Tech for Staff

Status Updates (check to see if there are any known issues)

Google for Education Teacher Courses

Changing GWfE Password

Version History

Editing Images

Creating an Apple ID (without needing a credit card)

Rosters and classes for your gClassroom(s) can be imported automatically through Clever. Email ithelp@u32.org if you want this to happen (and it hasn't already).

YouTube Player Within GWfE (youtubeeducation.com)

Interactive Questions for YouTube Videos in gClassroom

Add Class

Email Etiquette

Make your SPAM folder "Highlight" when it's Not Empty

Set up Vacation / Out-of-Office Responder

How can I see what email groups I'm in?

Make E-mail easier to manage for everyone

Confidential Mode

Using built-in mail merge tags to personalize multi-send emails
 

Default Calendar Display

Overview

Set up a Waiting Room

Pin a Chat Message so that people who join a gMeet late still get it.

Set up gMeet Host Controls/Assign Co-Hosts in gCalendar

Anonymous ? or Polls in gMeet

Create a Distribution List (Mailing List) in Contacts

Share a Contact List with Others

Cleaning Up Your gContacts

How to see if you're in a gGroup (mailing list)

Tips on Sharing within Google Workspace

Templates

Searching for Images Without Leaving Docs

Setting Page Margins & Spacing

Make a paragraph always begin on a new page ("Add page break before" option)

Cloze Reading Activities w/ gDocs Dropdown Chips

Expand & Collapse Content in gDocs

Customizing Tables in gDocs

View Non-Printing Characters in gDocs

Adding line numbers to Google Docs

Slides - Basics & A Bit More

Presenting, speaker notes, auto advance, highlight/annotate during presentations, laser pointer

30 Interactive Slides activities from "Ditch That Textbook"

Constraining to horizontal, vertical, diagonal

Presentation Basics

View speaker notes while presenting Slides in Meet

Add annotations to your presentations in Slides

Add your Video Feed to gSlides

Create shareable video presentations in Slides

Ways to Prevent Cheating if Using gForms

Embed Linked Charts from gForms into Docs, Slides so that They Update Automatically

Tips for gSheets

100 gSheet Tips

Send Email when Specific Conditions are Met in gSheets

How to use Google Sites

Get started with Tasks

Bookmarks

Pinning Browser Tabs

Syncing Bookmarks

How to transfer your GWfE media

Refining Search

Duck Duck Go

Advanced Search

Access even if you're OFF-Line

Inventory (Spreadsheet showing subscriptions, where used, data privacy agreements, etc.)

Software Request Process (in development - this is just a draft)

Resources

Acadience Learning (ALO)

VTCAP (2024)

We currently have 16 licenses for this product. If you want to use the program with your students contact your Librarian or send email to ithelp@u32.org. (When you're no longer using your license be sure to let ithelp@u32.org know so that it can be freed up for someone else).

Resources for Teachers

Almost all of the programs that students can access on Chromebooks are available through Clever.

Chromebooks and iPads for the youngest students can be set up to sign into their device with a Clever badge. If this is something that your students need, contact your Librarian and work with them to send the necessary request to ithelp@u32.org.

How to Print Badges for a Class or a Student

Using the Timesheet

Adding Timesheets for Add'l Hours Worked

Moving Timesheet Events

Summary of Time & Attendance gMeet Training

What can I do with Teacher Dashboard? (note that most of the functions of the TD are in Google Classroom - you may find that more useful)

Hapara Highlights 

Suggested reasons to give students for closing tabs

How to access the contact log  --  writing a behavior report

InfiniteCampus has worked better with Chrome than with Edge in the past. (That could change as the years go by, of course).

Campus Portal login intro video

Infinite Campus - Staff

Nutrislice

Clever

U-32 Enriching Students

Canvas

Get More Math

SoundTrap - Assigning Student Accounts

Managing Users and Groups in SoundTrap

Downloading  projects as .mp3 or .wav files

Link to SoundTrap tutorials

PD Tracker

Secure Passwords

Changing Google Workspace Passwords

MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication

Keeping Your School Account Safe

Home Network Security

Stop Mobile Attacks

Shut down and restart your device at least weekly. This will allow updates to the operating system and applications to be installed. It will also tend to make the devices run better.

Avoid eating or drinking near the computer. Spills are usually very damaging and lead to expensive repairs.

The LiION batteries used in laptops tend to last longer if the don't get severely discharged too often. Keeping them "topped off" tends to be healthier for them.  Also, avoid extreme cold (don't leave a device in the car overnight in the winter, for example).

Email Red Flags

The "Phish Alert Button" (PAB)

Dodge the Spear

Digital Citizenship Week is held annually mid-October.

News Literacy Week is generally the last full week of January.

News Literacy Project / NewsLit.org

Refine Your Search

RumorGuard.org

14 Copyright Essentials

Some things about your phone that you might not know:

1. If you press the small, round button near the bottom right you can get a call history.

Setting a signature for email on iPhone

Make a Conference Call with iPhone

To Set a PIN:

1. Press the VMsg hard key
2. Press the More button
3. Press the Setup button
4. Press 7 and follow the prompts.

To create a greeting:

1. Dial extension when prompted enter your extension
2. Press 0
3. Press 4
4. Press 1
5. Record your greeting and follow the remaining prompts. 

To check voicemail from offsite:

1. Dial 802-229-0321
2. When you hear the menu press #voicemail number ex: #1234

You will also receive an email for any message that is left for you. However, the message on the voicemail server does not get deleted when the email is sent. Eventually your mailbox will become full so that it doesn’t accept any more messages. The only way to delete the messages is to do it from your phone.

To delete voicemail messages:

1. Press the VMsg hard key

2. Enter your security code (VM PIN)

3. Press 5 to hear each message (you only have to listen if you want to check the message)

4. Press 3 if you don’t want to keep it

5. Repeat pressing 5 and 3 until all messages that you don’t want to keep are gone.

6.  

In our modern world it is a good idea to use a “digital workflow” whenever possible. Ask yourself: “Do I really need to print that?”

Printing Costs 2022-June, 2027

How to get your SecurePrint PIN

How to set your SecurePrint PIN Permanently

How to release SecurePrint jobs

Secure Print is used on copiers in the district. This is helpful in 3 main ways:

1. Ensures Confidentiality - confidential documents won’t print out until you are at the copier to release them so there’s not a chance of others seeing them. Also, should you accidentally print to the wrong copier the document won’t print and will be automatically deleted from that device after a few days.
2. Convenience - Your print job won’t accidentally get mixed up with those of someone else.
3. Eco-Friendly - Nothing gets printed and then never picked up.
4.  

Your PIN number should be unique so that no one else could accidentally access your print jobs. The best way to do this is to use your “lunch number” as shown in Infinite Campus. How to find that number.

Copying on Konica Minolta

Scanning to Email on Konica Minolta

Adding Toner - Removing Jams on Konica Minolta

If you prefer to print from the Windows Print Dialog, you can press CTRL-SHIFT-P. This is handy if you want to staple or punch copies.