The desktop Office apps are more powerful than their Online counterparts, but the current release doesn’t support the real-time co-authoring that helps us collaborate. Luckily, you can opt into the “Fast Insiders” version that enables this key feature. While it’s technically an unsupported release, feedback from users so far is that it’s stable and gets […]
At the end of October, we noticed that many students had very few files in their OneDrive. The percentage of students with fewer than six files in their OneDrive reached as high as 66% for some grade levels. Since OneDrive use is critical for students’ abilities to create and collaborate, the English and Chinese departments […]
Grammarly is an extension for your web browser that checks the grammar of your emails, online documents and any other place where you enter text into a web page. Use it for your own communcations, or have students use it along with the Office Online apps to catch common mistakes or other areas where they […]
If you’re using OneNote Class Notebooks, you’ll be pleased to learn that you can mass-generate private links for parents to see the notebooks of their children: This will let you and the students share evidence of their learning with parents without letting them change anything in the notebooks. You can use an e-mail merge to send out […]
AirDrop is the fastest, most convenient way to transfer files between Macs and iOS devices. But what if you want to share files with a PC or Android device? You can use Bluetooth for that purpose. For example, on your Android phone you can share via Bluetooth and then receive the file on your […]
We’re doing a lot of good things here at NCPA, and one of the ways some teachers and staff have been showing appreciation is by sharing moments on social media when they’re proud of their colleagues. On Twitter, we’re doing this using the hashtags #pulaoproud and #我们NCPA. You’ll also notice the Twitter feed of #我们NCPA […]
A great feature of the OneDrive sync client is that it lets you sync your group files to your laptop. But you may not want to sync all the files in your groups or individual OneDrive, for example to save hard drive space. In these cases, you can choose the folders you want to sync: […]
There are now two screencasting stations available in the helpdesk nook at the eLC: These stations have document cameras, web cams, and the professional screencasting software Screenflow installed. Screenflow lets you easily edit your screecasts, adding drawing annotations like arrows and boxes and highlighting the mouse cursor. These stations also have paid versions of Swift […]
A recent after school PD reviewed the importance of establishing clear expectations and classroom management practices in a 1:1 environment. These could include: Making technology use intentional. It should not be the default; it should have a clear added value to the activity students are doing. Why? Rigorous, experimental studies have shown that simply adding […]
Each user now has a 50 page/month color quota in order to avoid printing color by mistake. You can avoid accidentally running up against this quota by verifying your printer default settings and by using printer presets to quickly change settings. See this Knowledgebase article for two <2 min instructional videos.