001a good idea a bad idea is up to you all right we are live right now so um welcome welcome to this session we're start sorry we're a little bit late getting going but we appreciate you being here and i'm superintendent mike morris and i'm really pleased that jastree and molly who are two of our distance learning coaches are with us today to work with caregivers and families about google classroom they're going to present a few slides but the intent is to be interactive so if people have questions as we're going we may wait till the end to be able to answer them but really we know that this distance learning you know is a challenge for caregivers and we want to do a really good job making sure that all families have the tools
002they need to be able to support their children in school so with that i'll turn it over to jay shree and molly and welcome thank you mike my name is jay shri and i am the tech teacher at belham elementary and i'm also one of the district's elementary distance learning support specialists for this year and i will now give over to molly thank you um i'm molly and i'm also a distance learning support specialist and i also teach special education at crocker farm i should mention i'm sorry to jump in before we do the slides uh if there are comments along the way or later the way this program works as you're following on youtube is in the lower right hand corner there should be a box that you could type in a question or
003comment i also want to note in the chat already if you're looking to hear this in spanish there's a google meet that's been set up telephone or link where translation's happening we're going to do our best you might hear us speaking a little bit slower than what you might normally come to expect and that's really because we have live translation that's happening simultaneously and with that i'll turn it back to jay shree and molly thank you um and so we're going to if we could present our slideshow this is also on our website um so don't worry if you don't get everything right now um because you will have access to it later so um this is training is just for google classroom so google classroom will be used for grades 3 through 12. so
004most of the district will be using google classroom as the platform for their distance learning and can you switch just that's good um so as i said i'm molly malay and jay shree christian is on the stream now um and ella's stalker is not with us right now because she's doing something else but um she will also be running some trainings throughout the semester um one thing we want to emphasize is you don't need to know everything now we're just learning students are just learning teachers are just learning so we're just going to try to take everything step by step and this is the first of other trainings that will be offered and again we have our website where we will try to um as soon as we get more information and know about new
005technology or ideas we will put it up on our website as well so everyone has access to it and if you could switch okay so like i said google classroom will be our learning management system for 3rd through 12th grades when you if you go to this slideshow through the link or through our website if you click up top where it says google classroom that is a clickable interactive link that will take you right there um so what google classroom does is that teachers can post assignments and announcements for students and then the students can do those assignments and turn and work right through the platform so um we're just going to kind of go through the basics of how to get into google classroom um and the first thing you would do is you
006could um just type classroom.google.com in your search bar or you can just do a google search for a classroom and it should pop up right away and if you are familiar with the uh what we call the google waffle in the right hand corner if you click that there is a google classroom icon which looks like a chalkboard um and that's another way to get there that might be the way that your children are taught to do it so your child's teacher will give a code that you can you will click the plus button in the corner then you'll enter the class code and that will take your your child to the classroom um there also might be a join button that's blue in the corner of a corner of a class that you will
007see that you can also click on so the first page that will come up when you click that join button or put in your code is called the stream and assignments and announcements will all be posted there um in the order that um the teacher posts them so for instance if the teacher posts something on monday that will be there but then when she posts something on tuesday the tuesday one will be on top of that so it's kind of in chronological order and if you click classwork at the top you will see all the assignments organized into topics so it might be depending on the grade level or class this could be different so maybe for a elementary school classroom they would have reading writing math science if it's a high school level classroom
008they might have it might be a google classroom for biology say and then the topics might be the different units but it might just depend on how the teacher decides to set it up and and also i should say that teachers will also be going over this with the students um so your students may be able to help you if you have questions too so when you want to look at assignments you can click on the topic so say i wanted to see what the reading assignment was you would click that and then there's a little button on the left that says view assignment and you would click that to see what the assignment was okay so the assignment has a lot of information on it so there's instructions as to what to do there's
009a due date which tells you when it is due um there might be a template for your child there so um like something that they will need to fill out that the teacher is pre-made for them or the assignment could be more of just like maybe write an essay and it's kind of open-ended so in that case your child would need to add or create their own work so when you're done or your child is done you have to click the turn in button otherwise the teacher does not know that the assignment was done so this is kind of like the scenario where um a child does their homework but then never turns it into the teacher this is kind of the same thing as that so in order for the teacher to see what's
010happening it has to be turned in by the student and then it will ask you again to make sure that you want to turn it in and if you're sure then you click the turn in button again when you have turned in an assignment it goes from whatever color it was teachers get to choose the color so it could be green or blue or like this one purple it will turn gray and that shows that it's been turned in so that's kind of a quick visual way to see which assignments have been turned in and which assignments have not been turned in um and then there is another way to check what has been turned in or not turned in um is there is a view your work uh button that you can press and
011this will give you two different views of um what's been turned in and what has not um so they'll tell you all the things that are signed it will tell you what's been turned in and it will tell you if a teacher has returned it to this student or if it is past the due date and it's missing it will list everything for you on this view your work page and this is another feature of google classroom that i actually just learned about this summer i didn't know this before when even though i used google classroom last year all of the assignments get populated into the students google calendar so um and they get populated from different classes too so you can see for instance high school teachers maybe have you have a science class
012a english class a drama class they might all have separate google classrooms but all the assignments will populate into one google calendar automatically that will say when all the assignments are due and you can also see by the colors the different colors are the different classrooms so the classroom we were just in which is purple you can see there's three assignments there that are due um there's another class that you see is green and then you see also a blue class and those will all correspond to the different classes that your child has okay and so that's the basics of google classroom so at this point we will um open it up to any questions that people have so i'll pop back on just to say if and i see there's um a question came
013in now there's one i responded to earlier um and so the first question actually i'll just display it are both chats today and tomorrow covering the same content as one geared towards high school students so i'll turn that over to both of you um yes it's the same content tomorrow as well and i think another thing i'd add is if people didn't watch this one and they want to just see these slides the slides i put the link in the chat there but also this youtube link will be available indefinitely so if people didn't make it but just want us to do the quick tutorial that the modeling bursary walked you through you could send them this link and they'll have access to this uh this recording indefinitely um mike i wanted to add one
014more thing uh regarding this question which says is one geared towards high school students so we will be talking about basics and i think it pertains to everyone third to twelfth grade and um from there i think the class teachers would be taking over to go uh in detail with the students yep another good question we'll be covering the platform for k or pre-k to 2 in terms of cs yes so um we will be covering seesaw um we're not sure if we're going to do that next week or the week after but we will be doing that yes yeah and i think uh just something i'd add is and i'll see if i can get the direct link but on the website that you all have set up um i know that there are
015some seesaw information already tutorials that are on that website so it's earlier on the chat about the website that jay street molly and ella have set up and so if people are looking for a sneak peek you can go there and there's some you know youtube videos and that kind of introduced seesaw for the younger set yeah and um just to say a little more about the website so we have broken down the website into four different categories so one is for elementary school students one is for middle and high school students one is for caregivers and then one is for educators just because your caregivers doesn't mean you can't go onto any other portion of the website and see what's there the thing that's kind of most different about each of the different sections
016is like the video that we post for seesaw for instance for kids is different than the video that we post for seesaw for educators because the kids are kind of learning what it is and learning it from the student perspective and the teachers need to know more how to set up their classrooms so but it's still available there if you want to see it thank you molly um we have time for another question or two if they come in um but again we'll we'll uh to molly and joshua's point we'll be sure to communicate out uh in advance when those seesaw trainings will go because we know for some families they might have some experience with google classroom from last year from last spring or just from being in school because the students many students
017use especially grades 6 through 12 throughout the year but we know see-saw is new so we'll we'll let folks know when that training occurs give people a minute to see if there's any other questions that come through i think an important point i want to emphasize that molly mentioned is that these are things that these are skills that were the first couple weeks that teachers are going to be working with your children on it's not the assumption that they know how to use seesaw or google classroom for those of you who are on the earlier session about the schedule we talked a lot about how it's really about class orientation and the goal is that we want to support our students to acquire the skills to be more independent doing distance learning and there's going
018to be a major focus on that at the beginning of the school year so just want to be really clear about that point as well well i think your presentation was so clear molly and jay shree that i'm not seeing other questions or comments come through but again thanks everyone for joining us thanks to molly jashree and ella for their work we're going to do the same session tomorrow if people want to you know let people know or you think of a question overnight and want to come back and ask a specific question about google classroom but i think as you can see google's made it pretty intuitive for where to find things and i think the more that you can get acquainted with it you'll see that it's a pretty good resource for our
019students and our families so i hope you everyone had a good afternoon thanks to molly and jay shree and we will see you soon thank you