Digital Learning Tips and Resources

Getting Digitally Organized.

Here are some tips to help get you digitally organized:

• In your google drive create a folder for this school year. Name this folder: Grade 7 or 9 (your grade).

• In your Grade 7 or 9 folder, create a folder for each course that you are taking. For example, English Language Arts, Healthy Living, Social Studies, Math, Science, etc...

• As you progress through the school year, make sure to save your work in the appropriate folder.

• Give each assignment an appropriate title, so when you are trying to find it later on, you know what you are looking for. (i.e. Don't leave everything titled untitled!

• Make sure you are logged into your google classroom for any classes that have this set up.

Google Classroom Parent Summaries.

Parents: you are able to sign up for google classroom summaries. These are summaries emailed out each week to parents on students progress through the assigned work in classroom.

It will show whether or not they have submitted or are missing work.

This does not replace Powerschool but does give you a snapshot of your child's progress. Click here to be brought to the google support document that details the steps to set this up. If you are still not able to set it up with the guidance of the document, contact Mr. Francis

Google Docs Introduction

Students will use google docs throughout the year in all classes.

Google Docs is one of the applications that can be found off the gnspes launch page or under the drop down menu from the waffle at the top right page of a students chrome browser (they need to be logged into their gnspes accounts to have this come up).

Google Slides is one of the applications that can be found off the gnspes launch page or under the drop down menu from the waffle at the top right page of a students chrome browser (they need to be logged into their gnspes account to have this come up).

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Students can get a quick at a glance of all the work for their classes in one place

Displays:

• Name of class

• Name of Assignment

• Due Date

• Whats complete / incomplete

turning work in Google Classroom

Student work in Google Classroom has a variety of status depending on the due date and completion. It is important that students turn in digital work just as they would work completed by hand. Work that is not turned in will not be assessed until it has been turned in. The PDF explains each of the different status that a students work can have in google classroom.

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Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.