The FACE of Your Class
--Your CES Schoolwires Webpage
1. Keep your class webpage up-to date and be sure your section/webpage has:
 Your contact email on your main page.
 A professional bio, in the 3rd person, with a professional picture.
 Access for your students to all online resources they use for your class.
 Communication of upcoming events and assignments.
 A reason for parents and students to visit your webpage. Begin considering a class blog, calendar,
photo gallery, or headline news---just a few of the great tools available to you via your Schoolwires
class webpage. What is
the FACE of your Class?
2. Did you KNOW you can make webpages viewable only by a grade level of students or a
group of students or teachers? From your SiteManager, right click the Actions button, next to the page you
create in your section, choose Viewers and add the groups or individuals you want to be able to view that
page. Once you select a viewer, no one else can view that page. And only those you select can view the
page, and they have to log in to the website in order to view it. Students and teachers use their network
username and password to sign in to the CES website.
3. RSS Feeds are available for you to use on your webpage. For example, if you add a class
blog app to your webpage, you can easily add an RSS Feed button that parents can click so that every
time you add something to your class blog, it emails that parent. How?
a. In the blog app on your webpage, place a check next to RSS Feeds in your app Options under Social Settings.
b. On your webpage, you will see the RSS feed icon in the lower right corner of your app:
c. To subscribe to the app, on the school webpage, you will click that RSS feed icon under the app. Then click the URL
link under Subscribe. For a detailed handout, see the Technology Assist channel from our CES webpage. Choose
Instructional Technologies/Software & Online Resources/Schoolwires/RSS Feeds OR click this link:
http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/Page/9634
4. You can Sync the Schoolwires calendar to your Outlook or Google Calendar. Detailed
directions are at this link: http://www.mtnbrook.k12.al.us/Page/9634
5. Reservation calendars. Please sign up for your laptops on the reservation calendar. And
don’t forget if you need a set of laptops during a current week, and your grade level’s equipment is in use,
you can sign up for another cart that is not in use. You must sign in to Schoolwires to see the calendars.
6. When you sign in to Schoolwires, you now have access to the CES Internal Forms webpage
that AP Watkins created for you—leave forms, etc.
7. Student and Staff Resources –on CES webpage—quick access to purchased and curriculum online
resources for students AND quick access for staff to online resources like 365, IT Direct, Employee Self
Service, Webmail, etc.
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Shared Folders/Drives on our Network
--Review AND a Change
G/
--your individual drive. All staff and students have this drive—indicated by your login. My
Documents is mapped to this place. This is the most secure drive in that no other staff or
students have rights to this folder. When you just save and don’t tell it where to go, this is
normally where it goes.
R/staff
--the Intranet Drive. The office group and instructional coaches can place information for staff
to access. Staff can open a copy or save a copy to another drive but can’t delete or edit the
original file placed here by the office group.
S/Students
--this drive is divided by grade levels. A great “turn in a copy” drive for easy access for teachers.
Students are encouraged to always save in their G drive first for security reasons, but then can
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save a copy of their file here so that their teacher can access the file. It is fairly secure in that all
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first grade students and first grade teachers have access to the Grade 1 folder on this drive. The
yellow--coming specials folders like Music, all students and the music teachers can access since they teach all
soon—will let
students. Only the person who puts the file in can delete it. Only the student who puts the file
you know when it in will see. Students won’t see each other’s work. Teachers can see their grade level folder and
is completed)
all files in it and delete from it. Cleaned out each summer. (For collaboration on files, see the
P/Students “projects” drive below.)
--your “collaborate with your colleagues/team/group of teachers” drive. This is a secure
S/Staff
location where only your grade/group of teachers has access to your collaborative folders. No
students have access here. So, all first grade teachers have access to the first grade
s/staff/grade 1 folders: meetings, miscellaneous, and assessments. Never cleaned out unless
you as a staff member with rights on that folder cleans it out. There is one folder in S/Staff that
the entire faculty and staff can see, edit, delete files from and that is S/Staff/CES Faculty—we
do clean this one folder in s/staff out periodically.
P/Students
--very similar layout to s/students—created as a place for students to save a copy of their
project they are working on collaboratively and for teachers to access their work as well. Rights
are similar to s/students in that all first grade staff and students have access to the grade 1
student folder here and all students and music teachers have access to the music folder here.
The difference here since it is for students to work together, anyone with rights to the folder
can edit or delete the files here. So any student in the first grade can edit/delete any file in the
grade 1 folder. This location is not a secure place to save. This is also the location where a
teacher can put a file and all of her students can open it and save a copy to their own drive. All
grade level students and teachers can see, edit, and delete files here. Cleaned out each
summer.
M/Media
--the media drive. Staff all have access to this drive. All staff can add files here, edit files here
and delete files here. The least secure location on our server. A place where you can put large
movie files, pictures, music—any media that you need others to access. Would be a location to
have a folder where staff drop pictures or movie files from their classroom for office, broadcast
or other staff to access. Cleaned out each summer.
C/Users/
--very rarely discussed location on your computer’s hard drive where most files download. It is
your login/
per computer. When you download a file from the web, on that computer, if you don’t tell it
downloads
where to go, and you can’t find it, it is often here. Once it finishes downloading to this folder on
your hard drive, you can copied it to your G or other network drive.
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