Remote conferencing support is a short-term opportunity that allows an eligible student to check-in remotely to receive teacher support with completing assignments and to be counted present with days counting towards the 90% attendance requirement. However, this is not remote instruction. Instead, this setting will provide eligible students with four hours of synchronous support by a certified teacher, including one required daily attendance meeting. Per TEA guidelines, eligible students who participate in the remote conferencing in accordance with the guidelines will be marked "present" for the day.

Your Lago Vista ISD student in grades K-12 may be eligible for remote conferencing if he/she is temporarily unable to attend school because he/she:

• has tested positive for a communicable condition listed in 25 TAC §97.7(a) (such as COVID-19); or

• has been identified as a close contact of someone who has COVID-19 and you are choosing to follow the recommended quarantine guidelines.

AND

• The total amount of remote conferencing instruction does not exceed more than 20 instructional days over the entirety of the school year.

Note: A close contact who is unvaccinated is encouraged to quarantine for 10 days without testing or 7 days after receiving a negative test result on day 5 or later.

Once your student is determined to be eligible to participate in remote conferencing, you will receive an email from Parentlink with instructions and expectations.

• For the days a student is assigned to remote conferencing, he/she will be provided with 4 hours of remote access to a certified teacher using Google Meet. Remote conferencing hours are from 8:30am - 12:30pm.

• In order to be counted present for the day, a student in remote conferencing must sign into Google Meet for a mandatory attendance meeting. Please see emailed instructions for the time and link to the mandatory attendance meeting.

• Video cameras must be turned on during the mandatory attendance meeting. If cameras are not turned on and the student is not visibly seen by the remote conferencing teacher, the student will not be counted present for the day per TEA guidelines.

• While in remote conferencing, students are encouraged to access classroom assignments that are pushed out through the campus LMS (K-2: Seesaw; 3-8: Google Classroom; 9-12: Canvas) and to visit with the remote conferencing teacher for support, as needed.

To the extent possible, a dedicated certified teacher will be designated to provide the remote conferencing support throughout the duration of students’ time in this temporary setting, but it will not be the students’ teacher of record.

Upon receipt of confirmation that a student has tested positive for COVID-19, the District will automatically send an email via Parentlink the following day with remote conferencing instructions.

A parent who wishes to voluntarily quarantine their student after a close contact (in or outside of school) must first submit a Remote Conferencing Close Contact Request Form. Once a request form has been submitted, an email will be sent out via Parentlink the following day with remote conferencing instructions. Please allow 24 hours for request forms to be processed.

Yes. Upon receipt of confirmation that a student has tested positive for COVID-19, the District will automatically send an email via Parentlink the following day with remote conferencing instructions(including Google Meet information). For close contacts, once a Remote Conferencing Close Contact Request Form has been submitted and approved, an email will be sent out via Parentlink the following day with remote conferencing instructions (including Google Meet information). Please allow 24 hours for request forms to be processed.

Yes. A student in remote conferencing must log into Google Meet using his/her school account. If you aren't sure of your student's login credentials, please follow the instructions below.

Student email addresses follow the following format: firstname_lastname@lvisd.com

Student Google passwords follow the following format: lvstudentID (Example: lv123456)

Yes. Students using a laptop/desktop may enter the meeting by clicking directly on the link (or by typing it into the address bar on their browser). Alternatively, students using an iPad may access Google Meet through Classlink by clicking on the Google Meet app and entering the 10-letter meeting code. (Hint: The Google Meet meeting code is the 10 letters at the end of the link, minus the dashes.)

Please see the instructions below for assistance with joining a Google Meet through Classlink.

Yes. The total amount of remote conferencing time per student may not exceed more than 20 instructional days over the entirety of the school year. Days absent in the remote conferencing setting count towards the overall total. Exceptions beyond the allowable cumulative 20 instructional day period must be submitted with documentation and approved by TEA.

No. Remote conferencing is a temporary opportunity for eligible students to be counted present each day he/she is not physically present in school. Remote conferencing teachers are available to assist students students with questions related to assignments, but are not providing direct instruction on grade level content/standards.

No. The remote conferencing teacher is available each day via Google Meet to assist your child if he/she has any questions regarding assignments, but will not be providing direct instruction on grade level content/standards due to the multiple grade levels in remote conferencing. Students are encouraged to email teachers if they have specific assignment related questions that remote conferencing teachers are unable to answer.

Yes. Students in remote conferencing are required to attend the mandatory daily attendance meetings, and remain in the attendance meeting for the entire time, in order to be counted present for the day even if assignments are submitted in the LMS. Their presence at the daily attendance meetings are the only way to be counted present for remote conferencing.

Yes. TEA guidelines for remote conferencing state that the remote conferencing teacher must see each student during the mandatory daily attendance meeting in order to count students as present for attendance. If your child does not turn on the video camera, he/she will not be marked present.

Yes. Students who have has tested positive for other communicable conditions listed in 25 TAC §97.7(a) are eligible to participate in remote conferencing if the communicable condition is documented by a licensed physician. The documentation must include that the student must remain at home and include the exclusion dates. The total number of days may not exceed more than 20 instructional days over the entirety of the school year. The campus must receive this documentation prior to your child participating in remote conferencing.

No. Your child does not qualify for remote conferencing. If your child has a test-confirmed diagnosis for COVID-19 or other illness requiring exclusion for attendance by a doctor, then he/she will qualify for remote conferencing at that time.

Yes. Your child is eligible for remote conferencing. If your child was identified as a close contact at school, a link to the Remote Conferencing Close Contact Request form will be included in the district close contact notifications. If you choose to quarantine your child, please complete the form. If your child was a close contact outside of school, please complete the Remote Conferencing Close Contact Request form. An email will be sent out within 24 hours of receiving the form with the LVISD Remote Conferencing Guidelines for Close Contacts. The number of days in quarantine will begin according to the date your child was a close contact of a COVID-19 person. Please remember the total amount of remote conferencing may not exceed more than 20 instructional days over the entirety of the school year.

Yes. A sibling of a COVID-19 positive student qualifies for remote conferencing if he/she was in close contact with the COVID-19 positive sibling in the 48 hours prior to receiving a positive test or the onset of symptoms. Parents should complete the Remote Conferencing Close Contact Request Form if choosing to quarantine the other children in the household. Once the form is submitted, parents will receive additional instructions so that the siblings may begin remote conferencing. Please allow 24 hours for request forms to be processed.

No. Students in ESCE or Pre-K are not provided with remote conferencing as compulsory attendance rules begin once a student enters kindergarten.

No. Only students who are identified as close contacts qualify for remote conferencing. Siblings in the home who are not close contacts would not be eligible for remote conferencing.