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• 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.

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.

1. Log into ePortal.
2. Select TAC/Gradebook from Home.
3. Log into the Applications Portal using your district credentials. DO NOT include @aldineisd.org in the username.
4. Select eSchoolPLUS
   
5. Log into TAC using your district credentials. DO NOT include @aldineisd.org in the username.
6. 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.
   

Instructions with screenshots

2020-2021 TAC Gradebook User’s Guide

Students & Parents should NOT contact the Help Desk or DLS. Please do not give students or parents the email address or phone number to call the Help Desk or your DLS.

If they are having an issue with their password or district device, they need to refer to the Schoology for Students link in the Aldine ISD website - on the right. The password reset request link and district device information is located on the Students and Parents tabs. Please convey to parents that password resets need a full 24 hours to give tech services time to address it.

*Teachers are also able to reset passwords but MUST be on the district network to perform this task. Click here for Instructions for how teachers can reset student passwords.

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.

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.

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.