Anonymous wrote:Op here- I think I’m just not going to do it.
The expectations are not clear and I don’t think it’ll be useful anyway.
Let’s just pick up in May

Yeah, I wish I was allowed at my school to email out the assignments or just post them on Aspen. My middle school kids know how to do this. Shoving seven thousand new platforms at them isn’t going to work.

Op here- I think I’m just not going to do it.
The expectations are not clear and I don’t think it’ll be useful anyway.
Let’s just pick up in May

I spent yesterday trying to set up teams and added all of my students into their classes in teams and again in calls. The chat function was disabled for me for kids. I also can’t use calls for more than one kid at a time. Has anyone else actually tried it with student accounts? I had some students willing to be guinea pigs with me, and it didn’t work.

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Anonymous wrote:Also- why isn’t this what we went over on Monday? We just made packets..

Learning and setting up teams was all we did on Monday. We met remotely through teams and held meetings with our grades to plan.

That was actually a valuable use of time. We came in and there were zero meetings, zero information was given out, and we just had a list of things to do mainly set our hours, message our parents, and set up a weekly team meeting. I was the only one of my team to show up.

Also, ability to mute kids in Teams will make us wish we had the ability to do that in the classroom!

Anonymous wrote:Can those video chat options leave it to the teacher to mute/unmute kids? Because after a week of social Zoom, it looks crucial.

Yes, participants can be muted by the host/others.