SmartPass is the digital hall pass system used in Hall County’s middle and high schools. Below are video tutorials that cover how to use SmartPass and best practices.
These resources are great for teachers new to Hall County or teachers who would like a SmartPass Refresher.
The Zoom 30-day retention policy has gone into effect, which is a good time to revisit best practices for creating instructional videos. We suggest using Zoom for virtual meetings, not screen recordings or instructional videos.
For instructional video creation, eLearning suggests using Canvas Studio. Please see the infographic below to learn more about how to create screen recordings, instrucitonal videos, and multimedia assessments in Canvas Studio.
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Microsoft Publisher will be sunsetting on October 1st, 2026. If you want access to any of your saved files in Microsoft Publisher, please follow Microsoft’s suggestion of downloading all .pub as PDF’s before October 1st. You can find more about Microsoft’s suggestions for downloading files here.
If edits are needed, we suggest you use Kami or Canva to edit the PDF’s you downloaded. You can learn more about the PDF editing tools available in each software below:
Hall County Schools Instructional Support Center
2750 Atlanta Highway
Gainesville, GA 30504
Phone: 770-534-6313
Mo-Fr: 8:00-19:00
Sa: 8:00-14:00
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