Teacher Digital Learning Resources
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Visit the IPL Team site for information about your assigned Digital Learning Specialist, how to log PD points, and much more.
Visit the CyberLearning Cafe for self-paced professional development with digital platforms and educational applications.
Google Apps Help
How do I use my Gmail?
To access Gmail, go to mail.google.com or click on the waffle icon and select Gmail.
To reset your password, click here. For information on the different Google Groups you can join, click here.
How do I use Google Classroom?
HCS Google Classrooms will be created automatically and synced nightly from your Power School rosters by a program called Little SIS. To access your classrooms, log into your HCS Google account and go to classroom.google.com. For questions about the classes listed on your Google Classroom launch page, please contact your assigned Digital Learning Specialist.
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How do I use Google Docs?
Google Docs is the best platform to use for word processing. To access Google Docs directly, go to docs.google.com.
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How do I use Google Drive?
Google Drive is the platform where your files are stored. To access Google Drive, go to drive.google.com, For more help with this resource, click here.
How do I use Google Calendar?
You can schedule meetings, reminders, and events on your Google Calendar. To access Google Calendar, go to calendar.google.com.
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How do I use Google Slides?
Google Slides is a platform for making dynamic presentations. To access Google Slides, go to slides.google.com.
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How do I use Google Forms?
Google Forms is a platform for collecting information or creating assessments. To access Google Forms, go to forms.google.com.
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How do I use Google Sheets?
Google Sheets is a platform for making spreadsheets. To access Google Sheets, go to sheets.google.com . For help with this resource, click here.
How do I use Google Sites?
You can create websites quickly and easily using Google Sites. To access Google Sites, go to sites.google.com.
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How do I use Google Keep & Tasks?
Tasks allows you to create to-do lists and track your tasks. To access Google Tasks, click on the blue icon with a white pen and yellow dot on the far right side of most Google app windows.
Google Keep allows you to save notes, images, links, or sketches in one place. To access Google Keep, go to keep.google.com or click on the yellow icon with the lightbulb on the far right side of the Gmail window of most Google app windows.
For more information about Google Keep and Google Tasks, click here.
How do I use Google Meet?
Google Meet lets you meet face-to-face with someone in a secure, digital meeting room. Students can only join Google Meet sessions created by teacher(s) and only when the link to the meeting room is shared with them directly. For help with this resource, click here.
Other Useful Web Programs
What is Clever and how do we use it?
Clever is an efficient way for you to log in to several online programs at one time. When you show your students how to use Clever, logging into activities is easier for your class at school and at home.
To log into Clever, go to Clever.com, click on "Log in with Google", and select/enter your HCS Google email and password, and select “Log in as a Teacher". You can create a customized page for your students with the digital resources you use in class.
For more information about this resource, click here.
What is Pear Deck and how do we use it?
Pear Deck is a student engagement and assessment platform that will allow you to turn your existing Google Slides presentation materials into active learning tools, increasing engagement for students and your ability to give them feedback. Pear Deck is designed to work with tools you already know and use, so it’s easy to learn. You can learn more about it here.
Visit the Pear Deck Institute full of on-demand training for teaching with Pear Deck. You can also register for special webinars and virtual events by visiting this training page.
How do we use Canva?
Canva has tons of free images and beautiful templates that can be used to create things such as flyers, infographics, logos, and much more. To access the platform, go to canva.com and click "log in", choose "log in with Google", and then select/enter your HCS Google account email and password.
For more information on how to use Canva, click here.
How do we use EdPuzzle?
EdPuzzle is a platform for creating activities with videos and embedded questions, voice overs, and other interactions. You can connect your Google Classrooms to EdPuzzle to make it easier to delivery activities to students.
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How do we use Flipgrid?
Flipgrid is a social learning platform that allows you to ask your students a question and have them respond by creating a selfie-style videos. Students can customize their videos with filters, icons, and text, and even react to one another to create a video "conversation".
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How do we use Khan Academy?
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization that provides free video tutorials and interactive exercises for mathematics, science, and other content areas. Using your HCS Google account, you can set up coaching groups for your students to track their work for your content area.
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How do we use MackinVIA?
MackinVIA is a digital content management system, providing easy access to eBooks, read-alongs, audiobooks, databases, and videos. To access this resource, go to MackinVIA, scroll to find the correct school, and use your Hampton City Schools username and password. You can also access MackinVIA through the Clever portal. For more information, contact your school’s library media specialist(s).
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How do we use BrainPop?
BrainPop is a group of educational websites with short animated movies for students in grades K-8, together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, math, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music. You can create a teacher account to use videos and quizzes with your class. Contact your school's library media specialist for teachers access codes and student usernames and passwords.
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Approved Apps and Extensions
Click here to request an app and/or extension to be approved.
Help Videos and Tutorials
Why?
If you want students to type on a Google Doc or edit a Google Slides presentation, you want them to access Google Classroom through the waffle. If you want students to edit a PDF document like a worksheet, you want them access Google Classroom through the app. This video shows the difference.
