Category: Tool Bits
ABC’s of Microsoft Forms
Are you ready to try Forms? It is a great way to digitize and grade a quiz, survey or poll students, or even create a submission for gathering digital projects or work. Here are some of the ABC's of Microsoft Forms: A: Add a picture or logo to format your header and theme. B: Branching options ...
What’s New to Actively Learn
Features: Have you logged into Actively Learn lately? There were some interface changes as of August including an updated Workspace, a search feature for navigating your content and the Actively Learn content, importing options including Google Docs and PDFs, a new options menu (three dots) for editing and updating current assignments, as well as the ability ...
Technology as an Access Point for ELL Students
Common Sense Education continues to be a key resource in teaching digital citizenship to students (our focus throughout October), but did you know that the resources it offers are more comprehensive than that? As we move into November at the end of next week, we transition our focus from "Digital Citizenship" to "Creative Communicator" - ...
Create a Folder In OneDrive
Onedrive is pretty cool and creating folder is pretty simple, but just in case you didn't know how, read on. Open Office Online Open OneDrive by clicking on the OneDrive Tile Choose +New and then Folder Enter a name for the folder and voila you have a new folder Bonus Points Share that folder with ...
Move Student Pages To Another Class Notebook
Class Notebook is great for creating portfolios of student work. However, it's not super great at having that work follow the student. Read below for a step by step for how to move a student's work if they switch periods and you want to move them to a different class notebook.* *These directions require you ...
Getting Families Connected to Seesaw
Nothing gets families engaged more with the classroom like seeing and hearing what their child is doing at school. Seesaw makes it easy to help teachers keep families in the loop and engaged in their child's classroom through personalized, easy to use, safe, and visual updates through the Seesaw Family App. Connecting families takes a ...
Office 365 Immersive Reader Dyslexia Awareness Month
Immersive Reader is a part of the Office Learning Tools meant to support students with dyslexia and dysgraphia. Word (online) and One Note allow students to read in the Immersive Reader view, which offers a full-screen reading experience with additional visual options. In the online version of both Word and One Note select the “View” ...
Classkick: Giving Feedback in Real Time
Classkick is an app that shows teachers what students are doing in real time, allowing them to receive help instantly and for teachers to offer immediate support to students. Within Classkick, there are also options to share assignments with your team – making collaboration a breeze. What is Classkick? In Classkick, you can view your ...
Actively Learn for Visual and Hearing Accommodations
As teachers, we are often looking for technology to help us address the individual needs of our students or that offer easy to use support strategies for students with accommodations. Actively Learn can support students in a variety of ways. Students can choose specific sections of a text to have read aloud or even use ...
Sync OneDrive Files So You Can Work Offline
Using OneDrive but tired of having to log into Office 365 and use the browser interface? Or maybe you're worried you'll be stuck somewhere without access to the interwebs? Or do you prefer using Window's File Explorer to organize and view your files? Well those are all good reasons to give the OneDrive sync client ...