Checking Parent Enrollments in Schoology and Seesaw

Follow the directions below to see how many and which parents have set up Schoology and/or Seesaw accounts for your students and classes.

SCHOOLOGY

Click COURSE OPTIONS and select VIEW COURSE AS (under your course logo).

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Click PARENTS(Note: The parents option will appear once you have one parent activated).

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SEESAW

Click MANAGE CLASS in the menu list

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Scroll down to locate and click MANAGE PARENTS

See list of students with CONNECTED PARENTS (and not connected)

Extensis Fonts Add-On for Google

If you are looking for more font styles, there is a Google Docs Add-On you can install called Extensis Fonts. It gives you access to hundreds more font styles. 

To Install Extensis (only need to be done once), 

1. click ADD-ONS on the main menu

2. select "Manage Add-Ons" (last item on list)

3. Search for Extensis Fonts

4. Click Install

To run Extensis,

1. Click ADD -ONS

2. Click Extensis Fonts

3. Click Start

4. Highlight text and click font style listed in the Extensis panel.

Google Docs Tips: Fillable Forms, Columns, Font Styles, Snapshots

Tip 1: Use columns (feature recently added!)

Click Format and select Columns

Tip 2:  Change your font styles
(100+ font styles available--set your favorites)

Step 1: Click drop arrow by font styles.

Step 2: Click More Fonts

Step 3: Select the styles you want to appear in your styles drop list

Tip 3: Insert Snapshots

Step 1: Click Insert -- Image from the main menu

Step 2: Select "Take a Snapshot" 

Bonus Tip: You Drag and drop images right from your desktop

Tip 4: Create fillable forms

To avoid this situation when someone fills out your Google document:

BEFORE: Name: ________

AFTER: Name: _____ Jon Doe__________

Use tables instead to create fillable text fields:

Step 1: Click Table from the main menu and select rows and columns needed

Name:

Step 2: Make some borders invisible by setting their cell's border width to 0.

Name:

Jon Doe

Click here to see detailed steps.

Turning notifications on/off in Seesaw and Schoology

By default, Seesaw and Schoology send you email notifications when specific actions occur (like posting an update, adding a new member to a course, etc.). You can customize what notifications you receive.

In Schoology, there are two ways to do this:

1. Edit settings for an individual course

• Open the course
• Click notifications button in the top right
• Toggle on/off the notifications (checked = you will get an email notification)

2. Edit settings for multiple courses at once (& for text message options)

• Click the dropdown arrow by your name in the top right corner
• Select Notifications

• Select On, Off or Custom for each setting. Custom allows you to select the on/off setting for each course.
• Be sure to SAVE at the bottom!

Here is a tutorial video to review: Edit Notification Settings (email and text messages)

In Seesaw:

• Open Seesaw
• Click your image/name in the top left to see your menus.
• Click the Gear icon.
• Choose "Account Settings."

• Toggle the notification settings on/off as desired (green = on).

Permission Settings for Google Docs Shared with Parents

When you link/embed Google Docs/Slides/Sheets in Schoology or Seesaw for parents to read, you will need to change your Share permissions on those files (otherwise the parents will get the below error message).

Here's how to change those permissions:

1. Click SHARE button

2. Click Advanced

3. Click Change

4. Select "On-Anyone with the Link" 

5. Select "Can View"

6. Click SAVE