In the Middle
Updates from your Middle School DLS team!
GRADES: EXPORTING FROM SCHOOLOGY & IMPORTING INTO TAC
Required Training List (as of 8-31-20)
Digital Citizenship
- Audience: ALL Staff
- CLICK HERE to view the student paced presentation in Nearpod. View all the slides and read the information presented. At the end of the Nearpod, fill out the Google form to sign-in and acknowledge your completion of the slides.
- This activity should be completed by September 4th.
COVID-19
- Audience: ALL Staff
- CLICK HERE to enroll and complete the COVID-19 course.
- This activity should be completed by September 4th.
Teacher Access Center (TAC)
- Audience: CLASSROOM TEACHERS
- CLICK HERE to join and complete the course.
- 2020-2021 TAC Gradebook User’s Guide
- This activity should be completed by September 4th.
Digital Onboarding
- Audience: ALL Staff Please join the appropriate Schoology Course below to complete your Required Digital Onboarding Course.
- This activity should be completed by September 4th.
- RETURNING STAFF: Teachers, ILS, Skills, etc.
- NEW TO ALDINE STAFF: Teachers, ILS, Skills, etc.
- Principals, Assistant Principals, Counselors
- Paraprofessionals - coming soon
Electronic Signatures in ePortal
- Audience: ALL Staff
- Each year, all employees are required to submit electronic signatures for the Ethical Guidelines Statement and Acceptable Use Form. All employees are also required to acknowledge receipt of the District Employee Handbook.
- All three documents have been posted to ePortal and must be signed electronically. The documents can be found on the left side of the ePortal home screen in a red box titled 'Attention Required".
- This activity should be completed by September 4th.
INVEST
- Audience: Returning staff members
- Invest Refresher Training Course
- This activity should be completed by September 4th.
- Audience: Professional staff members who have not participated in the full INVEST training
- Invest New Teacher Training Course
- This activity should be completed by September 4th.
Accessing Teacher Access Center (TAC)
In order to enable the ability for teachers to access custom reports & eSchoolPlus pages while accessing TAC from Home, there is a new process for accessing TAC when working remotely. Going forward teachers will need to do the following to access TAC when they are not working from within Aldine.
- Log into ePortal.
- Select TAC/Gradebook from Home.
- Log into the Applications Portal using your district credentials. DO NOT include @aldineisd.org in the username.
- Select eSchoolPLUS
- Log into TAC using your district credentials. DO NOT include @aldineisd.org in the username.
- Once in TAC teachers will have the ability to generate the Contact Log Teacher Report and the Student Contact Info Report as well as access eSchoolPlus pages.
Schoology Profile Picture
If you have not included a profile picture in Schoology here is a short video to show you how. If your profile picture is turned sideways, it is due to the file type that you used (often from a phone). Please remove the sideways photo and upload a different photo.
TCCA
The Technology and Curriculum Conference of Aldine (TCCA) traditionally takes place in Aldine and is open to all educators from any school district, public and private. The conference will be virtual this year. This event will take place over an entire day (October 24, 2020). Although open to everyone, you will need to sign up at www.tccaconference.com We are planning for a keynote to open the conference, and there will be 20-30 sessions taking place each hour.
Invite all your educator friends to this wonderful, free event!
Schoology Virtual Learning Resources
Click Here to join the Middle School Virtual Learning Group
If you haven't joined already, that is where you can 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.
Middle School DLS Team
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. You can also request help in ePortal (or click here)!
Chad Cochran--Drew, Garcia, Hoffman, Shotwell
@MrCtechme
Hosea Pipkins, III--Jones, Lewis, Plummer, Stovall, Teague
@HoseaPipkins
Ann Waite--Aldine MS, Grantham, Hambrick, KEC, Mead
@AnnMWaite