Staff Technology

Need Tech Help?

Call: (719) 800-5432
Email: techhelp@mountainsongschool.com

In addition to providing technical support, I’m available to help teachers come up with unique technology solutions for providing student accommodations, evaluating potential digital tools and making digital lessons more engaging. Please contact me if you have an idea that you need help putting into action. I’m happy to coordinate a time to help you find a solution.

Below you’ll find quick video tutorials for apps in Google Workspace and more. Visit the Tech Help page to find tutorials for parents and students.

Google Meet

Quickly Start a Meet

Quickly create a Meet for one-on-one appointments or quick team meeting.

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Secure Your Meeting

Ensure your meetings are safe by disabling students access to screen sharing and chat.

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Watch Your Students Reactions While Presenting

Need to see your students while your presenting. Here's a method that works best on an external monitor.

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The Google Meet Mirror Effect

What you see and what your students see is not the same. By default, Meet shows you a mirrored image of your own camera, but your students will see the an un-mirrored image of your camera.

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Create a Meet Link for an Upcoming Meeting

Create link for a recurring meeting or create a one-time link for an upcoming meeting.

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Zoom

Do's & Don'ts video

Google Classroom

Give Each Student Their Own Copy of an Assignment

Give each of your students their own personal copy of your digital worksheet without copying and pasting.

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Reset the Google Meet Link for your Classroom

If you ever need to reset the Meet link for your Classroom, you can do so quickly in your Classroom settings.

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Assignments on the Stream

You can set up your Classroom to automatically post new assignments in the stream.

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Send Weekly Updates to Parents

By inviting parents to your Classroom, your parents can opt in to receiving automated weekly updates from Google Classroom.

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Limit Google Classroom Notifications in Your Email

Keep your inbox from getting flooded with notifications from Google Classroom

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Connecting to Classroom for the First Time

Are you a new teacher whose never connected to Google Classroom?

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Extras

Setup Chrome for Work

Sync your staff account with Chrome and keep it separate from your personal accounts.

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Create a Single Contact For Multiple Email Addresses

Make it easy to send an email to a group of recipients (such as all of your students' parents) without entering all of their email addresses individually.

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Export a Contact List

Download your student contact list and share it with other staff members.

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Import a Contact List

Another teacher has shared their student contact list with you. It's time to import it into your contacts.

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NOTE: You will need to be logged into your Mountain Song account in the same browser in order to view the tutorial videos below.

Scheduling and Linking

The MSCS Zoom Calendar Guide

This guide breaks down how each of the calendars are intended to be used and how we should be setting up Zoom sessions for the future. Questions regarding the calendars can be directed at myself or at Sarah Kreger.

Creating Recurring Events in Zoom and Google Calendar

Watch the video below to create a calendar event in the shared Zoom Class Meetings calendar from an existing Zoom meeting.

Create or select a recurring meeting in Zoom using the Zoom website.
Click the Add to Google Calendar button.
If prompted, you’ll need to sign into your Mountain Song email and Allow Zoom to edit your calendar.
Change the calendar from your name to the Zoom Class Meetings calendar.
Click Save.

Use the video instructions to schedule appointments on the Google Calendar that use a single Zoom session link.

Adding Zoom Links to your Web Page

Adding a zoom link to your web page is as simple as copying the meeting URL and adding a hyperlink to your page. To make this stand out to students and their parents, use a button element.

Copy the JoinURL from your meeting in Zoom. Make sure you copy the entire link starting with “https://”.
On your web page, drag a button element onto the spot you’d like on your page.
Paste the copied URL into the Link field for your button element. You’ll see the field on the left side in the Elementor panel while you have your button selected.
Customize your button to make it stand out as a clickable link by modifying the options in the Style tab. Click on Hover and adjust the button’s style so that it changes when a mouse hovers over it.

Creating a Contact List in Gmail

Are you looking for a simple way of sending emails out to parents without copying and pasting a list of contacts or searching your sent message for an email with the same list? Sara helped me create a tutorial in which we create a mailing list for her class parents.

Web Page Tutorials

Posting Audio Files onto Your Web Page

Here’s a quick overview of how to post audio onto your web page.

Place a Text Editor element onto your page.
Erase the text.
Click the Add Media button above the text box in the element settings menu on the left.
Create an audio playlist.
1. Click the Create Audio Playlist option.
2. Click the Upload Files tab.
3. Select the audio files saved on your computer and drag them into the upload window.
4. Click the Create a New Playlist button.
5. Arrange the files into the order you like.
6. [Optionally] Deselect the Show Images option.
7. Click the Insert Audio Playlist button.
Click the UPDATE button to save your changes.

Recording Videos and Posting them to YouTube

Amy was kind enough to share a video training on how to record a video on Zoom and upload it to YouTube.

Posting Videos from YouTube onto Your Web Page

Here’s a quick overview of how to post videos that you’ve uploaded to YouTube onto your web page.

Open the video on YouTube.
Copy the video’s URL.
1. Click on the SHARE icon below the video.
2. Click the COPY button.
Add the video to your page.
1. On your web page, select the area where you want the video to go.
2. Drag a Video element into the space.
3. Put your cursor in the Link field in the element settings on the left.
4. Paste the URL into the box.
Click the UPDATE button to save your changes.

Posting Videos Saved in Google Drive onto Your Web Page

Here’s a quick overview of how to post videos on your Google Drive and post them to your web page.

Upload the video to your Google Drive Folder.
Change the share settings on the video so that it can be viewed by others.
1. Select the video file in your Google Drive by clicking on it once.
2. Click on the Share icon on the top bar.
3. Choose your sharing settings.
Open the video in a new window.
1. Double-click on the video file in the Google Drive.
2. Click the three-dot menu button in the top-right corner.
3. Select Open in a new window
Copy the embed code.
1. Click the three-dot menu button in the top-right corner.
2. Select the Embed item… option.
3. Copy the code in the pop-up window.
Add the video to your page.
1. On your web page, select the area where you want the video to go.
2. Drag a Text-only box into the space.
3. Select the Text tab next to the Visual tab in the settings menu on the right.
4. Paste the code into the box.
Click the UPDATE button to save your changes.

Quick Resources

Student Assessment form

The video below details how to setup your Student Engagement Assessment form and what to do if something is missing.

The next video is a recording in which I assisted a staff member with customizing the form for their purposes. This video provides a more in depth demonstration of how to use the Attendance key sheet to setup your form.

Zoom Resources

Google Apps

Controlling access to shared files in Google Drive

Maintaining Students Rights Online

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