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EdTech Newsletter

EdTech Newsletter

February 23, 2024

NEW!

  • Educational Technology Helpful Tips!
  • Zoom
  • Dallas Assessment Navigator (D.A.N.)
  • PowerSchool SIS
  • Application Training and Support
  • ServiceNow

RECURRING

  • Dallas ISD Portal
  • Seesaw
  • Professional and Digital Learning
  • Clever
  • Little SIS for Google Classroom
  • SchoolMint

Educational Technology Helpful Tips

Find Dallas ISD news, Educational Technology updates, school calendars, helpful resources, and more!

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How do I use my MacBook? 🤔

Visit the Dallas ISD MacBook Air Google Site to learn MacBook Basics and find Additional MacBook Resources.

Want more Helpful Tips?

Visit Educational Technology's Helpful Tips page on your Dallas ISD Portal Dashboard for additional resources.

Zoom

Share Computer Screen and Audio in a Zoom Meeting

Follow these instructions to share your computer screen or audio in a Zoom meeting.

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Step 1:

Log into Zoom through the Dallas ISD Portal, 1. https://portal.dallasisd.org/.

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Step 2:

Launch the desktop Zoom application by signing in with your dallasisd credentials.

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Step 3:

Start your meeting and click Share Screen.

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Step 4:

1. If you want to share your computer screen and audio, as in a video demonstration, select the screen on which you will display the video.


Make sure to check the boxes next to Share Sound and Optimize for video clip (optional) to ensure participants will be able to hear the corresponding audio.

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Step 5:

1. After you click Share, the participants will see your shared screen as well as hear its associated audio.

Dallas Assessment Navigator (D.A.N.)

The Online Assessment Management & Support Team is available to provide assistance and training for online assessment platforms used across the district!


Contact Information

oams@dallasisd.org

Celina Jimenez | celjimenez@dallasisd.org

Jorge Aguirre jaguirre@dallasisd.org

June Malone | jumalone@dallasisd.org

Kelly Morgan | kellmorgan@dallasisd.org


H. B. Bell Building

2909 N Buckner Blvd, Dallas, TX 75228


To continue to receive the Online Assessment Management & Support Team updates please

complete the OAMS Contact List FORM.

PowerSchool SIS

PowerSchool New Look and Virtual Tours

Beginning March 2nd PowerSchool will have a new modern look and feel. Functionality is the same, but finding your favorite reports and pages may take a bit of exploring.


To support users with the change in PowerSchool’s navigation, there are several training opportunities throughout the month of march: PowerSchool Virtual Tours & Ed Tech - Application Training, & Support online webinars.*

PowerSchool Virtual Tours:

Please use the link below to join a guided walk-through of PowerSchool’s new look. Learn how to save your favorite pages and reports to a quick access menu.


The brief virtual tours offer multiple come-&-go 30 minute sessions during the weeks of February 26th and March 4th. The same link will be used for all sessions.


To join the Google Meets video meeting, click this link:

https://meet.google.com/srj-quka-dwh


Tuesday, February 27 - 8:30 am - 9:00 am

Tuesday, February 27 - 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm


Wednesday, February 28 -12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

Wednesday, February 28 - 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm


Monday, March 4 - 8:30 am - 9:00 am

Monday, March 4 - 11:30 am - 12:00 pm


Tuesday, March 5 - 10:00 am - 10:30 am

Tuesday, March 5 - 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm


Wednesday, March 6 - 8:30 am - 9:00 am

Wednesday, March 6 - 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

Wednesday, March 6 - 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm


Thursday, March 7 - 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm


*Please review the Application Training and Support section of this newsletter for more information about training for PowerSchool's New Look and Feel.

Questions about PowerSchool? Contact Student Data Services.

Application Training and Support (ATS)

PowerSchool Update Trainings

The ATS team is offering multiple sessions to help PowerSchool admin users feel right at home with the new look.


Register in Cornerstone for “2024 PowerSchool Update Training (ATS)” using the following link:

https://dallasisd.csod.com/ui/lms-learning-details/app/event/9d176c53-9c28-4ab8-913c-06154dbf80fc

ATS Training Schedule and Course Catalog

The Application Training and Support team's Training Schedule and Course Catalog for Spring 2024 are available in Cornerstone.


The attached course catalog is linked under Quick Links on the ATS website. Training schedules, including times and locations, are organized on each application’s resource page, i.e. PowerSchool Resources, Oracle EBS Resources, etc., by subject.


Please register for any classes you are interested in through Cornerstone. If you have any questions or require further support, please reach out to the ATS team by submitting a ticket via ServiceNow.

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Need Oracle Help?

Please submit a request for assistance with Oracle through ServiceNow using the following instructions.

ServiceNow

Checking System Statuses from the Self-Service Portal

System statuses can be viewed from the Self-Service Portal in the case of any outages.

To check the status of our systems from the Self-Service Portal, click on System Status.

The Current Status and Planned Maintenance can be viewed from the System Status page.

A Status History overview is also visible for the current day, as well as the previous four days

Where's the WAIP?

Click here to find Dallas ISD's most recent Weekly Administrative Information Packets (WAIPs), managed by School Leadership!

Dallas ISD Portal

Are you accessing your applications through Dallas ISD Portal?

If not, we recommend accessing your applications through the Dallas ISD portal to remain SSO enabled.


When you sign in to the Dallas ISD Portal, you are instantly signed in to all of your applications at once. You can switch between applications seamlessly, without having to sign in to each one separately.

How do I access my applications through Dallas ISD Portal?

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Step 1:

Go to the Dallas ISD portal website, portal.dallasisd.org.

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Step 2:

Login with your EAD username and password.

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Step 3:

Click Dashboard, then select Applications from the drop-down menu.

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Step 4:

A list of all of your applications will appear. You can open any application on this page without signing in again.

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TIP! (Part 1)

Bookmark your most used apps to access them from the Dashboard.


From the Applications page, hover your mouse over the application, then click the ribbon in the bottom left corner.

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TIP! (Part 2)

Return back to the Dashboard by clicking Applications in the navigation bar, then select Dashboard from the drop-down menu.


The selected application is now a bookmark on your Dashboard.

Seesaw

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What's new in Seesaw?

Seesaw has released TONS of new features for PreK – 2 teachers this year - including a new workflow for assigning activities, a formative assessment feature, and new collections designed to introduce students to Seesaw’s multimodal features & build classroom community!


Check out What’s New in Seesaw (live recording) or work through this self-paced course to learn more!

Resources and Guides

Visit the Digital Learning in Early Learning for resources, guides, and tutorials specific to Seesaw!


Dive into our Texas Reading Academies-aligned Seesaw Activities! These activities are organized by TRA Module and are ready to assign to students. Activities are available in both English and Spanish.

Additional Support

Please contact the Seesaw team directly at seesaw@dallasisd.org for any questions, problems, or concerns you may have when using Seesaw. Be sure to include the following information: name, grade, campus, and student information, as needed. Submitting a Help Desk Ticket for Seesaw issues may delay the time it takes to give you the needed assistance.

Professional and Digital Learning

For more information on the Dallas ISD Professional and Digital Learning department, please visit their website.

Clever

Substitutes assigned to org 000 now have automatic access to HMH Apps Ed: your friend in learning, MyHrw and ThinkCentral via Clever!

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Little SIS for Google Classroom

Little SIS Premium is a web app add-on to Little SIS Classroom that can create and sync Google Classroom classes with student information system (SIS) data. For more information, please see the attached FAQ and document.

Little SIS Teacher FAQs

Little SIS Coming Soon

SchoolMint

Viewing Enrollment Statuses

The DISD-Enrollment report provides data for most enrollment and registrations in all statuses. The report can be found under Enrollment Reports in SchoolMint. Follow the steps below to generate the report:

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Step 1:

Click the Reports Icon from the top right on the home screen.

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Step 2:

Scroll and find the Enrollment Reports section, then click the Run icon to run the report.

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Step 3:

The data will generate for your campus, click Export Data in the top right to export to an Excel spreadsheet.

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