Woot woot! NCPA has not one, not two, but THREE accepted presenters to next week’s ACAMIS Tech Conference! Thanks to you three for helping to de-privatize teaching practice and building an on- and off-line community of educators! And it’s not too late to register for those of you looking for a relevant, accessible PD opportunity […]
You can make a copy of an assignment in Canvas, but what about a quiz? Thanks to an inquiry from John Brennan, we’ve discovered a workaround to do just that: Go to Settings > Import Course Content Select your course (what we’re doing is importing the quiz from your course into the same course – […]
On Wednesday and Thursday we had two PD sessions on getting to know your Mac. Here are the top ten key takeaways: Take a screenshot with cmd-shift-3 (whole screen) or cmd-shift-4 (choose an area of the screen) Use the Spotlight search feature (the magnifying glass icon in the top right corner) to quickly launch applications. […]
This week we had a training session for PS Admin Portal users. Find the Quick Ref card here: https://ncpachinaorg.sharepoint.com/sites/itdepartment/Shared%20Documents/Processes/Trainings/PowerSchool%20Finding%20Student%20Info%20Quick%20Ref.docx?Web=1 This is an embedded <a target=’_blank’ href=’https://office.com’>Microsoft Office</a> document, powered by <a target=’_blank’ href=’https://office.com/webapps’>Office Online</a>.
Our VPN provider has informed us that due to the upcoming CPC National Congress, they must comply with government regulations limiting access to overseas websites from October 9 to October 28. During this time, the following services will not be available on the school network: Facebook YouTube Twitter LinkedIn Line Instagram Other overseas websites, including […]
Sway is an app in Office 365 that we haven’t covered here before, but it’s worth checking out. It goes beyond Powerpoint by letting you create online presentations/websites that look great on mobile phones and computers. This means that Sway goes great with QR codes. We tried this out at the recent Student Leadership Summit, where […]
Yes, the best way to create forms is to first go to your individual or group OneDrive and click the + New button, then choose Forms for Excel: This creates an Excel workbook in your OneDrive that you can use the share the results with collaborators. You’ll notice a new Forms button in the toolbar: […]
If you need to mass-email parents, you can save a lot of time by using Word’s e-mail merge feature! To do this, you need to Create a spreadsheet containing the students with incompletes, the name of the assignment, and their parent email, each in its own column. You can download this information from sqlReports 4. Set […]
Our PowerSchool Master Eric Zou has added three new reports to PowerTeacher to help you find information about your students. The first, Incompletes Report for Teachers, shows a list of incomplete assignments, the student responsible, and the student’s parent’s email address. We hope this makes it easier to inform parents of your concerns about their children […]
In an effort to be helpful, Outlook will remember email addresses from your sent and received messages. These will autocomplete – but sometimes unintended addresses pop up (like people’s personal email addresses). To remove them, hover your mouse over the right side of the address and click the X: