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Canvas

This workshop will help new users acclimate to Canvas LMS.  As districts have transitioned to 1:1 it is important to have a Learning Management System to help keep you and your students organized in one place and we invite you to join the #CanvasFam.  Canvas is built to support learning in all grades K-12.  Get a jump start on the new year with Canvas.

15 Hours CTLE Credit

Google Classroom

This course will teach educators how to get up and running with Google Classroom. They will learn how to access and navigate Google Classroom, create, copy, and archive a class, add co-teachers and students, modify settings to customize their Classroom, post and reply to a post on the stream, understand the difference between posting a material, question, and assignment in the classwork section, and more! 

3 Hours CTLE Credit

Microsoft Office 365

This course will teach educators how to get up and running with Microsoft O365. They will learn how to access and navigate OneDrive, upload, create, name, and organize files into folders, share and collaborate on files, the difference between viewing, commenting, and editing a file, and how to get a sharable link to a file.

3 Hours CTLE Credit

Schoology

Schoology is a web-based learning management system (LMS). Teachers can create and assign a slew of creative tasks, which students can access through the website as well as through iOS, Android, and Chrome apps. 

This is an introductory course intended to build your capacity for using Schoology. It includes video walkthroughs of both the Schoology Basic and Schoology Enterprise versions. For the latter, what's available depends on what third party integrations your organization has made available. The course content explores the use of Schoology and makes suggestions for its best use.  * Requires participant to already have a Schoology account.

12 Hours CTLE Credit

Seesaw

Seesaw for Schools is a digital app-based platform that allows students, teachers, and parents or guardians to complete and share classroom work. As the company itself says, Seesaw is a platform for student engagement.

The focus of this online course is to assist you in learning to use Seesaw. Many educators had to use Seesaw in 2020 without the benefit of learning it. The purpose of the course is for you to adapt these strategies for your own use in the classroom.  It is an introductory course intended to build your capacity for using Seesaw.

12 Hours CTLE Credit