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Platforms and Apps

For learning at home, classes will use these tools:

• Gmail - for getting school updates and contacting teachers

• Google Classroom - for accessing learning activities for each class

• Google Meet - for live video conferences for whole class, small group and one-on-one meetings

Some subjects will have more specialised tools:

• Education Perfect - for practising key skills in Maths, Languages.....

• Adobe Cloud

A separate website has been created with advice on online tools that will help will help with accessing learning.

These include

• Read/Write

• Helperbird

• voice typing

• Dictating emails

• Getting your Chromebook to 'read' to you

There is also advice on wellbeing during lockdown

• Routine

• Exercise

• Mindfulness

• Connection

• Gratitude

• Check emails at 9am each school day

• Look at new material on Google Classroom each day

• Video etiquette - wear appropriate clothes live times (not PJs!), formality (not lying in bed), camera placement (think of what's behind you), background noise (pick a quiet place)

• Attendance - This will be monitored by your teachers by seeing if you have engaged with the learning. It might be by video conferencing, or completion of tasks etc.

• Ethics - don't record videos of live chats and share them unless you have permission from the teacher or other students involved in the chat

• Time frames for work - your timetable is set up to plan around 20 hours of work per week

For some problems you can ask your subject or Ako teacher for support. They may be able to email or support you through Google Meet.

If you are having technical issues with accessing or using a learning tool, check with your subject teacher or ako teacher. They can put you in touch with the Cyclone IT support staff.

• They can help you with your school login details

• They won't be able to help you with issues to do with your home wifi; if this is an issue please contact your internet provider

We have made some quick tutorial videos to help with some of these skills.

Google Classroom

• Attach evidence to a Google Classroom assignment - how to attach things like photo to a task in Classroom so that your teacher can see what you have been doing

• Use 'Turn In' on Google Classroom - to show your teacher that you have finished a piece of work

• Turn off 'notifications' - so you get fewer emails

Google Meet

• The 'grid view' tool is good if you want to see everyone in a class discussion

  • To get it, go to the Chrome Store and search for 'Grid View' and add it

How to organise your Google Drive and find documents

Use the Snipping tool or 'print screen'- to create an image of part of your screen (that can be saved or copy and pasted into a document)

Share a photo - how to take a photo of work that is not online (eg hand-written work or art) and show this to your teacher

• You can add the 'Google Drive' app to your phone; this will then come up as option when you choose to 'share' a photo from your phone

• You can attach the photo to an email, if you have your school gmail on your phone

• You can upload photos to a chat (eg Messenger or Facebook) and then open that chat up on a laptop and download the photo

• You can use the web-cam on your laptop to take a photo and this should save straight to your computer

Create a Screencastify video - to talk about a piece of work that is on your screen and share this with your teacher