FAQs

Students can expect two assignments/assessments per week. These may consist of things like virtual labs, videos or readings with discussion questions, mini-projects, etc. On average, students will spend about 30-60 minutes working on each assignment. In addition, you will need to plan your own study time to review the material we are learning. This might include reviewing notes, using extra resources your teacher posts, using online tools like Quizlet, making and reviewing flash cards, or anything else that is helpful to you. You may want to do this on your own or form virtual study groups. In total, you should plan for 2-4 hours of independent work per week.

Assessments during remote learning may be somewhat different from what you're used to. There may be some typical quizzes, but you will also have the opportunity to demonstrate your mastery of the content by thoughtfully completing the virtual labs, discussion questions, and mini-projects you'll receive each week. Remember that your ultimate goal is to learn the material, both for use in future courses and to prepare you for an end of course assessment. Therefore, it is in your best interest to complete your own work based on your own thoughts and understanding. It is better to make a mistake on an assessment and have the opportunity to correct your misunderstanding than to write down the correct answers without actually understanding them.

Yes! You can easily follow along with your child's work in the online platform we're using, Google Classroom. There are two different ways to do this.

First, if you've filled out the online Student Information Form, you'll be able to request to be added as a Guardian to your child's Google Classroom account. If you do, you'll receive an email invitation from your child's teacher. (Check your spam folder -- since the emails are sent by Google Classroom, they sometimes get filtered out!) When you accept the invitation, you'll be prompted to choose the frequency of email summaries Google will automatically send -- either once a day or once a week. The email summaries will show you: (1) any missing work at the time the email was sent, (2) assignments with an upcoming due date, and (3) any new assignments or announcements recently posted by your child's teacher. If your child is enrolled in more than one Google Classroom class, there is no need for you to join each one separately -- the email summaries will show you this information for every Google Classroom class your child is currently enrolled in. Visit Google's About Guardian Email Summaries help page for more information.

Second, you can ask your child to log in to their school Gmail account and show you their current progress. The easiest/quickest way to do this is to have them start from their Google Classroom home page (where they can see all of the courses they're enrolled in) and access their "To-Do" list by clicking on the small icon with three horizontal lines at the top left corner of the window. From there, you'll see all work that your child has not yet submitted for all of their Google Classroom classes. You can also choose to sort their to-do list by course, and you can also see what your child has already submitted by clicking on the "Done" tab at the top of the page. For more detailed information, please watch the video on Keeping Track of Your Child's Google Classroom.