Erin McAninch
High School Mathematics
Teacher Efficiency PD
Old School
Email/SIS
Ctrl Freak
Favorites
F What?
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Old School questions follow
Question
Phone Tricks
Answer
Did you learn something?
Directory
Call Logs
Question
Red Gradebook – Do you still use it?
Answer
Red Gradebook - focus
Font and size - Arial 10 point, row height 21.5
Color code IEPs and achievement levels
Color code for finals policy
Question
Seating Chart Tricks – remember this is old school
Answer
Seating Chart Tricks
Sticky Notes and sheet protectors
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Substitution folder
Answer
Substitution folder
Form
Folder
Question
Anyone have any old school efficiency tools?
Answer
You win!
Category 2 questions follow
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Parent Email Folder
Answer
Outlook
All folders, right click on your name, new
folder, label parents 2016-17
Question
Email Parents in SIS
Answer
Save these as word documents for the future
Open SIS, click on the three people for a class, click
on the envelope on the right side of the screen, type
subject heading, type email, send.
Question
Export class rosters to excel
Answer
Uses:
Attendance
Sub Folder
Google forms (officer elections)
Grading
Directions: Open a gradebook, Actions, Reports,
Export to file, XLS file, Export, Open excel file and
copy paste to a different excel file
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Gmail
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1) Set up automatic forward to Outlook
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTHPThL1Y4k
2) Tell students to put their school email on their
phone
3) C – compose new message
4) Tab + return/enter – send message
5) U – return to inbox
6) R – reply
7) A – reply all
8) F – forward
9) # - delete message
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Google Classroom
Google Forms
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Push out announcements for classes and clubs
Collect information
Teacher evaluations by students
Formative Assessments
Category 3 questions follow
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Cut, Copy, Paste
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Cut – Ctrl X
Copy – Ctrl C
Paste – Ctrl V
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New ones?
Undo
Redo
Zoom In
Zoom Out
Messed up? Return font to original size
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Undo – Ctrl Z
Redo – Ctrl Y
Zoom In – Ctrl +
Zoom Out – Ctrl –
Messed up? Return font to original size – Ctrl 0 (zero)
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Even cooler?
Open a new tab
Sift through tabs
Search google if open
Bookmark a page
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Open a new tab – Ctrl T
Sift through tabs – Ctrl Page Up, Alt Tab Tab, …
Search google if open – Ctrl K
Bookmark a page – Ctrl D
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Favorite Controls
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Select All – Ctrl A
Find anything - Ctrl F
Highlight multiple items – Ctrl + Shift + arrow key
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Do you have more?
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A for awesome!
Category 4 questions follow
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Locking your computer
Old way – Ctrl Alt Delete, “Lock this computer”
Answer
Quick getaway – Best way ever
Windows button and “L”
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Remind program
Answer
Remind https://www.remind.com/
Classes
Clubs
Question
How to view two files at the same time
Answer
Helps when you want to look at two documents at
once
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Drag and Pull tabs out (google)
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Helps when you want to view two tabs at once
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What to check your grammar before emailing
home?
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https://www.grammarly.com/
Category 5 questions follow
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Fn – what is this button near the bottom left corner?
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Access anything in blue on your screen.
I prefer Fn + F1 = turn off volume
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If you are curious:
F1
F2
F3
F4
Answer
• F1 – Chrome Help, opens new tab for help
• F2 – Rename an icon, Alt + Ctrl F2 opens a document
in word, Toggle edit as HTML
• F3 – Same as Ctrl F, Shift + F3 in a word doc changes a
word from lowercase to uppercase, Windows + F3
Advanced find
• F4 – Alt + F4 closes current window, Ctrl F4 closes tab
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If you are curious:
F5
F6
F7
F8
Answer
• F5 – Reload current web page “Refresh”, starts a
slideshow in powerpoint
• F6 – Reduces some laptop speaker volume
• F7 – Spell check or grammar check in word, Shift
F7 is thesaurus on highlighted word
• F8 - Programming
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If you are curious:
F9
F10
F11
F12
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• F9 – Refresh a word document, send/receive
email in outlook
• F10 – Shift + F10 Simulates right click mouse
button
• F11 – Turn full screen on/off
• F12 – Opens developer tools (programming)
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Anything else?
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Thanks for attending!