Linewize - Classwize
Linewize - Classwize
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This month, I'm taking you on a journey into the realm of Linewize Classwize, a powerful tool designed to help you manage and control students browsing habits during screen time in your classrooms. We're going to talk about what it is and how you can use it. (Or use it better!)
Understanding Classwize
Understanding Classwize
So first thing, what is Linewize and Classwize? Are they the same thing? The answer is this; Classwize is a product from the company Linewize. Linewize is a company that specializes in digital safety tools for schools and classrooms and Classwize is just one of their tools.
Classwize is what allows you to control what your students can and cannot do on their chromebooks. It's a tool that acts as a pathway for students to be more productive with their digital time, where you are the one laying down those pathways.
In Classwize there are several really important tools that you should be using to create these guidelines; Rules, Scheduling, and Focus Sessions.
Click on each tool to read more about it.
Hopefully you checked out those three features up top. I genuinely feel that understanding them will really be a benefit in helping you all manage your classrooms during Chromebook usage time. I want to highlight one important thing when using Classwize however....
Rules follow your students!
Let's say you make a rule that allows students to access YouTube, or a rule that blocks them from accessing www.dictionary.com, or a category of websites. Then let's also say you've created a schedule, or an unscheduled classroom, and set the end time of your class to be well beyond when your class actually ends, and you then fail to click on End Class when they leave your room.
What happens now is those students leave and go to their next class, but the rules you set for your class still apply. So lil' Jimmy can sit and watch YouTube in another teachers classroom and they can't do anything about it, even in Classwize, because it still thinks Jimmy is in the previous one.
So it is really, REALLY important you set a schedule and accurately set your classroom end time. Or, if you do start a class unscheduled you also set the end time correctly.
Other helpful resources
Other helpful resources
You can find a ton of helpful stuff on Classwize's website, found here. There are some topics on their website that are more applicable to us and I want to highlight them here.
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