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New Faculty Orientation

NEW FACULTY ORIENTATION AGENDA 

12:00 - 12:15 - Mindy Redline, Human Resources Specialist


12:15 - 12:30 - Stacy Zellner, Business Office Secretary


12:30 - 12:45 - Shelley Keffer, Coordinator of Student Services


12:45 - 1:15 - Melissa Inselmann, Director of Curriculum and Assessment


1:15 - 2:15 - Daniel Kotran, Coordinator of Instructional Technology, Federal Programs, Grants & Community Education

    • Basic Troubleshooting Tips
    • Apple Classroom App
    • Clever Resources
      • McGraw Hill- Elementary ELA, History, Physics
      • SAVVAS- CMS ELA and Math, History- CMS and CHS
      • Imagine Learning and Imagine Math (K-4 and ESL)
      • Discovery Education - training 
      • Nearpod - Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool to engage students by adding interactive activities to your lessons like polls, collaboration boards, and game-based quizzes. Students can interact and submit responses through any mobile device or laptop. Creating Nearpod LessonLaunching Nearpod 
      • Remind
    • DRC Insight- CDT, PSSA and Keystone testing
      • ALL iPads should be updated and fully charged, this is extremely important
      • White Screen/ACC Assessment Error troubleshooting
        1. Go to Settings on the iPad- Scroll on the left to DRC INSIGHT- toggle on Allow Cross Website Tracking (should be green) and try again
        2. If #1 doesn't fix the problem, delete the DRC app from the iPad desktop, turn off the iPad by holding down the power button, and reinstall the DRC app from Self Service, and enable Allow Cross Website Tracking
          1. If DRC app is not in Settings, reinstall it from Self Service
      • Usernames and passwords are ALWAYS correct, if there are any login issues, please close out the app, retype and try again. Sometimes students enter a space at the end of the login resulting in an error
      • Recommend to students to turn off the night before- everyone and everything needs a rest
    • Catasauqua Website Resources
    • Google Sites