5/20/19

MANDATORY DEPARTMENT MEETING 

TUESDAY 5/21/19 - FX Lecture Hall

We will review new (and not so new) Final Exam procedures for Canvas and Google Classroom, Summer Reading Assignments and Student Failures (I will email you the trimester grade calculator)...

Writing Workshop - Wednesday

Some of you will be attending a writing workshop session on Wednesday.  There will be a session from 9 -11 and one from 12:30 - 2:30.  I am pulling as many people as I can (from all grade levels) who have "off" periods during these times due to a shortage of coverage options.  I will email you your time slots individually.  The teachers that attend will turn-key the information to the rest of the department at a department meeting or via PLC groups... 

Art Show - The PCTI Art Show is Wednesday - come out and see the work of our talented artists!

End of the Year Info

Follow the link 

https://sites.google.com/site/pctiprofessionalportal/end-of-year-information?pli=1

Mini-Grants

Proposals for Ed Foundation Mini-Grants must be submitted by May 24, 2019

Honors Meetings

Please schedule your honors meetings as soon as possible. I would look to book the meetings in the first week of June so that we don't interfere with final exam reviews... Check the facilities schedule for options and book the date by sending the facility request to Billy Vacca.  Email me the meeting date and time so I can arrange for coverages if needed and send out passes to the students.   Your summer assignments should be posted on a "summer" Google Classroom page - Canvas pages may not be ready because the students may not be scheduled in time before your meetings.  The assignments will also be posted on the website, but you should have another vehicle for them to view the assignments. 

Canvas Final Exams 

For those of you who will be using Canvas for Final Exams:

• One person per course will enter the test into the Supervisor page.
• We will label them with the course name, year and course number.
• The settings will be checked and when the test is approved, it can be copied to individual teacher pages right from the supervisor's page.
• I will be sending out directions with screenshots -  Yesenia in technology is preparing this for us.  In the meantime, if your test is ready, you can enter into to supervisor page.  There are modules set up for each grade level.  
• After importing the exam into this class, it will appear in "quizzes." 
• Then in the appropriate module, just hit the + button and follow prompts to add the document.  
• Yessenia is creating "How to Import" directions - this can also be done via the Commons.

Here are the course numbers for all of our courses - please include the course number in your exam title when you load it. 

Example:  2019 Eng I Final Exam 0011

• English I Gen Ed          0011
• English I Honors          0022
• English II Gen Ed         0021
• English II Honors         0022
• English II Concepts      0033
• English III Gen Ed        0031
• English III Honors        0032
• English III Concepts     0033
• English IV Gen Ed         0041
• AP Lit                               0042
• English IV Honors         0043
• English IV Concepts      0044
• AP Lang                            0521
• English I Resource         0501
• English II Resource        0502
• English III Resource       0503
• English IV Resource       0504

• English I Learning Disabled    0561
• English II Learning Disabled   0562
• English III Learning Disabled  0563
• English IV Learning Disabled   0564

• English I SN      0521
• English II SN    0522
• English III SN   0523
• English IV SN   0524

• Creative Writing                       0114
• Public Speaking                        0152
• College Learning Strategies   0407
• Journalism                                0447

*If you are using Google Classroom, you will proceed the way you have done in the past - just make sure all of your settings are correct and all information/directions are posted and clear. Make sure that if you are asking students to submit essays to turnitin.com that those directions are posted.  If you are using images or pictures for any reason, please make sure they are viewable when you load your test.  We don't really have Google Tech Staff in the Control room that day, so make sure your test is solid.  

We will have time to discuss this in further detail at the department meeting on Tuesday, so if you are not sure about the process, hold off until then.  At the meeting, we will need to make sure one person per course will upload each test so coordinate that with your grade level teams prior to the meeting. 

CANVAS IMPORT INSTRUCTIONS TO LOAD TESTS INTO THE SUPERVISOR PAGE:

Yesenia Collazo sent us the instructions: please see below.

Click on Settings (towards the left)

“Import Course Content” (on the right)

Content Type: Copy a Canvas Course

Search for the course you want to extract the exam from

*IMPORTANT* in the Content option: PLEASE choose “Select Specific Content”

Import

Once this is done, you will have to select the quiz by clicking on the blue “Select

Content” button

A list of the content in your class will appear please click on the Final Exam and

click “Select Content”

Taking Attendance for Class Coverages

Below are the instructions on how to take attendance when you’re covering a colleague’s class:

Go to the special substitute link: https://ps.pcti.tec.nj.us/subs

You cannot be logged into your Teacher account at the same time so sign out first!

OR

Open an “Incognito” (private) window and sign into the subs account using that window.

• Select Passaic County Technical Institute
• Select the teacher you’re covering for
• The password is the numerical day followed by Bulldog with a capital B
• So that means today’s sub password is: 16Bulldog
• Tomorrow’s sub password will be 17Bulldog
• Take attendance as normal

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