Seattle World School

Student Family Portal
Resources
Seattle World School/Resources/Technology Help: Students and Staff

Technology Help: Students and Staff

For Students

Look for this button at the top of your screen to translate this page.Busque este botón en la parte superior de su pantalla para traducir esta página

This page provides information on tools we use at school, as well as help for frequently asked questions (FAQs).For technology help videos on email, Schoology and more, subscribe to the Seattle World School Library YouTube channel

For Staff

This page provides some key training sites, an overview of the major platforms and tools we use at Seattle World School, as well as some FAQs. 

Sarah Johnson, sgjohnson@seattleschools.org if you need more guidance, and subscribe to the Seattle World School Library YouTube Channel for video tutorials.  There is a playlist for staff.

Digital Learning

The District has about a dozen Digital Learning Specialists who provide introductory training on many of the platforms and tools in the district. 

In addition key materials on Teams, Schoology, Office 365 and more are in our Schoology course for this year:

SPS Remote Learning Course 2020-2021.  Join it from within Schoology with the code WTBB-BBNV-NTG7J if you are not automatically added.

Schoology

Schoology is our Learning Management System, similar to Canvas and Blackboard.

  • Our district access is here at a specific URL (you can’t just Google Schoology and go to the general site). Bookmark it to your browser.

  • You log in with the same district ID and password you use for your computer and email. When not at school, you must add @seattleschools.org to your username to log in.

Webinars and Live Training Opportunities

The District Learning Specialists provide live weekly  introductory webinars during the school year. 

  • Our DLS will email us weekly with a schedule during the school year.  It can also be found at MySPS>Digital Learning. 

The World School technology committee also does “in-house” technology support in weekly “Tech Show and Shares.” This environment is much more free-wheeling and collaborative, where colleagues swap ideas and problem-solve together.

  • You can earn hours that count towards your 32 extra hours of tech pay for participating.
  • The schedule for 2020-2021 is TBD
  • You can access the Spring 2020 archive Tech Committee on SharePoint under Tech Show and Share RECAPS

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is also the SPS version of Slack and Zoom combined.  To enter, launch Teams either by entering the Office 365 suite and selecting Teams, or by searching Teams in the lower left corner of your district laptop.  Files posted to Teams also post to SharePoint in the Office 365 suite so you have multiple points of access.

Tools

For access to our online resource library of District subscriptions and partnerships, follow this link to the Online Academic Resources to see what we have and bookmark the page.

Email me sgjohnson@seattleschools.org for the general username and password for students and staff if you can’t get under under your usual login. Alternatively, you can log in through the Teacher Portal (Clever) to see the same resources.

For our school specific list of tools we find particularly successful for ELLs, head to the SWS Library webpage and look under the tab for Distance Learning.

Most non-district tools we list require you to make your own free account, except for three: 

  • IXL for which we have a school-based subscription.  Email me sgjohnson@seattleschools.org to get your setup information.

  • Library Link , a partnership between Seattle Public Library and Seattle Public Schools. At the bottom of the ELL Hub page are login instructions. Staff have a different login from students: 991 + enough zeros + your employee ID number to equal a 13 digit number.  Your PIN is the last four digits of your employee ID. A quick guide for students is also available.  I have many multilingual materials and lessons on my  Schoology page and usually co-teach library link resources whenever needed.

  • Talking Points is provided by the District beginning Fall 2020.  Talking Points is a multilingual texting app similar to Remind that protects your phone number and also allows you to set office hours restrictions when communicating with families and students.

  • Kahoot!  premier has been generously funded for us this year by the Seattle World School Fund.  Contact me, sgjohnson@seattleschools.org, if you’d like the subscription link.

FAQs:

How do I….