Digital Tools

Google Classroom is a Learning Management System... think of it as the container for virtual learning. This container be the landing place for asynchronous learning adding to 300 minutes of daily instruction.

Please note: Each student should only be in one Google Classroom which contains all their educators listed as teachers.

Google Meet is Google’s conferencing platform. The HDSB uses Google Meet for synchronous virtual learning. When used properly, it provides a high level of security for online learners.

✅ Start: Using the the Meet Link generated in your classroom

🛑 Stop: Making Links in Calendar

https://support.google.com/docs

Creating a new form, adding a question, adding collaborators and sharing a form.

For more about forms - Check out Getting Familiar With Core Digital Tools!

https://support.google.com/mail

Setting up your inbox using the labels feature for help in sorting messages. Moving to a priority inbox to customize the order in which messages are displayed.

Read & Write is an extension for the chrome browser that provides voice to text, text to voice, and many other features to support reading and writing (word prediction, collect highlights from texts for summarizing, simplify, etc.).