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RCSD Parent Education Night

August 31, 2020

Zoom and Otus Introduction

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Introductions

Megan Spears

Coordinator

Ed Services

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Joseph Clark

Principal District Office

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Brandon Blom

Director of Educational Technology

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Thank you!

  • Thank you parents!
    • We know parents are doing the best they can to support Distance Learning.

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  • Thank you teachers and site admin!
    • Teachers are working so hard to ensure student learning.

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  • Thank you RCSD Technology!
    • Technology team working to ensure students, parents, and staff have the tools they need.

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Where to ask Questions

Click here to access the form.

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Zoom - Parent Education

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Topics of Learning

  • Zoom Student Best Practices
  • How do Teachers Use Zoom
  • How Do I Make a Zoom Account for My Student?
  • What Can Students Do in Zoom?
  • 5 Quick Tips

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Best Practices for Students

Be on time and prepared to learn

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Be safe, be respectful, be responsible

Be respectful to others by pushing the mute button while you are waiting for your turn to speak

Position yourself so there is a wall behind you if possible

Raise your hand if you you have something you would like to share

Participate using kind and appropriate words, as you would in class

Utilize the chat for questions when appropriate

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How do Teachers Use Zoom

Zoom has many helpful tools that make it effective for distance learning. These are the features you can expect your kid’s teacher to use while teaching them over Zoom.

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  • Screen sharing. Teachers will share their screen to present lessons and demonstrate principles.
  • Whiteboard. Teachers may use this tool for students to brainstorm ideas and participate in lessons.
  • Breakout rooms. Teachers can divide students into groups, have them work on something, and then bring the class back together afterwards.
  • Special icons. There are Raise Hand, Clap, Disagree, Speed Up, and Slow Down icons that your student can use to let the teacher know if they have a comment or are going too fast.
  • Group chat features. Everyone in the Zoom session can send and receive messages to each other. It’s like passing notes, but not as fun or challenging. Teachers can productively use this feature to have partners exchange ideas and work together.

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How Do I Make a Zoom Account for My Student?

Typically, students will be joining Zoom Meetings via a link that the teacher sends out, but students do need to authenticate Zoom using their RCSD accounts once.

This is a safety feature that closes the Zoom meetings to any person not on the rcsdk8.org or rcsdkids.us domains.

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Authenticating Zoom the 1st Time

Open the email from Zoom and click on the “Activate Your Zoom Account” button. Sent to the students’ rcsdkids.us email account.

Click the “Sign in With Google” Option to activate the account.

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Signing in After Authenticating

You can sign in on the Zoom application, use the “Sign in with Google” option

You can sign in on the zoom.us by selecting your students’ rcsdkids account as well.

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What Can Students Do in Zoom?

Besides just voice-chatting, Zoom gives kids plenty of tools to interact with each other and the teacher, work together, and even break off into smaller groups -- just as if they were sitting with each other in a classroom

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  • Class Meetings
  • Shared Screens
  • Whiteboard
  • Small Group Meetings
  • One on One Meetings

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5 Quick Tips

  • Your student has the options to see all Zoom classroom meeting participants or just the person speaking.

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  • For some students the blank spaces on the screen can be overwhelming. A helpful tip is that you do have the capability to remove those blank spaces. In Video settings simply click "hide non-video participants."

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5 Quick Tips

  • For some students, not being able to see the teacher's face as they're speaking can significantly impact comprehension. Within Zoom, your student can click on Options to engage Side-by-Side Mode.
  • Mute when necessary. Zoom etiquette is often a difficult concept for students to navigate. Muting when not speaking is best practice.
  • Remember when it comes to virtual learning is that you and your children are learning things you likely never knew before. The virtual learning experience has no doubt expanded our skill set as parents, teachers, and students.

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Where to ask Questions

Click here to access the form.

To view these slides:

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Questions?

Let’s take a moment to answer some questions.

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Otus - Parent Education

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Topics of Learning

  • Why
  • Difference between student view and parent view
  • How to get to classes
  • How to get to Zoom links in Class Board or Bookshelf
  • Reports
  • Lessons
  • Assessments
  • Gradebook

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Why?

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Otus

  • The goal is to streamline communication, student assessment, lessons, data, grades into one place.

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  • No tool is perfect.

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  • We are all (RCSD staff, parents, students) learning together!

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  • We will keep getting better at utilizing Otus.

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Difference between parent and student login

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Student Login

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Parent Login

Instructions

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Class Board

Teachers use Class Board to post messages to students

Parents can get there by going to Classes

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Class Board

Teachers post messages

We have encouraged teachers to “Pin” their Zoom link to their Class Board

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Bookshelf

With the Otus Bookshelf, students can do the following:

  • View resources shared by their teacher
  • Add resources
  • Create folders
  • Share resources with teachers only

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Reports

In Reports you can see scores such as iReady or CAASPP

iReady from this year will be uploaded after the testing window has been completed

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The Feed

The feed gives a quick view, but can be overwhelming with information.

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Portfolio and Blog

Portfolio is designed to showcase student work, and the items added to the Portfolio follow the student from year-to-year in their profile.

The Blog Module allows for open teacher and student communication.

Using the Blog Feature in Otus Video

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Lessons

The Lessons Module provides a way for teachers to create activities to distribute to their students.

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Lessons

Students can see what they have completed, what is in progress, and what they have not started yet.

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Lessons

Students can search for different classes by clicking the drop down at the top of the Lessons page

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Lessons

Lessons is how we take middle school attendance during Distance Learning

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Questions?

Let’s take a moment to answer some questions.

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The App

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Assessments

Think of Assessments as the way teachers collect student work

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Assessments

Rubric Assessment- Make a Copy function

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Assessments

Simple and Advanced Assessments

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Gradebook

Select the correct grading scale: Formative, Summative, or Learning Behaviors (MS Only)

Grades might not be entered until later in the year

This is new for elementary having grading to have parents be able to view immediately

Link to Video Explaining MS Grading

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Gradebook

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Gradebook

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Gradebook

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Report Card Examples

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Report Card Examples

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Questions?

Let’s take a moment to answer some questions.

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Thank you for joining!

September 28: Fundamentals of iReady

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October 26: Social Emotional Wellness for Families

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