Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Savvas and McGraw Hill single sign-on for 24-25 SY

We have many core courses either being taught or piloted this school year that use either McGraw Hill products or Savvas products.

McGraw Hill products include:

  • 5-8 Math 
  • 5-8 Science
  • 9-12 Science

Savvas products include:

  • 9-12 Math
  • 9-12 Science
  • K-8 ELA pilot

All teachers and most students (see below) will log into their coursework through their ClassLink portal.
On iPad, this will be through the ClassLink App.  On laptop, it will be through the website launchpad.classlink.com, which should be bookmarked.

Users sign in to Classlink with their school Google credentials. 
(K-2 students do not have these credentials, so they will use printed Quickcards instead.)







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High School Student Login to Savvas:

How should my students access their Savvas Realize content?

IF you use Google Classroom, you may connect your classroom Savvas account for your students.  With it, all assignments you set up in Savvas will pass down to students' Google Classroom assignments.  

If you will be using Google Classroom with Savvas, then students will NOT use ClassLink to log in.  They will simply use their Google Classroom portal.


The Google Classroom connection may be set up in your Savvas class settings.










Please let me know if you have questions about this.

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Bonus Note:

Does your ClassLink portal look cluttered with apps that you don't use or in an arrangement that doesn't work very well for you?  All users have an Edit Mode in ClassLink.  Create folders, move apps around, customized the theme, and more.  Make it fit your workflow.







Right click on any app icon to move it to one of your folders



Monday, August 5, 2024

Google Classroom for 24-25 SY

 If you use Google Classroom, your classes for the 24-25 school year should appear in your teacher panel.  They are fully rostered and synced daily with Infinite Campus.

Below are a few important notes:

1.   You may want to Accept only your first trimester classes and take care of the rest later. 
      You may 'decline' the classes that will not be using Google Classroom.

Once Accepted, the class will appear in your students' Google Classroom portal. 
No class code is then needed for students to 'enroll'.




2. These classes are named from Infinite Campus.  Once, accepted, I would strongly recommend changing the name to one that makes sense for both you and your students.  See images below that show you to make this update.  

The Settings button is found in the upper right corner.  Note the arrow in the image.
You may customize the background, too - that is found by clicking on the Customize button.  

I recommend using a naming convention like either one of these:
"Integrated Math 2A  Pd. 1 Tri. 1"     OR  "Mr. Gruman 10th Math Pd. 2"











3. I have this set so that students are only added from Infinite Campus.  If a student is removed from your class list, you will have to manually remove them from your Google Classroom roster.


4.  Assignments from previous classes - such as those from last year - may be imported into these 24-25 classes.  Look for the prompt 'Reuse Post' to bring in those assignments.  Refer to the image below on how to import assignments.










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- You may still create your own classes as desired.  Rosters will not be synced though.
- Grades are not synced.  This is only a one-way pass of data from Infinite Campus to Google
- You may add a co-teacher in Google Classroom.
- Please do not delete your classes at the end of the school year.  It's best practice to simply archive them.


Please let me know as you have questions about this.