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:
Many thanks to Pearson who figured out how to enable additional sharing permissions in Office 365 Groups! This exciting development means that you can now share files in your Groups with external users (i.e. people without an NCPA account). When sharing, simply choose the “Anyone” option (and uncheck the “Allow editing” box if you don’t want […]
Great news, everyone! We’ve enabled additional integrations with Canvas. You can now embed YouTube and TedEd videos directly into your assignments by using the Rich Content Editor (look for the downward-facing arrow). Quizlet, Wikipedia and Office 365 have always been options for you, too. For research, Canvas is now connected with our subscription to Britannica Online. […]
On Sept. 13 and 14, Cecilia S, John B, Tim, Maria T, Katrina, Amy L, and Jane took advantage of an NCPA PD session to get up to speed with Canvas. These one-hour sessions scheduled during office hours are a great way of learning practical knowledge to help you within and without the classroom. Here […]
The English and Chinese departments and MS STEM have been using OneNote Class Notebook distribute files and give students feedback. If you want to set up your own, it’s easy! Follow these steps: In Canvas, go to Class Notebook Follow the prompts to log in and set up your first class. You’ll get a chance to […]
We’re about a month into school, so it’s a good time to see where we are with our technology usage. Office 365 & Canvas Adoption Some good news here! Students are overwhelmingly logging in to Canvas – 88% access it daily, making it the tool you should use if you’re distributing content. Ditto for Office […]