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Working in a remote environment, staff will be engaging in synchronous and asynchronous communication with students.  We have included some documents to help you with this process.

Something that might be beneficial to have during your asynchronous or synchronous presentation with students is access to a whiteboard.  This 8-minute video by Eric Curts reviews two whiteboard tools available for your use.

Teachers (at the secondary level) have been given a template for a Lesson Plan which will contain a summary of their lesson for the students.  Teachers are to make a copy of this template into their own Google Drive, edit for Week 1, Week 2, etc.  Once the Lesson Plan is done and ready to be published, Teachers need to upload it to the folders that are linked on the document at each schools's Remote Learning page in the category entitled "Weekly Lesson Plans."

Step 1:

• Copy the Template Lesson Plan into your Drive
• Make Copies for Yourself to Edit
• Rename your Documents

Click on document image above for Handout.

View VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS for more detailed instructions.

Step 2:

• After your Lesson Plan is final, upload to the folder linked to on the Remote Learning Website

Click on document image above for Handout.

View VIDEO INSTRUCTIONS for more detailed instructions.

If you shared a document and parents/students cannot access it and are requesting access, you MUST change the permission on the file.

Please review this screencast to change the permissions.

Creating a link in an email, in a Google document, in a Google Presentastion is easy.

• Google Support Directions
• Screencast Video 

Some of your students may have forgotten their Google ID or Password.  Here is a handout on how you can get a listing of all your students' Google usernames and passwords.  This is limited to Plymouth Public Schools Staff so you must be logged into your PPS Google Account to view.

Student's Google ID's begin with their Year of Graduation.  Please see the list below for the Year of Graduation related to the Grade Level.

2020  Grade 12

2021  Grade 11

2022  Grade 10

2023  Grade 9

2024  Grade 8

2025  Grade 7

2026  Grade 6

2027  Grade 5

2028  Grade 4

2029  Grade 3

2030  Grade 2

2031  Grade 1

2032  Grade Kindergarten

If your Kindergarten through Grade 2 students are struggling with logging into Google/Clever and they need their Clever badge, you can navigate in Clever to the Teacher Page and download a student badge and send to your student.  Please remember that you should send ONLY the student's badge and not include a class set or multiple badges in an email.

View CLEVER Support for Teachers: How do I print Clever Badges?

If the student has a Clever badge (K-2) they can visit this Clever page to see how to log in using a badge.

The easiest way for a student to log into Clever is at the following url:

https://www.clever.com/in/plymouth

By selecting the Plymouth Clever link, students will not have to select the State of Massachusetts and their School in Plymouth.

They can also go to our Plymouth Public Schools Remote Learning Website and choose Students & Families tab at the top and then select Clever.

Students can then log in with their Google ID.

If the student has a Clever badge (K-2) they can visit this Clever page to see how to log in using a badge.

If a student cannot get into Clever, please refer to this Troubleshooting Guide for help in figuring out what the problem is or who to go for support.

For excellent video tutorials on everything you need to do in Google Classroom, visit Google for Education Teacher Center on Google Classroom.

For Google Classroom support for parents, there is a great overview as well as a video which you can share with parents.

• Google Classroom for Parents Overview
• Google Classroom "Parents Guide to Google Classroom" VIDEO

If you wish to share with parents, just copy the information above and paste into an email.

For students who are new to Google Classroom, listed below are 2 excellent visuals on getting to know Google Classroom.

Google Classroom Quick Sheet for Students by Alice Keeler

Google Classroom Cheat Sheet for Students by Kasey Bell of ShakeUp Learning

While doing all this remote work, it might be advisable for you to periodically clear your cookies/cache on your device. 

This is a very helpful habit to get into and, believe it or not, might solve some unusual problems you may be having.

DOCUMENT: CLEARING COOKIES AND CACHE HANDOUT