Primary Digital News

Please remember to ALWAYS protect your students privacy. Closely review any picture you Tweet before posting. Don't post student's faces or student names without explicit parental consent. If you don't have parental consent don't post the students name or picture, even with something covering their face. Make sure your Google Meet join code isn't showing; anyone can join your Meet using that join code. When you post this information you are putting your students at risk!

Now that you are back on campus, you are now able to reset your student's passwords, no middle-man needed!!

Student passwords need to be at least 8 characters in length, and should contain 3 of the 4 following criteria:

• Upper Case Letter
• Lower Case Letter
• Number
• Special Character (!@#$%^&*)

In addition to the password criteria, the password cannot have the student/user name or be similar to the previous password (which is not specified on the screen). This triggers the LDAP error.

Need a student password reset refresher? Check out the video below!

We ask you to do this every year!

This is important for two reasons. So if you forget your password you can...

1. Reset your password yourself at Aldine Cloud

2. The help desk will be able to assist you with a reset.

If you don't answer your challenge questions, then a work order will have to be submitted if you have forgotten your password.

You need to answer two pre-made questions and then create two of your own questions.

• Go to https://cloud.aldineisd.org/LoginPolicy.jsp

• Log in

• Go to Apps on the bottom

• Click on Access Request Management System

• Log in again

• At this point, the challenge questions should automatically pop up if you need to answer them.

Tech devices on campus not acting as they should? Chances are they need some updates after sitting dormant for 6 months!

Shut Down: closes all apps and turns off the PC. Your computer and Promethean Board should be Shut Down at least every Friday.

Restart: closes all apps, turns off the PC, and then turns it on again. Your computer and Promethean Board should be Restarted at least once a week in order to pull updates from the district.

You may need to restart your desktop computer and Promethean multiple times to get completely updated!

Access to Clever has been extended to additional staff. If you are assigned to one of the positions below but are not able to or having issues accessing Clever, please contact your DLS so the issue can be resolved. Because the following do not have rostered classes, you may not have the same exact view as the classroom teachers.

Campus Admins Access to Clever:

• Assistant Principal
• Counselor
• Diagnostician
• Digital Learning Specialist
• Dyslexia Specialist
• Instructional Literacy Coach
• Literacy Specialist
• Principal
• RTI Specialist
• Skills Specialist
• Testing Coordinator

The 10th Anniversary of TCCA is just two months away and we are going all out to bring you the absolute best speakers and curriculum focused EdTech sessions in the country! Make sure you get registered today! CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Don't hesitate. You must register in order to receive the live session links.

The Primary DLS team will be holding office hours starting next week. These hours will not be set for a specific day or time. Each DLS will add office hours to their Google calendar and invite their perspective campus. Emails will not be sent out but rather the staff and teachers will check their own Google calendar regularly to see if office hours have been posted.

If you haven't joined already Click Here to join the Primary DLS Resource Group for Virtual Learning to access all the resources from the training sessions that have been presented (last year during virtual learning and Aldine LIVE sessions in July). We will continue to add materials to this Schoology group for teachers to access.

*This group is for Aldine staff only, please do not share this group code/link with parents or students.

Snipping Tool is a Microsoft Windows screenshot utility included in Windows Vista and later. It can take still screenshots of an open window, rectangular areas, a free-form area, or the entire screen. Snips can then be annotated using a mouse or a tablet, stored as an image file or an MHTML file, or e-mailed.

If you click ALT and the [ button at the same time, it will allow you to split your screens into 2 tabs with no extension needed! You and/or students can be on a meet and look at your work at the same time!

Contact your DLS:

If you have questions, issues, or training requests with DISTRICT SUPPORTED INSTRUCTIONAL SOFTWARE: eSchool, eportal, Employee Self Service (ESS), Eduphoria, Frontline, Service Console, Google Suite, SchoolMessenger, Schoology, ActivInspire, Battelle for Kids, Kurzweil, NearPod, BrainPOP, MyON, Flipgrid, Clever, Screencastify, Google Meet, Schoology Conferences, CK12, Learn360, etc.

Contact Tech Services/Help Desk:

If you need assistance with your staff password reset Or questions or issues with DISTRICT HARDWARE: computers, printers, scanners, document cameras, Promethean Board, iPad, Chromebook, laptop, etc. (They can not help you with personal hardware devices).

281-985-6263, helpdesk@aldineisd.org or Help Desk Support Form

As you navigate this new role as a virtual teacher please know we are here to support you! If you have a question about a digital resource, reach out to your designated DLS.