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WRHS
Network Overview and Guidelines |
File
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Some basic
network guidelines that everyone should be familiar with. |
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| Basic how-to file on logging in to the network, saving files, directory structures, copying and deleting files. Dated, but still of some use. (network basics fall 2002.doc) | ||
| The Acceptable Use Policy as adopted by the Board of Education. (ACCEPTUS.DOC) | ||
| Infinite
Campus (Gradebook and Attendance) |
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Introduction
and Logging On: Accessing Infinite Campus (IC), logging on, workspace
tour, changing password, saving changes, logging off (10 minutes) |
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| Attendance and Seating Charts: Taking attendance via roster or seating charts. Creating seating charts. (8 minutes) | ||
| Preferences and Grading Curve: Setting the preferences for EACH class includes hiding dropped students, showing student names & numbers, inverting the student seating chart, use seating chart as default when taking attendance and using canned comments. The grading curve is also explained. (4 minutes) | ||
| Gradebook Introduction: General intro to the screen outlook of the gradebook. Deals with layout, general features, and a few cautions. (12 minutes) | ||
| Groups - Creating and Editing: How to create and edit groups and assign weights (or not) to the groups. Also choosing a grading curve for each class is required. (12 minutes) | ||
| Assignments – Creating and Editing: How to create, edit and delete assignments. Associating assignments with specific groups. Weighing assignments within the group. (9 minutes) | ||
| Copy Entire Groups and Assignments: How to use Lesson Plan Copier to copy entire setup of groups and assignments from one class section to another. Will only work if the target class section has no groups defined. (5 minutes) | ||
| Copy Selected Assignments: How to use Lesson Planner to copy specific assignments from one class to another. For this it is required that groups (categories) are already created in the source and destination classes. (5 minutes) | ||
| Special Scores, Comments and Bulk Fill of Scores: How to exempt scores form grading for a specific students and mark sores with special markings that WILL appear on Parent Portal and in Student Summaries (progress reports). Special comments/scores include late work, missing work, cheated, exempt, incomplete or dropped. It also allows for custom comments to be associated with a student score. Also included is bulk filling of scores and bulk score replacement. (6 minutes) | ||
| Reports: The 4 main reports are Student Summary (student progress reports), Blank Spreadsheet, Attendance Register (handy for tracking absence and tardies) and Attendance Summary (numerical summary of absence and tardies. Two other reports of interest are Roster Label and Teacher Schedule. All reports are produces as PDF files for preview and printing. (8 minutes) | ||
| Search and Help: Contextual help screens and searching for help and/or students enrolled in your class(es). (7 minutes) | ||
| Dropped Students: Seeing the grades for dropped students so that you can report their grade at transfer time to another teacher or school. (2 minutes) | ||
| Anonymous Grades: How to print off a spreadsheet of all student grades WITHOUT the student names appearing. Sometimes we want to do this so that we can tape the spreadsheet to the wall so all students can see their grade only. (2 minutes) | ||
| End Of Quarter: How to post the grades at the end of the quarter. You must do this for every class. How to add comnents to the report card is also included. (7 minutes) | ||
| Student Aides: How to directly assign a "P" or "NC" for students aides and also how to directy enter a letter grade for other students that you assign a grade but do not have IC computer the % (grade). (3 minutes) | ||
| Groupwise
(E-Mail) |
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| Logging into
Groupwise, setting password, and creating signature. (video files) |
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| Groupwise basics. Sending, receiving, forwarding, replying, attachments, saving, deleting and organizing. (video files) | ||
| Instructions for setting up the junk mail handling feature of Groupwise. This only has to be done one time.(video file) | ||
| Setting up the junk mail - short version | ||
| Instructions for adding e-mail addresses to the junk mail list. When you add an address to the list any further mail from that sender will automatically be sent to the junk mail folder and you will not see it in your inbox. This will be an ongoing thing as you get junk mail from new senders. (video file) | ||
| Adding e-mail addresses to the junk mail list - short version | ||
| How to add new contacts to your personal address book in Groupwise. (video file) | ||
| Add new contacts - short version | ||
| How to create new groups in Groupwise. This is different than the ways in the next couple files. I think it is easier. (video file) | ||
| How to create new groups in Groupwise. (video file) | ||
| Create new groups - short version | ||
| How to create new address books in Groupwise. (video file) | ||
| Create new address books - short version | ||
| Editing Groups | ||
| Options for viewing attachments (using the built in viewer in GW or launching the applicaton for the file). | ||
| Groupwise basics. A file sent down from the central office dealing the basics of Groupwise 5.5. Slightly dated bit still of some use. | ||
| A file sent down from the central office dealing with the changes in Groupwise from version 5.5 to 6.5. (What's new in 65 client.doc and What's new in 65 client.pdf) | ||
| Making
Simple Web Pages with MS Word |
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| Background and Views. | ||
Page Title and Fonts |
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| Saving and Opening Files | ||
| Layout Tips | ||
| Table Basics | ||
| Modifying Tables | ||
| Picture Basics | ||
| Creating Links | ||
| Phone
System / Cisco Net Phones
These files are from the central office staff. |
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| Forwarding calls to voicemail. | |
| Phone Manual. Pretty much everything on how to operate the phones | |
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Inspiration
Resources
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Inspiration
links. |
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| Kidspiration links. | |
| Teacher
Web Messages
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| Editing and Changing teacher web messages. Text Version. | ||
| Editing and Changing teacher web messages. Video Versio. | ||
Template
and instruction files for Creating Teacher Web Messages
are located in the “AAA Teacher Files for Teacher Web Messages”
folder on the WRHSWEB drive. |
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| Library
Media Services and NCA Indicators
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Introduction
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| Guide for NCA Indicators | |
Word Documents and PowerPoint Files: When you click on these links you may be asked if you prefer to open them or to save them to your drive. They should work just fine if you open them. If they are distorted when you open them, choose to save them and then open using MS Word or PowerPoint.
HTML/Flash:
Viewed via web browser. No viewer or additional software necessary. Cross platform.
Requires Macromedia Flash PlugIn which is normally installed by default. You
may press F11 to view in full screen. WARNINGS:There
is no way to fast forward or rewind in this view.
WMV: Windows Media Video is the current
Microsoft streaming file format. WMV files can be streamed or played locally
from the hard disk. You may be asked, “Do you want to play file in Internet
Explorer?” I suggest you answer NO. If the file launches in Windows Media
Player, you may press Alt-Enter to toggle to and from full screen view. You
may pause, fast forward and replay in this view. WARNINGS:
Some of the preview screens don't show in this format.