Although our school has gone 1:1 with Chromebooks, there are times that the students will need to know how to login to the accounts from non-Chromebooks. Within the Gifted and Talented classroom, one of the special education classrooms, and the special area classrooms (PE, Art, and Music), students use Windows-based laptops rather than Chromebooks rather than taking a risk with having students moving throughout the school building with their Chromebooks since they are not equipped with carrying cases. Also, unfortunately at this time, our printers are not set up to be able to connect to the Chromebooks so students must login to their Chrome accounts in order to print any assignments. As teachers move more of their lessons to Google Classroom, it will become more important for students to be able to login to their accounts from home in order to complete assignments. Today, we held three sessions with fourth and fifth grade classes on how to login to their Chrome accounts and the importance of signing out when they were done. Teachers were reminded that the students must use their full email address when logging in rather than the shortened version that is used within the school's network. Many teachers expressed that they would create labels with their home logins and affix them to the students' agendas for reference when needed.
These sessions proved to be quite frustrating for the students as they had difficulty typing in their full email address due to the length of it. Because of this, we had the students log out and in multiple times in order to practice it. A few of the students were still having difficulty but did not give up. On reflection, it would have been beneficial to have had the teachers print their full email addresses prior to beginning this session so that the students had them in front of them rather than having to copy the address from the whiteboard.
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