In an effort to make more secure the SMART web interface where staff go to view payroll information and perform business functions, the system will require multi-factor authentication starting July 1, 2021. The initial piece of information staff will be asked for is their email address, and after providing it, staff will need to retrieve an access code they are then emailed to continue to log into SMART. For more about this change, visit this explanation page.
VIRTUAL COURSES, The REMC Virtual Courses offer an easy, convenient way for teachers to connect and collaborate during the summer from the convenience of their home. The Virtual Courses are free, offer free 10 SCECHs when completed, and are open to all Michigan school personnel. There are no registration or SCECH fees because REMC SAVE’s vendor partners provide support for all REMC professional learning opportunities.
If you have questions or need further assistance with your course registration, please contact Erin Rommeck, REMC Event Coordinator.
Each offering includes a robust toolkit of resources to support teacher planning and student learning. Participants may choose to attend one or more of the seven sessions. To earn SCECHs, participants must attend the live webinar and complete the assigned task following the webinar. Two (2) SCECHs per session.
Blended Learning Sessions:
Teaching Strategies for Virtual and Blended Learning Environments: Introduction
Session details and dates available: https://bit.ly/3jDOBDO
Teaching Strategies for Virtual and Blended Learning: Help Students Demonstrate Mathematical Thinking K-2
Session details and dates available: https://bit.ly/3zzgoh4
Teaching Strategies for Virtual and Blended Learning: Help Students Demonstrate Mathematical Thinking 3-6
Session details and dates available: https://bit.ly/3pRD5bz
Teaching Strategies for Virtual and Blended Learning: Help Students Demonstrate Mathematical Thinking 7-12
Session details and dates available: https://bit.ly/3vmZw9I
Teaching Strategies for Virtual and Blended Learning Language Arts: Growing Early Literacy Learners K-2
Session details and dates available: https://bit.ly/3xec3xy
Teaching Strategies for Virtual and Blended Learning Language Arts: Growing Literacy Learners 3-5
Session details and dates available: https://bit.ly/3xx4suv
Teaching Strategies for Virtual and Blended Learning Language Arts: Growing Literacy Learners 6-12
Session details and dates available: https://bit.ly/3gkyc7V
from this newsletter
Zoom announced on June 22nd Pronouns, a new feature in Zoom 5.7.0 to help users feel more included, able to express themselves, and be seen. To learn more, see https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-pronoun-sharing/
As a reminder, Canvas also allows for user selection of their pronouns. For more about that, see this blog post https://tech.pccsk12.com/personal-pronouns-now-enabled-in-canvas/
For those that have an iPhone and use the Gmail app — IOS users must upgrade to the latest version for Gmail iOS app versions 6.0.210221 and 6.0.210222 before July 7, 2021 to avoid interruption. Google discovered an issue with two Google Gmail iOS app versions that could result in a disruption of functionality to users’ service. This is a proactive upgrade required to avoid the application from hanging, crashing, and going into unusual application states that may cause an interruption.
On July 7, 2021, IOS users will receive a prompt requiring them to upgrade to the latest version if they have the GMAIL app. If they don’t accept the latest version, they’ll experience an interruption in service until the upgrade is performed.
Wayne RESA will be conducting disaster recovery systems testing during the Independence Day holiday break from Friday July 2nd (6 PM) through Sunday July 4th. This testing is critical to ensure that RESA will be able to continue to provide our districts with full services should a disaster-level event happen. Districts [including ours] should expect RESA service/system unavailability during this test. This includes SMART, MISTAR (and Parent Connection and Student Connection), Illuminate DnA and PolyPlot. Additionally, NO INTERNET service will be available within the district during this time period
If you’re looking for a quick checklist reminder…
As you make plans to close up your classroom for the summer (and a well deserved break), please take care of the following items:
Virtual Academy Teachers: Please return monitors and other borrowed equipment, such as document cameras to the Board Office. You may drop off during these hours:
Thanks for your cooperation!
As you make plans to close up your classroom for the summer (and a well deserved break), please take care of the following items:
Thanks for your cooperation!
Google recently announced they are ending their Go Links service after 11 years. See https://killedbygoogle.com/ for more on this and other shuttered services. Shortened links created at links.pccsk12.com are not expected to resolve to their associated actual URLs after June 15th. Please know the district’s Technology Department is working to migrate most of the links created via this service to another service and will have another posting on our progress later this month.
*PLEASE NOTE: In early August, ALL MISTAR created courses will un-sync and therefore courses will be deleted off of dashboards. Please make sure you follow the directions below to ensure all work (assignments, discussions, videos, etc.) will save correctly.
With Canvas being utilized for the foreseeable future, and with the end of the year approaching, we wanted to pass along some directions on how to ensure that your course(s) and work created this year can be used for next Fall. The directions below will enable you to copy your course into a “Sandbox” type course, so when you return in the Fall, all you will need to do is import your “Sandbox” course, into your MISTAR rostered course.
Watch the less than 3-minute video below or watch it on YouTube. https://youtu.be/ibyFUeqSurY
Optional, further back up step: For Directions on saving your course to your computer/google drive click here