Here are the printed directions for Printing From Your Chromebook. (Shout out to Fred Kloepper!)

Printing From Your Chromebook!

Watch this short video to help you set up your 

Chromebook to the office printers at your school site.

Backup Those Gradebooks!

AERIES GRADEBOOK BACKUP

Please backup your gradebooks on a regular basis and especially at the end of a quarter, trimester, or semester. Our recommendation is to backup all gradebooks every two weeks. If there is ever a problem, you will be glad you did!

In Gradebook, Click on Manage Gradebook:

Next, Click on backups:

Now choose your gradebooks to backup

and then click “Backup Gradebooks”:

ETC Portal

ETC Portal Resource Trials

By request, the ETC Portal new resource trials have been extended through the end of March:

Rosen PK Science: March 30

EBSCO Elementary and Middle Search: March 30

Scholastic TrueFlix and ScienceFlix: April 15

Capstone PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next: April 15

The trials are available within all users’ ETC Portal accounts under the ‘Trials’ collection icon. You are encouraged your to review the resources under consideration for 16/17 license and complete the feedback survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PL6CWQV

iPad Apps! How do you request them? Please follow the steps below.

 iPads

App Approval Process

• FIRST check out the PRJUSD Approved/Denied iPad Apps Master List:
• https://goo.gl/lwXp72
• This list is a great place to see what has already been approved/denied and to see what teachers across the district are using on iPads.
• If an app you want is not on the list, YOU MUST SUBMIT A SEPARATE WORK ORDER  so that Ed Tech and Curriculum can evaluate those apps and approve or deny them.  Include the school site, grade level, app name, price, and link to the app.
• In order to better manage iPads and provide quality support Apps must be universal across grade level at your site

*Example: All first grade teachers at Kermit King must all agree upon same apps for their devices.

Process to get free apps for shared devices is as follows:

• Check to see if App has already been approved/denied on the Master List (if not, submit a work order for apps to be evaluated for approval)
• Meet with your grade level team to agree upon apps
• One grade level representative will create a work order (only one person from your team will put in work order)

• Include the school site, grade level, app name, price, and link to the app
• If an App has not already been approved, the work ordered will be denied.

Process for getting paid apps is as follows:

• Sites/departments need to pre-purchase their own VPP credits.  

• To push apps via the MDM server, VPP credits must be used, iTunes cards won't work.

• Check to see if App has already been approved/denied on the Master List (if not, submit a work order for apps to be evaluated for approval)
• Meet with your grade level team to agree upon apps
• Teachers request iPad apps to site Administrators. Site administrators must put in work orders for paid apps
• Administrator creates a work order:

• Include the  school site, grade level, app name, price, and link
• If an App has not already been approved, the work ordered will be denied.

Purchasing iPads:

• All iPads must be purchased through IT in PRJUSD.
• This is the only way that we can ensure that all devices are enrolled with the district and we can service them, push apps to devices as needed, and locate the lost ones.
• IT & EdTech  will no longer be able to provide support to devices that were not purchased through IT.

After starting an assignment in Classroom, do students forget  what the assignment is?  Classroom Split-Chrome extension is for students to help them view Google Classroom directions side by side with their work.

DIGITAL LEARNING DAY IS FEBRUARY 17th, 2016

Google Chrome Read and Write!!

Google Chrome Read and Write!!

Saturday, May 21st -Read and Write for Google Chrome Training- Read&Write for Google Chrome™ and Snapverter offers a range of powerful support tools to help students gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research. This training will give you in depth training on these extensions and in depth planning time for implementation.  These extensions are already installed in all student Google Chrome accounts (February 1st) and is free for all teachers in PRJUSD.  Teachers must download both Read and Write, and Snapverter.

*Link to free teacher download Read and Write for Google Chrome:

https://rwchrome.texthelp.com/drive/Home/RegisterTeacher

Preference given to all middle school teachers, special education (3-12) and tech leads,

**Link free download for Snapverter:https://goo.gl/hWmtwx

***Workshop limited to 40 people.

Flex day sign up form: http://goo.gl/forms/ywje3OQn7Q

Google Classroom for Beginners!

Class Details:Google Classroom for Beginners!

Date: January 26th 2016

Time: 3:15-4:15

Location: Lewis Middle School

Room: 602

Sign-Up: http://goo.gl/forms/DFKxekyhe8

If you have not dove into Google Classroom, now is the time! With the expansion of labs and carts on your campuses and the 1:1 initiative in the Fall, it’s important to use the tools available to help students dive deeper into the standards and skills needed  to be prepared for success in college, career,and community.

Classroom is a new tool in Google Apps for Education that helps teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and easily communicate with their classes. The Google Classroom team is always listening to teachers! Come learn the old and new functionality within Google Classroom and how it integrates with Drive.

Chromebook Accent Characters

Chromebook Accent Characters

To do diacriticals/accents on a Chromebook: Set up the input methods one time: Click on user icon -> Settings -> scroll down, Show Advanced -> Languages -> Customize languages and input... Under "Input method" check the "US International Keyboard" checkbox (Leave "US Keyboard" checked as well) Click the "Add" button Select "French" Also check the “US Extended Keyboard” When you’re done, your languages screens should look like these: Exit the settings page.  There will now be a little "US" between the battery and the user icon in the lower right corner. Go to the page/Doc where you want to do international input. Use left-alt + left-shift; the "US" in the corner will change to "INTL" or “EXTD” or “FR” -- pick “INTL” At this point, you can use the right "Alt" key as a modifier: for example, Right-Alt + e = é (with aigu accent) When you are done, left-alt + left-shift will set it back to "US" (and right alt will just be alt again) To enable Caps Lock: leftalt-search (magnifying glass key) While in INTL (with French enabled) mode: backtick-e makes an è (grave) rightalt-e makes an é (aigu) backtick-a makes à rightalt-a makes á rightalt-5 makes € (Euro) rightalt-c makes ç (cedille) rightshift-6 then a makes â (circonflexe) leftalt-shift to change keyboard to “EXTD” and then: rightalt-q makes a ä rightalt-r makes a ë rightalt-j makes a ï rightalt-p makes a ö rightalt-y makes a ü Spanish (either mode): rightalt-n makes ñ shift-rightalt-1 makes a ¡ rightalt-? makes a ¿ --------------------- Large reference: English (USA Extended) Alt-Key mappings Top Row: 1 ¹ 2 ² 3 ³ 4 ¤ 5 € 6 ⁶ (or dead key for hacek) 7 dead key for various high hook characters: ư ơ 8 dead key for various high hook characters: ų ǫ 9 ‘ayn ??? 0 unknown - ¥ ¹²³¤€’¥×‘ = × Shift-Alt: ~ dead key for tilda: ñ Ǹ ! ¡ @ dead key? unknown pairings # dead key for ē ā bar over: kitāb $ £ % dead key for cedilla: ç ş Ş ^ ¼ & ½ * ¾ ( dead key for breve: ŏ ŭ ) unknown _ dead key for dot under: ọ ḥ; e.g., Muḥammad + ÷ Second Row: q ä w å e é r ë t þ (Icelandic thorn) y ü i í o ó p ö [ « ] » \ ¬ Shift-Alt: Q Ä W É R Ë T Þ (Icelandic Thorn) Y Ü U Ú I Í O Ó P Ö { “ } ” | ¦ Third Row: a á s ß (schloss s) d ð (eth) f f g g h h j ï k œ l ø ; ¶ ' dead key for acute accent (case insensitive: áÁ éÉ íÍ óÓ úÚ Shift-Alt: A Á S ß D Ð (capital Eth) F F G G H H J Ï K Œ L Ø : ° (degree sign) " dead key for umlaut (case insensitive): äÄ ëË ïÏ öÖ üÜ Fourth Row: z æ x œ c © v ® b b n ñ m µ , ç . dead key for dot over: ȧ ė ṅṄ / ¿ Shift-Alt: Z Æ X Œ C © V ® B B N Ñ M unknown < Ç > dead key for hacek (case insensitive): ǒ Ǒ ? dead key for unknown diacritic: ả ỏ