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Otus–Exciting Free LMS You Want to Meet

Ask a Tech Teacher

There are a lot of options out there, but none had enough of the characteristics that most teachers I know look for with an LMS, namely: delivers content to students in a variety of formats. works across all platforms–iPads, web, Chromebooks. tracks student progress on assigned activities. includes reminders of activities.

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Navigating Your Journey to Remote Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The district distributed 1,300 Chromebooks to its middle school students and decided to pay $4,600 to provide wireless access for any student who didn’t have it at home. “We Fully utilize a learning management system (LMS) if one is in place. Consider having virtual office hours or use communication tools embedded in each LMS.

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How to Create a Paperless Classroom

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They don’t need to meet in a physical location or call each other on the phone. Give students a method to work together using forums, LMS Discussion Boards, blogs, and even Twitter. Encourage students to meet in study groups via virtual rooms like Google Hangouts. quick methods like texting are fine.

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Snow Day? 7 Ways to Keep Teaching

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To meet state and national requirements (and receive critical funding), schools must be open a minimum number of days each year. The first four are virtual meeting programs while the last three are robust Learning Management Systems that include everything required to run an online class: Big Blue Button. Google Hangouts.

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10 Ways to Use Screencasting for Formative Assessment

The CoolCatTeacher

Specifically, I’ll mention features of Screencastify , the tool I recommend for students to use for Google Chrome or Chromebooks. (If Screencastify is to Chromebooks what Explain Everything has been to iPads all these years — a formative assessment tool well-suited to any device running Google Chrome. Demonstrating a skill.

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4 Great Alternatives to Google Classroom

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This includes typical LMS (Learning Management Systems) functions like homework, classwork, schedules, quizzes, resources, and gradebooks so stakeholders–teachers and students–can access them from any location and any digital device. workshops and online meetings. More on LMSs: Need an LMS next year?

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Great Activities for the First Week of School

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Review the class LMS. Students get to talk about their memories from summer and teachers get to catch up on what the rest of the world did while they were in summer training, webinars, and virtual meetings. These tech tools may include: the school’s LMS. Prepare English Language Learners to participate fully in class.

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