Google Classroom has evolved consistently over the past few years. I have updated the Google Classroom section to take account of this. There are a number of departments working with Google Classroom this year

I have tried to illustrate in this updated section how easy it is to set up and monitor Google Classroom and how it could be essential as a teaching and learning tool. 

Many thanks to Dave Ewart for volunteering to take the OneNote workshops. These are on in F34 every Tuesday afternoon in September 2018.There is also a very good website on OneNote - taking you through the set up step by step and giving plenty of teaching tips. Click below to link up and check it out. Thank you to Jayne Atkinson for this link. 

One issue which tends to come up a lot at this time of year is google log in details. As pupils go to log on for the first time or the first time in a couple of months they run into log in issues. Invariably this has to do with them not using the @lagancollege.co.uk  username. If they use this there shouldn't be an issue.

Derek Mooney and his team of Showbie aces have clearly demonstrated how to use Showbie well with the pupils.  They have provided a range of great tips here but have also provided some brilliant examples :-)

One really good way to place an announcement for staff; form classes ; Year groups or the whole school is through the MySpace website which should be your opening web browser. 
This is very easy to do and can get across to your audience key information in a quick bulletin entry. Follow the easy steps below:

It is getting to that time of year again when you are putting your pupils through their paces with exam timing a key priority.  This great little selection of PowerPoint timers from www.a6training.co.uk are fab.  You can choose the time you want and cut and paste them into your Presentation! CLICK ONE OF THE PICTURES BELOW TO DOWNLOAD

Thanks to Ian McCaugherty and Dave Ewart for sharing

This is a brilliant website called edtechteacher.org.  It was found by Jayne Atkinson.  It is designed specifically around using iPads in schools and has lots of app recommendations for a huge variety of tasks as well as recommending lesson ideas - Full of inspiration!!  Check it out by clicking on the picture or following this link:  http://edtechteacher.org/apps#Begin 
Thanks Jayne

Sending and receiving emails to large groups of people instead of the specific groups you need can be frustrating.  In order to make it easy for you to send your emails directly to the people required this post explains how to set up your own dedicated email group or groups to make it much easier in future to target certain key people. 

Office 365 is the range of high quality Microsoft apps that we are all used too... and others in the family which you may not have heard of!  This handy online training course allows you to teach yourself the basics of a wide range of these apps allowing you to get a handle on things in your own time and at your own pace.

This is a great discovery by David Ewart. It is a really handy poster designed by Allan Carrington running through possible uses of the iPads based on the Blooms principles. Click to download

This is one of the most commonly asked questions at this time of year. Now that you all have your class lists this is a run through of how to send them through to iDoceo from SIMS. There are new ways to save the files on to Google Drive but I will cover that later. There are a few steps in  this but I guarantee once you do one class it will be easy!