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[quote=Anonymous]Teacher here. There are three main things:

Google Apps for Education - this manages the student (and teacher) login accounts, emails, and files (docs, sheets, slides, etc.)

Canvas (company is called instructure) - course management system where teachers can create assignments, provide content, have quizzes, etc. There is a course “tile” for each course which teachers update as they teach. It talks to the Google Drive files and can push grades to the official Synergy gradebook. Google classroom is not supposed to be used anymore. MCPS has had it for 5 or 6 years. MyMCPS Classroom was a front end wrapper during the transition from Edline to Synergy.

Synergy is the master database of all things. It houses all student records, manages course schedules, manages grades, and has a ridiculous amount of functionality. TeacherVue/StudentVue/ParentVue are all just the (often poorly designed) user interface that people with different functions access the data.

One other important application is the Clever Portal. It manages the login to a variety of other educational platforms that MCPS subscribed to. Students can log in to their Google account, access the Clever portal (from the MCPS resources folder on the browser bar or a direct bookmark) and then just click the icon for Canvas/MCPSClassroom or Synergy/StudentVue or other program and they will just launch that application without needing to login separately to it.

Side note - when students are having difficulty logging into an application, the most common problem is that students have used a personal account to log in to something on the computer and didn’t log out of the personal account. When they try to login to something with their school account, the verification checks see the non-MCPS login active on the computer and won’t allow the login. Logging out of everything, closing all browsers and programs, then shutting down the chromebook will clear everything out. When they restart, they should be able to login.[/quote]

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