Greetings CHAT families!
Due to the changing landscape of social interactions because of COVID-19, all educational plans and practices need to be flexible for the unforeseeable future. With that in mind, I’ve planned my classes for this year to work whether we can be face to face or distance. Below are explanations and descriptions of the resources I will use this year.
The G-Suite for CHAT Classes
Kim Nelson has made some videos and a teaching sheet for using your CHAT email account and getting into Google Classroom. She uses an Algebra 1 class as an example, but the steps will be the same for my writing classes.
Google Drive
· With the G-Suite, students have access to Google Drive, which is a multi-dimensional platform for documents, slides, spreadsheets, etc. Think of it as a filing system for your digital content.
· To get started, students should create separate folders for each of their classes. For some classes, they might want folders within a folder. (e.g. A Writing 2 folder could have subfolders for Essays, Grammar, Literature.)
Google Classroom
· All assignments for the semester will be posted Google Classroom even if we’re face to face. The assignments will come in one or more of the following formats:
o An attached Google Doc on which students can type
o A quiz or form that students can complete
o A discussion question on which students can type a comment or respond to a classmate
o A worksheet made with the Rocketbook template. (More on this later.)
o An assignment where a student can upload a document or some other type of electronic work
· Students will need to remember to “Turn in” their homework via a button on the assignment page.
· Google Classroom has an attached gradebook and should be used for checking for missing work. For accurate scores and grades, you should check the your student’s Google Gradebook Sheets.
· Google Classroom also has a calendar that keeps track of due dates for assignments.
Rocketbook Templates and App
· All worksheets have been overlaid on the Rocketbook template. Using the Rocketbook app, students can scan their finished worksheets and send them to the Google Classroom assignment.
· If we are face to face, students can hand in material in class or upload it to the Google Classroom assignment.
· You must have the Rocketbook app on your phone for this to work.
· Make sure your Rocketbook app is set to save scanned material as pdfs.
o I suggest the following destinations:
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-- to the student’s chatclasses.com email
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-- to a Google Drive folder labeled as the class’s Quick Writes & Class Note-taking (e.g. Writing 1 Quick Writes & Class Note-taking)
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-- to a Google Drive folder labeled as the class’s assignments (Writing 1 Assignments)
o You can also share documents to other destinations (see 
). If you have the Google Classroom mobile app, you can upload the scan to an assignment.
· You can label your Rocketbook pages with double hashtags.
o For example -- ## Tammy Prichard Grammar Aug 27 ## -- will label the document. This makes it easier to find it in your Google folder.
Communication
· Blog: I send weekly notes in an email and post them on the class blog. I will also use the blog for sharing other information, such as videos, websites, etc.
· Office Hours – Thursdays, 4:00 – 5:00 , and Tuesdays, 4:00 – 5:00.
o This is new for me this year, but I feel that if we are at any time distance learning, students might need more help than a Zoom class offers. I will have my Zoom class open during that time.
· Zoom: If our classes are at any time online, we will meet in Tamera Prichard’s Zoom classroom. (password: chat)
o Note: Google Classroom offers a Google Meet address for the classes, but at this time CHAT will not be using those.
· “Where to find worksheets and materials?”
o Attached to Class Notes emails.
o Attached to Google Classroom assignments
o In the shared folder for your class
§ Writing 1
§ Writing 2
§ Writing 3
§ Note: These documents can only be accessed by students with CHAT emails; they are also set to be “View Only.”
o On the Gradebook Sheets after the assignment has been posted on Classroom.
· “How can students hand in homework?”
o When we’re face to face, all work can be handed in physically in class
o For face to face OR distance learning: Via the Google Classroom assignment (using the attached document or uploading material)
o If and only if the Rocketbook app is not working or a student is still in the process of figuring out Google Classroom
§ Send an electronic version (i.e. pdf, Google docs, or Word document – NO Pages or photos) via email.
§ The specific name of the assignment must be in the subject line.
§ Send only one assignment per email.
