Google Science Fair, PD resources for Google training, Classroom update, summer coding for students (deadline for application March 25) and much more can be found in this months Google Newsletter found below.
ItsLearning App
The Itslearning App is available in the Apple App Store or through Google Play. The app gives students a simple overview or their tasks, homework and assessments and notifies them of changes in itslearning such as new assignments and upcoming deadlines. Students can see the latest changes from their courses, can receive instant messages from itslearning and can see a task list.
Engrade BackUp
It is important that you backup your gradebook.
Once you are in your gradebook, select the “PRINT” tab at the top.
You have several options once you select this. In the spirit of trying to be “green”, I suggest you use the last option, “export gradebook”
This option will create an excel spreadsheet on your computer.
> Create a folder labeled “2015_16_Engrade_Grades”
> Inside of that folder, create another folder for each of your classes.
> In each class folder, create another folder for each quarter and label them: Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4.
> When you export your gradebook, select the class folder that each one should go in.
You can choose to overwrite the spreadsheet every time you export within a quarter or you can have multiple spreadsheets for each quarter.
> At the end of each quarter, export your final quarter grades.
Repeat for each quarter.
You will also notice in Engrade under the print tab, you can print your grade book or you can print a student report. Both of these are also ways to backup your online gradebook. Obviously this is a paper version of your online gradebook.
One final precaution, I would backup your engrade folder to our server, (or to whatever backup you use) at least at the end of every quarter.
Remember if you move the folder to the drive icon on your desktop or the folder on your doc labeled “your name”, you are backing the data up to our server.