 Welcome to today's Wednesday webinar. This is video two covering details about CESA. And as in the last video, I explained that in this video, we're going to be talking about adding students to your CESA account, getting them signed into CESA, what to do before inviting parents and then how to invite parents to the CESA account and then any frequently asked questions, a few frequently asked questions that you might have about using CESA. So let's get started by showing you how to get CESA and get your students onto CESA. Okay, let's talk about the different ways there are to get your students signed into your CESA account. This screen is actually from the CESA Help Center and it talks about the different ways that you can share your CESA class with your students. The first way is via class code and that's if you have maybe one or two iPads for your kids to use within your classroom and those devices are shared. So what you can do is you can have the student sign and using a QR code that you get directly from CESA or a text code that again comes directly from CESA and basically they either scan the QR code or type the class code in and then they are connected directly to your journal. The second way is recommended more so if you are in a one-to-one environment where a student has their own device and they can sign in the same way you could give them the class code or give them a text code and then they choose their name from the list but in the one-to-one setting if you give them that they can actually stay in signed into their journal for up to one year. So if they though would need to sign in with a different student account basically student one would have to sign out and then student two would be able to sign in. And the last possible way to get your students to sign in is through using email or a Google account sign in and this is only recommended for kids who are older because it requires them to have a Google account or a email address to sign into CESA and basically CESA is then connected to their Google account and password and they sign in that way and you have to enter that into your CESA account. Okay, first to get students signed in I wanna show you where to go in your account to find either the text code, the QR code or the email addresses to get students signed in. So if you click up here in your account once you're logged in by your name you get this menu and so you're gonna come down here and you can click where it says get class code and that screen that pops up is the, first of all you give the QR code it tells them where to go for an URL to sign in if you're using a browser. If you're using a mobile device it will just ask for the QR code. Here's where you can get the text code if you wish to have them sign in. Notice that the text code's only valid for a certain amount of time so each time you go in here that may change so just be aware of that. If you want to print a poster you just click here and it'll print that poster for the QR code and you can change how you manage the class to send the email right down here where it says manage class and you can change how they sign in. This will allow you to change it so that they can sign in via email if you choose. In this next part we're gonna talk about getting your students signed into your CSaw account and in the beginning part of this we talked about that there was two different ways to allow them to join. The one way that it talked about is sending as having your students sign up via email if you choose to do that of course they have to know their own email addresses and passwords but then what they're gonna do is they're gonna go to CSaw.me and they're gonna choose that they're a student and then they use their email address that they have to sign in and then they choose a new student account and once they do that and they create their account within CSaw then you give them the class code and if I click here it'll show you my class code right there, it'll give you the class code and once they type that in then they're finished creating that account within their email address. So for those kids to get back into their account they would have to sign into their email address. Now the other way is to have them join via code and if you are via QR code so if I click here on my screen on my screen I get the QR code that I could print out for the students to join and then they can join by going to a browser and typing in just CSaw.me and it'll bring them to this screen and then they're gonna choose that they're a student and then it's gonna bring up their screen where they can scan the QR code or they couldn't enter the class code and I'm just gonna code here. So if I do that and then I go back into my student account and then I put in the class code I'm gonna say student sign in and then it's gonna take me into that class. Now this is the student. I'm in here as the student and it'll show you the class name up here and then it'll show you only the feed for the class. So that's how they can join via a browser and I'm gonna close out of that and then I'm gonna take you next into how they can join via an iPad or a mobile device. Okay, now to get your kids logged in via a mobile device with a QR code, first of all you'll have to load the CSaw class app which you see over here on the left and when you open that app it's going to ask if they're a teacher or a student so we are assigning in as a student I'm gonna select student and then it's gonna bring up a screen and the screen allows you to use an email to use the text code like I showed you earlier or to scan a QR code. So if I tap where it says scan a QR code and enable the camera and access the camera then I have printed off the QR code for my class and so the student can just use that code and then it takes them right into your class and so as you can see this would be a student view for the class and this is where they can add any of their artifacts to begin and that is how you get students to join your class. You have your account created and you know how to invite your students to your class. It's time to start thinking about inviting your parents and this is one of the most powerful pieces of CSaw because your parents now get to take part in their child's education on a daily feed depending on how you decide to set it up but the first thing you gotta do is you need to make sure that your parent access isn't enabled and the best way to do that is you click on your class name up here in the upper left, come down to manage class and then you scroll down to where you see parents and right here as long as this is green your parent access isn't enabled if it's not just click on this circle over here to switch it to green. Now once that's done you are ready to start inviting parents. Now a good rule of thumb before inviting parents is to create a little welcome note for the parents so as soon as they join they see this note at the top. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go to the plus sign over here in the upper right hand corner. A couple options for you here is you could actually record yourself giving this welcome message and the details behind it. You could also add a note and I'm gonna choose to add a note here. A couple things that you wanna add in this first of all welcome to the class and then a kind of a detail about how you're going to use this class and a couple specific things for your parents to know about using the class. And so mine reads welcome to our CESA class. I am so excited to be able to communicate your child's learning through this class. A few things to remember about our CESA class. One all comments should be constructive. Learning something new takes time and we need your help to make it successful. And that is in relation to using CESA and how you're going to make it function for your parents and students. There's always great ideas that can come from parents and so for them to make that suggestion is a good idea. And number two, specific comments are best. How can you add to the conversation? You wanna put that in there to make the point that they can post comments but you want them to be specific and to the point so that your students are encouraged to read those and parents are encouraged to be insightful. And three, in an everyone post, please remember your comment is shared with everyone, students and parents. And this is an important part to put on the welcome note because parents don't necessarily understand that if a feed is shared with everyone when they make the comment, it is also shared with everyone. Of course, that is also up to you because you can accept or deny the comment as well. In this last sentence, this is a great way to encourage and lift up our students. You wanna put that positive note at the end because you want the comments and the use of this app to be encouraging for your students and you want them to want to share with their parents. So once the welcome letter is complete and you might say, put your name at the end and sign it. And then once your message is complete, you're going to click on the screen check mark and it's gonna give you the option that you could add more text or you could record your voice reading your letter if you choose. And then once that's done, go ahead and click on the check mark again. And once that's done, you get the selection of your students. If you click everyone, then you're gonna see that it's gonna go to all the students and the parents as they sign it. So I'm going to check mark that. And then I have folders set up and so I have messages from the teacher. So I'm just gonna add that to that folder and then click the check mark again. And then it's going to upload that message, that welcome message to the feed. So after that, you want to, so you have your welcome letter for your parents. Now you wanna send home the parent invite or the parent handout. And the way that you could do that is you go over here and you click on your class and you're going to go to invite parents. And when you click on invite parents, it's gonna give you a few details there, but you have the option to print the parent invite handout or send via email. I like to do both just to make sure we get our parents connected. But if I click here where it says print parent invite handout, what it's gonna do is it's gonna bring up a PDF. And I'm going to want to uncheck the two-sided because this PDF is gonna print out one for each student. So if you look here, this print and this QR code is specific to this student. And so when you send it home, you send the specific student note home to that specific parent. And then as you can see, it gives some instructions, some details about the tool itself. And then it gives the parent instructions on how to sign up. It tells them how to sign up via a mobile device or how to sign up via a browser on a computer. So it gives them the steps for both. And once they complete those steps, then they will have access to only their student's portfolio. So that's how to invite them via the printout. If I send a parent invite email, what I do is I copy this detail and then I paste it into the specific parent's email. And it gives a, again, it gives a little bit of information. And then you can go back and tie that parent to the student account. But again, if you choose to, I maybe would start with the QR codes first. And then if you have trouble getting a parent invited, then you can go back and send an email or you could do them both right away. But those are very easy ways to get parents involved and to get them signed up for their student CSock. Okay. And finally, for some frequently asked questions when using CSock. The first question is are there, is the parent invite come in any other languages? And actually it does. It comes in Spanish or French. And so I'll show you how to get those. If you click on the name of your class, go down to invite parents. When you click on that parent invite handout, let it load here. If you scroll down towards the bottom, here are the list of the frequently asked questions. And so this first link, if you click on it, it'll take you to the Spanish version. The French version is right here. So once you click on it, you get another PDF to print that version of the parent invite. The next question is why do I need to approve some parents and not others? Well, the parents that you send an invite to through email, they have to be approved because that email link gives them access to the entire class, which then you have to go and set them up with only their student feed. So the ones that you invite or accept via email will have to be accepted as parents and then given their student, only their student access. The ones that you send an invite to through the QR codes, that is a specific QR code tied specifically to their student. And so the acceptance for those is actually giving them that letter. So when they have the QR code, they are automatically approved. And then another question and a concern is what can parents see? And I'm gonna log into my parent account here. Your parents are only allowed to see their student feed password right here. So I actually can only see my child's artifacts and then what the teacher posts as everyone. So earlier in the video, I showed you this welcome letter I posted to everyone. So I as a parent have access to that and can also like or comment based on that feed, which is also has to be approved by the teacher. But then I can see only my student items. If you look up here though, another frequently asked question is can parents have access to more than one child's account? And the answer is yes. So under my name, I show that I have two children. I have ES and SG as my two child feed. And so I can switch between the two over here and see their artifacts. And then I can also go back and add another child to my journal. So I can click here and then I could scan an additional QR code or use a link. So I could have all my children in my one CISA account. The only thing that parents wanna be cautious of is when they, to load another child, they should follow the sign in instructions. But when they choose sign in, instead of creating an account, they use their already created a parent account. And then they just click here. So they sign in with their email address that they've already used, and then they just add the journal. So they don't wanna create a second account, but they do, they can invite or they can sign into another child. So those are some of the common frequently asked questions. If you go to the CISA website, there is lots of them listed there for you as well. If you have any additional questions. Thanks for watching. And for our next CISA video, which would be CISA three, we're gonna focus on how to use CISA in the classroom. Some of the different tools that CISA offers and what that might look like with your students for you. And so I look forward to seeing you next time. Thanks for watching.