Google/Microsoft File Transfer for Seniors

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Congratulations HCSD Senior!  You have made it, and we wish you the best in all of your future endeavors!   Months after graduating, many seniors discover that they may need access to their HCSD Google and Microsoft files. For this reason, we strongly encourage all students to either download or transfer their data so that they can access these resources even after their HCSD accounts are no longer available. 

 

Google:

Google has made the process to transfer files quite simple. You can choose to download files via Google Takeout or you can copy your Drive to a personal Google account via Google Transfer. 

 

Google Takeout allows you to create an archive of your resources from your HCSD Google Account in one zip file that you can download. You can then extract and upload these resources to another Google account or open them locally on your computer. Google Takeout Directions

 

Google Transfer allows you to copy your Google Drive Files from your HCSD Google account into a personal Google Account. All of your resources will be copies of the original content. Please note, if you have a large amount of data in this account, you may be required to purchase additional storage in your personal account in order to transfer the data. Google Transfer Directions 

 

Microsoft:

Most students have less than 100MB in their OneDrive account. A small jump drive can be used to download your files.  Another option is to use the Mover Transfer Wizard.  

 

Mover Transfer Wizard allows you to transfer several files to your personal OneDrive. Mover Transfer Wizard Directions

 

Additional Resources:

Access Google Takeout

Access Google Transfer

Access Mover Transfer Wizard

 

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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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Grading Online Submissions

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Do you remember grading in your first year of teaching? It felt great to find your stride!
Usually, a veteran teacher gives helpful hints that help you find the right way to grade.

Online submissions are just different enough that you may need some more ideas. Here are some tips to help you find that stride – online!

Schedule Time to Grade

Blurred Calendar Reminder with links

 

Use your calendar to schedule a time to grade. Include links to the courses and any feedback spreadsheet you have created/borrowed/repurposed.

Work with your colleagues teaching the same modality/modalities as you at your school to assure you are in line with the turnaround time for grading. Post your grading schedule in several places (make note of where for future updates): Office Hours, Announcements, School website, etc.

Quality Comments

Consider what might happen if students focused on our commentary over a letter or numeric grade. Feedback to students should encourage reflection and confirm learners’ understanding (Garrison et al., 2010). While grading is a necessity, the teacher can mix up the percentages with a credit/no credit assignment to help students focus on teacher comments. Students are more likely to consider improving submissions using feedback than static grades. Providing timely feedback is a major component of Teacher Presence (Gurley, 2018).
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When building or revising an online course, consider the range of submissions from students. Perhaps the submissions range from an erroneous submission (wrong file/format) to complete and accurate submission. If you have the opportunity to build a rubric, build your feedback comments at the same time. If you make only one comment per submission, consider a comment which covers many possibilities and then you can just copy and paste a portion of the comment or delete a portion before submitting.
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Here is an example of a comment sheet for a course. I use emojipedia.org and the emojis copy and paste nicely between the Google sheet and the Canvas LMS SpeedGrader. Feel free to make a copy and modify it as needed.

 

There’s A Canvas Guide for That

How do I leave feedback comments for student submissions in SpeedGrader?

How do I use a non-scoring rubric to assess submissions in SpeedGrader?

How do I use free-form comments instead of ratings in a rubric in SpeedGrader?

References

Garrison, D. R., Cleveland-Innes, M., & Fung, T. S. (2010). Exploring causal relationships among teaching, cognitive and social presence: Student perceptions of the community of inquiry framework. The Internet and Higher Education, 13(1-2), 31–36. doi:10.1016/j.iheduc.2009.10.002

Gurley, L. E. (2018). Educators’ preparation to teach, perceived teaching presence, and perceived teaching presence behaviors in blended and online learning environments. Online Learning, 22(2), 197-220. 10.24059/olj.v22i2.1255

 

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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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