Distance Learning Week 6: Online Grading and Feedback

Hello everyone!  We have been receiving a great deal of requests on how to use the grading features within Canvas.  We have put together some links below to address the questions and concerns we have been encountering.  Please continue to contact us with questions, comments, and concerns  and keep up the amazing work!

How to use Gradebook
Click here for directions from Canvas


How to use SpeedGrader
Canvas LMS: Letting SpeedGrader Make your Life Easier
What is SpeedGrader
How to use SpeedGrader
How to get to SpeedGrader from the Gradebook
How to comment and provide feedback with SpeedGrader
How to edit and enter grades in SpeedGrader
How to grade a Discussion in SpeedGrader
How to grade Quiz in SpeedGrader
Click here and type "speedgrader" for more on SpeedGrader

How to hide assignments and quizzes you don't want students to access and how to move to different assignment Group
Click here for video

How to message only students with missing Canvas Assignments
Click here for video

How to sync grades from Canvas to Skyward
Click here for Google Slide Directions
Click here for video setup MUSTS to allow Sync to Skyward from Canvas

Want More Canvas Support
Canvas LMS Twitter Page
The CanvasCasters PodCast

Click here for this weeks Breakout Live Categories.

Click here for information on a STEAM Storytime LEGO Building Challenge from Anne from Left Brain Craft Brain to inspire you students to share in a Flipgrid, Canvas Discussion, or more..

Click here for information on a STEM Pirate Ship Challenge from Vivify to inspire you students to share in a Flipgrid, Canvas Discussion, or more.

Distance Learning: Week 5

As we continue with our distance learning into Week 5, we have compiled the following resources for our elementary teachers.

Survey to help us support what you, the LCSC Teacher, need during this remote learning and for future e Learning lesson planning.
Click here to participate in this voluntary survey to provide feedback to the trainers on how we can further assist our teachers.

Attendance Update
**When students click on the school attendance button, that logs attendance for the day for administration and not on the teacher's page.  It does not update their access on the people tab.  This only updates when the students click on the teacher's course.  To make sure that your students are completing assignments, verify that they are submitting items as directed by you.  If you are not getting submissions or seeing activity on DreamBox or Pearson, that is when you should contact parents, not because of the activity on the people tab.
How to view a course access report for an individual student
How to view student analytics 
How to view course interactions for an individual student

Canvas Lesson Support Template
Click here for a template on the necessary components of an effective e Learning lesson.


Canvas Resources

• Follow @CanvasLMS on Twitter and/or Facebook for lots of live streams (also recorded), like these:.
• Speed Grader
• Canvas Backpack
• Canvascasters Podcast
• The Timbs Family and Canvas: https://youtu.be/mFdYrQ-mWQk 
• Parent Pointers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqF2oo4O1SE
• Parent Points Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPa5qCkPjLk 
• More Resources:
• Zionsville eDay Modules in Commons 

Can now select (on the 18th) admin featured content in Commons

Great way to feature templates and examples

• Twitter Chat: Tips for Staying in Touch with Students through Canvas
• Parent Video
• Parent Tips
• Passport to Canvas (Student Training Course in Commons) has been updated with New RCE and other enhancements: Blog Post for Passport to Canvas Updates
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Breakout EDU Live
Each day at 1:00 p.m. Breakout EDU has live Breakout session with no login required.
Click here to learn how to invite your students.
Click here to view this week's topics, prizes to be won, and to view the episodes from last week.

Literacy Footprints
Click here to access the tutorial on how to implement the guided reading remotely to your students.
Click here for the Literacy Footprints Digital Readers.

GEOShow Virtual Field Trips
Click here for the calendar and more information on how to schedule a virtual tour.  There are free and paid version available on this site.

Superhero STEAM Challenge
Click here to receive a download and share this with your students and ask them to tell about and show their product with their class through a Canvas Discussion, Flipgrid, or Zoom meeting.

Earth Day STEAM
Click here to receive downloads for Earth Day from Left Brain Craft Brain.  You can have them complete an activity and share with you and their classmates in Flipgrid or a Canvas Discussion.

Click here for Vivify STEM Earth Day Activities to share with your students.  You can have them complete an activity and share with you and their classmates in Flipgrid or a Canvas Discussion.

Distance Learning Week 4 Resources

As we enter week four of Remote Learning, we are continuing to address teacher questions and share out the information we curate.  Please see the topics below for our latest support information including a link to the Indiana DOE COVID-19 Remote Learning Resource Page.

Click here for COVID-19 Remote Learning Resources from www.doe.in.gov.

Click here for Studies Weekly Webinar Information for LCSC 

Creating Quizzes in Canvas from Paper/Pencil Assessment
Video:Creating a Quiz
Slide Directions:Quizzes in Canvas for Elementary Teachers
Video:Creating Assignment Groups to Sync to Skyward
Video to Send Quiz to Commons to share with others

Click here for directions on how to share Canvas Assignments, Quizzes, and more to your colleagues right from the quiz in your course.

Creating Quizzes or Ungraded Forms in Google Forms from a Paper/Pencil Assessment
Video: Creating a Google Form
Google Forms Tutorial
Google Forms: Cheat Sheet

Google Drive Support
Click here for support of each application for teachers and students.
**Make sure that you have adding Google Drive as a Navigation Tool in your Canvas page.

How to add Google Drive to Canvas as instructor

How to add Google Drive to Canvas as a student

How to upload a Google Product to Canvas Assignment

Sharing Google Files with students

Reading Eggs
Reading Eggs: Teacher Guide
Reading Eggs Teacher Dashboard

DreamBox Support
Dashboard Navigation
Reports Pane
Classroom Reports
Weekly Progress Monitoring
Monthly Progress Monitoring
For Parents:  How to Login to Family Dashboard;  Understanding the Family Dashboard


Click here for at Home Science Scavenger Hunt from Left Brain Craft Brain.

Teachers Are Asking... and Answering

In this edition of the LCSC Elementary Tech blog, we are trying to address teacher questions.  We are going to showcase those questions and even share some answers from you, the teachers in the trenches!

How to assign in Pearson and have the students submit their answers.
Amy Ramirez from Protsman has shared some videos on what she shared to her students with us to assist teachers who may be able to share with their students having difficulty accessing and completing Pearson Lessons.  Click here to access this information.

My Students can't access my PDF's or files.  How do I help them access them?
1.  How to add your PDF's to Canvas properly.
2.  How to change your Navigation settings to allow your students file access.

How to find and use Modules from Canvas.
Lindsay Jeffress from Bibich has shared some videos to help her fellow teachers use Modules from the Canvas Commons.  Click here to access this information.


Seesaw - How to use it and teachers have asked for ideas on how to make their PDF's interactive.  Well, Seesaw may be the answer for this.
Click here for information on Seesaw.


How to Use Social Studies Weekly
Click here for SS Weekly Webinar for LCSC
Click here for directions including a tutorial about accessing SS Weekly through Clever.
Click here for tutorials on How to use SS Weekly available on the site.
Teachers will have to assign what week they'd like their students to work in for the week.  Student's screen looks like the following.
If you'd like to view Clever as your student, go to the Clever login and sign in as a student from your class using Clever login.  Student's email and password is their ID# (DIFFERENT FROM Gmail and Canvas Password).

Video on How to Use Clever

Other Useful Information
Flipgrid Updates, April 2020

Click here for information on Teaching from home from Edulastic.

Click here for the April 1, 2020 Google Teacher Article and Podcast from Matt Miller and Kasey Bell.  It has tips on Google Meet and if you scroll down, some interesting lesson ideas.

Click here for 20 Virtual Field Trip Ideas from Matt Miller.

Click here for the Shakeup Learning Article and Podcast on Using Student Choice Boards for Home Learning during School Closures.

Click here for information on Common Sense Wide Open Schools.

Click here for Canvas Instructor Guide.



What's new from Google?

Latest March 2020 News

Offline Mode with Chromebook and G Suites

Accessing Docs and Presentations

Interactive Activities for Distance Learning

Interactive Activities for Distance Learning Look below for some lesson plan ideas:

Canvas Discussion Boards: Watch how you can assign and edit Canvas discussion boards. This tool within Canvas is a great way to communicate with your students and have your students communicate and collaborate with each other.

Now watch this video tutorial to learn how to GRADE a Canvas Discussion Board:

Canvas Assignments Graded within Canvas: Previously, we shared how to create assignments within Canvas that were not for a grade. This tutorial will show you how to create assignments where students WILL SUBMIT THEIR WORK ONLINE which will be graded or will give you the opportunity to give student feedback via COMMENTS. View the video tutorial below:

Canvas Assignments SpeedGrader: How to Use SpeedGrader to grade/comment on student work submitted online   CLICK HERE
Canvas SpeedGrader using a RUBRIC: How to use a preformed rubric or create one of your own to grade student's work submitted online.  CLICK HERE

Importing Canvas Content from one Canvas Course to another:  CLICK HERE

How to Recover a Deleted Canvas Quiz:  CLICK HERE


Nearpod: Watch how you can assign interactive Nearpod presentations for students using the "Student Paced" option.

CLICK HERE for information on how to assign Kahoot and Quizizz activities.

CLICK HERE for information on how to assign Flipgrid to your students.

CLICK HERE for information on Virtual Field Trips from Geo Show.

CLICK HERE for more online Learning Ideas from Matt Miller.  If you click the live video, there are interesting webinars to learn more about many distance learning ideas.

CLICK HERE for ideas on Google Meet even if you want to use Zoom.  Scroll down to the end for tips on hosting a conference call, and ideas to do with your students from Matt Miller.

Surviving Emergency eLearning: Everything Needed to Be Prepared

Information for the Teachers

Here is the information that we have put together for you to best prepare you under the circumstances for an eLearning event.  Please remember to keep assignments simple and DO NOT assign anything that is new and you have not been practicing in class.


Click here to access Teacher Password Resources

The following videos listed in RED  are REQUIRED by all LC Teachers to view and complete in their own Canvas Course.

1. Publish your Canvas course so Parents/Students can view. View tutorial video here:

Click here for directions on how to publish your Course.

2. Adding Assignments to your Canvas Calendar. View tutorial video here:

Click here for directions on how to Add an Assignment to your Calendar.
Click here for directions to add an event to your Calendar.

  Optional Teacher tutorial videos:

How to add links to a Canvas course. View tutorial video here:

Click here for directions on how to link from Canvas

CLICK HERE for information on how to change the share settings in Google

How to change Navigation Settings so students can access content.

CLICK HERE for Canvas written Directions.

How to add an Announcement and Calendar Tips.  View tutorial here:

Canvas Directions

How to add an image with Snipping Tool.  View tutorial here:

  How to add an email receipt so you know parents/students have read your email. View tutorial video here:

Here's how to request a read receipt:

1. Compose (or Reply to) a message in Gmail.
2. In the bottom right-hand side you'll see three dots > 'More options'
3. Click the three dots 'More options' icon.
4. Click Request read receipt from the options.
5. Send your message as normal.

How to upload videos to your Canvas Course. View tutorial video here:

How to see which students/parents have viewed your course. View tutorial video here:

CLICK HERE for directions on how to import content from one Canvas course to another Canvas course.

Here are some resources that you can use with your students if you feel they are proficient:
Readworks.org
Nearpod.com
Edulastic.com
Pivot
Mystery Doug Lessons
Click here for more Canvas Support

Information for the Students and Parents

Click here for Student Login Information

Changes to QUIZZES in CANVAS

 "Classic" vs. "New" Quizzes in Canvas

Currently, there are TWO separate quiz interfaces--what they call "classic" quizzes and "new" quizzes.  Up until mid-February, you were only able to access the "new" quizzes by going to the Assignments page in Canvas. "Classic" quizzes is the format Canvas has used for the past few years.

Now, you will be able to access both "classic" and "new" from the Quizzes page  in Canvas.   When selecting the  "Add Quiz" button, the page displays a window asking which quiz type should be used to create a quiz: Classic Quizzes or New Quizzes.

You can still use the Canvas "Classic" Quiz version through the rest of this school year. But you may notice that some quizzes you download from the Canvas Commons are in the "New" format.

Most notable new features in "New" quizzes: more drag and drop type questions (ordering, fill in the blank), hot spot questions, and side-by-side passages and questions.

To learn more about "new" quizzes, watch this short overview video: