We were fortunate to host Brian Buffington, Director of Instructional Technology at Pioneer RESA.
Brian joined us October 16th & 18th at the Hall County Instructional Support Center to work with us on Creating with Chromebooks.
Brian shared a Google Doc with the group which contained our agenda:
Hall County School District offers many ways to learn about Canvas by Instructure, our learning management system (LMS).
Five iterations of face-to-face training:
Each iteration offers Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced training. Each training contains activities directed by an expert from Canvas and the training contains activities that show participant competence.
Beginning – Course Basics, Canvas Commons, Course Settings, Modules, Creating Content/Accessibility, Communication Tools, Assignments
Intermediate – Assessment Tools, Outcomes and Rubrics, Group Work & Collaboration, Gradebook and Speedgrader.
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Advanced – Agenda to Include: managing assessments, group work and collaboration – Google and Office, mastery paths, getting starter with Badgr.
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Online, Asynchronous Beginners Canvas course. Each month this course offers a way to work through the content on your own. See your BLaST leader for a reminder of how to sign-up in Catalog for a course as needed.
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You can watch videos or sign up for future, live webinars. These webinars have one expert who shows you what to do in Canvas and one Canvas expert who runs the chat window answering your questions.
You need to Authorize this, much like you did the first time you used Google within Canvas.
Make sure once you are logged in to look through the Learning Library and Training Calendar (below). Your My Learning section is a listing of the sessions you have signed up for, with an option to reschedule.
Ther remain many ways for educators in our district to learn about Canvas.
Follow this blog for more information and to keep up on the latest face-to-face training on our calendar.
Hall County purchases Reading A-Z, RAZ kids, RAZ Plus, and Science A-Z for our elementary schools. There are several ways to learn more about the parent company, Learning A-Z:
Gizmos are standards-aligned simulations for math and science classes. Gizmos are currently purchased for Hall County students in 6-12 grades.
Starting Fall of 2019, students and staff will have easier login procedures as Hall County’s integration with Explore Learning evolves. Future logins from LaunchPoint will create user account versus a current process where students had to create an account.
Explore Learning has newly added 3 STEM cases and handbooks this spring. Students assume the role of a scientist trying to solve a real-world problem. They use scientific practices to collect and analyze data, and form and test a hypothesis as they solve the problem.
Expect 3 more STEM cases to be added this summer and 3 more next fall.
Training is on-going through eLearning and redelivery planning support to departments/content areas can be supported by eLearning.
As the type of Gizmos content continues to grow, you may want to test student devices from time to time, especially when you try a new Gizmo. You can check System Requirements and Check your Video Card by finding “System Requirements” at the bottom of any Gizmos page.
This is also where you can find email or phone support. eLearning does not have a view into this system, so often the teacher will want to reach out to Explore Learning directly.
Instructure highlights seven points of interoperability with Office 365:
For a 30 minute overview of the seven main points of Canvas Integration with Office 365, watch below video:
Friday, February 10, 2017 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9-3PfFYSgU