Edline

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[[image:Edline.jpg align="right" caption="improve communication online" link="http://www.edline.net/"]]Explaining Edline

 * To [|Students - Info Update]
 * To [|Parents - Handout]and Directions
 * [|EDLINE and SWIPE] (What is?, How to setup?)
 * To Teachers, School Leaders (MSET 2010)
 * //simple version// [|Slideshow]
 * Handout [|.pdf], [|.doc]

Staff Development
[30 minute "show and tell", 15 minute "practice"] ([|handout], "Getting Started" [|resource]) ([|handout] [|.doc], [|resource]) [30 minute "show and tell", 15 minute "practice"] (agenda, presentation, [|resource]) (agenda, presentation, handout) [15 minutes] (agenda, presentation, handout) > [printing parent Activation Codes, adding a second parent, printing class lists, viewing as Student] (abbreviated handout for Administrators) >
 * < Distributing Edline Activation Codes to Parents: Policies and Procedures
 * Teacher Trainings**
 * Easy Grade Pro Web Basic**
 * Create a "combined class" seating chart for co-taught classes
 * Combining Terms, semester estimates, [|archiving] grade printouts
 * Edline Basic**
 * Account Activation
 * Changing class site picture, text
 * Posting content (News, Links, Calendar, "Content" [text, *.doc, *.ppt, etc.]) ||< **Teacher Trainings**
 * Edline Intermediate**
 * File Lockers
 * Hiding until... (Visibility)
 * Interactive Assignments ("Inbox", potential LIS resources)
 * Forms, Surveys
 * Discussions
 * Edline Advanced**
 * Site Design (RSS, layout changes, [|*.swf])
 * Creating student sub-group sites (collaborative work, individual portfolios)
 * Web 2.0 through Edline
 * Collaborative Google Docs
 * Groupsite Coordinators Training**
 * Group Management (adding members)
 * Class Advisers
 * Communicating with Group Members (pilot; text for Student survey, Teacher survey)
 * Tracking students (adding a Teacher, Counselor, Case Manager, etc. to a student account) || **Administrator Trainings** and **Handouts**
 * Office Secretaries //(or Parent Activation Code managers//): [|resource]
 * [|View Edline as a Student] (//resource for monitoring student progress--for Special Education Case Managers, Assistant Principals, Guidance Counselors, and interested Athletic Coaches)//
 * [|Viewing Teacher Gradebooks], [|abbreviated]
 * [|Change Teacher Gradebook] (//unexpected emergencies)//, [|abbreviated]
 * [|Change or Add]a teacher to a Gradebook
 * [|QuickSync calendar items] from school's MS Outlook to Edline **OLD directions - may work with 2007, who knows...**
 * //For site design, user categories and suggested permissions, and data export/start of year Mail Merge How To's, see the **Helpful Handouts / How To's** for **Tech Liaisons** in the next section (below).// ||

Helpful Handouts / How To's
> Note: This resource was removed at the request of Edline due to updates to Easy Grade Pro Web which do not function properly if users don't login through the Edline website. > **Suggestion:** Assist users to setup a shortcut to Firefox [in BASE image "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"] //or// the Google Chrome (//must be downloaded and installed//) browser, which seems to load more quickly than Internet Explorer 7...
 * **for Teachers** || **for Administrators** || **for Students & Parents** || for ** Tech Liaisons **/ Edline SuperUsers ||
 * * __//a desktop shortcut to your EGP Web gradebook//__
 * How to [|start a new term] in EGP Web
 * How to [|use student notes to keep track of extra data] in EGP Web
 * How to enter grades for in-school mid-quarter transfer students in EGP Web (//calculator needed!)// || * **Form-email response** to parents unable to access existing accounts ([|template])
 * **Form-email responses** for students who **forget/misplace**login info
 * existing screen name and email
 * existing screen name no email
 * no existing screen name
 * How to help students having difficulties logging in || * Text-message alerts (parent/student email alternative) for schools who don't have Edline's "text message" / "voicemail message" module
 * Letters to Student**
 * **Year Start:** all students ([|template]), [|Cover Letters] to Homeroom teachers (//see "**Export Data**" to the right)//
 * **end of 1st Quarter:** students still not in Edline ([|template])
 * **end of 2nd Quarter:** Letter for students still not in Edline ([|template])
 * **interims, 3rd Quarter:** Technology Check-Up ([|template])
 * Parents**
 * Policies and Procedures for Edline Parent Activation Code distribution
 * [|What is? What can?] handout
 * [|EDLINE and SWIPE] (What is? How to Setup?) handout || * **Site Design tree** (High School)
 * **User Permissions:** categories for Department Chairs, Special Ed case managers, etc.
 * **Special Case:** [|Creating new]classes(HSA remediation sessions, BLS monitoring, etc.)
 * **Export Data**for
 * **all students** opening week and 3rd quarter interim (directions) "//Activated" students see screen names, "Unused" see Activation Codes, all see login/password//. Mail Merge to "**Letters to Students**" //(see column to the left//)
 * **new entrants** (directions, [|template])
 * **//Obsolete://** T, C, Stu, Sch manual upload files from STARS
 * **RIPS**
 * delete //locally-installed// Easy Grade Pro 4.0 executable and desktop icon (//this won't touch// data files!)
 * copy shortcuts to Edline on desktop ||

BCPS Schools, Contact People

 * * Carver Center for Arts & Technology, W. Johnstone
 * Chapel Hill Elementary School
 * Chesapeake High School
 * Deep Creek Middle School, M. Jothen
 * Dulaney High School, A. Lattimore
 * Dundalk High School, J. Starr
 * Dundalk Middle School
 * Eastern Technical High School, Tom Michocki
 * Franklin High School
 * Fullerton Elementary School
 * Glenmar Elementary
 * Hereford High School, B. Falkinburg
 * Joppa View Elementary School
 * Kenwood High School, Hilary Short
 * Landsdowne High School, G. Churchill, E. Masaschi
 * Loch Raven High School
 * [|Loch Raven Academy], Alex Wolf
 * Middle River Middle, R. Charles
 * Milford Mill Academy, P. King
 * New Town High School, A. Carney || * Orems Elementary School
 * Overlea High School, T. Bell
 * Owings Mills High School
 * Parkville High School
 * Parkville Middle and Center for Technology
 * Patapsco High School, Terri Grimes
 * Perry Hall Elementary School
 * Perry Hall High School, Ryan Williams
 * Perry Hall Middle School
 * Pikesville High School
 * Pikesville Middle School
 * Pine Grove Middle School
 * Ridgely Middle School
 * Sollers Point High School, J. Karpus
 * Sparrows Point High School, S. Kotarides
 * Sparrows Point Middle School
 * Stemmers Run Middle School
 * Vincent Farm Elementary School
 * Westchester Elementary School
 * Woodlawn High School, K. Pipkin ||

Wish List
> //pending--possible for Spring 2010// > //pending--possible for 2010? STARS Project Manager indicated was feasible// > [available to sync with EGP 4.0 //local install//, not web version] > Windows mobile OS, Palm OS, iPhone, Android OS > //temporary solution--negotiate gradebook sharing (make visible "Gradebooks" folder in Edline class sites, add both teachers to gradebook); not feasible to give Co-Teachers access to all teachers' gradebooks// [caveat: last one to close, only his/her changes are saved!]
 * EGP Web compatibility with Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
 * **Upload of Attendance Data** (//at least daily)// to EGP Web "Attendance" tab from STARS
 * **Download of Quarter Grades**, **Interim Grades**, **Semester/Year-End Grades** from Easy Grade Pro Web to STARS
 * **Smartphone** **apps** or **syncing** programs for EGP Web access
 * **Read-only** **access** to **gradebooks** //for Co-Teachers//
 * **Increased control** over parent/student **notification settings**. Notify...
 * when new events are added to my courses' calendar
 * every 4 hours, once a day, once a week

**Implementation Timeline**
> Special Permissions categories and training documentation >> (//for co-taught classes, 2 different course and sections IDs, but meet at same time//)
 * Initial Setup: Data from BCPS to Edline
 * from STARS
 * **Special Case:** Non-SILK scheduled "[|Special Classes]" (HSA Pull-outs, BLS, etc.)
 * //Optional: transition from Easy Grade Pro 4.0 to Easy Grade Pro Web//
 * upload to I:\EGP Web (Liaison migrate) [|announcement] [|final notice], [|followup] upload reconfig)
 * Staff Meeting - 10 minutes) post-Migration data check [|slideshow], [|checksheet]
 * RIP - Delete executable and desktop icon (//not// data files!)
 * RIP- Create shortcuts to Edline on desktop
 * Teacher Roll-out (Activation Codes, Basic Class site maintenance)
 * Teacher Week Edline Trainings
 * Basic, Advanced (//see "Staff Development" above)//
 * Student Edline Roll-out
 * Generic Edline presentation (//for teachers to use/modify)//
 * Back to School Night
 * Parent introduction to Edline (//and clarification between Edline and SWIPE)//
 * [|Policies and Procedures] for student and parent Activation Codes
 * Parent Activation Code handouts, //see above//
 * Teacher Reminders (email): Uploading Grade Reports
 * //Special Case:// [|Multi-Class] Grade Reporting, ViewingMulti-Class Reports, Site
 * //Special Case:// [|Creating new]classes (HSA remediation sessions, BLS, etc.)
 * **New Students:** BCPS Login and Edline information [|email template]
 * **New Teachers:** information, logins (template)
 * **Administrative Trainings**
 * [|View Grades, Information] for a specific student (//Private Reports, View As Student/Parent...)//, [|abbreviated]
 * [|Viewing Teacher Gradebooks], [|abbreviated]
 * [|Change Teacher Gradebook] (//unexpected emergencies)//, [|abbreviated]
 * [|Change or Add]a teacher to a Gradebook
 * [|Office Secretaries] //(or other Data Manager//): Top 4 "How To's"
 * **Periodic Updates:**Teacher How To's
 * EGP Web - Condense gradebook
 * Edline - create a class "Inbox"
 * EGP Web - Create a "combined class" seating chart in EGP Web
 * Semester Estimates (//combining terms)// and archiving final grade reports, [|directions]
 * Semester change-over email alerts

Data
Baltimore County Public Schools's STARS Project Manager is handling the upload of data for all schools currently using Edline. Much rejoicing! //Please contact Edline's Tech Support if you have questions or concerns about the users or classes data.//

>> "//Activated" students see screen names, "Unused" see Activation Codes, all see login/password// =Notes= > Solution Abandoned Temporarily. //Conflicts with SWIPE data system, and eventual STARS grade reporting. It's still something we're hoping to resolve in the future, but probably not 2009-2010, sorry. Masking class identification variable needed?//
 * Pilot: Plugin support for AIM Standards (Curriculum KSIs) into "Standards" tab of Easy Grade Pro
 * **Export Data**for
 * **all students** opening week and 3rd quarter interim (directions)
 * **new entrants** (directions, template)
 * **//Obsolete://** T, C, Stu, Sch manual upload files from STARS
 * Co-Taught Classes (concatenate/overwrite solution needed to alter Schedule Upload)
 * data transfer automated from SWIPE (syncs with Windows LiveSync) to Edline (via LiveLink) - no longer needed, BCPS STARS Project Manager managing uploads