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Introduction to eChalk. For Parents. What is eChalk?. eChalk’s unique online learning environment provides your school with its own electronic “town square” where teachers, students, administrators, and parents can…. COMMUNICATE. COLLABORATE. CONNECT. …together. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Introduction to eChalkFor Parents
What is eChalk?
eChalk’s unique online learning eChalk’s unique online learning environment provides your school with its environment provides your school with its own electronic “town square” where own electronic “town square” where teachers, students, administrators, and teachers, students, administrators, and parents can…parents can…
COMMUNICATECOMMUNICATECOLLABORATECOLLABORATECONNECTCONNECT
……together.together.
Using Your Online eChalk Community
Your Your school’s school’s homepagehomepage will will feature important feature important school news and school news and announcements, announcements, upcoming events, upcoming events, faculty information, faculty information, and school and school resources.resources.
SCHOOL
Using Your Online eChalk Community
Teachers use eChalk Teachers use eChalk Class PagesClass Pages to provide to provide anytime, anywhere anytime, anywhere access to homework access to homework assignments, project assignments, project requirements, learning requirements, learning resources, and resources, and announcements.announcements.
CLASSES
Using Your Online eChalk Community
eChalk even eChalk even enables the PTA, enables the PTA, the library, student the library, student clubs, teams, and clubs, teams, and academic academic departments to departments to participate in your participate in your school’s online school’s online community using community using eChalk eChalk Group Group PagesPages..
GROUPS
Using Your Online eChalk Community
Learn more about your Learn more about your child’s teacher by child’s teacher by looking at their looking at their personal personal Profile PageProfile Page they’ve created to they’ve created to communicate with communicate with parents and the parents and the community.community.
Using Your Online eChalk Community
Where safety and Where safety and security are important, security are important, your school can utilize your school can utilize both the both the publicpublic and and privateprivate features of features of eChalk.eChalk.
PRIVATEPUBLIC
PUBLIC
CLASSES GROUPS
SCHOOL
An online school calendarA school directoryAnnouncementsSchool ResourcesOnline classroomsOnline group pages
eChalk Student-Safe™ emailWeb-based file storageExpanded online classroomsExpanded online group pagesOnline DiscussionsHomework Drop BoxGrades Publishing
Public Tools Private Tools (requires login)
Language filtering to eliminate inappropriate language Language filtering to eliminate inappropriate language (customized by your school/district)(customized by your school/district)
Spell-check Spell-check
Return receipts Return receipts
File attachmentsFile attachments
ForwardingForwarding
eChalk Student-Safe Email Includes...
Screening to prevent undesirable incoming and outgoing Screening to prevent undesirable incoming and outgoing emails (customized by your school/district) emails (customized by your school/district)
The ability to "close down" the system and allow emails The ability to "close down" the system and allow emails only between certain groups within the schools or district only between certain groups within the schools or district
Private Tools for Students/Parents
Students and parents can view assigned work and events for all of their classes in one place.
Students and parents can view assigned work and events for all of their classes in one place.
Private Tools for Students/Parents
The Private Class PagePrivate Class Page enables students to view class
events, tests, and quizzes; submit assignments; participate
in online discussions; and access class resources.
The Private Class PagePrivate Class Page enables students to view class
events, tests, and quizzes; submit assignments; participate
in online discussions; and access class resources.
Our School’s Goals for eChalk
Add some comments about your school’s goals for eChalk.
Questions?
If you have any questions about our school’s site or to find out how your child can use eChalk, you can contact our school’s eChalk Site Manager ____(insert
name and email address)______ or:
eChalk Customer [email protected]
