Zoom provided a free enterprise account to NCPA due to the coronavirus pandemic. This courtesy service expires on July 1. This expiration affects teachers as follows: Starting July 1, Zoom will cap meeting length at 40 minutes. Users must set their own password and won’t be able to sign in via Clever. Users can set […]
Register for summer camp courses the same way you register for ASAs, using SchoolsBuddy (https://ncpa.schoolsbuddy.net/) 1. Log into Schoolsbuddy using Office 365 and click Bookings Open 2. Click Choose for Summer Camp and/or for Summer SAT & TOEFL Prep Week 3. For Summer Camp, choose at least four and at most five summer camp activities. […]
Good news, everyone! Teachers and students can now log in to SchoolsBuddy using their Office 365 accounts. No need to remember separate username and password anymore! This continues our push to unify logins at NCPA. To recap, you log in to most NCPA systems using your NetID username (i.e. jsmith) or e-mail address (i.e. jsmith@ncpachina.org) […]
Having to remember lots of different usernames and passwords annoys everyone. That’s why we’ve just activated a feature that lets you use your NCPA NetID to log in to Atlas! This feature uses a single sign-on site called Clever. Follow these instructions to log in to Atlas via Clever using your NCPA NetID. Bonus tip: […]
All NCPA teachers and students now have free access to the Zoom Basic plan. Zoom is a videoconferencing platform similar to Teams, but with features that teachers specifically find useful, especially breakout rooms and the ability to see all participants in a call at the same time. To get started, Set up your account and […]
Since the beginning of virtual school, students have submitted at least 188 tickets to the IT helpdesk. Of those tickets, the largest single source of problems (56 tickets; 31%) is students’ slow home internet connections. China’s limited overseas connectivity causes slow home internet connections – essentially, there is an internet traffic jam between China and […]
Updated March 13, 2020: Group names and addresses have been updated to fix a bug with term enrollments not being processed correctly. Elective courses that meet for one semester now e-mail the correct group of students for that term. Original Post: Teachers and staff want to quickly communicate with groups of students, teachers and parents. […]
We’ve mentioned this several times over the past two weeks – because it’s important: You and your students should sync your OneDrive and Teams to your computers. Then, when the teacher adds a file – like a video – to a Team channel, it will download automatically to the students’ computers. And it’s easy! Install […]
In this session, Elizabeth Cooper showed us the key features of Nearpod, such as: Draw Now Polls Quizzes Matching Self-paced lessons Nearpod integrates with Teams Generally, performance has been usable for most students You can get a Gold account for free! [advanced_iframe src=”//1252700138.vod2.myqcloud.com/vod-player/1252700138/5285890798980933401/tcplayer/console/vod-player.html?autoplay=false&width=1920&height=1080″ width=”640px” height=”360px”]
Get the latest #virtualschool tips, FAQs, and demo slams from #pulaoproud Tech Ambs @newtonsscience @alannamounsey @trishmerewether @hanghesperwang @mbkkelsey live every Tuesday and Thursday at 10:00am CST. Join link & recordings at http://go.ncpachina.org/vsdeb #issedu #acamistech [advanced_iframe src=”//1252700138.vod2.myqcloud.com/vod-player/1252700138/5285890798977455488/tcplayer/console/vod-player.html?autoplay=false&width=1280&height=720″ width=”640px” height=”360px”] This day’s topics were: Canvas Course Tour: Leo Canvas Course Tour: Yosef Use Canvas Quizzes to reduce […]