025 Sem 2 (S2) courses 

  • Students gain access to published S2 courses/sections at 6:00 AM on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025

  • Teachers & Designers already have access to edit S2 courses

• 2025 Yearly courses

  • Students, Teachers, & Designers retain access to these courses through May.

Options

This year, everyone has 2 choices for how to handle your year-long S1/S2 courses:

1. Original Option: Keep S1 and S2 as separate courses like in past years. 

   • Directions. 

   • The S1 course will archive in January. 

   • Copy S1 into S2.

   • Switch to using the S2 course for Q3 & Q4. 

   • Unpublish all Assignments from S1 in the S2 course. 

2. New Option: Cross-list S2 sections into the S1 course and make it a Yearly course. 

   • Directions.

   • S1 and S2 sections will both be in the same S1 course. 

   • When assigning assignments, you will need to ignore the S1 sections during S2. 

   • After cross-listing, send me the S1 course URL and ask to switch it to a Yearly course. 

Blueprint users: See these directions.

Semester long AP courses: See these directions.

Student Device Verification Tips

When verifying student devices (Titan Staff Update: Dec 8th - Student Device Verification) with your 2A class in December, Mrs. Lopez would like to share the following tips:

• Directions

• If you do not see any asset numbers listed next to any student's names, double check that in the top right corner of your Incident IQ screen it says "Ticketing" and not "Facilities". 

• If a student does not use an FISD Chromebook (and no asset is assigned) you can skip them in the verification process. 

• If a student doesn't have their FISD Chromebook with them, please ask them to bring it another day. Do not verify their asset until they bring it.

• If you click on the question mark next to a student's name and nothing happens, please clear the cookies & cache "for all time" in Google settings. 

Benefits of Using Lightspeed's Classroom Relay

When students use Chromebooks/laptops during your class, it's best practice to start a Classroom Relay ad hoc session for several reasons:

• Student Browsing History - If students show up in Classroom Relay, we can guarantee that Lightspeed is recording their browsing history. Admin can pull a report of their history should an investigation be needed in the future.

• Monitoring & Managing Students as They Work - You can view what students are doing in Chrome. You can also close their tabs, send them messages, and more!

Troubleshooting Classroom Relay - All students who follow these steps will show up for you in Classroom Relay (except iPads).

Reach out for support!

Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit

Register here: ditchsummit.com

The Ditch That Textbook Digital Summit is a FREE online conference for teachers. It brings together some of the brightest minds in education to discuss technology, pedagogy and more. Each year, we empower and inspire you with new video presentations as well as access to 90+ presentations from previous summits. This year's summit will be from December 16, 2024, to January 10, 2025. You can get FREE certificates for professional development credits and even personalized PD graduate credit.

Nearpod's AI Creation Tool

Nearpod released a new AI creation tool. Check it out! 

nearpod.com/blog/ai-create-prompts

Delete the Screencastify Email

If you receive an email from Screencastify saying you were added to Frisco ISD Pro, please delete it. This is a marketing ploy. Frisco ISD is not paying for Screencastify. We pay for WeVideo which does what Screencastify does plus much more! Also, students are blocked from using Screencastify because they will not sign a Data Privacy Agreement. 

If you would like to learn join our Frisco ISD WeVideo domain, reach out and I'll send you the code!