Passwords and Email and Scantron and such...

Hello all - a few techie notes to begin the second week of school.

Passwords

Thanks for your patience as we have tried to work out network logins for all our Upper School students.  We should be in really good shape as we begin this week, but if you find you are in a lab with a child locked out, please text M, and she will trouble-shoot the problem.

Each US student will have a password page by the end of the week (see below).  We have asked they keep this in their binders as a reference, as they have so very many passwords to remember.  We will also have copies on hand.

A few notes about Email.  

• Each US student has an HTS Email account, and we have told them this is the only account they should be using at school  (the ability to G-chat has been disabled, among other perks.)

• This Gmail account easily links to Google docs or Google drive.  If you are new to this and interested in using it with your students, let one of the Tech Nerds know, and we can help you out.  It is a handy way to manage and edit papers with your kids.

• It should be very easy for you to Email your students, as they are all in the directory.

• We have told the students that they may not Email during class time without teacher permission. 

• We have also told them that if they use the Email inappropriately, they will lose all network privileges at HTS for some amount of time.

Scantron

Scantron testing begins for Upper School students this week, and Lower School students next week, and will likely take most of our technology classes over the next three weeks.  This means that much of the "Tech 101" stuff we generally introduce at the beginning of the year is not happening for a while.   If you need one of us to help introduce some techie element to one of your classes over the next few weeks  (say, saving documents to the correct drive)  just let us know.