 Hello, ESU 8 friends. This is Molly Ashoff and I want to visit with you a little bit about some of the conversations that we've been having at the ESU about the support we can give you when you transition from the spring right now of 2020 and learning as it's happening to fall 2020. And through our conversations and through conversations with teachers and parents and watching what's happening, we believe it's really important to have a consistent remote learning online delivering tool. And so knowing that we have looked at the tools out there and we would recommend these three tools in some form or fashion. Now it's important to have consistency. We're hearing from parents that they're having to learn several different tools helping multiple children. And so sometimes even within high school students, teachers are using different delivery tools. So I'm going to show you the three tools that we believe are probably the most useful and the grades that they're best for. The first is CSAW. CSAW is more for your lower elementary, your pre-K to second, third grade. You can use it farther up. We've seen it use clear up to seventh and eighth grade, but definitely for the younger kiddos. Then there is Google Classroom and Google Classroom is free with your Google domain. And it could be used, we say about third through twelfth grade, you do have to have an email to use Google Classroom. And the other is Canvas. Canvas, you can use a free version or a paid version and you get more options with the paid version, obviously. So I'm going to talk a little bit about each of these to give you an idea, just an overview. First of all, CSAW. CSAW is free. You can get a paid version, CSAW for school, which allows you to track students' progress a little bit in different activities. So there's just some more functions, but most teachers that I know are using the free version of CSAW and it's working really well for them. What CSAW is, is it is a student portfolio originally designed as that. You can capture the learning of the students. You can give reflection and feedback. And it's a great communications tool also because parents can see that work too and offer feedback as well to their children. It's very student driven. It's a great way to share learning. So in this time of remote learning, teachers can share things out to students and then the students can share back to the teacher what they've done. They can take a picture. They can talk over it. It's easy to record their voice or a video and it's really easy for the teacher then to give immediate feedback. Students don't have to have an email. A teacher creates the account and then the student can either join by using a QR code or there's some form of a code that the student puts in. So you don't have to have an email. That's why it works so great for the younger students. It can be used on any device. There's an app for an iPad or an iOS phone. You can use it on a computer, on a Chromebook, on an Android device. So it's very device agnostic. So that's also very, very good. It's an easy way to message parents and students. And so not only is it a way to watch your students work and track their progress and a gathering place for that, but it's also a great communication tool to parents and students. During the regular school year they can, parents can see what's happening and what their kids doing in the classroom and especially now during this time of remote learning. Here's just an example of a student has uploaded their work. You can see that they've recorded over it so they then talked about what they did and this student is here sharing it with everyone. The next option is Google Classroom. Now Google Classroom is completely free with your school Google domain and students and teachers log in using their Google email. So some schools do not give emails to students lower than say third grade. And so it is pretty easy to use even for younger students. And once again it's a great way to distribute work and collect work within a time of remote learning or in a regular, regular classroom. So students log in with their Google email. There's a dashboard. This happens to be a teacher's dashboard view, but the students see their classes in a dashboard view very similar to this. Teachers can post assignments, announcements. You can do quizzes on it. There's different kinds of questions so you can do discussion questions. You can upload documents and materials and video. So it does have a lot of ways to organize and keep a class well organized and well designed. Canvas, the third option, there is a free Canvas app with limited design features in it. Canvas does cost. We do have an NNNC purchase and we provide schools with up to 100 Canvas accounts. But you're under the ESU Canvas domain. So because of that you cannot sync with your SIS system. Your grading that happens in Canvas cannot be transferred to your grade book or anything like that. You don't have that inner linking and syncing of your other programs. And so that's kind of a downfall of doing it that way. To get the best use of Canvas and its integration capabilities would be to have your own domain. So Canvas does require a separate login. However, that login can be a Google email. Once again, teachers have a dashboard that looks something like this and students have this very similar look with the dashboard that they can get to their classes. There's a little bit more features in organizing and designing the class. A little bit more robust opportunities to do announcements, discussions, how you organize your students in groups and do group works. You can also upload syllabus and files and you have the opportunity to grade assignments right in Canvas. Once again, those grades won't flow into your grade book or your SIS system unless you have purchased your own domain for your own school and then you integrate those two softwares. Once again, this is just an overview of a delivery, online delivery tools. And the nice thing about it is they work great in remote learning, but they also use great in daily face-to-face learning if you're doing a blended learning model or any type of a model of teaching where you want to give students work and then receive work back from them. If you have any questions, please reach out to me, Molly Ashoff at ESU 8 and I'm happy to answer any of those questions or help you find pricing on those.