001good uh late morning to you um i'm superintendent michael morris and uh here again today with molly and jay shree and they're gonna be able to provide a training around google classroom one of our efforts um very explicit effort this year we have ongoing training for caregivers to be able to support their children as best as possible in distance learning and so today's is going to have a pr a focus on google classroom which is the um the primary tool for grades three to twelve and all schools in the district but i'll let molly and jay street introduce themselves and then they'll get going with the slides i'm molly malay i am one of the district learning technology specialists and um i also teach special education at crocker farm hello my name is daishri and
002i am the tech teacher at uh pelham elementary i'm also the one of the elementary district learning support specialists welcome all okay i think the slides are up for you molly so you can take okay so um as mike said this is the google classroom training so what we will do is um go over how to start and set up the google classroom and some of the features that are available so jay sheree and i are some two of your district learning support specialists we also have ella stocker who is over at the high school and benjamin levy who is at the middle school and we just want to emphasize that you do not need to know everything now we don't know everything now the students don't know everything now and that is fine we're
003all going to learn together these trainings are the beginning of a series of trainings that we will be offering so if you need continued help we are here to offer that help to you okay what is google classroom so google classroom um as mike described is the web-based learning management system that the district will be using for third through twelfth grades and what it is is teachers are able to post assignments and announcements for students and then students can do those assignments and turn in their work to their teacher okay so now um i'm just going to go over how to get to google classroom and then the steps you will take to get into your child's google classroom so the first thing is type classroom.google.com in the search bar or you can always just
004do a google search for a google classroom that will bring you there as well there is also in the corner of your screen this waffle is called which is a nine dot square and there is a drop down that will pop up when you hit that and one of the things there that you can click on is the google classroom icon which looks like a chalkboard so your student will get an invitation to join their teachers class they can do this in two different ways there is a plus button at the top of the screen that if you click that you can enter the class code that your teacher will give you or there is a join button that is blue in the bottom corner of the classroom that you can click to join as
005well the first page that you will see is called the stream all assignments and announcements will be posted there in chronological order of when they were posted however most of the students work and the easiest way to see it because it will be nicely organized is in the class work tab which is the second tab at the top well it was a little ahead of myself so that is the tab classwork tab that you will be able to learn more about the assignments if you click so in classwork you'll see all the assignments organized into topics on the left hand side and you can click on the topic to bring you right to that topic so for instance a class might have reading math various subjects in it if it is a middle or high
006school class there will be separate classrooms for different subjects so like a classroom in biology a class in drama and so on the side there you might see things like unit topics okay so then to see an assignment you will click at the top and then at the bottom there's a little view assignment button that will pop up and that is what you click to view the assignment and this slide has a lot of things because once you hit view assignment a lot of different things will pop up so you will see instructions from the teacher as to what the assignment is you will see a due date which is when it's due and one of two um things will happen so either your teacher will give a template for you shouldn't to use and
007if that's the case you will click there if your teacher does not give a template then you would click add or create to start your own after you've done your work you click the turn in button and notice that it's colored in right now it's bright purple it will ask you again to confirm that you want to turn it in so you click turn in again and then what you'll see is that once you've completed and turned in this in an assignment the button will turn gray assignments that have not been completed will stay the color of the classroom this classroom has happens to be purple but if the background of the classroom is blue it would be blue or green but the gray indicates that it is done it's turned in okay so if
008you click this view your work button you will see all the assignments that have been assigned it will tell you whether or not you've turned them in whether or not it has been returned or if it's missing so this is a great thing to click if for instance um you have a math and a reading and a science assignment and you can't remember which one you did or your student can't remember this is just a centralized location that can tell you what needs to be done and what has already been turned in and there's another neat feature um which is especially good if you have different classes so um sometimes you have this in elementary school but in middle school and high school again like if you have an english class or you have a
009math class the different classrooms as you can see will come up and there will be different colors and if you click on the google calendar it will show you like a month's view of when assignments are due and it will be color coded by classrooms so you can see these two assignments here are for the green class maybe that's your english class maybe these three purple ones are your math class and the blue one is your science class so you'll be able to get a clear view of what is due when and for which class when you click the calendar button okay and now we will open it up to questions if anyone has them and i'll come back on i think we'll eliminate that um thanks for that explanation so we have one from
010bennett i'll display it so people can see it too um i'll read a lot as well thanks for this we have to be logged in under children's arps accounts to access google classroom this has been surprisingly difficult in the past although i assume it's still the approach so some about how to get in in the logins for google classroom yes so the login is through your student if your student regrets or doesn't know what their email and opinion is the classroom teacher or teacher for the class if it's a middle school or high school class we'll have that information um just ask them and they can give it to you yep another one follow up um well google class from this actually molly and i were talking about this before the stream a bit today
011abuse is a hub for shuttling us to other teachers selected online tools like class dojo you know molly and i were talking a little bit about google meets or will everything be done there the fewer apps logins the better i think we all agree with that last statement and we're trying to make some progress in that area i don't know if chaser or molly if you'd be able to share a little bit more about that [Music] so uh i am really not sure about all the schools uh and so i cannot comment on that but i agree with you that less through the logins it's much better and i feel that classroom teachers will be able to help you walk through these steps and most probably it will be the same usernames and logins and
012and if you use the if you enter the google classrooms using your apps account using using your students arps account then only you will be able to access all the features all the uh assignments that are being given by your teacher so um so that will be one of the answers to the previous questions yes yeah and i um also from the teachers and um building leaders that i have talked to as well is we are really trying this year to get everything into one place um so again for google classroom that's third through twelfth grades and the the main um all the main information will be in google classroom um and as jesus said if there are links to other places the student would just use their same google account or arps account to
013get in same password same email okay another one came in will synchronous asynchronous video happen within this classroom good question so yes and no so you will you will get to the synchronous lessons by clicking there will be a google meet button in the classroom that you can click to get to the live sessions the asynchronous sessions will be in the google classroom they'll be videotaped by the teacher and they will come up as an assignment give people a second to see if there are other um comments or questions these are good ones um and i think i'll just uh add to uh what j street and molly said at a larger level is we understand that uh in the emergency situation we're in last year we were you know um building it's not even
014like building the plane where while we were flying it was like in the air and we were building it in the air you know and and so i think we learned a lot from that experience our summer programs um for those families who accessed them for either the kind of more recreational one an exploration one or special ed ell title one we learned a lot about systems and structures a lot of the professional development that occurred or some of it last week for staff around distance learning was focused on wayfinding and how to make things uh easier are the the work and the logins and all that piece how do we make it easier and i i'm very confident that people will see a very different have a very different experience with that um so
015here's another question the third graders already have an arbs account or will they be have one assigned um they most likely won't have the same ones as last year and the teachers are just getting those um assignments now and that information and they will send that out to you as soon as they can there's a question about can they go directly to google meet or do they have to go through google classroom first they can they can go to google meet but then they need they don't do sign in to their arps account before they actually uh access all the features again so waffle is the one stop shop for everything i would say yeah and um i was just gonna add to that um meat.google.com they can just go to that also if it's
016not in the waffle and that will take them to google me as well question uh family new to the middle school this year and just wondering about to get the sun's email login information and who their teachers are um if you didn't get an email last night i would contact the principal um diego sharon sent out an email last night that had uh schedule information as well as first day login information because they want everyone to get logged in the first time and then the teachers are going to work through that so if you didn't get an email last night i would check sometimes emails go to the junk folder especially if that's a new person emailing you and had all the information in there you can also call the school i know the clerical
017staff are in the school at the middle school today to try to get that information but i think like most schools that informate we want all the families to get in the first day and really for the staff to be working with with families and children about all the logins and emails because we know um best laid plans um won't always uh play out so um uh i see there's a couple more questions um plans have check in like this for parent feedback at some point in the school year we are planning for actually iterative feedback in general about distance learning um not waiting till november or december so the idea is to get continuous feedback throughout the school year um as we're much we can be much more planful this fall than we were
018able to be in the spring so that is planned and i have a lucky to have an intern who's with me in the summer and he's back with me in the fall who's working on kind of models and how we might adapt the survey we did in the spring so we can see the difference we don't necessarily want to use the exact same survey because the context is so different but we are so we thought we got great information from that so we're trying to figure out how do we condense that survey so we can give it more regularly and get that ongoing feedback but we're totally with you about it um here's the next one uh which is similar training be offered for seesaw yes um hopefully next week we are just um we
019are just getting the kids login information too and they need that in order for us to give you the training so you can actually see what it looks like so we're hopeful that next week we'll be able to do seesaw and uh i'll try to put in the chat um there you know uh molly jay shree and ella who works at the the secondary level put together a distance learning website so i'll probably try to put the link in because there are some tutorials they're not live like this but there are some youtube videos that offer a pretty good overview i'm new to seesaw as well it's not something i've used or seen before with google classroom i have and so i found it really helpful in both my roles i had as a parent
020as well as in my job had to get a flavor of seesaw it also gave me also i guess a little more information we knew we had a lot of staff members at the primary grade levels advocating for it um i tend to be an outcomes raiser person where i like simplicity and this added to the complexity and we went with it i'm glad we did because it's going to offer a lot more usability for our younger students particularly our pre-readers than something like google classroom which works really well for for kind of upper middle upper elementary but i think we appreciate the feedback so i'm just trying to pull up the distance learning website um there we go and the resource i'll put the direct link for caregivers in there um so you know
021you can see that there's a set of resources if even before we get to next week's training on seesaw and whenever we get that when that training the timeline is settled we'll email that out to all families in grades pre-k too so that they have that information i should also note all these are taped so these live streams are recorded so the youtube link you're all watching it on if someone missed it and they want to see it it's it's available indefinitely at that link it's also available and definitely on our arp's youtube channel which this is streaming too see if there are other questions from anyone who is viewing give it a second see if it comes over so another thing that i want you to be able to do is that there are
022i'm going to put the submit questions so if questions come up after the session i'm going to link just the page on the distance learning website where it's to submit questions um embed it thank you um yeah the chat q a works really well uh we find as well so we appreciate people tuning in we tried to get a lunchtime one in today um in hopes that people could access it a little more readily than some of the other times i think if not seeing more questions i think we'll close up i want to again thank molly and jay shree for not just doing this session but all the work in addition to doing these kind of sessions will be ongoing we also they're also supporting our staff and something we realized last year is
023we needed on staff supports not just external people and so we appreciate them stepping up and supporting staff members we are still using power school so that at the secondary level that'll function actually much more similar to quote unquote normal than it did last spring so attendance assignments all those types of things at the secondary level will go through power school in the same way they did during in-person so i saw that question sneak in right right as we're ending so we appreciate that sarah and that's a question because power school functioned differently last year um that is uh that's a good question for us to to receive so again thanks again more questions you can click on the last link that we put out there about how to submit questions and keep them coming
024they help us get better at what we're doing and thanks again to molly and jay street