Google Docs… please read

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Anonymous wrote:It came to my attention that young ES kids are using Google Drive to “text” each other during the school day (via a shared Google doc), make screencast recordings, recordings of themselves, etc. My DC is in lower elementary school. I was really shocked to find this on their Drive. DC is otherwise a good student. Parents, I recommend you taking a peek there to see what may be happening during the school day. Don’t think the teacher has any control or oversight over this and it’s a big blind spot.

Welcome to 2020 OP. This is an old old tale. They make a copy of the document that they should be working on and then use comments to chat back and forth. When the teacher looks at their screens, it appears that they are doing their work.

[Anonymous]

The kids also use Google Docs to share links for games that haven’t been blocked as well as links to access YouTube .

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Mcps counselor has seen this go very badly. Mcps tech says they can’t do anything about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mcps counselor has seen this go very badly. Mcps tech says they can’t do anything about it.

There really isn't. Kids use google docs for assignments. There is no way to tell which are for assignments and which aren't.

The closest thing you could potentially do is lock the share access on docs and not do group assignments.

10 years ago my kid was using google docs for a group assignment. Some kid outside their group somehow got access to my kid's doc and made edits. I saw it happening when DC was working on the doc at home.

Fortunately, I know Google Docs fairly well, so I was able to get the previous version back, and lock that person out.

I have a love/hate relationship with tech, and I work in tech.

[Anonymous]

There is a survey happening right now on Chromebook usage

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRtklHc1FiBHwfvUFYFrbPC334tqA9mmIvqwbB0TP0u6Tl_A/viewform

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OP here. Thank you very much for sharing this survey.

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Google Slides is another big place for this; there are entire closed social networks there.

I require both of my MS kids to log into my phone with their MCPS passwords. Then I get notified any time there's action in their accounts. If my access goes because their passwords changed, they have to log me back in. I can "be" them almost anywhere in MCPS right from my phone.

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS is aware of this but does nothing about it.

Yep- they don’t care! At all

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Anonymous wrote:MCPS is aware of this but does nothing about it.

Yep- they don’t care! At all

And the tech dept doesn’t listen to the staff in the actual schools who have had to deal with/support following issues related to this.

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Anonymous wrote:It came to my attention that young ES kids are using Google Drive to “text” each other during the school day (via a shared Google doc), make screencast recordings, recordings of themselves, etc. My DC is in lower elementary school. I was really shocked to find this on their Drive. DC is otherwise a good student. Parents, I recommend you taking a peek there to see what may be happening during the school day. Don’t think the teacher has any control or oversight over this and it’s a big blind spot.

Um...hello like where have you been. One quarter of the school year is done

Kid only started doing it in the past few weeks.

It's sad that it's an ES issue now. I knew it was a problem with the MS and HS students, but it's just another reason to wait longer to stick kids on Chromebooks all day.

My child is 15 and as soon as they were handed chromebooks in the before times, she and her friends did this. It was an instantaneous issue.

And now in high school... it's NOT an issue. Nobody uses a shared doc to distract themselves in class! Youtube is available because a lot of courses need Youtube access, but if the teacher decides, they can shut off any and all external websites for the duration of their class. There's a special software teachers use for this. Teachers can see, if they wish, anything a student is doing on their chromebook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It came to my attention that young ES kids are using Google Drive to “text” each other during the school day (via a shared Google doc), make screencast recordings, recordings of themselves, etc. My DC is in lower elementary school. I was really shocked to find this on their Drive. DC is otherwise a good student. Parents, I recommend you taking a peek there to see what may be happening during the school day. Don’t think the teacher has any control or oversight over this and it’s a big blind spot.

What do you expect anyone to do about it? Take away their phones, laptops, Ipad, and other toys? Scandelous!

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Anonymous wrote:It came to my attention that young ES kids are using Google Drive to “text” each other during the school day (via a shared Google doc), make screencast recordings, recordings of themselves, etc. My DC is in lower elementary school. I was really shocked to find this on their Drive. DC is otherwise a good student. Parents, I recommend you taking a peek there to see what may be happening during the school day. Don’t think the teacher has any control or oversight over this and it’s a big blind spot.

Um...hello like where have you been. One quarter of the school year is done

Kid only started doing it in the past few weeks.

It's sad that it's an ES issue now. I knew it was a problem with the MS and HS students, but it's just another reason to wait longer to stick kids on Chromebooks all day.

My child is 15 and as soon as they were handed chromebooks in the before times, she and her friends did this. It was an instantaneous issue.

And now in high school... it's NOT an issue. Nobody uses a shared doc to distract themselves in class! Youtube is available because a lot of courses need Youtube access, but if the teacher decides, they can shut off any and all external websites for the duration of their class. There's a special software teachers use for this. Teachers can see, if they wish, anything a student is doing on their chromebook.

Math and literacy proficiency rates keep going down so maybe we should rethink whether any MCPS class should "need" YouTube seeing as kids did better when this was not available.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It came to my attention that young ES kids are using Google Drive to “text” each other during the school day (via a shared Google doc), make screencast recordings, recordings of themselves, etc. My DC is in lower elementary school. I was really shocked to find this on their Drive. DC is otherwise a good student. Parents, I recommend you taking a peek there to see what may be happening during the school day. Don’t think the teacher has any control or oversight over this and it’s a big blind spot.

What do you expect anyone to do about it? Take away their phones, laptops, Ipad, and other toys? Scandelous!

No, idiot. It’s simple. Take away the ability to share documents with fellow students. I also think it’s bizarre that students and staff can access anyone on the large mcps system outside of their own school through Google. And yes, this happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are we giving kids one to one internet connected devices IN ELEMENTARY schools? It has been YEARS of seeing dropping math and literacy rates coinciding with the explosion of EtdTech in schools. Wtaf?

I agree that it's ridiculous. But, it is just how things are now.

OP, MCPS knows about this but it's not a concern.

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Anonymous wrote:It came to my attention that young ES kids are using Google Drive to “text” each other during the school day (via a shared Google doc), make screencast recordings, recordings of themselves, etc. My DC is in lower elementary school. I was really shocked to find this on their Drive. DC is otherwise a good student. Parents, I recommend you taking a peek there to see what may be happening during the school day. Don’t think the teacher has any control or oversight over this and it’s a big blind spot.

What do you expect anyone to do about it? Take away their phones, laptops, Ipad, and other toys? Scandelous!

No, idiot. It’s simple. Take away the ability to share documents with fellow students. I also think it’s bizarre that students and staff can access anyone on the large mcps system outside of their own school through Google. And yes, this happens.

You are in waaaay over your head boomer.