[0:28] e [0:58] e [1:28] e [1:58] e [2:28] e [2:58] e e [3:57] good evening and welcome to the ad public schools question and answer period for assisting our parents on [4:04] distance learning um we're trying another format this evening just to make sure that we're giving every opportunity [4:11] to help support our families as we transition yet again into distance learning boy 2020 has been a uh an [4:19] interesting year for Education hasn't it and I want to First just thank our [4:24] parents and our students for the resilience I know this is difficult especially for our young young [4:29] independent Learners and for our parents to help manage their personal life the [4:35] education of their child their professional life so in an effort to try to help out we're going to do as much as [4:41] possible to help mitigate some of the aspects of technology and some of the [4:47] answer some of the questions that we have around how uh technology and how distance learning is unfolding here in a [4:53] public schools with me I have a panel of experts that hopefully will help us [4:59] answer those questions and then we have questions from you as well that will answer them we run out of those [5:05] questions what we'll do is we'll talk a little bit more about just how technology and how distance learning is [5:10] folding unfolding here we'll answer some questions we'll go through some vocabulary generally hopefully provide a [5:16] little bit more clarity and information around distance learning I'm kicking it off and my name is Steve Butner and I'm [5:23] the director of media and technology for Diana public schools with me I have our [5:28] digital learning specialists i' like to introduce them now our elementary digital learning specialist Sean my name [5:35] is Sean Beaverson and I'm the elementary digital learning specialist for din Public Schools our secondary digital learning [5:42] specialist hi I'm Michael Walker's secondary digital learning specialist in Dina we also have some cultural azons [5:49] with us which are our fantastic partners that we make sure that we leverage as much as possible and that's a two-way [5:55] street we really appreciate their uh collaboration and partnership in our work around technology Blanca would you [6:02] like to introduce yourself thank you Abdi [6:12] Kadir muted Abdi Kadir um abdad ibraim Somali cultural [6:19] for the [Music] district and uh s s right yes s hi uh my [6:29] name is is s amrapurkar i the South Asian cultural Leone for the district great so again the format for [6:37] this evening was we had posted a YouTube presentation um which covered a number [6:42] of items around distance learning and then we had a form where people were [6:47] going to submit questions we did receive some questions and so I think what we'll do is we'll go through those questions [6:53] now Mike do you want to read off the first question yeah we'll start maybe with [6:58] some of the elementary questions that came up because this is uh the elementary portion of our uh show so to [7:04] speak uh the first question had to do with where uh parents could find the usernames and passwords for all of the [7:12] apps and things for Edina Public Schools uh wondering about being able to access [7:18] apps from devices other than the school provided iPads Sean maybe do you want to talk about that absolutely so uh we have [7:26] a also a really um important partnership with the media specialists at our various Elementary sites and so if [7:32] you're looking for your child's username and password your best bet is to contact [7:37] your media specialist who has all of those on file and can get those to you to make sure that you can access uh or [7:44] can help your student get access um I will talk a little bit about our iPads uh that I think that question [7:50] is related to the iPads and the apps that are available on the iPad so we do [7:55] work in a controlled environment with our iPads they are managed through the district even though they're at home and [8:02] so we have controlled that so that only um District approved apps uh are um [8:09] installed on the iPad you can make requests for apps to be installed if you needed to make a request for an app if [8:15] you found one that you thought uh would be useful you would do that through your teacher and your teacher would consider [8:20] that and how that might fit with the other things that we're already doing on the iPad we do feel like we have the [8:26] proper apps available on the iPad at the moment but of course we're always open to exploring we just um try to keep it [8:34] limited and narrowed scope because the iPad is just meant to be the tool to [8:39] help support the learning and not the Primary Learning platform and so we really do in consideration of the [8:46] youngsters kindergarten first and second grade have access to the iPads we really do try to maintain a fairly narrow scope [8:55] on the device uh focusing on the big three so seesaw is one of them uh and [9:01] the Seesaw class app is the app that is installed on the iPads uh there is a [9:07] family app for this for seesaw that the parents can use the Family app will not [9:13] be installed on the iPad because that could cause some confusion and some overlap so with the um Family app you [9:20] can install that on your own personal device or you can access that through the web in addition to that Google meets [9:26] is a very important app and that is installed on the iPad IP ad and then the third one is our Adina portal and the [9:33] Adina portal H is an app on the iPad which is a shortcut to our portal in [9:40] which there are a variety of different services and um resources available for [9:46] the students Brain Pop for example is one of those things that you might find in the portal so I think that that sort [9:53] of addresses that question um like I said uh if you need usernames and [9:58] passwords uh your media specialist is a great person to contact uh she has that list and then as always you can contact our [10:06] help desk by emailing the help desk at support atados [10:13] schools.org can they send requesting Spanish Sean or you prefer them to to [10:18] ask me how does it work that is a great question um I think whatever um I'll [10:26] I'll put it this way whatever we can do to support amilies and so if the question um needs to come in Spanish [10:34] well then you know we we'll figure it out we can with your support uh with the people in the district who can support [10:40] us we will certainly support them so I think that's a I think that's a really great question because I would really [10:46] encourage people not to feel limited to reach out if you have a different home [10:52] language than English please use the language that you are most comfortable with and um reach out using that [10:58] language and we will do the work on the other end to make sure that we can follow up and get your question answered [11:04] or the issue addressed and we can also use the language line to support that as well [11:12] yeah our district has a number of um resources available our human resources are the best but we also have the [11:19] language line um that we can use and of course uh there's always Google Translate to help us out in a pinch too [11:24] if we need it and Sean one thing uh about the iPads is as well as uh [11:30] Chromebooks for Elementary uh the student username and password that one username and password works for the [11:37] portal as well as Google seesaw all of those other things correct yeah that's a [11:42] great point so the one differentiator that you should know is that the student username particularly again on the iPad [11:49] and I I will talk about Chromebooks here in just a second as well uh because it is a different environment but I'll just [11:55] talk uh finish this up about the iPads quick when you log into the portal you don't need the AISD [12:11] [Music] 273.5 73.org so that's the one [12:17] differentiator between those Services uh seesaw is accessed actually through the portal and so or uh that's right you get [12:24] a QR code from your family uh from your teacher which you probably already have as well [12:32] and I'll I'm just going to address the Chromebooks as well so starting in third grade we do use Chromebooks and again we [12:39] have those pretty tightly monitored and controlled as far as what can be added to the Chromebooks we use a variety of [12:46] filtering softwares and processes to keep uh the web as safe as possible for [12:52] uh or as school focused as possible and so while there are extensions and other things that can be useful to add to the [12:59] Chromebook we do have a very limited number of those that we uh review and [13:05] one of the things that we are reviewing for particularly starting in third grade when there's a little bit more autonomy [13:11] from the kids a little bit more Independence is we're monitoring for that privacy policy we want to make sure [13:18] that if something is used through our school account that that organization is [13:23] respecting your students privacy and so while some things seem really great because we would use them as consumers [13:30] or as parents or as adults we take a very stringent view on maintaining the [13:36] student privacy and so we review the terms of services on those different uh [13:41] services to make sure that um we're comfortable with their uh commitment to [13:49] privacy and some of those apps also ask us to publish the the apps that we're [13:55] going to use and and make sure that we have parent permission to use those apps as well so that uh people are aware of [14:03] of that information so uh Sean one of the things [14:10] as students are transitioning from second to third grade there there's shifting from seesaw as their Primary [14:18] Learning Management tool to schoolagy and one of the questions that came in [14:23] last night was around the training or other support that students received [14:29] during the school year in the use of schooo and accessing information there do you want to share a little bit about [14:35] that yeah we do have uh we have published and made available a list of [14:43] helpful videos for students that cover everything from finding content on [14:49] schooly navigating schooly working your way through the folders to submitting [14:54] assignments and those are all teacher generated um screencasts help videos to [15:01] support the kids and so all of teachers have access to those and in many cases [15:07] those are actually included in the teacher schooo course to make sure that [15:13] um the kids know how now we're in December and we just switched modes again and so there may be an increased [15:20] need based on distance learning to get more access to that information and I [15:26] would just again suggest you can reach out to your teacher ask if they're uh for those training videos specifically [15:32] they're on a Google doc so they're real easy to share um and then um and then to [15:38] let us know if you still are having some trouble navigating the system because we certainly can provide support but we did [15:45] uh we did at the beginning of the year um recognize that transition we work very closely with the teachers that [15:51] teach those students who are going through that transition to make sure that they have the information that they [15:56] need and I know that our teachers do um they take it they put a lot of care into [16:04] creating demonstration videos about what it looks like for the student if they're interacting with different elements in [16:09] schooly and so really if you're running into something where you feel like um people are not necessarily your your [16:16] student doesn't necessarily know or could be more fluent uh in the use if [16:22] you just ask we will make the support video for you definitely [16:29] Steve uh there was a question from conquered Elementary about uh technical issues that kids might have with their [16:36] applications and whether uh parents should contact the teacher directly or is there a support line or page that [16:43] parents can turn to do you want to talk a little bit about that absolutely and and we understand that um uh we're about [16:51] education and we're hoping that technology isn't being a burden or encumbering our learning especially [16:57] during distance learning it's so we want to make sure that our teachers are teaching our students are learning and [17:04] when our parents are assisting they're able to assist and fortunately every now and again technology issues crop up or [17:10] technology questions arise and the fir you can always reach out to your teacher but know that your teacher might be [17:16] educating or might be in the process of teaching and so they could be busy and to help support those teachers we have [17:22] created a help desk and a support line the number is uh [17:29] 95 we have someone we have multiple people online all during the day and we [17:35] also have an email for support which uh Sean mentioned it's support atados [17:40] schools.org and we're there to help out so we have a number of tools and so as Sean's mentioned uh we've heard uh the [17:48] common issues and so we know how to quickly resolve those common issues we've got support documentation in [17:53] videos but we also have tools so that we can remote access uh the devices and help with our um with those students um [18:02] we encourage you to if you're having problems to definitely reach out to uh at the technical support help Des line [18:09] the other thing is uh I I don't think Sean mentioned it but we do have a a what I would consider a killer app on [18:15] the iPads and that is our iPad support um app and that is a great One-Stop shop [18:21] for some of the common issues that we see with uh issues on the iPad they seem to be um we're learning that uh there's [18:30] quite a few issues uh cropping up with that but once we we know what those issues are and once we do that they're [18:36] quickly resolved and so they're they're not persistent uh then the other thing is on the 2020 2021 dashboard at the [18:44] district website there is a link for technology where we have a number of FAQs a number of support documents as [18:51] well there for them and then also on the main website is just a pretty good [18:57] documentation about what's difference between the portal what's the difference between campus what's the difference [19:02] between schooly and seesaw and so there's an FAQ and information about that so there's a a number of uh Digital [19:09] support features on our website and through email but at the end of the day if you're having trouble and it's [19:15] anywhere between 7 and 4 o'clock please pick up the phone 952 [19:20] 848-4955 great thanks Steve um I'd like to bring [19:26] the the aison into the conversation a little bit uh as you have been working with families especially Elementary [19:33] families since we're gearing this portion to Elementary families have there been any common questions that [19:39] you've been getting recently uh in regards to that and would you like to [19:46] start well it's not exactly related the most common question I get is that I [19:52] checked my son and he's in the computer all morning how can I know if he's doing a school work or just navigating the [20:00] internet that's a great question um what if it's on a Chromebook one of the great [20:07] features that we have is we do not uh remove the history and or allow students [20:13] to delete their history and so you can actually hit the control key and um h on [20:22] the Chromebook and that will bring up the history on the device and you can go [20:27] through and see exactly the websites that they have been going to if it looks sketchy you can click the link and see [20:35] whether or not it's appropriate or not and then you know if if you find that your child has been off task you can [20:43] have a conversation about uh you know it's it's a teachable moment it's a [20:48] learning experience to understand the importance for them to act appropriately [20:54] and and be using the tool for uh the purposes that they're supposed to um and [21:01] then on the iPads uh Sean you want to share a little bit about that as well or [21:07] any any monitoring tips sure um before we do that I if if it's appropriate I [21:12] think what I can do is I'm looking at my history right now and so maybe I'll just share this real quick so people can get [21:19] a view of what that history actually looks like so you have an idea of the detailed information that you can get as [21:25] a family member uh and so we're just going to uh I'm going to share this just [21:32] quickly for you and just to show you wait a second while this gets [21:39] going and so this is the history in the Chrome browser and you can see down to the minute it says the different sites [21:45] that I have been on and it gives a detailed list of all of those things and so really if you are uh at all concerned [21:53] about what your child is doing on the Chromebook you have the access to that history [21:59] another thing that we'd like to encourage parents or remind parents is that you can log in as your child as [22:04] well so if you want to check on things and see how they're going um you have the right it's your child's username and [22:10] password and so you can certainly log in to check the iPads don't have the same level of detail of History the one area [22:18] where we do see some students losing time right now is in YouTube and in YouTube there is a view history and so [22:25] you can actually see the view history in YouTube very similar to what I just showed in Google Chrome and we recognize [22:33] that YouTube uh is a really powerful tool because of the ability to share short instructional videos that makes it [22:41] easy to get across different platforms but that it also has it is designed to [22:46] draw their attention and so we're continually working on updating um our [22:52] methods in the district to try to uh help maintain the focus of the kids on [22:58] the correct educational content but on the iPad it's a little bit trickier but you can look at that YouTube history [23:04] that's been one of the places that we have heard uh we're spending some time but we will We are continuing to work [23:10] with our technical background our filtering and and ways that we can work with that but then also we're in [23:15] constant contact with our teachers and our building administrators to help them [23:20] know about different ways to embed content so that it is a little less um [23:27] it leads to fewer distractions and so some of that is the human element of it and that just is a part of it and some [23:33] of it is Technical and we're always um learning and and and honing our approach [23:39] so that we have the most uh focused educational focused experience for our [23:45] kids especially during distance learning for our youngest kids who we know do so much better when they're actually with [23:51] our teachers and so this is one of the challenges but it's a challenge that we're leaning into and that we um under [23:58] understand and appreciate and um take very seriously I'll just add a little [24:04] bit more because I I think um Sean and Mike are absolutely right but this is this is not new to 2020 2021 we've [24:12] always been very uh conscious about leveraging technology when it's appropriate and mitigating the negative [24:19] aspect we call it intentionality and so that end uh we we do recommend that uh [24:24] parents uh we and we work in partnership with parents to velop norms and make [24:29] sure that we're using technology not only appropriately within school but at home as well a couple of things is there [24:36] is um the American Academy of Pediatrics as ability for uh as a uh a family media [24:42] plan which we recommend all fam set one of those up which sets up those rules of the road in your house you are in charge [24:49] in your house and we support you stay informed like um pres these types of [24:54] presentations set limits and expectations and so to your Point Blanca if you did see your child on uh on the [25:01] computer for over an hour that's probably too much and so they should be taking some sort of a break after 45 [25:08] minutes they should be on that much longer than that to get away step away from it if you see inappropriate use [25:13] stop it so again to the point of Sean and Mike is being able to look at history and being able to see that and [25:18] then make a teachable moment and we also suggest that you U model positive behavior as well and so um our children [25:26] learn from what they see their adults doing and so if we're in the computers and our heads in the computers and [25:31] sometimes that's what they see as well so it's all about balance thank [25:37] you great thanks Steve yeah that balance of course with Co and and remote working [25:44] has has gotten really hard and and and that but we certainly recognize that importance OB year have there been any [25:51] uh Elementary parent questions that have been popping up for you that uh common [25:57] questions or things [Music] not much uh very similar to what Blanca [26:02] said you know a lot of times uh kids are on the iPad or the device and you know sometimes they will [26:10] say to the parents I'm doing work where in some cases you know from the teacher [26:16] well they're not submitting everything in there so I think it's just like a common not necessarily any specific to [26:22] the elementary sometimes middle on high I I hear some of the stuff MH [26:30] and I think in our next in our middle school and our high school we'll talk a lot more about um how a parent can check [26:36] uh the school G grade book and start monitoring that to check for activities being turned in as well that's a great [26:42] Point yeah s so I uh do not have uh Elementary [26:50] level questions but one thing that has come up in the past is uh like when the [26:56] kids were in school they could work together with other kids uh with distance learning is there [27:02] an app or something that parents can use to set up those kinds of little groups [27:07] so that kids can interact with other kids uh that is a fabulous question and [27:14] excuse me one sec um we due to the nature of the [27:22] situation we have to be a little bit creative about how we are um creating [27:27] those social connections for the kids to be able to be together uh a number of [27:32] teachers have been working to create a Google meet sessions like Lunch Bunch [27:38] and other things that are set up by the teacher and monitored by the teacher or [27:44] by a par of professional uh so that kids can actually get together and join on a [27:49] Google meet that is set up from the teacher that tends to be the best way at the elementary level is a teacher [27:56] generated Google meet session for them to get connected uh so that um so [28:01] there's a little bit more um supervision involved in that just like we would have in school you know our elementary [28:07] schools had this wonderful makeover a few years ago and we have these beautiful Flex spaces that we don't get [28:13] to use right now and really the analogy that we use with the Google meet sessions that are set up for kids is [28:20] it's sort of like those Flex spaces where they're adjacent to a teacher a teacher is Right nearby uh but they're [28:26] set up and used intentionally by the teach teacher and so um if if that is an area that we're continuing to grow and [28:32] we try to you know the reality is we move slowly into some of these other [28:38] aspects because we're trying to be very very thoughtful about um the safety and [28:45] the use for our students and your children so um I know uh I am had that [28:51] wonderful opportunity to work uh with Normandale is setting up reading buddies [28:56] between sixth graders and kindergarteners which is a really fun program and it takes a lot of work to [29:02] get set up but as we learn these things sort of to what Steve was talking about with the iPad as we learn these things [29:09] we make them immediately available as soon as we can um sort of dive in and figure out what that looks like um again [29:17] the idea being on school provided devices we need to have some reliable [29:23] management of that and so while there are other apps and other avenues of available we're going to be restricted [29:30] down to the ones that come in our G Suite our Google for Education um system [29:36] uh or within our uh Learning Management Systems seesaw or schoolagy [29:42] right and and as uh Sean was alluding to that those changes in educa in [29:48] technology uh just this fall um you know when we were trying to do distance [29:53] learning in the spring Google meet did not have breakout rooms available in that environment and uh Google made [30:01] changes over the summer to allow for that to happen and a couple other features to for classroom management [30:07] really and support um and like like the breakout room experience that uh [30:14] teachers have been able to take advantage of and so um as Sean said within our ecosystem we can do that but [30:21] if if a parent wanted to utilize different tools and things outside of school as Sean said there are some [30:28] limits on the student devices and what they can do um versus what your personal [30:35] family computer could do uh but one thing that I would highly recommend is [30:40] that if you're going to have kids using a uh different tool than maybe one that [30:46] is available on at school check to see the terms of service and the privacy [30:52] policy on that Tool uh many of these are collecting data information they may be free but [31:00] they're really mining data right um and other things uh may be set to 13 and [31:08] above for example and so it's really important that you as a parent understand what those uh terms and [31:15] privacy policies are uh before allowing your students to just go on and and be a [31:20] part of that and and if you're talking with your parent friends and trying to figure out what might work that would be [31:26] a good thing to for both groups to look at before you start [31:33] that um we have it's 7:28 so we have just about two minutes left uh we did [31:39] get a question here about um it looks like is there a way to either disable or [31:45] control the games that are available on Infinite Campus I I suspect they meant in [31:50] aabs uh on a couple of occasions their child has uh been seeing playing games [31:56] so uh Sean you want to just talk a little bit about uh the filtering one more time and then what they can do if [32:02] they see something yeah so we do have um so we are fairly well filtered uh and uh [32:09] particularly on the Chromebooks we actually have two layers of filtering that the kids will experience on a Chromebook uh and so if it um and we [32:17] have the category of games is restricted um we do have some games Prodigy I think may actually be a math game we do have [32:24] some games that are available for students to practice math effects and there's a balance there where if um a [32:32] student is having a little too much fun in their math games then that becomes a behavior where they're um missing out on [32:39] their opportunity for the classroom and so the challenge in distance of course [32:44] is then how do we redirect uh the student during those times and the best way is to have the [32:51] information to let the teacher know what things are going on to be in communication so that um we can come up [32:57] with behavior management strategies ways to support you supporting your child while they're at home and learning um is [33:06] is really is really the next step considering the degree to which we already um have these devices filtered [33:14] um we you know we're always open for review and so um my last mention here [33:19] during the elementary time is when you see sites both that you would uh maybe you found one that you find would you [33:25] think would be quite useful uh or if you find one that seems to be problematic you can submit those to the help desk as [33:32] well uh that is the support at ayos schools.org email address and we go [33:37] through a process where we review those and we will get back to you with the results of that review and so um I I [33:44] would encourage you to feel uh like like I said the conversation around the behavior with the teacher making sure [33:51] that things are happening correctly and going well uh and then if it continues to be a persistent issue or um an issue [33:57] where you think technology could actually create some support then I would encourage you to create that help [34:03] test ticket or to reach out to us so that we can partner with you well that that was a quick half an [34:11] hour uh but the conversation doesn't end uh this evening or with this video uh we [34:17] will leave that question and answer form up and we do go back and periodically look at that and these videos will be [34:24] posted on our YouTube channel and so you can always go back and look at them we'll come back so let's make sure we [34:30] keep the dialogue happening we can do that a couple of ways but uh first is [34:35] use that form so if you have any additional questions make sure you go ahead and PLL on it if you have any suggestions on how we might be able to [34:41] support you and how other education youd need around technology or distance warning please feel free again to use [34:47] the support ticket I look at those all the time they'll get funned up to myself or talk with the cultural aons because [34:54] we want to partner with them as well with that I will conclude the elementary [35:26] section [35:56] e e [36:53] good evening and welcome to ad Public Schools distance learning support for [36:58] parents boy 2020 has been an interesting year for Education hasn't it well yet [37:04] we've uh changed our delivery mode yet again and we are back to distance learning for for the last week or so we [37:11] know that's a challenge for our students and our teachers but we also know that it's a challenge for our parents so this [37:16] is an ongoing series of YouTube videos and Q&A opportunities where we can help [37:23] support our parents try to answer some questions provide some guidance and just partner with you as we proceed through [37:29] this year of covid learning with me tonight I've got uh our secondary [37:35] digital learning specialist hi I'm Michael Walker serving in that [37:40] role and we have our cultural lisons with us Blanca do you want to introduce [37:47] yourself thank you and yeah hi I'm s amarapurkar I'm South [37:54] Asian cultural liazon and abadir abdad ibraim somal culture for [38:02] the district and again my name is Steve and I'm the director of media and technology [38:07] for ad Public Schools so the format for this evening and review is uh earlier [38:13] this week we posted a YouTube video with a presentation which went to answer a number of the questions and pieces [38:19] around distance learning we talked about vocabulary such as synchronous and asynchronous learning talked about [38:25] attendance policies schedules platforms just what to expect we wanted you to [38:31] take a time to look at that um in your own time so you have plenty of time and then we also posted a link to a Google [38:37] form where you could ask questions we've had a number of questions submitted our plan is to go through those questions [38:43] this evening and then also add additional Insight or questions or wonderments that we have as a panel and [38:49] that we've been hearing to help answer some questions around distance learning and so the first one uh [38:58] Mike I think I'll send you is why does every teacher have a different place and [39:04] format for their Google meets there should be one standard so there weren't so we are not looking for links on each [39:12] class yeah so when I'm going to actually share my screen [39:18] here [Music] [39:23] and do a quick view of what it looks [39:29] like and so on this slide you can see kind of on schooly there's this upcoming [39:36] section and a lot of times on a sorry now it should be showing up um [39:45] on a given day you're going to see different activities for that day and if [39:51] it's a looks like a calendar when you click on that calendar item some teachers are putting their Google meet [39:57] in Link in there um I know South you is trying a different method of having [40:02] students go to meetgoogle.com to see their meets for the day um but for the [40:07] most part teachers are posting in the uh event and overview for the day [40:15] something in some cases teachers may have that link in the weekly overview it [40:20] may be right there is a clickable link or right below that on the on on the top [40:27] of the page you're they're going to have that overview um but for the student you [40:32] know each time they go to that class it's going to be in one of those three places and so hopefully that [40:40] will uh mitigate you know people having to try and find things and having it [40:46] buried in different spots but for for the most part all of our teachers have have done that and as we're talking [40:52] about this upcoming section when you go into schooly and you log in as your with [40:57] your parent account which is your first last name. first name um and then [41:04] the password that you were given by the district um when you click on schooly [41:10] and you click on the Arrow next to your name you can select your child and that's when you can see for for them [41:17] what their upcoming assignments activities so here for this particular student there's a jazz band meet and [41:25] maybe they have an assignment here and another overview um here they've got [41:31] a connection on something here there's a discussion that they're supposed to do [41:36] here's a test coming up the next day and so all of those things are listed there [41:42] as a way to be able to uh see what's coming up and what's due that day in [41:48] addition uh some teachers at South View are going to be posting a unit guide at [41:53] the very top of their course and students know to access that unit guide [41:59] and there they will see for a given day what activities are happening on that [42:04] unit guide would be a place for the student to reflect on what they did and what they learned what they took away [42:09] from it a place for teachers to give feedback and so uh more at the middle [42:15] level you're going to see those unit guides being used but all of the teachers are going to be posting all of [42:20] that information in the schooly course at our middle schools each class period [42:27] perod at the beginning of the period there is a synchronous Google meet that [42:32] all students are to attend and that's maybe just a quick overview of what the [42:38] day looks like and then students are working independently or maybe they're doing collaborative work in breakout [42:43] meets but for middle school students they're always going to have a synchronous session during the during [42:50] the school day when their class would meet and so for advisory at 9:20 that [42:56] meet is critical because that's the main attendance for the day that needs to be taken that doesn't mean that they [43:02] shouldn't be showing up for the other meets during the day as well though uh because those are required at the high [43:08] school oh we'll get to the high school in the next half hour so sorry moving ahead of myself there's another question [43:15] here uh Mike about schooly and the calendar on the right it says uh when a student has an assignment listed on the [43:21] right and then the student completes the assignment when does it drop off the list instantaneous same day next day so [43:29] if you're uncertain and if you click on that like for example right here this [43:35] happens to be an assignment and you can tell because it has a blue icon with a pencil if you click on that it's going [43:41] to show whether or not the assignment was turned in or not um or submitted and [43:46] so you can see if it's outstanding or submitted or and if you go to the grade book you can see whether or not there [43:52] was a grade or if something has been submitted um as a way to do that if it's an assessment sometimes it's a green [43:59] icon sometimes it's a blue puzzle icon you can often see instantaneously for [44:05] example if it's a multiple choice type assessment you would see the grade almost within minutes of the student [44:11] taking it you would see that the uh results of that automatically posted if a teacher needs to hand enter uh some [44:20] free response type questions it may take a while for that grade to show up but that's kind of how you can you can tell [44:26] whether that happening for the most part during the day the things that are upcoming for a day are going to be there [44:33] if something doesn't get turned in and the teacher hasn't marked anything yet it will show up as outstanding in the [44:40] top right corner you will see outstanding and that would be an assignment that hasn't been turned in yet it would be indicated that way if [44:48] you go into the teachers's grade book you can see if they have marked something missing there will be a big [44:54] bright orange circle by those assign assignments so if you're never sure or [44:59] someone says there's something missing or if you get a digest in schooly that something is missing you can go in and [45:07] see see that digest and and uh and see that that assignment in the [45:13] Gradebook you brought up a great Point that's the digest or the notifications I just think that that's [45:19] such an critical uh piece of schoolo G could you go over that one more time how parents uh can sign up for quations so [45:27] when I click on so here's a situation where I'm in as a parent and I've [45:33] clicked and selected a student so once you've selected the student if you click the arrow again and go to settings one [45:40] of the options is notifications and I'm just going to do a quick present here so it blows up a little bit bigger [45:57] and on this notifications tab there's [46:02] an summary that you turn on you turn that on you get the option of having a [46:08] daily summary of the student work or a weekly summary of the student work so for some parents they might like to set [46:14] it for 5m on a Friday so that did during the [46:20] week see whether or not there's any makeup work that needs to be done on the weekend so that they can be caught up and and ready to go on Monday [46:27] you can also select an email notification to have uh an email sent to you if an assignment is missing if it [46:34] hasn't been turned in it's outstanding you would get that email notification there so again on the on the web version [46:40] of schooo you click the arrow select your child first and then click the [46:46] arrow again and go to settings and then you will see this notifications tab where you can set those things [46:52] up thanks maybe we should uh at this time maybe we should ask our our peers [46:58] if they have any questions or any questions they'd like to ask us yeah maybe we can start with you this [47:05] time yes um so a couple of uh things that I hear I hear from some parents is [47:12] that you know we talked about a little bit in the elementary section but going back to the idea of [47:17] filtering and when it comes to secondary uh middle school and high school and how [47:23] many of the social media programs or sites are absolutely not acceptable in our [47:29] devices uh you know is there something that we can block I hear that Instagram [47:35] Facebook Twitter and and some other additional ones you know some students are spending time is that allowed in our [47:40] in our advice U thank you for that question and at the middle school level uh that is uh an area that we're [47:47] constantly working on and I'll just give you an example of of of how much we're working on it for uh two years ago we [47:54] used to allow students to bring their own device in and uh the use of cell phones were less [47:59] monitored than they were in the past and now we distribute a district owned Chromebook and we do not encourage the [48:06] use of cell phone as an instructional tool we also work with parents to make sure that they're trained and understand [48:13] how we're leveraging technology and one of the things that we do is we filter our devices quite a bit so actually [48:19] social media programs like Instagram and Reddit now are blocked those are not available Twitter is not available uh to [48:27] students um and so we blocked that nor is um streaming media so Netflix Hulu [48:33] games programs like that are not are not blocked um we also mentioned earlier [48:38] that at any time if a parent uh has a concern they have a number of options [48:43] one is it is their child that is most important for us and so if they're [48:49] concerned they can always log in as their child on that device to be able to see how that child's been using the [48:55] device we do not block or erase the history and so by hitting the control h [49:01] on a Chromebook a parent can review the usage of a Chromebook and see where that child's been doing and spending time and [49:08] then we also encourage uh uh parents and families to create what's called a family media plan that just helps to [49:15] create rules of the road and even though we're in the in the covid pandemic and we're using more and more technology to [49:22] communicate and do our work we still want to make sure we're setting rules of the role of being used that includes [49:28] things like making making sure you have limits on how often a student would not need to be on [49:35] technology for a long period of time we encourage them to actually take breaks and so 45 minutes or something like that [49:42] we really want a student to step away from the computer do something else maybe then go back to it work on it a [49:49] little bit and take breaks have that computer in a common area so at a dining room table or in a kitchen or someplace [49:57] that other people are around so that we can monitor if that student has any questions we can assist on them and then [50:04] if there's any issues or questions about the child's use of technology I encourage them to contact their media [50:10] specialist in their building that's Heather Palmer or Robert deal or myself [50:15] by submitting a t a trouble ticket to support at a dinos schools.org we can help provide an overview of how that [50:22] child is spending technology and we can come up with some other options how we can ensure that that child's use of [50:28] technology is appropriate so we're here to work with parents shoulder to- shoulders their devices are filtered [50:35] they're monitored and we uh will continue to make sure that they're protecting their [50:41] child and I just uh threw up on on the screen here so you can see that history [50:46] component and uh what Steve was talking about and so you can see the time stamps [50:52] I think you have to share your screen Mike I was I thought I was but [50:57] let's see if there it comes oh it dropped off interesting well maybe I [51:04] some computer problems see it happens not only to parents it happens to us as well [51:11] yeah oh maybe we'll take another question so uh just another question while we're sharing that um you know [51:19] very similar to the parents are sending their questions when they have a relate [51:25] you know to technology related questions to support ad schools.org um in cases where it may be [51:33] you know sending email or you know some of these become a little difficulty to a parents would it be okay to call the [51:40] phone number instead of the phone number absolutely definely thank you so I think what you're [51:47] referring to is what do you do if you need some technical support or if you're having some issues and uh absolutely [51:54] we've set up a Technology support line and we set up a technology process to help families out that consists of the [52:02] email support atos schools.org and that's monitored all during the day and first thing in the morning we're pretty [52:08] reactive to that and pretty uh answer those quickly but more importantly if you just need to get a telephone person [52:15] we do have a telephone number that's 952 848-4955 [52:26] from 7 in the morning till 4: at night and so there's always multiple people there generally you will get a person [52:34] there's it's very rarely goes to voicemail and so um they will be there to help you we have some tools so that [52:40] we can remote in to assist if you have if your child's having issues with their device we have a process for device [52:46] replacement troubleshooting and device replacement at the middle school and uh we we're there to work with you on that [52:52] we might not be able to solve the problem right away but you will get up and you'll get a plan in place of how [52:58] you can get it resolved and I'm just throwing that up [53:04] for people to see those that support [53:10] information one of the things too uh I wanted to mention when Steve was talking about filtering is that you know there [53:17] are there's websites going up all the time and and it sometimes it takes a [53:22] little bit of time for them to be classified within our filtering system and so if you do find that there are [53:29] sites that a students going to that you don't think they should be we can always look and put those in our uh in our list [53:36] of of block sites as well so that uh if that comes up and so we're we're happy [53:42] to do that and by emailing the support or calling the the district uh tech [53:47] support that can happen s do you have any uh questions for from secondary parents that uh are common questions [53:54] that you've been getting yeah again uh one question that uh came on pretty [54:00] initially when we started uh distance learning was the parents are wondering [54:06] whether there's a requirement for students to keep their camera on all the time when they're in classroom or will [54:13] each teacher decide for himself and herself and accordingly the students get to either turn it on or turn it off [54:21] sometimes students are uncomfortable having it on all the time uh once student said to his mom that you know [54:28] when I'm in person nobody's looking at me constantly at my face like how you expect me to do during distance learning [54:35] so there's lot of different comfort zone like Comfort levels around that so can you talk about [54:41] that yeah definitely I think um you know that's been something that uh you know [54:48] worldwide has been a conversation around people in in my position of educational [54:54] technology and um we definitely understand that you know depending on a [55:00] situation uh some of our students uh one when we have our cameras on it takes up [55:07] a lot of bandwidth and so if uh if all of a sudden the the meat is choppy and it's [55:14] hard to understand the the teacher sometimes turning that camera off can can help improve that um and and we also [55:22] understand whether it's uh just personal uh comfort level Etc having the camera [55:28] on or off um and so we I've tried to make it optional as much as possible I [55:34] know some teachers do encourage kids to have the camera on because they want to see their faces they miss seeing that [55:42] face-to-face interaction that they have with with the students and and also our [55:48] teachers are so used to teaching in a face-to-face environment that a lot of their [55:58] uh visual checking and Vis visual cues on whether students are understanding a [56:04] concept or Not by having those cameras off they are not necessarily getting that now I've been working hard to kind [56:11] of give them alternative ways to make that happen um but that's that's [56:16] definitely something that uh has been an issue and you know we also know that there's some uh especially middle and [56:24] high school students who who are at home trying to do school while also maybe [56:30] supervising a sibling because both parents are working somewhere and that having while trying to do that and [56:37] having their camera on isn't the isn't the greatest situation and so we've tried to make it as optional as possible [56:46] um I think more often when uh teachers are in more of a a one-on-one [56:51] conversation with a student maybe the student might be more comfortable having the camera on uh just to help with that [56:57] conversation but yes definitely that's been a been a definite issue and a conversation that we've been having [57:04] yes M do you have any questions for a second yeah speaking about having [57:10] multiple children uh sharing the same space do we have some headphones [57:15] available for students from the district or the parents need to buy their own or [57:22] what what is your suggestion so uh we do provide any student who [57:28] needs one a a technology device and so especially in Middle School uh students [57:34] are provided a Chromebook and um both sixth and seventh and eighth grade we do know that the sixth and seventh grade [57:40] are touch Chromebooks or sixth and seventh grade are touch Chromebooks and the eighth grades are the little bit [57:46] older uh next year that will be rectified and and then good news about them is all those Chromebooks actually [57:53] uh take the small Jack that would be used with as the same as with iPhone or um or [58:02] a um cell phon headset so you can use any headset that you want in order to [58:07] make that work I'm I'm using a set of headphones right now that are for my cell phone as well so the district [58:13] doesn't have um uh headsets to put out but if if you have an old pair of [58:18] headsets or earphone earphones or earbuds that you've had with an old cell phone those will work just fine [58:28] thanks yeah any other questions that you've [58:37] seen I I have and we haven't heard it for a while and that's good news is that um some parents um forgot what their [58:44] username and password was for ad apps or they've been using their child's username and password that's happened in [58:51] the past so I just want to remind parents that you have your own username and password for apps we encourage you [58:57] to use that because uh you'll gain access to the Adina apps or the applications like campus and Schoo [59:04] different than what your child will get you'll get a little bit different information so it's important that you log on that way as a parent your [59:11] username and password your username is your last name period first name and your password is a password that was [59:17] provided initially if you want you can always reset that password from the Adina portal and in the Adina portal [59:23] you'll see Infinite Campus which is a place where you see your child's permanent record you'll see uh a current [59:31] progress report you'll see lunch information be able to pay fees and fines schedules it's more of your [59:38] permanent record schooly is at day-to-day classroom that's where you'll be see what your child all your children [59:44] are up to third through 12th grade any activities any assignments and your child will be able to publish [59:50] information and turn in assignments again due to data privacy sometimes you don't see all the work that your child's [59:57] doing because your child might be interacting with other children and because of data privacy we can't share [1:00:02] that information so does look a little bit different then there's learner Edge which is a great program where you can [1:00:08] look at your child's historical uh test and assessment information and just get some information about your child if at [1:00:15] any time you need the password uh the link is up on the website right now it is Parent Portal or campus help at [1:00:22] parent period portal at schools.org hey Steve we did get one last question [1:00:29] here uh from a Southview parent asking is it okay for students to use Google meets for socializing or are they only [1:00:36] for study sessions and this kind of speaks to our acceptable use policy in [1:00:42] regards to the use of all of our technology tools that they're really primarily for educational purposes um we [1:00:50] do understand that you know that that desire for kids to be able to socialize some uh and for the most part the [1:00:57] teachers have been given uh meet links that students aren't necessarily able to start uh but uh we understand that there [1:01:06] may be some workarounds for some kids that they've figured out and so um you know if you do see that outside of the [1:01:12] school day you may want to kind of have a conversation with your child about that because it's not necessarily uh [1:01:22] allow right just like if it was in a normal school setting we generally wouldn't let students to uh interact [1:01:28] unsupervised you send your children to schools in order to be safe and to learn in a learning environment and that's the [1:01:34] same uh philosophy we're using on our online ecosystem but to that end uh with [1:01:40] our Google meet or Google apps for Enterprise our Google meets we do have the ability to create breakout rooms and [1:01:46] I know a number of teachers have been leveraging breakout rooms so that they can have students be able to move meet [1:01:52] in smaller groups and do some socialization as either working uh on part uh partnering on projects or doing [1:02:00] some interacting in some smaller study groups but generally speaking Mike's right uh due to safety and privacy [1:02:07] concerns we we want our ecosystem to be supervised and we want it to be safe for your children well we reached 759 so I [1:02:16] think uh it's been a great another good half an hour of support and we're not [1:02:22] done and so again I remind you of our support links here uh our help desk [1:02:49] 952844510 21 school year and I also encourage you to look at the Indina Public Schools 20 20 2021 dashboard [1:02:58] where there's just an incredible amount of information and resources for parents on this interesting year of [1:03:24] learning [1:03:54] e [1:04:24] e [1:04:54] e [1:05:24] e e [1:06:20] good evening and welcome to ad Public Schools uh presentation on supporting [1:06:25] our parents with distance learning it's a continuation of some of the videos and support that the D public schools have [1:06:32] been putting out in an effort to support our families in the interesting year of [1:06:37] education and learning that we've had this year and hasn't it been a roller coaster ride uh we want to make sure [1:06:45] that as your student is adjusting and showing resilience and that our teachers [1:06:51] who are adjusting and showing resilience that we're also addressing the concerns and questions that our parents have [1:06:57] around them and how they're supporting their children in this interesting year of learning as a parent of a senior uh [1:07:05] student I uh can empathize with a number of people on how this has been a [1:07:10] challenging year boring it together tonight what we're going to do is we're going to respond to some of the [1:07:16] questions that we had have a conversation about any concerns uh uh or [1:07:21] comments that you have and just keep that dialogue and that support going with me tonight I have the digital [1:07:27] learning specialist for the secondary hi I'm Mike Walker and we have our incredible [1:07:33] cultural leasons with us as well to help support us and team with us [1:07:42] Blan hi s Amur South Asian cultural [1:07:48] Leon and abdad yeah abdad ibraim Somali cultural [1:07:53] Yan for the district and again my name is Steve Butner and I'm the director of media and technology [1:07:59] for adant public schools just remind you what the format was going to be for this evening uh early this week we posted a [1:08:06] YouTube video on the Adina Public Schools YouTube channel uh with a presentation which went into quite a bit [1:08:13] of detail about distance learning and about this phase of learning at Adina Public Schools we talked about a lot [1:08:19] about the vocabulary things like the difference between asynchronous and synchronous learning uh format of how [1:08:27] schedules were and how your child's day would evolve at the high school talked about some of the protocols around [1:08:33] attendance talked about the platform your child would use and how you could support them we also ended it with a [1:08:40] link and to a Google form where you could submit questions we're going to answer those questions tonight we have [1:08:47] any additional time left over we'll talk about some other questions that you might not might have had or and forgot [1:08:54] to ask or or other wonderments that you might have around distance learning in a d of public [1:08:59] schools why don't we go ahead and Jump Right In Mike the first question I have [1:09:07] is um from a High School parent that says is there a way to set up separate notification preferences for separate [1:09:14] students in Schoo AG so in that uh situation and I'm going [1:09:19] to pull up real quick we'll talk about those notifications [1:09:27] and I'm going to share my screen here hopefully all the technology will [1:09:33] work my boss paid the [1:09:43] bills so when you are signed into to your account in schoolagy so uh all of [1:09:50] our parents can sign in to the parent the portal with their last name. first [1:09:57] name and then the password that you received from uh the Welcome Center uh [1:10:02] when you do that up at the top right you'll see initially your name with an [1:10:08] arrow next to it and when you click that Arrow you can select your child and then [1:10:13] you can see their enrollments all the courses that they're taking their current grade in those classes you can [1:10:19] click on each class and see the materials that's being pres has been presented to them with a weekly overview [1:10:26] for the high school at the top and then links to meets and other things like that but once you're on your child if [1:10:33] you click the arrow and select settings you'll come to this screen and it'll [1:10:39] have account settings and also this tab for notifications and when you click that notifications tab one of the great [1:10:46] options that schooly offers is a digest of the work that your child has done [1:10:52] either in a daily basis or a weekly basis so when you click and turn this on [1:10:58] it gives you the option of checking a box for each day or just maybe Fridays [1:11:04] for example so and then you can even set the time of day that you would get that notification so for example if you set [1:11:11] it for Friday at 5:00 pm you'll get a digest for and it'll bring it not just [1:11:17] for one child but it'll bringing it for all your children and it'll list out the activities and things that they've done [1:11:24] any grades they received feedback they've gotten and any missing assignments as well you can also check a [1:11:32] box to automatically receive an email if your child has an assignment missing uh [1:11:39] that hasn't been submitted at the given time and so for example at the high school a lot of the attendance-based [1:11:46] assignments that teachers post for each class on Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays and [1:11:52] Fridays those are all due at 3:30 p.m. and so if they haven't been completed or [1:11:58] turned in electronically by 3:30 you may get an email notification that that [1:12:03] assignment is missing and so that's a way to kind of track and see that information for your [1:12:10] child thanks Mike could you talk just a little bit about the difference between uh because we use um in education we [1:12:17] have our VAB vocabulary and I don't know if everyone understands that vocabulary [1:12:22] could you talk a little bit about what synchronous learning and asynchronous of learning is so that people understand [1:12:28] that right so I'm going to jump back here in this presentation and talk a little bit about [1:12:35] different activities that might happen during the school day so this is a digest for a class and this happens to [1:12:44] be a screencast so the teacher has created a video for students to watch at [1:12:50] a time not when everybody's watching together necessarily but it's on their own the own students time so that would [1:12:57] be an asynchronous type session where it's at any time during the day they [1:13:02] could be watching that particular thing or maybe down here they're completing a [1:13:07] reflection but if they're doing something synchronously that would be where we're using maybe a Google meet [1:13:13] for this student for everyone in class to get together and have a discussion or [1:13:20] the teacher to present something or maybe even the students are presenting to each other or now that Google has [1:13:27] made some updates to Google meet teachers May o often put kids in breakout [1:13:33] rooms so that they can have discussion and conversation maybe they're doing a group project and they're able to [1:13:39] collaborate on that now in a in a way that uh we weren't able to do last [1:13:46] spring thanks Mike and then the difference between synchronous and asynchronous [1:13:52] learning right so I'm going to jump back and the presentation here it's got some nice Graphics to [1:14:00] explain that that's exactly why I wanted you to go there yeah so here's that [1:14:06] synchronous where students and teachers are working together at the same time and so at the high school that may [1:14:12] happen at least a couple times per week in every single class there's going to have some synchronous meets it may be [1:14:20] the entire group or maybe one day it's the entire group but another day maybe it's a small group interaction but at [1:14:27] least two days a week for every class there will be some type of synchronous type session where everyone's doing the [1:14:33] same thing at the same time when we talk about that asynchronous then the Learning Happens completely [1:14:39] independently and students are doing their work on their projects on their own [1:14:46] time great thank you do we have any uh questions from our cultural Aon [1:14:53] [Music] you know I can jump right in actually I wanted to give compliments because I've [1:15:00] heard good things and I myself have a high schooler so I know uh that overall [1:15:05] high school has done a great job in uh giving clear-cut instructions about how distance learning is going to work um so [1:15:14] if people are following all the messages that the school send and the screencast they should be on top of everything uh [1:15:20] one thing that I would like for you to repeat is how the flex time assignment [1:15:27] works like how can kids sign up for Flex time great question I'm going to go back [1:15:32] to my screen here and I've pulled up the weekly [1:15:40] schedule for the high school once it comes [1:15:51] up are you guys seeing it not yet [1:15:58] okay there it comes here it comes Mike [1:16:04] okay yep it's up all right so this is the weekly schedule a sample weekly [1:16:10] schedule for the high school and uh for most days they're going through their [1:16:15] regular classes and these yellow times might be the synchronous sessions that we just talked about where they're doing [1:16:22] a live session but on Wednesdays they've divided the day up in [1:16:28] by subject area and teachers can either invite students or students can sign up [1:16:35] using the responsive scheduler tool in Infinite Campus they go into the campus [1:16:40] tool inside their portal and they select responsive scheduler and then let's say [1:16:46] for example I needed some help with my so I was a a French student when I was [1:16:51] in in uh in high school and so maybe I need some work on that and so during my [1:16:57] fifth period if I wanted to get some extra support I could sign up for that World Language Flex time with my French [1:17:05] teacher and then would be able to sit down and work uh with with the teacher [1:17:11] in a synchronous type session that way other times maybe I'm not doing so well in [1:17:17] math and maybe my teacher might sign me up to come to the flex session during [1:17:24] that that time so that they can give me some support or maybe I missed an [1:17:30] assessment a quiz or a a test on a given day and need to make that up and I might [1:17:37] do that during that time and so that Flex time on those Wednesdays is an opportunity for us to [1:17:45] give some extra support or kids to reach out to teachers to get extra support and we definitely encourage students to uh [1:17:53] reach out to staff in when they need help so that they can uh continue to do [1:17:58] well in school and and and that and I know that there's uh good instructions [1:18:03] on how to use the flex responsive schedule tool in Infinite Campus on the high school website I believe it's colle [1:18:10] connected at the uh counselor's section and uh it's been used for the last few years and so I think it's there it is uh [1:18:17] in Infinite Campus so you go to ad apps go to Infinite Campus and that's where you can access the responsive schedule [1:18:25] and Miss Carter uh one of our assistant principles has put together a really nice screencast for students explaining [1:18:32] that process so other [1:18:38] questions is there a time when a student has nothing to do on a Wednesday and [1:18:43] they can take a free pass a free pass now a free free day I [1:18:50] don't have any Flex to do today so I can go and play talker with my friends they [1:18:56] may have fle they may not have Flex time but in general students are going to still have some assignments due on [1:19:04] Wednesdays or there may have a test or an assignment due on Thursday that they [1:19:10] should be working on because uh we talked about those attendance-based [1:19:15] assignments that are due at 3:30 but that those aren't the only assignments that students might have so maybe they [1:19:22] have a project that is due at the end of the day on Wednesday that they're working on for social studies for [1:19:28] example and so there um there's definitely work to be done it's not a [1:19:33] full free day on Wednesdays there's still uh going to be assignments given [1:19:38] and assignments due on on Wednesdays there there won't be attendance-based [1:19:44] assignments on Wednesdays because the classes aren't necessarily meeting on [1:19:49] those days in the same way but there definitely are assignments due for students at it's an asynchronous [1:19:55] learning day yeah that's that's where that those terms of synchronous and asynchronous are so important that [1:20:02] doesn't mean that there's not work happening that just means the time when that work gets done is more independent [1:20:09] and up to that student to be able to be a good um a good judge of when they're [1:20:15] going to get their work done and so it's a little bit more of an independent and and we know that just like adults like [1:20:21] myself sometimes my wife helps me decide when I need to make sure I do the work has to remind me of that work and [1:20:27] sometimes I can work independent and I know I can get my work done and so as a parent you'll absolutely want to just [1:20:34] making sure that you're coaching your child to making sure that they're making good uses of their time and so that [1:20:39] they're making sure that they're taking care of their work in timely manner so it's not piling all up to the end of a [1:20:45] quarter or semester exactly where can I find the schedule of my student where [1:20:50] can I see something like this for every student great question Lan so if for [1:20:57] parents if you log into the portal portal DDOS schools.org and if you click on Infinite [1:21:05] Campus you can click on your child's name and see the schedule the daily schedule for your child for on any given [1:21:13] day yeah but it's going to be like this where I can see when does he need to be [1:21:18] synchronous and asynchronous syn the synchronous asynchronous won't necessarily be there [1:21:24] because um that's going to be in schooly but the uh but when the when the [1:21:31] student goes in and the parent you can see in schooly when those times are if [1:21:36] you log in there you can see the calendar events and and for each of the [1:21:42] teachers they're going to post if they're going to have a live session or not and it's usually uh in the courses [1:21:48] it'll be at the top of the screen there's a weekly overview and so let me show that real quick here [1:21:55] yeah as Mike as you're bringing that up as you're bringing up that's exactly right you know as a high school student [1:22:01] they might have a number of teachers and so those teachers uh when they have their synchronous or asynchronous [1:22:07] meetings or their office hour meetings it it may change and so it looks a little bit different but going into [1:22:13] schooly and going into each of their child's uh courses they get the weekly week at a glance usually at the [1:22:19] beginning of the week which provides them uh information of how that week's going to fold for each of those classes [1:22:25] so they'll see the for each day you'll see the calendar events here and then [1:22:31] the other piece that I'm pulling up is right here at the top of the High [1:22:37] School courses they have that week at a glance and a lot of times they'll the [1:22:42] teachers will even put the meet link on a given day right here in there so [1:22:48] you'll see on those for each of those courses at the top of the course it'll [1:22:53] show what that that week it looks like and when those synchronous sessions are going to be taking [1:23:02] place thank you yeah you any [1:23:07] questions I was you know just thinking about if you can uh maybe repeat [1:23:13] again uh how parents can set up um user account and password uh because a lot of [1:23:20] things depends on a school G and if you don't connect with school G and infinite to begin with it's very hard to see [1:23:26] those schedules just maybe if you can talk about one more sure so um our Adina [1:23:33] apps is what we call our educational ecosystem or educational portal and it is user specific what what that means is [1:23:40] that um all of our staff and our students and our parents use that tool to log into as many applications as [1:23:47] possible the nice thing about it is it's uh one username and password so you don't have to know multiple usernames [1:23:53] and passwords just have to remember that username and password looks like this you can access it from the front of our [1:23:59] website when you log in for a parent it's generally speaking your last name [1:24:04] period first name and then the password that you're giving to them given at initially we really encourage you to use [1:24:11] that username and password because your child will have a different username and a password and they'll have a different [1:24:17] access and so their information that they will see will be different than the information you see and the things that [1:24:23] they can do will be different than the things that you can do and so as an adult or as a parent you'll want to be [1:24:29] able to access the tools and be able to do the things that you want to do and your child will be accessing their [1:24:35] course content and their work if at any given time or if you've never remembered your username and password we understand [1:24:41] that happens all the time you can always send an email to parent period portal atos schools.org we'll show that at the [1:24:49] end of this presentation and request a password reset we can reset that for you [1:24:54] once you log in you'll see as a parent you'll see a couple of applications Infinite Campus which is what we call [1:25:01] your per your child's permanent record that will be the area where you see like Mike mentioned schedules uh you see the [1:25:09] the grades transcripts be able to pay fees be able to access fees in the [1:25:14] responsive scheduler and then the spring to be able to sign up for additional classes change contact information which [1:25:20] I think is really important to make sure that you get your um District uh Communications or your school [1:25:27] Communications schoolagy will be that learning management system or LMS that's that that's that virtual classroom [1:25:33] that'll be where your child will be interacting with uh their teacher submitting assignments maybe [1:25:39] collaborating with uh teammates or or peers in their classes and uh will be a [1:25:45] place where they can understand what's do uh take assignments generally turn in [1:25:51] things uh as a parent you're going to notice a m mention this uh you can get those alerts and those notifications you [1:25:58] can check to see the status of a homework assignments when they're turned in or not but in some cases you're not [1:26:03] going to be able to see the actual content of what your child did did the reason for that is for privacy purposes [1:26:10] in some cases your child might have been working with another student and so we got to make sure that we're adhering to [1:26:15] privacy policies and so you won't see exactly the same thing that your child sees and then the third button that you [1:26:21] generally see is learner's Edge that's where you're going to see historical assessment information and other [1:26:26] information about your children so three really great tools again one username and password serve a little bit [1:26:32] different purpose for all three of those and I see Mike has put the uh Parent Portal information link up there it's [1:26:39] parent. portal schools.org other questions [1:26:57] we went over this one how can I make sure that my son is doing schoolwork and [1:27:03] not just navigating the internet good question let me uh share [1:27:09] this tab so if you on your computer on the on your child's Chromebook if it's a [1:27:16] district provided device if you hit hold down the control key and hit age that will show the [1:27:22] history and the history look something like this and you can see the time [1:27:27] stamps of when your child has been on different websites and you can kind of take a look and see what sites the [1:27:34] child's been to and if something looks fishy you can go and take a look at it and see whether it's appropriate or not [1:27:41] or if they were off task and then it's an opportunity for you to have a [1:27:46] learning moment with your child to talk about uh you know being on task and and [1:27:53] use the device for educational purposes and things like that um because it's really you know we're all learning and [1:28:02] and so as students are on their devices they may be going to sites they're not supposed to be it's go it may happen and [1:28:09] if it does it's better to kind of make it a teachable moment and and interact [1:28:15] calmly and talk about the the importance of of following [1:28:20] good good uh digital hygiene so to speak uh in regards to that and uh try and [1:28:26] mitigate th those opportunities so um you know working shoulder-to-shoulder with your child and having those [1:28:33] conversations and supporting them is is a really important thing but having that [1:28:39] history piece as a tool for you as a parent uh that those never get deleted [1:28:45] so that you can always go in and see what your child is doing if you have any concerns and I'd say as a resource that [1:28:52] at the um schools especially at the high school your media Specialist or your uh [1:28:57] uh counselors or assistant principles if you have any concerns around that area absolutely reach out to them we do have [1:29:04] some resources and we do have some support that we could help with that or if you need to you can always send an email to support it a Dias schools.org [1:29:11] we can help us that again it's a partnership for this y yes um all the [1:29:17] assistant principles at the high school and Sarah Swinson the media specialist do a great job of of trying to support [1:29:25] that positive uh use of technology so no one question I had was uh parents [1:29:33] ask that uh even though they're in distance learning if either the student or someone in the family tests positive [1:29:41] for covid-19 or comes in contact with somebody with covid-19 how do they communicate it with [1:29:47] the school so is it necessary to communicate and if so how do they go about doing it [1:29:58] um I think if they uh wanted to communicate that they would do that through the attendance line like we do [1:30:03] for other attendance purposes and that's kept confidential and the information or they would uh contact the building's [1:30:09] Health Services offices and so each building has a a Health Services office [1:30:15] and where they can they can submit that information um I do know that there's a resource on the 2020 2021 [1:30:24] uh family dashboard and and in there it is about covid and uh reporting covid [1:30:31] and what to do and so that'd be a great resource as well is using that those links and absolutely we are keeping [1:30:38] track of all the cases we need to know even if we are not coming to school we need to track the cases to make [1:30:44] decisions in the future right and I believe uh superintendent Schulz [1:30:49] actually sent a a communication about that today uh and and mention the the [1:30:55] importance of still uh reporting those cases even though you're at a distance it's very [1:31:05] important any last questions well this has been great and [1:31:13] again the conversation's not over uh we'll continue with this these resources again will be published to our YouTube [1:31:19] live Channel and our YouTube channel for Dino Public Schools as well as I mentioned the 2020 2021 family dashboard [1:31:27] which is plethora of resources I also know the Adina Public Schools website [1:31:33] and the Adina Public School administration are phenomenal very responsive to needs and so I think [1:31:38] you'll find a lot of great information there and I'm sure they'll be able to help you out if you ever have any [1:31:43] technology issues or technology questions you or your child those those resources you can always send an email [1:31:50] to support at AOS schools.org or contact us at the help desk [1:32:23] thank you have a great