Elisse Newey came to me with an issue that hasn't cropped up yet in many classrooms on this campus, but one which I think many of us will run across often in the near future. It seems that so much of the workflow in her classroom is now done on the iPad or using a web based resource that she had no papers going out in the Thursday folders. Her concern was that, though she loved her new, paperless system, she still needed a way to share student work and the rubrics she used to grade that work with parents. So, she needed to find a secure place for all of that to reside AND to be shared with parents.
We looked at Weebly, but it wasn't quite secure enough, so Janet Couvillion, the wonderful Ed Tech at FTE, suggested that we try Three Ring. Three Ring is web based, but they also have an app. Elisse dove into this project and here are some of the things that she discovered:
1. She could add all of her students and then Three Ring would issue each student a unique code for login purposes.
2. She could tie those student accounts to a parent email thereby giving the parent access to just his/her student's information.
3. She could tag uploaded student work (see pictures below) with the name of the assignment and then use those tags to locate all student work with that tag.
4. She could use that same tagging system to tag pictures of an event to share with parents. For example, she could tag Sam in all of the pictures of Mustang Mania and when his parents log in they will see all of Sam's pics from that event.
Thanks to Elisse for all of her hard work on this project!
We looked at Weebly, but it wasn't quite secure enough, so Janet Couvillion, the wonderful Ed Tech at FTE, suggested that we try Three Ring. Three Ring is web based, but they also have an app. Elisse dove into this project and here are some of the things that she discovered:
1. She could add all of her students and then Three Ring would issue each student a unique code for login purposes.
2. She could tie those student accounts to a parent email thereby giving the parent access to just his/her student's information.
3. She could tag uploaded student work (see pictures below) with the name of the assignment and then use those tags to locate all student work with that tag.
4. She could use that same tagging system to tag pictures of an event to share with parents. For example, she could tag Sam in all of the pictures of Mustang Mania and when his parents log in they will see all of Sam's pics from that event.
Thanks to Elisse for all of her hard work on this project!
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