Tech-Tip

To get to the "general settings" menu to control the volume and brightness, as well as change inputs (Android/PC/HDMI) you can either swipe up from the very bottom of the screen or click on the floating quick access toolbar that hovers on the right and left side of the panel and click the bottom round blue button with three lines.

How to Attach Doc Cam to Laptop

Doc Cam Using Canvas Snowflake App

Doc Cam using Note

Doc Cam during a live Google Meet

Don't forget about your Clear Touch pens! They are a great way for students to interact with the screen without touching the actual screen. The pens are also super easy to clean between each student.

Do you need to mute the sound on your ClearTouch screen? Use the mute button on your ClearTouch remote to quickly turn it on and off.

This is an amazing guide from Kerley Elementary that has step-by-step help guides for everything Clear Touch.

Clear Touch Academy has on-demand courses with tutorials and training videos that you can view anytime.

Click here to register for the academy. After you register, you will have access to all the training resources.

A few course suggestions for getting started would be…

• Hardware Product Orientation

• Android Operating System Course

• Snowflake Getting Started

• Canvas App in Nuiteq Snowflake

A few follow up course suggestions would be...

• Collage App - for students casting from their Chromebooks up to the panel.

• Nuiteq Snowflake Web (Snow.Live Account) for creating lesson activities or assigning pre-made lesson activities for students to complete.

All virtual learning district communication and resources are housed on the Hutto ISD Virtual Learning Resource Site for Educators. The site is continuously updated with new information and resources. You can access this site through ClassLink or under Staff resources on the Hipponation.org site.

Click here for past Tech-Tips.

Here is a cheat sheet for parent questions. The document was originally made based on the most common parent problems and questions from campuses and technology.

You can now turn off student chat and screen sharing! Click on the blue shield with the white lock to access host controls. The teacher or staff member that starts the Google Meet with be the host of the Google Meet and have access to the controls.

Ashley Coombs, Maggie Connaughty, and Gladys Aguiar at CCES have been using their Clear Touch to view their virtual students while teaching in-person. They log into the PC side of the Clear Touch and type in their nickname link. The grid view is displayed on their Clear Touch screen. Then they log into their Google Meet link a second time on their cell phone or laptop to and use the camera to show the teacher.

Shout out John Garvey at VHES for using his Clear Touch screen to display Dyknow during his Google Meet synchronous lessons. He can actively see his student's screens and troubleshoot any issues they may be experiencing right away.

Miranda Migoni uses Google Forms and many other GSuite tools in a creative way to engage her students! Here is an example of a Google Form she created for a practice drill. Click "Make a copy" to make your own copy of her Google Form.

Elementary Instructional Technology Specialist

Email: caitlin.boyce@huttoisd.net

Secondary Instructional Technology Specialist

Email: kelly.hong@huttoisd.net