Please explain the computer format for online summer Health

[Anonymous]

My DD will be taking MCPS online summer health. She will be away from home and not with me during the first required class. Can she log in for this class on any computer or does she need to be on her MCPS Chromebook?

Further, where will she be receiving information about this class in advance of the first class? Through her MCPS email and, if that's the case, she won't be able to read those emails if not on her Chromebook, right?

Thanks for your help, experienced parents and guardians!

[Anonymous]

During COVID my kids used their regular laptops for Zoom school without an issue. And she can absolutely log in to her school email from any device. My kid is even able to access everything from his phone and I’ve logged on to his school account from my computer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD will be taking MCPS online summer health. She will be away from home and not with me during the first required class. Can she log in for this class on any computer or does she need to be on her MCPS Chromebook?

Further, where will she be receiving information about this class in advance of the first class? Through her MCPS email and, if that's the case, she won't be able to read those emails if not on her Chromebook, right?

Thanks for your help, experienced parents and guardians!

It can be any computer, but she'll need to log into her MCPS account from that computer to access the content . My kids took this class over the summer and used their personal chromebooks.

If not using a chromebook, she will need to convert the homework files into PDF before submitting. Some teachers may only be using a chromebook to open HW assignments and the formatting might be off if the content was created on a PC or Mac.

Good plan to get it done over the summer! From my kids' experience, depending upon the teacher, the synchronous sessions can be quite short...45 min-1 hour. The content, they said, is a repeat of middle school health.

[Anonymous]

My kid did one health class from his phone last summer.

[Anonymous]

Thank you! Here’s another question-can a student not do work for a few days? So, they attend all the classes on time but do the asynchronous work wheh they are available, even if it means they miss a few days at a time (like when camping without reliable wifi)?

[Anonymous]

She can log in with any computer. They have a few classes, then lots of assignments as busy work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She can log in with any computer. They have a few classes, then lots of assignments as busy work.

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Thank you. See above. Does this busy work have to be completed on a daily basis or can they take a couple of days off, as long as it is completed. Where will the information be posted to learn this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you! Here’s another question-can a student not do work for a few days? So, they attend all the classes on time but do the asynchronous work wheh they are available, even if it means they miss a few days at a time (like when camping without reliable wifi)?

I don't remember. But if it's like the virtual health going on now, the assignments for the week (apart for the last week) are all due by Friday night. There are 7 mandatory virtual meetings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She can log in with any computer. They have a few classes, then lots of assignments as busy work.

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Thank you. See above. Does this busy work have to be completed on a daily basis or can they take a couple of days off, as long as it is completed. Where will the information be posted to learn this?

It is not good to get too far behind, because work piles up quickly,
but two summers ago as long as assignments were in by the last day of class, kids got credit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you! Here’s another question-can a student not do work for a few days? So, they attend all the classes on time but do the asynchronous work wheh they are available, even if it means they miss a few days at a time (like when camping without reliable wifi)?

I don't remember. But if it's like the virtual health going on now, the assignments for the week (apart for the last week) are all due by Friday night. There are 7 mandatory virtual meetings.

It was like this last summer though I think everything for the week was due on Sunday. The volume of work was higher than anticipated

[Anonymous]

Has anyone taken summer health in person? Does the class let out early?

[Anonymous]

Didn’t let out early, and you had time for assignments, but there were a lot of assignments. It’s not hard but very time consuming. If they don’t have the time for the work, they shouldn’t bother to take the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thank you! Here’s another question-can a student not do work for a few days? So, they attend all the classes on time but do the asynchronous work wheh they are available, even if it means they miss a few days at a time (like when camping without reliable wifi)?

Generally that will be the case—it was when my DD took it—but it may depend on the teacher. Some may be more strict about deadlines.

But there could potentially be a *lot* of work piled up, if your kid is trying to do the work of two asynchronous blocks at once. They should be prepared to spend a fair amount of time on it when they get back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD will be taking MCPS online summer health. She will be away from home and not with me during the first required class. Can she log in for this class on any computer or does she need to be on her MCPS Chromebook?

Further, where will she be receiving information about this class in advance of the first class? Through her MCPS email and, if that's the case, she won't be able to read those emails if not on her Chromebook, right?

Thanks for your help, experienced parents and guardians!

Whatever computer they decide to use, they have to be able to log into their MCPS email account. Usually the details come a week or so before the course starts, sometimes as late as a day or two before.

But there should be a way to log into email without a Chromebook, because my kid used their MacBook in past years. They ultimately switched, when they realized things were more streamlined on the Chromebook because teachers were designing everything around it anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She can log in with any computer. They have a few classes, then lots of assignments as busy work.

w
Thank you. See above. Does this busy work have to be completed on a daily basis or can they take a couple of days off, as long as it is completed. Where will the information be posted to learn this?

It's all posted online. The class is only a few weeks so they need to keep up or they will fail.