| Our remote learning environment poses many challenges to overcome. Figuring out how to maintain student privacy is one of them. Maintaining student privacy is not just a good idea, it is tied to federal law. Below are some resources that you can use to help maintain student privacy in your new classroom environment. |  |
Zoom Room
| Zoom just recently changed a default setting in its school accounts so that only the host can share their screen. This can be changed by the host though, as needed. This is wide open since no account is needed to join a meeting. Only the host needs an account. You may consider adding a password to your Zoom session to make it more secure. Visit zoom.us to get started with an account. |   |
In respecting our students' privacy and maintaining our own from home, it is recommended to either have a plain wall as your background OR use a virtual background.
The virtual backgrounds can be fun to use. There are a few standards available or add your own custom image.
From a laptop:When your Zoom Room is open, find the Preferences in the upper LEFT corner. You can add other images or video as desired. If you want to get fancy, you can find royalty-free stock video clips at Videvo.net. |  |
From an iPad:Tap on the 3 dots in the upper RIGHT corner of your screen. Tap on Virtual Background to change. |  |
- It is best practice to turn on the Waiting Room feature
- There will be a Password for your students. Please reset it to something easy for them. Perhaps make it your last name. This does not need to be a huge barrier for them to get in.
Safe YouTube
Eliminate the distractions of the suggested videos that come with YouTube. Consider using safeyoutube.net. This will work inside of SeeSaw, Canvas, and Google Classroom, and does jive with our district's web content filter.
Passwords
Passwords and class codes should not be posted on publicly accessible sites or documents.If you want to share passwords, do it through ClassLink, SeeSaw, Google Classroom, or another resource that IS password protected. Click here to download this infographic
SeeSaw
| Please do NOT share SeeSaw Class Codes with your families at home. Instead, you can send them their Home Learning Codes. These are available to all of our teachers, whether using the free version or paid version. Be mindful of your class settings, particularly whether or not students can see each others' posts. |  |
Flip Grid
Flipgrid is a safe and secure way to engage with students through video. It can maybe be thought of as the grown-up version of SeeSaw. It's target audience would probably be middle and high school students, but it can be fine for elementary students who have already had classroom experience with it. Click here to download this infographic.
Please let me know if you have questions about these or any other student privacy resources.
