The Canvas gradebook allows you to create quick email lists of students who don’t complete an assignment or score below a certain threshold. You can do the same but at… Continue reading "Message Students by Overall Course Grade in Canvas"
There are a couple of different ways you can organize your classes in Seesaw. One is by utilizing the unique classes already created through your PowerSchool accounts like Math and… Continue reading "Organize Seesaw Activities and Student Responses into Folders"
By now everyone has more than likely either used Kahoot in their classrooms or been a part of one in a PD. Did you know there is a new feature… Continue reading "Using the New Kahoot Single Player Mode"
Holding kids accountable for their reading at home (or even in class) is always a challenge. Kids are getting better and better at “fake reading” and are often unfocused. Even… Continue reading "Supporting Independent Reading with Book Talks"
Now, more than ever, it’s important that we encourage executive functioning in our students. Thankfully, Canvas has a number of features that can help facilitate these skills. For many people, a… Continue reading "Using Canvas Modules as Checklists for Students"
As we wrap week one of being an online school, the biggest concern we’re hearing from teachers is that boundaries are much more difficult to define and keep. I’m going… Continue reading "Setting Healthy Boundaries for Online Learning"
There are many ways to share information with students through Canvas. One strategy that is easy and seamless is to allow students to annotate over documents in Canvas. This allows… Continue reading "Edit PDFs in Canvas Assignments"
I assign a discussion questions daily for my students to answer in our “morning work” time before specials. The purpose is to get students writing, first thing in the morning, about… Continue reading "Using Seesaw as a Daily Journal"
A blank white canvas is nice sometimes, but if you’re asking for student responses in video form, it can be helpful to have some kind of template for their response.… Continue reading "Creating Templates for Explain Edu Videos"
If you haven’t been utilizing Google Meet for eLearning with your students, now is the time. It allows you to have real-time communication with students (or groups of students) and will… Continue reading "Using a Second Camera in a Google Meet"
Our new reality has started and we’re in eLearning for the long haul! Fear not, though. Instructional Tech and Tech Services are here to help everyone. In this post, we’re… Continue reading "Problem Solving While Working from Home"
There are a lot of social media posts circulating out there promoting free tools to use during in e-learning. It’s important to note that any free service has to make… Continue reading "Free Upgrades for Digital Tools You Already Use"