Canvas Pesky Imported Assignment, Move them in Bulk! 

Are Imported Assignments the bane of your Canvas existence? You can quickly delete the entire assignment group and move the assignments at the same time.   Open Assignments Find the Imported Assignments groupFrom the 3 dots, choose “Delete”  Choose the group you want to move the assignments to and the Imported Assignments will be gone and your ...

Secondary Building Tech Series Trainings – Now Available on Kyte Learning

As part of the Ed Tech Professional Development Plan and the ISD's Building Tech Series this year, we are offering PD in a variety of formats including live synchronous trainings via in-person and Zoom sessions, as well as asynchronous sessions, via Kyte Learning. Our first training on Flip.com is now posted to the Kyte Learning ...

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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 ...

Movie Trailers to Help Students Take Ownership

This week, Haley Skavaril has been having students create movie trailers from the book they are reading. Using Adobe Spark, students are showing their learning by planning and creating movie trailers about the book while collaborating with classmates.By allowing students to use a familiar medium, this project allowed students to take ownership of their learning. ...

Canvas Setting an Assignment Default Score 

Did you collect an assignment on paper and just need to quickly add a score for all students? Or maybe you want to add a score for students who have not submitted? You have the option, by assignment, to add a default score.  Open Grades for your course Find the assignment you want to score Using the ...

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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, ...

Quickly Add Links in Canvas and Anywhere CTRL-K 

CTRL+K might just be your new best friend. When you need to insert a link (for an image or highlighted text) you can quickly copy the link from the original source (CTRL+C) and then in Canvas or other website/document choose CTRL+K to launch the add-link. Here is an example in Canvas after highlighting the text:  ...

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DyKnow Basics – Monitoring

DyKnow is the new Classroom Screen Monitoring software that ISD has been launching in secondary schools this fall.   The DyKnow tip this week is focused on just the basic first step of using DyKnow with classes - Logging in and Monitoring a class.   Without any preparation or plan of what students will be able ...

Canvas – Moving Grade Total to Front in Gradebook 

The tip this week is just to make grading in your course a little easier. You may choose to move the Canvas grade “Total” to the front in order to easily see student grades. This helps when transferring grades from Canvas to Skyward and ultimately saves from scrolling down to see the grade total.   Open ...

Digital Citizenship Week: Coming Soon!

October 17-21 is Digital Citizenship Week! As Common Sense Education reminds us, digital life is real life because our world is connected. This year, the focus of Digital Citizenship Week is on promoting digital well-being. Just as we support social and emotional learning in face-to-face situations, it is equally important that students are equipped with ...

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