Canvas – Adding Badgr

Badges given for Module completion can be so much fun and motivating for a student. It is really easy to do once you set everything up. Step: 1. Login to Canvas and make sure Badgr is turned on in Settings/Navigation, be sure to SAVE2. Click on Badges in the left menu. This will ask you to select or create an Read More …

Promethean Panel – ScreenShare

Change/check these settings on both your board and MacBook to optimize stability of the connection when using ScreenShare with Promethean Panel. ActivPanel Changes: Update your board-Unified Menu/Locker/in the apps/UpdateIt should say that your board is at:Mainboard firmware 4.2.0.84Bezel firmware v6.471.42If not “Check for Updates” Change/Check a Network Setting-Unified Menu/Locker/Settings/More SettingsNetwork and InternetFirst make sure connection is on GRISD (not guest)Turn Read More …

Respondus LockDown Browser – iPad app for Eduphoria and Canvas

When you give a test in Eduphoria/Aware you can turn on a LockDown Browser to be used.  This will prevent students from going outside of the browser or quitting early from the test.  I don’t feel like this is very necessary at your level but wanted to make sure you knew that this was a setting which can be turned Read More …

StudyMate

Study Mate is from Respondus and a part of our license.  It is like Quizlet but will autologin you and your students because of going in via Canvas. As a teacher you can create sets (import info you already have or enter info) and assign it to students.  It will track usage if you assign a set. You can also have Read More …

Zoom – sound from a Video

If you want the sound from the host computer to go to all students, be sure to click the box when you go to the Share window. You may choose to share either the window which the video is showing or the whole desktop.

Parent and Student Canvas Information

Note: Canvas is not an official gradebook. Glen Rose ISD  refers to Skyward for official records. If you’re concerned about fixing an assignment, contact your child’s teacher to discuss options. General Information: Parents and students can click on the links to watch a video tutorial showing how to access certain Canvas features. Additional questions should be forwarded to your child’s Read More …

Canvas: Vocabulary – What is a Page and what is an Assignment?

If you want students to submit something back to you inside Canvas (two-way…teacher to student/student to teacher) then it is called an Assignment.  If you want give students information (one-way….teacher to student only or the student to teacher part is not inside Canvas) then it is called a Page.   Canvas has 3 different types of two-way content: Assignment Quizzes Discussions Canvas Read More …

Canvas – easy way to share content between teachers

This link shows you how to add a teacher to your whole course in Canvas if you would like to share all the content. Without using Commons.  Create the content.  It can either be a page, assignment, discussion, quiz, or a whole module.     Click the 3 dots and select “Send To.”   Type in at least 3 letters of Read More …

Nearpod & Canvas: Fluency Check

Here are video directions about how to create your own fluency check within Nearpod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=micDJcnv11U If you are on a MacBook, you will create the Fluency Check Nearpod lesson like above. and then you will add that lesson to a Canvas Assignment. Directions here: http://www.grisd.net/namaste-course/nearpod-embed-lesson-in-canvas/ If on an iPad you will use a link.  This way the student does not Read More …