What is the Status?

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In your school day, you can use the status of a person or an application to help you work more efficiently.

Personal Status

Outlook

Your Outlook online status is automatically reflected by your presence online in conjunction with your Outlook Calendar appointments. This is on by default and is a courtesy to your colleagues and our families. You can view the status of colleagues in the To field of outgoing emails in

If you use Webmail (clicking the browser version of mail from LaunchPoint) your status and the status of others are not shown to you. Using the desktop version shows the status.

Teams

Microsoft Teams uses your Outlook account status to inform Teams by default. However, you can manually set your status as well.
Teams Status

Application Status

When you are on a roll at work the last thing you need is to stop to figure out if something is really down or is it just you.
Here are some TIPS for how to work with STATUS in your daily applications.

Vendor Website Status

When you initially encounter an issue working in an application you may try to refresh the app, the browser, reboot the machine. But if the issue persists consider going directly to the vendor’s site for any recent issues. Common high-use HallCo apps with status pages:

Canvas LMS: https://status.instructure.com/
(include MasteryConnect)

Google Workspace Dashboard: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/

NewsELA: https://status.newsela.com/

Nearpod Status Page: https://status.nearpod.com/

Service Status Microsoft: https://portal.office.com/servicestatus

Incident IQ/ Hall County Status

Our engineers also internally update the Incident IQ page for reported problems that have been verified internally; so this site may vary from the vendor’s status pages. However, this status site also includes LaunchPoint, Destiny, and Infinite Campus.

Status Check

Finally, you can always use the Internet itself to check with Down For Everyone Or Just Me and Down Detector.

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Increase the Quality of Discussion Posts

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Discussion posts can engage a wider variety of students than in-person, time-driven discussions. The deep thinker, the shy student, the serial responder can all use a discussion post to further engage with your course content – if you correctly set one up. Consider the following tips and use the resources referenced to add a new depth to your Canvas courses.

Discussion Post Guidelines

Discussion Posts benefit from specific guidelines to assure successful participation by students. Provide a link to your Discussion Post Guidelines for every class Discussion Post. The bottom of the RCE is ideal for this or a similar notice:

Of course, that means you need to create a page to link to which contains your Discussion Guidelines – and that you have Discussion Guidelines. Both are easy to accomplish. Discussion Guidelines help students meet instructor expectations and allow the instructor to thoughtfully craft a discussion. Consider the two versions in Commons: Search Discussion Guidelines in Hall County Commons.

Sample Discussions

Consider importing the Sample Discussion Post from the Hall County Canvas Commons to customize. Link your Discussion Guidelines and then duplicate for multiple modules:

To Grade or Not to Grade?

Graded discussions do not count toward user storage quotas. Also remember that grading can be as simple as complete/incomplete. However, if you want to be more precise – and take advantage of the awesome Speedgrader – consider adding a rubric to your discussion.

Consult the Canvas Guides on Discussions for more specific information.

 

 

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Microsoft Teams Training

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As Skype for Business is being replaced with Microsoft Teams, we offer training to get you started.

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Two Fresh Resources for Canvas Training

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Teachers may be interested in more self-paced Canvas learning management system (LMS) training before August. Share these resources with them while the time is right to learn at a more leisurely pace.

Teachers with some Canvas Training:

  1. Use this Canvas Field Guide registration link to create your Canvas Network Account using your HallCo email address. Use the Join code below to enroll in the Canvas Field Guide course.  What is the Canvas Network?
    The Join code is: ****** (see your BLaST leader for the code)
  2. Once, registered, click HERE to access the Canvas Field Guide Course.


Teachers new to HallCo/Canvas:

  1. Access the Help>Training Services Portal. If you are new to this, find a Canvas Guide HERE.
  2. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Under Learning Library complete the learning pathway “K12 First Day Ready.” A series of four badges will be generated for the participant. One certificate will be generated upon completion and could be collected by the school.

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