Tech Welcome Back 2018!

Welcome back to another amazing school year where technology integration continues to get easier and more classroom-focused. Keep reading to see all of the updates for the 2018-2019 school year.

Google Classroom has added some updates that make it easier than ever to run a digital classroom.

Read about the updates here on an affiliate blog feature from Exploring the TECH in TEaCHer.

Watch a video here showing the updates from Google.

Classroom Orchestrator has updated to a more user-friendly experience for the teacher.  Updated 2018 Orchestrator tutorial.

All TK-2nd-grade students will need to update their Clever Badges for the new school year. These are the little QR code pendants that allow students to log in with their cameras, bypassing the need to type the long usernames and passwords. Here are a reminder video and How-To.

Adding Grades from Google Classroom Assignments to Aeries Gradebook

Aeries-Google Classroom Automatically Adding Students

Updates to Google Classroom

Google Classroom announced some exciting updates this week which will make using Google Classroom even easier to use for teachers.

You can access these new features by clicking on the blue plus button in the lower right corner of your Google Classroom page.

New features include the ability to reuse an old post (including posts that are part of archived classes), the option to create a question for students (as opposed to announcements or assignments), and the ability to move a post within the Stream.

The additional update of creating a Google Calendar associated with your Google Classroom should be coming soon.