S T. A NTHONY OF P ADUA C ATHOLIC S CHOOL Serving the Woodlands and Surrounding Areas Since 2001 Guiding our children to holiness through a Christ-centered education.

Website and Edline Usage Our school web site serves as a venue to reach prospective families and students as well as providing alumni and current families with up to date news and happenings on and around the campus. The SAOPCS web site serves as a tool to inform families of general announcements and accolades, training and education on parent information topics, advancement and grant opportunities for the school and current news items from school administration and staff.

Edline Purpose: To ensure a more complete means of correspondence between the school and parents. Allowing students and parents constant access and timely and efficient updates on classroom and school activities. Means: Direct communication by alerts and updates from teachers and staff. Web browser enabling data retrieval such as newsletters, homework assignments*, combined calendars. * Homework assignments will not replace the written instructions from the teacher to the student in the classroom. This is intended only as a source of last-minute as needed basis.

EDLINE© St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School uses Edline© to supplement the school web site with class/teacher, department, team and club web pages. Edline© was chosen because it interfaces with the school’s current administrative software, Administrator’s Plus© by Rediker and grade book program, Grade Quick© by Jackson Software. Edline© was designed to be easy for teachers and staff use in a K-12 setting. Edline© sets up quickly and there is no need to retype or recreate information. Users cut and paste into Edline©, or type directly onto an Edline© page. Users can upload pre-existing content (homework, photos, news, etc.) from existing common desktop software such as Word© to Edline© web pages using just a browser – no knowledge of HTML is required.

There are many uses of Edline© including: Providing a private, secure environment to communicate from school to home Posting class–specific content, such as homework assignments, test dates, resources and photographs Allowing teams, clubs, parent organizations, departments and other groups to communicate items such as due dates, practice schedules, meetings and activities Provides a vehicle to disseminate general school information, such as news, announcements, calendars, activities, events, etc

It is hoped that through the use of Edline© we will increase parent involvement, raise student achievement and save paper- based operating expenses. In time, Edline© will become the major communication vehicle for the school community.

Expectations All teachers and departments are expected to have an operational webpage beginning with the first day of school. The instructional technology staff will offer training and be a resource of support for the implementation of teacher webpages. Webpages should be updated weekly/biweekly, at a minimum, to encourage communication within the school community.

Minimum Teacher Requirements Renaming Classes Updating and Maintaining the Calendar Creating and using a Class Communications Folder Creating and maintaining a Homework/Week at a Glance Folder for archiving all Weeks at a Glance and Homework

Renaming Classes Renaming Classes: All classes are to be renamed in a uniform way so as to promote ease of navigation through the class pages. The following are examples of how classes should be renamed: –Middle School Classes – Science 6-1, Science 6-2, Math 7-1, Math 7-2, Social Studies 8-1, Social Studies 8-2. –Auxiliary Classes - Art 1-A, Art 1-B, Music 2-B, Music 4-A, Spanish 3-A, P.E. 5-A –Middle School Elective Classes – Spanish, Spanish II Art I, Art II, Drill Team, Technology I, Service, P.E. 6-1 etc. –Elementary – Homeroom 2-A, Math 2-B, Science 3-A, etc.

Calendars Monthly Event Calendar found on school webpage Staff Calendar found on Edline staff page School Calendar found on Edline Class Calendar found on teacher web page Combined Calendar populated from school and class calendar

Updating and Maintaining the Class Calendar Post: 1.Tests 2.Projects 3.Field Trips

Schedule changes on the combined staff calendar: Special Schedule: This will contain the special schedule for the day Assembly Schedule (follow schedule as usual) Early Release Schedule (follow schedule as usual) Noting Schedule Changes on the Combined School Calendar

Class Communications Folder Create Folder Under Contents Post Newsletters (approvals required as in the past) General Class Correspondence Class Communications

News Important announcements for parents/students to see when they visit the class home page. Each week, Week at a Glance should be posted to News

Week At a Glance Document This is a weekly/weekly document created by the teacher indicating the topics, assignments, and any relevant information to be communicated for the week. This document is not intended to replace teacher expectations with respect to copying assignments and student responsibility for assignment notebooks and homework assignments, but is a means of communication with school families. All teachers should post a disclaimer at the bottom of posted homework indicating that this is for informational purposes and subject to change if necessary, please refer to the student’s assignment notebook for any changes.

Week at a Glance/Homework Folder Create Folder Under Contents Post Newsletters (approvals required as in the past) General Class Correspondence Week at a Glance/Homework

Feature Teacher is posted May use function to correspond with parents and students directly

Note: Teachers should be aware that there may be few circumstances where a school family does not have internet/computer access. If this occurs, it is the teacher’s responsibility to establish contact with this family as needed.

Sending Grades to Edline Grades will be uploaded at 4:00 p.m. on Fridays and will reflect all graded items sent home on Wednesday of the current week.

Today we will…… Set up Edline Account Log onto teacher page Change the picture on your teacher webpage Create a folder, Class Communications, add a newsletter, a document Put a News Flash Post to the Class Calendar Look at , groups and sharing