IHMS Tech Tips

This is exciting, folks!  Parents finally have some view of Google Classroom.  Here is what it's all about  ( https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/6388136 ): Keep track of your student’s classroom progress through guardian email summaries. You can choose the frequency of the emails—daily or weekly—and you can unsubscribe or remove yourself from Classroom at any time. Guardian email summaries include: Missing work —Work that’s late at the time the email was sent Upcoming work —Work that’s due today and tomorrow (for daily emails) or work that’s due in the upcoming week (for weekly emails) Class activity —Announcements, assignments, and questions recently posted by teachers As a guardian, before you can receive email summaries, you must receive and accept an invitation from your student’s teacher or school.  Here is an example of what a summary looks like. By default, this feature is turned off in your Google Classrooms.  To turn it...

Welcome back!  As you (hopefully) have heard, this year we are using Skyward as a means to communicate assignments to parents instead of the Google Calendar.  This is less work for you since you are already using Skyward anyway! Instead of reinventing the wheel, I am posting a 3 minute tutorial I found onYouTube that very clearly explains how to post something on the Skyward calendar that is viewable to both students and parents.  There is no need to have any other calendar beyond this point.  Having all teachers post their assignments and classwork in Skyward allows for the students to have everything in one place, so please make sure you are keeping up with this on a weekly basis. Please keep in mind that students will not have access to Skyward until later this week, but after that, they should be logging into their Skyward accounts EVERY DAY!