Managing your Class Page

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Managing your Class Page

• III. Help in School Fusion
• Covering. Accepting students/parents
• Updating class configuration
• Emailing people

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You have a class Page, and now students are
figuring out how to login with their names and
student Ids. They are requesting to join your
class.

• How and why do you accept them into your class?

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1.Why join a class

• Because the student is enrolled in your class.
  (Dont accept a student into your class, unless
  they are enrolled in it by the school.)
• It organizes students classes on the left side
  of the web, under Welcome , so its easier
  to get to it quickly. They can get to their
  homework information quicker.
• It also itemizes all calendar dates, and
  coordinates them on a personal calendar when they
  go to Overlay Personal Calendar on the main
  larger calendar at each school.

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2. Why join a class

• A teacher can email any one or all of their
  joined students
• Class members have access to any parts of the
  class pages that the teacher may make private
• If a teacher makes a quiz, only class members can
  take it
• If a teacher has the message board or
  discussion chat enabled, only class members can
  take part in those.

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What happens when students join
1 You get an email saying they want to be
accepted into your class. You can either use this
to link immediately to your class page, or just
delete it, if you want to accept students at a
later time. 2. When you are logged in, and go to
your page, you will see a screen requesting to
either accept/reject a person. 3. If you know the
students is enrolled in one of your classes,
accept them, if not, you may reject them or do
nothingwhichever you'd rather.
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What happens when they join
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What happens when they join
To accept them, look at the students first/last
name to make sure you know them, and notice that
they ARE students
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Two other things about joining

• If you reject someone, it prompts you to email
  that person.
• You should probably send one Either the default
  email, or tailor one to make sense for the
  requesterfor example, you are not in my class
  this semester. Please wait until January to join.

• Unless a request from a parent looks fishy, you
  can accept any parents at this time.they dont
  have access to secure information like grades
  yet, and will not, until we set up a secure way
  to do thatso at this time, the only perks are
  that its convenient for the parent setup, and you
  can send them email.

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Removing Students

• At this point, teachers have to hit the delete
  button for each student when changing semesters
  and having different students, if they want to
  get rid of old students. You do have the option
  in misc options to totally deactivate the class
  or delete it and start with a fresh page if you
  wish.
• At the end of the year, all entries will be
  deleted en masse in prep for next year.

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1.Update Class Configuration

• When you go to your class page, and log in, there
  should be an Update Class configuration link.
• Look for an option called Class membership.
• You can view/administer students in your class
  here. (All those people you just accepted!)

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2. Update Class Configuration.

• Here, you can do these things..
• Click the mail to email one student
• Click the pencil to edit permissions (like to fix
  their neme or give them editing permission (dont
  do this lightly)
• Click the X to delete them

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Update Class Configuration

• If you look below the first option, you will also
  see several other options.

Invite a User You can manually add a student, or
even register them if they are not already in
your schools web.
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Update Class Configuration
You can set your email to whatever you want at
Set Administrator email. (Might be handy if you
want an email used besides the GWS one.) At
Email Selected Class Members, a check box list
comes up, and you can email whatever students you
want from your class.
Of course, email entire class does just that.
Emails all students listed in your class list.
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Email

• When you email from School fusion, it goes to
  whatever email students/ parents listed when
  registering.
• Also, when they email you back, it ALSO goes to
  the one you used in the database
  registration(the gws.k12. in.us one.)

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When you request to send an email, it looks like
this
You just put in a subject Personal greeting Ex.
Dear Terri Write the message in the body Attach
any file by clicking Browse, and finding the
file wherever it is on your computer. Click Send
Email
Dear Mrs. Dssno, Be sure to come to our open
house.
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Troubleshooting email

• Sometimes I cant write in the body area of the
  email.
• This might be because of the configuration of
  your computer, and if it accepts pop-ups. Go
  into your Internet ToolsgtOptions, and make sure
  the block pop ups is NOT checked.
• Sometimes I can use the simple editor instead
  of the advanced.
• Sometimes I just log out and log back in , and it
  works.

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If your emails dont go to the student.

• Could be that they didnt provide an email when
  they registered.
• Could be they havent verify or validated
  their email yet. Prompts at fusion ask them to do
  this.
• Could be its not a valid emailthis happens more
  often than you would think.
• Could be that they havent yet gone to their
  email since they validated it. Theres a
  copy/paste prompt they need to do to get the
  email to link up to fusion.

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Other ways to communicate with students include..

• Message Boards (will cover in a later PPT)
• Chats (will cover in a later PPT)
• Of course, all of your information and
  announcements/dates in your class page.