23-24 ISD STEM Explorations Canvas Course
Interested in STEM hours for your certificate renewal? During the 23-24 school year, ISD is offering an asynchronous STEM Canvas course that can be completed at your own pace outside of contract time. Registration will be through Frontline PD and will be detailed in the course information in Canvas. You can enroll now in the ...
Turnitin – New Process for Canvas Integration
For schools that have opted in to using Turnitin and have purchased the access, there is a new way to create assignments using Turnitin within the Canvas system. Please see video and screenshots below for a step by step process. There are two ways to utilize Turnitin with Canvas, both options listed below. Option 1 ...
ISD STEM Explorations Canvas Course (6-12 Focus)
Interested in STEM hours for your certificate renewal? Interested in additional options to use your remaining Ed Tech pay over the summer? ISD has created an asynchronous STEM Canvas course that can be completed at your own pace outside of contract time. Register via True North here. Course is 100% asynchronous and completed through ISD's Canvas ...
Dyknow: Spotlighting Student Learning in the classroom
This school year across the district, many staff and students have been using the DyKnow classroom monitoring software to enhance student learning. This software supports student learning by providing the opportunities for staff to gather data on what applications and websites are being visited by students on a classroom level, as well as create plans ...
Coming Soon: AI Playground
UPDATE We have zeroed in on the week of May 22 for our first round of AI Playground. Exact dates, locations and times coming later this week. Interested in exploring more around Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and recent trends? Please join us at the AI Playground in May. We will offer a few AI Playground ...
DyKnow Basics – Create a Class
DyKnow allows users to create manual classes that can be monitored using the software. This could be useful for groups meeting outside of normal classtime, or in unique groups like clubs, testing, or after school support. After creating a new custom class, users can then manually add teachers and students who should be listed on ...
DyKnow Basics – Adding and Removing Teachers
DyKnow allows users to add and remove "Teachers" from courses manually. This is helpful if users want to add a co-teacher to their course, for monitoring access. This could be in situations where you have an administrator, substitute or para, who need access to your class for monitoring and accessing class data. Adding someone as ...
DyKnow Basics – Editing a Class Name
DyKnow allows you to edit the default class name for each of your classes. Sometimes the course code, which is the default from Skyward, is not the easiest to read from the list. Staff can manually change names of classes to more user friend names that include course content, class period, or group as examples. ...
DyKnow Basics – Adding and Removing Students
DyKnow allows users to add and remove students in current courses manually. DyKnow course rosters are updated nightly based on Skyward communication. However, the ability to manually add or remove a student may be helpful when a student is absent from class, or when you have a student in your classroom when it is not ...
DyKnow Communication – Send a Message
DyKnow Communication DyKnow allows teachers to communicate with students while in active monitoring session in 3 ways: Student UnderstandingQuestionsSend a Message All of these tools are available on the right side of the DyKnow monitoring screen. This post will review how to use the Send a Message communication tool. Send a Message In the Send ...