Transferring your G Suite content to a personal account (update)

If your future plans for next year take you away from FUHSD, your Google account will be de-activated after your last day with the district.  If you would like to keep any work or content from your account, you must take steps to transfer or archive it. The easiest way is to use Google Transfer, especially if you have lots of data, many documents or just want to keep all the work you’ve done. This essentially downloads your entire account (with a few exceptions) to a personal Google account. Here's a short video on how it works:

You can also see the district instructions for how to create copies of files if you only have a few documents you want to keep. 

Using Turnitin

Homestead subscribes to Turnitin, a powerful online tool for checking student work for plagiarism, giving student feedback, giving students the ability to peer-edit, and grade. Here are a few short videos to get you started on using it.

Enrolling and setting up classes

Viewing similarity reports and using rubrics to grade

Using Turnitin with assignments in Canvas

Top 10 things to know about using an HHS Chromebook

We've all been using Chromebooks in the classroom for a while now, but not every student has equal access, and not every student (or teacher!) is experienced in how to get the most out of the classroom Chromebooks. Here are the top 10 things to know about how to use a Chromebook:

1. Its main job is to let you access the Internet using the Google Chrome browser. Using your school Google Drive account and the G Suite apps is the easiest way to work.
   
2. It has some special keys:
   
   
   
3. Log in using your Google Account (FUHSD username and password). Log off with Ctrl-Shift-Q twice, or by selecting menu on lower right side.
   
   
4. You can close the lid and it will keep all of your tabs and sites open; just log back in when you open the lid!
5. The Chromebook trackpad is like the mouse. Tap or click with one finger to select. To right-click for more options, click with two fingers
6. Click on the clock (in the lower right) to bring up settings, brightness, battery life, keyboard options, volume and more. 
7. The search icon (circle in the lower left) will let you find any apps on your Chromebook. You can search by name or bring up the whole desktop to see what’s available. Use the Chrome Web Store to add your own apps.  
   
   
   
8. There are some special shortcuts you can use for a Chromebook:

   Ctrl + Tab	Switch between tabs in a browser	Right-click on tab and click “pin tab”	Keeps the tab open as long as you want
   Alt + Search	Caps Lock	Ctrl + Shift + Q	Sign out of your Google account

   
   
9. You can learn some keyboard shortcuts to speed up all your work! These work exactly the same on a PC. For a Mac, just replace the CTRL key with the Command key.
   

   Ctrl + C	Copy whatever is highlighted	Ctrl + Z	Undo the last thing you did
   Ctrl + V	Paste whatever is copied	Ctrl + F	Open up a search bar to find a word in your doc
   Ctrl + X	Cut whatever is highlighted	Ctrl + B	Bold whatever is highlighted
   Ctrl + I	Italicize whatever is highlighted	Ctrl + U	Underline whatever is highlighted

   
   
10. Exploring won’t break anything! Try new stuff and share what you’ve learned!

Tech updates for teachers

1. Color printer for teachers
There is a color laser printer now available for teachers in the staff lounge. Please log in to the computer next to the printer in order to print. Teachers get 20 color pages per semester.

2. Admin privileges for school-owned devices
You may have noticed that you now have “admin privileges” on your computers (if you didn’t already), which will allow you to authorize standard software updates and downloads.  Here’s how to check to see if you have admin access. If you don’t think you have this, please submit a help ticket and we will take care of it.
3. Please exercise caution for yourself and for our organization!

• Beware of “phishing” emails. Don’t click links in emails you aren’t expecting, even if you think you know the sender, and double-check the email address (not just the name in the “from” field).
• Protect your password. Make a complex password (write it down if you need to) or use a password manager.
• Please check with the tech team before downloading any programs. In general, download with caution and as little as possible. Our students are primarily using G Suite and Chromebooks which are all online and require no downloads. If we do the same we make it easier for them and us.

Tech training for teachers
The Tech Team will be offering Lunch and Learning “office hours” on Fridays during lunch in the library conference room. We will have a topic to share but feel free to bring your tech questions as well (like a help ticket, but in person).

Teacher and student library accounts through Santa Clara County Library District

We are excited to partner with the Santa Clara County Library District to provide all FUHSD teachers and students a SCC library account. This includes all online resources, including newspapers, databases and e-books.

Students may particularly be interested in resources like:

• Biography in Context – comprehensive information about historical and contemporary figures from throughout time, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.
• Lands and Peoples – an resource for students filled with text and images about countries, cultures, and current events.
• Science Online – presents a broad range of scientific and mathematical disciplines through definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies and experiments.
• Oxford English Dictionary – contemporary and historical meanings and pronunciation of words, using quotations to illustrate usage
• Wall Street Journal Online – comprehensive digital coverage from 1984 to the present
• World History in Context -- scholarly analysis, full-text periodicals, reference works, and primary documents covering events, movements and individuals

Outside of research, the library account also provides ebooks including graphic novels, emagazines, plus streaming movies and music through sources like Kanopy and Freegal. Students also have access to Brainfuse, an online service offering free homework help, live tutoring, test preparation and writing assistance.

Access your free account at http://student.sccl.org. 

Student e-account usernames are in the following format:
S + Student ID + FUHSD  (example: s5101317fuhsd). 
The PIN number for students is birth month and birth day (example: May 1 is 0501). 

Teacher e-account usernames are in the following format:
S + Staff ID + FUHSD  (example:  s1234fuhsd) 

The PIN for staff is 1912

You can find your Staff ID in IC under "local staff number".

Using images legally (and teaching your students )

Teachers and students both use images in a variety of ways, most often to include in posters and presentations as illustrations of concepts or ideas. However, often we just copy and paste the first image we find, without giving much thought to how or whether we have the right to use it. Here are some quick tips to demonstrate for your students, and to model by using them yourself.

First and easiest is to make sure you and your students are aware of the Usage Rights tool in a Google Image search. By clicking on the "tools" button after doing a search, you will open a secondary menu that includes "Usage Rights" (in addition to other helpful limiters like size, color and type). You can then filter all image results with the tag that meets your needs ("noncommercial reuse" is the broadest license category and would cover situations like inclusion in a presentation for a class). 



There are also a number of searchable alternatives that aggregate images that are available for free re-use under Creative Commons licensing. Several of these (Unsplash, Pixabay, Search Creative Commons) are linked on the Homestead Library website, and many more are listed here (from FreeTech4Teachers).

Finally, no matter where you find your images, you should provide as much credit as available. You might include licensing information:


"Dice" by jfh686 is licensed under CC BY 2.0 https://docs.google.com/document/d/10U4JxMPYVBgVgtghkt-sYD4sDBJjZAp_BzQQLsMUdN8/edit
  

Or you might provide a full citation:

Abejaobrera. Pineapples for sale in Bolgatanga, Upper East Region, Ghana. Wikimedia Commons. 23 June 2011.  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pineapples_for_sale_in_Bolgatanga,_Upper_East_Region,_Ghana.JPG

Here’s the specific information you’ll need to locate when citing an image you found on Google Images:

1. Full name of the image’s creator, such as the name of the photographer or illustrator (if available)
2. Formal title of the image (if available) or a description of the image
3. Name of the website where the image lives (Do not use Google as the name of the website!)
4. Publisher of the website where the image was found on
5. Date this information was published on their site
6. The URL

Be a good model for your students when using images yourself, and your students will follow!

Locked browser option for Google Quizzes in Classroom

Google Classroom is offering a beta version of Quizzes using a locked browser window. This prevents students from navigating away from the quiz and accessing other resources while the quiz is active. To try it, add a "quiz assignment" question from the Classwork page and toggle on the "locked mode" option.

Right now you have to create the quiz from the assignment, rather than being able to use a previously existing Google Form, but once the quiz exists, you can edit it from anywhere and treat it like a regular Google Forms quiz.

Students must be using a managed Chromebook (meaning a school-owned device) in order to access the quiz. When they click on the assignment, they will see a message that "locked mode is on" and that when they start the quiz, they will no longer be able to access other tabs. Students can close the quiz but will lose all progress (and you, as the form owner, will be notified). After a student submits the quiz, they will return to "unlocked" mode and resume normal access.

If you try it, send Google your feedback!