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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is new this year to MCPS middle school and he’s struggling lately with missed assignments. He says he’s having a hard time compared to his prior school because there are several platforms (Canvas, StudentVue, plus one teacher uses a Google doc with links to presentations/assignments, another teacher uses Google Classroom) and when he goes to the MCPS dashboard it says he has no missing assignments but it’s not always drawing information from the different platforms and sometimes it’s not updated. Any tips that could help my kid? Would it be too much to ask the guidance counselor for advice to help my kid? I don’t want to be a pain, but my kid is really feeling discouraged.[/quote] MCPS teachers are not allowed to use Google Classroom in MCPS anymore. StudentVue and Google Docs are both accessible from Canvas. [b]He will pick it up quickly, I promise[/b], even the elementary Students use Google docs.[/quote] He won't. Just when he picks up how one teacher is adding assignments, the semester will change and he will have to learn another method. And each teacher will have their own special place to put assignments. Some will have a link called Assignments. Others will call it something else. Some will even make you go to their unique home page and then get to a calendar , requiring 3 clicks. Sometimes the calendar will have links to the assignments. Sometimes they won't. It's a nightmare. [/quote] He won't. Just when he picks up how one teacher is adding assignments, the semester will change and he will have to learn another method. And each teacher will have their own special place to put assignments. Some will have a link called Assignments. Others will call it something else. Some will even make you go to their unique home page and then get to a calendar , requiring 3 clicks. Sometimes the calendar will have links to the assignments. Sometimes they won't. It's a nightmare. [/quote] It is frustrating, and not perfect of course. At the same time, there are a finite number of classes. Just have your kid get clear about how each teacher does it during the first week of class. Have your kid read the syllabus and/ or ask the teacher - in class or via a follow up email. Done! Is it ideal? No. But “nightmare”? That is a bit dramatic. With everything going on in the world- there are real nightmares going on - but perhaps it is all a matter of perspective. Many school systems have kids write down the assignments and due dates rather than make them available online. Three clicks is not the end of the world in most cases for most kids. If three clicks is insurmountable perhaps there are some executive functioning challenges going on- that perhaps could merit some testing for a 504/IEP ? Disability accommodations can help in those cases. [/quote]
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