Day in Review

Ok kids,
Not too much going on in my neck of the wood... I mainly supervised and supported state testing for most of the day...
I have a slightly sadistic streak for organization lately, and try to set things up to be as simple as possible. Sometimes it works out, and others not so much...

So lately I printed out stickers with the testing info for every student in the entire building, it only took 11 pages of labels and was well worth it... I had a nice time sticking them all perfectly in place for the kiddos and lucked out to have two awesome helpers that helped make the crazy dream a reality....

So in the last few days I was able to put the little cards to good use and get students on track and online for state testing.

We are using a new system this year and it takes a little getting used to, with one of the main differences being that teachers must log into a central management system and create "Sessions" for students to access their tests.
this is rather annoying, as most teachers do not know the address of the random page in the middle of nowhere that is absolutely fundamental to getting their students online....

And on top of that added frustration, the teacher, who is madly trying to get the students in the right account, logged onto the Internet and into the application that is sporadically missing from many student docks, needs to sit at their desk and approve each test that comes online waiting for approval... This adds a lot of waiting, frustration, and needless running back and forth....

So yeah, good times, and the testing coordinator comes to me for help... Seeing as none of us have used the application before and are all at square one when it comes to navigating....
Even with training, not many of us are completely comfortable with the process....

KC