TechBytes

The beginning of the school year is a good time to review good habits for taking care of instructional materials, specifically Chromebooks.

To help you prepare students for their first devices, Common Sense Media has created a collection of lessons with videos and fun activities to introduce (and remind them of) that great responsibility.

Our Device Advice Collection contains these lessons for grades K–5:

• Caring for Our Devices
• Why We Pause for People
• Managing Device Distractions
• Our Device Charter

And if you teach older students, check out our new Digital Well-Being collections for middle school and high school!

Due to accounts that have access to student information, we need to set minimum password requirements as follow:

The updated password policy is as follows:

• Minimum 12 characters
• Minimum 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, and 1 number
• Must be significantly different from your previous password
• Do not reuse similar old passwords or use your name, username, or restricted words such as "Pasadena" or "password"
  
• Change password every 12 months

Timeline:

• Teachers will have from 9/1-10/15/2023 to reset passwords voluntarily.
• Starting 10/16/2023, new minimum requirements will be enforced. Teachers will need to change password on the next log in if they haven't updated it yet.

How to change your password:

1. Log in to Aeries
2. Click on your name in the top right corner
3. Select Change Password
4. Enter your old password, and then your new password twice to confirm.
5. Please adhere to the password policy when choosing a new password.

Do you use Hapara in your classroom? If you do and would like to give feedback directly to Hapara on features and tools you would like to see in the Hapara platform, please fill out THIS SURVEY. Responses go directly to Hapara for consideration in the future.

When setting up your classes in Canvas and Aeries, there are a few thing to remember to ensure your Grade Passback (pushing grades from your graded Canvas assignments) to Aeries operates optimally.

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