Meet Brittany Acheson! She is an amazing Digital Learning Lead at Bear Branch Junior High! The Bears are also very lucky to have her as their Librarian. What is special about Ms. Acheson? She doesn't give up on a challenge and likes to figure things out and solve problems. She continually find innovative ways to support teachers on her campus with finding solutions. Thank you Ms. Acheson for all you do for BBJH! She and Ms. Mittelstadt make an awesome team! #misddigilearning

Check out these Flour Babies in Ms. Goforth's class. They were inquisitive about how teachers keep learning new things and wanted to celebrate with her. Ms. Goforth spent some time learning Canvas and earned the Canvas Explorer badge. Thanks Ms. Goforth for all you do!

It is time to be thinking about EOY processes for our digital learning platforms! Canvas, Seesaw, and Eduphoria are just a few platforms that require attention before summer begins!

bulb Digital Portfolios:

• Students/Staff who leave the district can add their personal email in Settings in bulb to keep their bulb Digital Portfolio free for life!

Canvas:

• Students will have access to their rostered Canvas courses through May 24, 2024. Teachers will have access to their rostered Canvas courses through May 28, 2024 at 11:59 pm. as courses will conclude on May 29, 2024 at 12am.
• Shell/Sandbox/Team courses should be set as unpublished.
• District-created courses before the 21/22 school year will be removed from Canvas this summer. All content inside those courses needs to be transferred into the Sandbox course if the teacher chooses to keep the content. This will only affect courses that are in a SIS-created term.

Eduphoria:

• Aware: All assessments need to be set to Archived status by May 24, 2024. Directions
• Once tests are archived, the data is still accessible. Teachers lose access to current student data on 5/28/24 at 11:59 pm.

Seesaw:

• All district-created Seesaw classes will be archived on May 24, 2024, at 11:59 pm. For secondary campuses, this affects only Lifeskills classes.

Google:

• If staff members have shared documents that will need to be accessed by all team members next year, we recommend all items be transferred to a Google Shared Drive. If staff members currently use a Google folder and the document owner leaves MISD, the remaining folder members will lose access to the document unless it is in a Shared Drive. Directions

🔗Here's a link with more detailed information.

A huge shout out to Ms. Patterson at Magnolia Elementary for creating individualized learning paths in Canvas for her students!

"Being able to differentiate my student's stations with targeted paths, that they can work through independently, has been a game changer in my classroom. These paths are data driven, and I can create groups based around exactly what my students need." ~Miranda Patterson

The Digital Learning team will offer a variety of Summer PD opportunities for MISD teachers and staff. We will continue with our badging initiative too! How many digital learning badges did you earn this year? We hope you continue to build a badge portfolio through our PD opportunities!! We offer courses from novice to expert level for many of our digital learning platforms!

This summer we will offer:

• Digi-Badges: Asynchronous Courses (Canvas, Seesaw, Eduphoria, Google, Securly, Canva, and more!)
• Digital Tools for Student-Led Learning to Increase Rigor & Collaboration
• Due to demand and lots of questions we will be adding and a PD for AI. More information coming!

Eduphoria Aware has some changes to the Lockdown Browser that will take affect at the start of the 24/25 school year. It looks fairly simple, and your Digital Learning Team has already tested it out.

The short of it is that it will no longer be in the app kiosk. They will sign in and go to the test. Training and materials will be offered in August. We got you!

This summer in Canvas they will push out an update that will allow teachers to assign a module to a student, section, or even a group of students!

Module content will automatically be visible only to those who have been granted access at the module level. If an educator wants to make assignment changes to content within the module, they can drilldown from the modules index page.

Here is a video showing you how to use Strive to enroll in summer PD and in the Ignite Conference.

It is important to remember to first register for the conference, then you will have the ability to enroll in the sessions.

Please share the DigiKnow? Newsletter with your campuses. It can also be found in Clever and in Canvas. You are welcome to send them the link above to the 1-pager or you can simply forward this email! See you guys soon!

Encourage your families to stay connected with their students' learning by inviting them to join the Canvas Parent App.

Student/Parent Access Guide!

Student Parent Access Guide (English)

Student Parent Access Guide (Spanish)

We recommend sharing the Student/Parent Access Guide with all of your students and parents to help them get connected with our digital learning platforms!

Canvas Connection

Connecting New Parents to Canvas (English)

Connecting New Parents to Canvas (Spanish)

**For Canvas, if a parent was paired last year then they are still paired to their student this year. If they need to update their email address for Canvas, parents will need to log into their Canvas account to make the adjustment.

DIGITAL LEARNING CAMPUS VISITS

You can sign up for a face-to-face appointment using our new Google Appointment Calendar! You can access this calendar via Clever!

Digital Learning Support Calendar

I am here to support you daily, so if you need virtual support just send me a quick email kthompson@magnoliaisd.org

Email: kthompson@magnoliaisd.org
Website: https://www.bulbapp.com/kthompson2/portfolio
Location: 110 Magnolia Boulevard, Magnolia, TX, USA
Phone: ext.10392
Twitter: @thompkimberly