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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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DyKnow New Features – Combine Classes

Recently, the DyKnow classroom monitoring program has added a couple of helpful features. Today we will learn how to combine classes. Combine Classes From the My Classes view, you now have a new button in the upper right corner where it says, "Combine Classes". You can combine any number of classes into one combined class ...

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DyKnow Communication – Questions

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 Questions communication tool. Questions In the Questions section (the question mark ...

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DyKnow Communication – Student Understanding

DyKnow Communication DyKnow allows teachers to communicate with students while in an 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 Student Understanding communication tool. Student Understanding In the Student Understanding ...

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DyKnow Basics – Blocking a site/application

After you have started monitoring a class, and the class session is in active monitoring, you can easily block a website or application that a student is using. Click on any student's screen to open big view. Teachers can block sites that students are on by selecting the student as they are on the site, ...