Chesapeake STEM

Academy

Welcome to Teacher Training!!

Session 1

•Online posting and sharing of student grades and attendance through EGP

•One easy place to store and backup EGP grades

•Automated student updates in EGP

•Online storing/sharing of class assignments

•Online sharing of school wide comprehensive calendar for teachers, parents and students

The No Child Left Behind Act defines parent involvement as "the participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving students academic, learning and other school activities."

•Constant parent and student access to grades, assignments and schedules

•Increase parent communication and involvement in student learning

•Teacher support through one stop storage of grades, attendance and assignments

•Guidance and Administration will not have to ask teachers for grade updates

Account Setup

Upload Photo

Create Course description

Upload File (syllabus)

Create Links

Adding date to Calendar

Adding News Events

Questions / Practice Time

Step 1: Type “www.edline.net” into your address bar.

Step 2: Enter your activation number and click “Enter”.

Make sure the code you have entered matches your name below

Step 3: Create a user name and password for your account.

*If you are a parent who has an account for a child, create a DIFFERENT username and password.

Step 4: Type in your bcps email address into the space provided.

Setup a security question and answer in case you forget your screen name and password.

Check YES to allow the school to send you an email through Edline.

Step 5: Your account set up should be complete and you should see your teacher page with name.

Any questions before we move on?

Click on “My Classes & Shortcuts” and choose a class.

Any questions before we move on?

Step 1: Scroll over My Classes & Shortcuts and choose a class.

Step 2: Scroll over Command Center and choose Manage Class.

Step 3: Under Modify Class, change your Class Name such that it contains the period. Under Class Description, you can add your welcome and your Course Quarter Content Summary.

Step 4: Under Image, click Browse, locate the picture that was taken of you. Then scroll down, and click Save. To view your class page, click Home at the very top and then choose this class under My Classes & Shortcuts.

Step 1: From your main Chesapeake High School page, select a course from My Classes & Shortcuts.

Step 2: At your class page, select the edit icon next to Contents on the right-hand side menu.

Step 3: From the drop-down menu underneath Select the type to add, select Document and then click Add.

Step 4: Enter a Document Title, Choose the Category/Folder, add a Document Summary. Then click Import Existing File to upload document.

Step 5: Upload assignment to other class pages by highlighting the class then click Add.

Step 6: When you are ready, click Save & Return. If you wish to upload another document then click Save & Add Another instead.

Any questions before we move on?

Step 1: Mouse over My Classes and Shortcuts, then choose the course you would like to add a link to.

Step 2: Click on the icon next to the links section

Step 3: Make sure the box says Link, if it doesn’t select Link from the drop down menu and click Add

1) Type the name you would like your link to display as. Example: CHS webpage

2) Type the full link (with the http://) to the website, you could also copy and past the link.

Alternate 2) If you want to link somewhere within Edline, click the link to button

3) Select the class or classes you would like to put the link on. (to select more than one class hold the Shift key + left click on the mouse)

4) Click Add>> The classes you selected should move to the other box. 5)

Option 1: If you have another link to add, click Save & Add AnotherOption 2: If you have no more links to add, click Save & Return

Any questions before we move on?

Step 1: Choose a class home page under My Classes & Shortcuts, then click on the edit icon for the calendar.

Step 2: With Event selected in the pull down menu, click on the button.Add

Step 3: Enter a title for the event (Document Title), then enter a brief description of the event. Then choose the date.

Step 4: Choose to post to other classes or groups. Then click Save and Return or Save and Add Another if you wish to add another event.

Any questions before we move on?

Step 1: Choose a class home page under My Classes & Shortcuts, then click on the edit icon for the calendar.

Step 2: Click on Manage Items at the top of the class calendar page.

Step 3: Place a check in the box for the event(s) that you wish to cancel. Then click Delete at the bottom of the page.

Step 1: Same as above Step 2: Same as above Step 3: Click

next to event you want to modify. Save & Return

Step 4: Make changes then click at the bottom of the page.

Edit

Save & Return

Any questions before we move on?

Step 1: Choose a class home page under My Classes & Shortcuts, then click on the edit icon for the calendar.

Step 2: Click on Manage Items at the top of the class calendar page.

Step 3: Place a check in the box for the event(s) that you wish to cancel. Then click Delete at the bottom of the page.

Any questions before we move on?

Step 1: Scroll over My Classes & Shortcuts and highlight the class you would like to work with.

Step 2: Click on the Edit icon under the News heading.

Step 3: Your screen may not look like this one, you will have the same options. Be sure you are adding a News event by choosing it is in the drop down box, next, click Add.

Step 4: Title your News document, enter a summary and choose a date for your document. Then upload your news document by choosing Upload an existing file or Enter text by hand.

Step 5: Choose any other classes you want to copy the news to, then hit Add. When finished click Save & Return or Save & Add Another.

Any questions or Comments

•Edline user guides located online and server

•Edline training handouts located on server

•Edline in school support team

Your Edline Support Team Members.Thomas Bullerman – tbullerman@bcps.org

Ashley Burns – aburns3@bcps.org

Ron Conner – rconner@bcps.org

Michael Crispens – mcrispens@bcps.org

Justin Field – jfield2@bcps.org

Amy Finch – afinch@bcps.org

Laurie Justice – ljustice@bcps.org

Tara Kutch – tkutch@bcps.org

Shawn Norton – snorton@bcps.org

Amy Parlette – aparlette@bcps.org

MiVida Parham – mparham@bcps.org

Jo Ann Stelmack – jstelmack@bcps.org

Amy Stevens – astevens3@bcps.org

Paul Tomasevich – ptomasevich@bcps.org

Take some time to practice using the features on Edline and set up some of your class pages.

Before you leave please take a moment to complete the post training survey sent to your email.