January Professional Development
RCS Instructional Technology Department
These are completed on your own time outside of school hours.
VIRTUAL Schoology Grade Passback
NEW Schoology grade passback for 3rd quarter (ONLY available for grades 3-12).
In this follow-up Schoology training, participants will configure their Schoology course gradebooks in order to sync graded assignments back to the Skyward gradebook. We will also cover using the Bulk Edit feature, understanding the Sync Log, and using the course gradebook.
Section #15484
Date: Tuesday, January 4
Section #15509
Date: Wednesday, January 5
Section #15510
Date: Thursday, January 6
Time: 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Location: Zoom link will be sent to participants on the morning of the training
Presenter: Instructional Technology Team
VIRTUAL BrainPOP for Middle School Science Teachers Only
Please register in Performance Matters & register using the Zoom link below.
https://events.zoom.us/ev/AHJB9KxxRURYokQzWu6h2UQTdVzuOtuF15xABw0knFAiQ58pqwcVRiUsyJkCZdisYojt9ws
Section #15545
Date: Wednesday, January 5
Time: 4:00 - 5:00
Presenter: BrainPOP
VIRTUAL Create your Teacher Web Page in Edlio
Rutherford County Schools uses Edlio to create and manage the district's webpages. In this session teachers will learn how to create and manage a webpage using Edlio.
Section #15548
Date: Thursday, January 6
Time: 3:30 - 4:30
Location: Zoom link will be sent to participants on the morning of the training.
Presenter: Cherri McCrary
VIRTUAL Getting Started with Schoology
Section #15547
Date: Monday, January 10
Time: 4:00 - 5:30
Location: Zoom link will be sent to participants on the morning of the training.
Presenter: Jennifer Brooks & Jeannie Williams
VIRTUAL Using Moby Max in Your EL/ALL Block Rotations
Did you know that you can assign ELA skills practice for your EL ALL-block rotations in Moby Max? In this one-hour session participants will:
- Gain access to the ALL Block EL/Moby Max lesson correlations.
- Navigate the Moy Max platform as both a student and a teacher
- Review reporting features
- Evaluate a Moby Max ELA lesson for an upcoming ALL Block rotation
- Assign a related lesson for your next ALL Block Rotation
This session is best suited for Elementary teachers in grades 3-5.
Section #15549
Date: Thursday, January 13
Time: 3:00 - 4:00
Location: Zoom link will be sent to participants on the morning of the training.
Presenter: Cherri McCrary
VIRTUAL Math in PowerPoint and Schoology
Section #15550
Date: Thursday, January 13
Time: 3:45 - 5:15
Location: Zoom link will be sent to participants on the morning of the training.
Presenter: Zach Spears
VIRTUAL Schoology Managing & Using Rubrics
Section # 15601
Date: Tuesday, January 18
Time: 3:45 - 4:45
Location: Zoom link is in Performance Matters & will also be emailed to participants.
Presenter: Schoology
VIRTUAL Tools in Office 365 and Schoology to Help ELL and SPED Students
This session is for ANY teacher who struggles to help their ELL and SPED students access or understand the content. Learn to harness the features in Office 365 and Schoology to help your special populations by giving them the tools they need to be successful. In this session we will look at read-aloud, text-to-speech, and transcribing resources that are already built into your Office 365 and Schoology platforms. Featured tools are Immersive Reader, Dictate, PowerPoint Live, Edge browser read-aloud, and the text response options in Schoology.
Section #15530
Date: Thursday, January 20
Time: 3:45 - 4:45
Location: Zoom link will be sent to participants on the morning of the training.
Presenter: Kim Cing
VIRTUAL Making your Videos Interactive with PlayPosit
Learn how to use Playposit to engage students and place accountability on students for their own learning through interactive video. Playposit allows you to embed video from YouTube and many other sites then insert multiple types of questions into the video. Learn how to add simple yet rigorous interactions such as discussions to complement PlayPosit's auto-graded interactions into the video. Students can access the videos across any device, at their own pace, and you get the data. Also included in this session is an overview of utilizing PlayPosit through Schoology.
Section #15605
Date: Tuesday, January 25
Time: 3:45 - 4:45
Location: Zoom link is in Performance Matters & will also be emailed to participants.
Presenter: PlayPosit Trainer
VIRTUAL Schoology Using Portfolios
Section #15606
Date: Thursday, January 27
Time: 3:45 - 4:45
Location: Zoom link is in Performance Matters & will also be emailed to participants.
Presenter: Schoology Trainer
SELF-PACED PD AVAILABLE
- Getting Started with Schoology
- Creating Microsoft Teams
- Moby Max University
- Maximizing Office 365
- PlayPosit Academy
- Using Mastery Connect for Assessment
- Common Sense Education Digital Citizenship Training
- Microsoft Tools for Student Accessibility
- And more......
