Monarch – MISTAR Teacher Tools Training available September 2020 through January 2021.
You are invited to transform your use of MISTAR-Q by participating in Monarch, an online learning experience focused on the teacher tools and applications in MISTAR-Q.
As a participant, you will complete activities designed to increase your skill and knowledge of teacher apps such as Class Attendance, Grade Book, Seating Chart, generating reports, and more.
Working online from any device at your own time and pace, you will have until the end of January 2021 to complete the learning activities. As you finish missions and levels, you will earn digital badges in recognition of your learning. You may even want to create a friendly competition in your building/department!
Monarch is especially beneficial for teachers new to MISTAR-Q, and seasoned teachers will also benefit from participating. Technology integrators, technology coaches, paraprofessionals, intern teachers, secretaries, and building administrators may also participate to better understand and support the applications used by teachers.
Access over 5000+ Math, Social Studies and Science concepts (and free digital textbooks) that have been enriched by multiple modalities (text, video, assessment, and more) and add ’em to an existing Canvas course.
CK-12 is another tool that’s just been linked in Canvas to help staff find and assign high quality, free, teacher-created, and vetted STEM content without ever leaving Canvas.
Teachers planning to use Illuminate for testing should consider using QUICK CODE rostering for ONLINE TESTING. The Test in Portal process sometimes misses students due to schedule changes etc in the nightly refresh.
QUICK CODE Roster is the best way to give an online test in DnA. Quick Code gives the test administrator a seven digit code and a link that can be shared to students to take the test online virtually without accessing their DnA student portal. The student will need to enter their student ID, the seven digit quick code, confirm their name and ID, take the assessment online, finish, and their results will automatically save in their portal. This can be used for item bank, manual/hybrid, and flexible assessments.
Please check out the Illuminate University online video resource for DnA online testing administration using QUICK CODE Roster for a nice overview:
During the online testing administration, the teacher has the ability to live proctor the exam (unless it’s a new item bank exam; live proctoring is coming in the near future for new item bank assessments. ) For details, check out this training video:
Simplek12 is again offering access to one of their recorded sessions on Canvas several times this week. Visit https://simplek12.lpages.co/event-canvas-v1/?cc=email-basic1-canvas to register for one of the sessions being offered Monday (9/14), Thursday (9/17) or Saturday (9/19). Deb Norton will review embedding Google Forms and Edpuzzles to building badges and making breakout sessions, all in Canvas!
SimpleK12 also offers several other free 30 minute sessions on other topics including Jamboards, Bitmojis, Choice boards and Edpuzzle. You can check out their listings and register at https://www.simplek12.com/tier/free-event/
Flipgrid is a simple, free, and accessible video discussion experience for educators, learners and families. Create a discussion Topic, share it with your learning community. Learners record and share short videos with you and your class. Richard Byrne has a getting-started-with-Flipgrid video to help teachers understand Flipgrid and what students see when they use the tool. Visit admin.flipgrid.com to log in or create your 100% free educator account.
Note, students can be provisioned through Clever as well as interact with your Flipgrids within CANVAS.See this support page or PDF if interested in integrating Flipgrid into one or more of your Canvas courses. The Canvas Community’s also reviews the integration here. Note, in your Flipgrid Admin account (admin.flipgrid.com) within the Actions button to Edit Grid. Under section 2. Security and Privacy, you have the choice to enable or disable a Canvas Only option for grids.
CommonLit is a nonprofit education technology organization working to support all students with reading, writing, communication, and problem-solving skills. The CommonLit Literacy Model is built on a foundation of over 2,000 high-quality free reading passages for grades 3-12, complimented by aligned interim assessments, growth oriented goals, and expert led teacher development. Teachers can assign Mini Units (short, self-paced thematic units for grades 5-12) and Text Sets (relevant reading passages from a variety of genres). Their blog for teachers reviews much more.
Are you a teacher that wants to set up your Clever classes on CommonLit? Scroll down to the subheader that most accurately describes you below:
I have never used CommonLit before.
I have a CommonLit account.
Directions: I have never used CommonLit before.
Once you click on the CommonLit icon in your Clever Portal, you’ll be brought to the screen below.
Since you’re new to CommonLit, select “No, not yet.” After asking you a few follow-up questions, we will create a new CommonLit account for you with all of your Clever classes and students.
You and your students will now be able to log in to CommonLit using Clever by clicking the CommonLit logo on your Clever dashboard, or by choosing “Log in with Clever” from CommonLit’s Login page. Plus, now Clever will regularly update your classes if any students are added or removed at any point throughout the school year.
Now that you’re all set up, do you want to learn more about how to use CommonLit? Check out this great video tour of CommonLit and our resources.
Directions: I have a CommonLit account.
Once you click on the CommonLit icon in your Clever Portal, you’ll be brought to the screen below.
Since you already have a CommonLit account, select “Yes, sign me in!”
We’ll then ask you to log in to your CommonLit account.
After logging in, we’ll import your classes and students from Clever into your CommonLit account.
You and your students will now be able to log in to CommonLit using Clever by clicking the CommonLit logo on your Clever dashboard, or by choosing “Log in with Clever” from CommonLit’s Login page. Plus, now Clever will regularly update your classes if any students are added or removed at any point throughout the school year.
Now that you’re all set up, do you want to learn more about how to use CommonLit Digital? Check out this great video tour of CommonLit and our digital resources.
In case your Google apps launcher (waffle) isn’t available or doesn’t show the app icons you were expecting, please consider browsing to your Google apps dashboardhttps://gsuite.google.com/dashboard instead or log in directly to the specific app, such as the three shown below, with the urls below.
isn’t available or doesn’t show the app icons you were expecting, please consider browsing to your Google apps dashboard 
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