Media/Tech Updates

 IMPORTANT REMINDER! 

ALL resources that a student uses at school (or for school) MUST be Approved or Allowed on the Digital Resource Product Library. 

Personal emails for students ARE NOT APPROVED and are a safety risk. Please remind your students of this. All students have a WCPSS issued email for school use. If you're interested, I'm happy to do an email best practices review with your students. Contact me to schedule a time.  

Connectivity Issue

We are aware that students with personal devices are having difficulty with connection at school. Tech services advises having the student use "Guest" mode on Chrome. Unfortunately, finding Guest mode is different for each device. Until we get more info from WCPSS, please help your students try to use Guest mode. If you need help problem solving email me and I'll make a time to come to your room. 

**If you figure this out and would be willing to share your solution, please email me (I'm at a loss with this also.)  Together we're better!

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Media/Tech updates - week of September 25

Helping Students to Keep Safe Online

Classroom 

• Manage your stream by adjusting settings
• Disabling Code

Meets

• Chats
• Students Inviting others - Remind students that only adults should be inviting people to Meets.
• Resetting Link - often!

Resources

Quick Digital Literacy Lessons for Distance Learning

 Security Best Practices for Google Classroom and Meet

Meet Updates

• Change Layout 
• Turn chat on/off

Tips from WCPSS tech services

• To help with connectivity - Remove as many Chrome extensions and apps as possible. Clear out your history and cookies often (every week or two)
• RESTART (not Shut Down) you laptop at least once a day. This will push out any available updates. 

Student Security and Privacy Reminders

Student Pictures on Social Media

Please please remember that students' photos should NEVER be posted online along with their names. In addition, if you are posting students photos, every student should have photo permission. Photo permissions can be found on Rapid Identity under the Profiles tab.    ***Be overly protective of our students' safety.  

Approved Tools

Before using a new website, app, or extension, make sure that it is WCPSS approved.  More than ever, we need to protect our students' security and privacy. WCPSS has a process for analyzing and approving tools to be sure that they are safe. 

• WCPSS Approved Websites

         (in WakeID portal)

• WCPSS Approved Apps and Extensions

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/for_your_domain

Reach out to Andrea with any questions about this.