Month: October 2023

Kasson, Ken, and I would formally like to invite you to Today’s Lunch Byte!

Come join us in D243 at 12:30-1:00 to learn more about what NIS’s approach to AI will be moving forward.

If you cannot make it, we understand.  Please see the resources below.

HUB Folder with Official Documentation & Support Links. 

Hope to see you at Lunch

Next week a number of staff will be sharing a short and sweet, bite-sized version of a presentation proposal for the March EASCOS Teachers Conference in Bangkok.

Two sessions will be happening on Monday and Tuesday from 12:30 to 13:00 in the Green Gym multi-purpose classroom.

If you’re not on Discover China (or BTT) and keen to eat, listen and learn, please get in touch with me.

Dear all,

Julia Zhang will be the MOD on Oct. 21, 2023.

Best wishes,

Clara

Kasson, Ken, and I would formally like to invite you to Today’s Lunch Byte!

Come join us in D243 at 12:30-1:00 to learn more about what NIS’s approach to AI will be moving forward.

If you cannot make it, we understand.  Please see the resources below.

HUB Folder with Official Documentation & Support Links. 

Hope to see you at Lunch

We will be learning more about CPOMS this afternoon. You can log in here.

Please see the NIS Edtech Guide for how to log in to CPOMS for the first time.

See you at 2:45!

Good morning!

We will plan to meet at 2:45pm in the PAC Theatre for an introduction to our new digital reporting system for child protection and more. This meeting should last about 20 minutes. Please bring your laptop. If you would like to get logged in ahead of time, please see Dr. Doak’s instructions in today’s bulletin. Thanks!

Dear all,

Thank you for entering all your advisory comments for all grades and academic comments for Grade 12. For this cycle, members of the Student Support Teams will be proofreading and correcting different grade level comments. Here is who will be proofing your comments today:

Grade 12: Sara and Angela
Grades 10-11: Stephen
Grades 8-9: Ruben
Grades 6-7: Jade
Kelly, Kim and Tanya will be double checking students on their registers. Angela and Jade will be spot checking ATLs, and I will give a final look over everything.

If any of your grades or comments are not in, please get them in as soon as possible. I know the timeline has been a bit confusing, and I appreciate your patience and flexibility as I learn the system. Reports will be generated by Cindy later this week and published to parents on Monday.

Thank you!

Today’s Tech Tip is the third in a series where I’ll cover the use of OneDrive, Teams and Sharepoint to save and share files you’re working on.  In this tip I am going to cover saving and sharing files using Teams.  Remember, Teams is best used for files that you are working on collaboratively with a group of people.

1. So firstly, to open Teams, you can use either the locally installed App on your laptop, or open the Web App from the waffle menu found here.  https://nanjingschool.sharepoint.com/sites/NISHub

Either option is fine, and unlike OneDrive they look and function almost identically.

2. Next you need to select which Team you want to collaborate with.  You do this by;

• Clicking on Teams on the left-hand side menu.
• Select the appropriate Team. For most it will be either Primary School or Secondary School
• Then select the appropriate Channel. For most this will either a Grade level or Subject area

The great thing about Teams is that once you upload a file into a particular “team” or “channel” that you are a member of, it is automatically shared with all other members of that team.

3. Finally, to upload a file;

• Make sure you are in the correct Team and Channel
• Click on Files in the top menu, found up between Posts and Notes.
• Click Upload, then click Files (or you can upload a whole folder by clicking folder)
• Locate the file you want to upload
• Click Open (blue button in the bottom right)

That file is now ready for others in your team to collaborate on, and any changes made to the document will be automatically saved.

Just finishing with an interesting note: To upload a file notice that you DON’T click on Files found below Teams and Calls in the left-hand side menu.  Doing this is actually another method you can use to upload a file to your OneDrive. 

That’s it for today’s Tech Tip.  Next week I’ll continue with this series and give some tips on the use of saving and sharing files from Sharepoint specifically.

That’s it for today’s Tech Tip.

Tech Coach Ken

Dear All,

Please find attached SLT meeting minutes of week 8 for your information.

SLT – Oct 11