TECH CONNECT
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End of the School Year
There are only a few days left! As we wind down to the end of the school year, we would like to share a few helpful reminders and activities.
Google Classroom -Archiving Classes
When you’re done teaching a class at the end of a semester or school year, we recommend that you archive it. When a class is archived, it’s archived for all teachers and students in that class. If you don’t archive classes, they will continue to appear on both yours and on students’ Classroom homepages. This can potentially create confusion as to which classes are actually “active”.
After archiving a class, you can restore it or delete it completely. To delete a class, you will need to first archive it. Teachers and co-teachers can archive a class, but only the primary teacher can delete a class. Students cannot archive or delete a class.
Remind
The end of the school year is always busy, but it's never a bad idea to spend some time cleaning up your Remind classes before you log off for a well-deserved break. It takes just a few minutes to run through these three steps to clean up your classes.
Classroom Management by Lightspeed
If you have created any web rules or blocked any websites from your students in Lightspeed Classroom Management, remember to unblock them at the end of the school year.
Back up and Save Files to an External Hard Drive
The primary purpose of a backup is to provide you with a copy of files in the event of you leaving the school system or a system failure. If you need to save your files and folders from your online storage or hard drive to a flash drive or external hard drive, see the links below.
Teacher & Staff Devices
Returning to your school next year?
You may take your laptop home with you for the summer or safely lock it away in your classroom. If you take it home with you, you are agreeing to abide by the Acceptable Use Policy and are financially responsible for its care and security. Leave all other devices and equipment in the room it is assigned to.
Changing schools within the district?
If you are moving to another school within the district, you will take your laptop with you, along with its charging cord. You may take your laptop home with you for the summer. If you take it home with you, you are agreeing to abide by the Acceptable Use Policy and are financially responsible for its care and security. Leave all other devices and equipment in the room it is assigned to.
Retiring or moving to another district?
If you are not returning to any schools in the Elmore County School District, you will need to turn in your laptop and charging cord to the Office of Technology before 2:00pm on your last day. iPads should be turned into your Technology Coordinator. You will need to turn off any passcodes and reset them. iPads will remain at the campus that owns them. Leave all other devices and equipment in the room it is assigned to.
What about other equipment and devices?
ALL OTHER EQUIPMENT should remain in the room it is assigned. DO NOT MOVE DESKTOPS, PROJECTORS, DOCUMENT CAMERAS, OR AUDIO ENHANCEMET EQUIPMENT. If equipment must be moved, technology staff will move it.
- Audio Enhancement devices should remain charging over the summer break.
- Docking Stations should remain in the assigned room.
- All power cords stay with the devices.
End of the School Year Technology Activities
Technology Integration Specialist
Vanessa Brown: vanessa.brown@elmoreco.com - Ext. 82119
Melissa Easley: melissa.easley@elmoreco.com - Ext. 82118