Post #13: eSchool, Headphone Extenders & Tech Committee

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Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

eSchool Updates:

 1. Home Access Center: In this week's HH Happenings email blast, Leisha notified families that they can now access eSchool's Home Access Center. You may want to share this with your families in a newsletter or email as this will be the only way parents will be able to access report cards. 

 Here is Leisha's message below:
IMPORTANT NOTICE
FROM WPS TECHNOLOGY OFFICE:

Please log in to your guardian HAC account and confirm that we have proper email addresses on file in our Student Information Database

Dear Wayland Elementary School Families,

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Student Information System, eSchoolPLUS. After extensive research and assessment, eSchoolPLUS was selected as the best option for Wayland teachers, students and guardians because of its intuitive, scalable and secure solution to manage student data. There is also a mobile app called eSchoolPLUS Family that you can download from the app stores.

Home Access Center (HAC) replaces iParent and iStudent as a communication portal. It allows students and guardians to access a wide range of student data; including demographics, attendance, test scores, class work assignments, schedules and student fees. We will continue to update and add new features in HAC as needed by each grade level.

If you already have an account from an older child in the High School or Middle School, you can now see your Elementary student in Home Access Center. If not, we welcome you to view the HOME ACCESS CENTER INSTRUCTIONS to create your HAC account. Once logged in, please update your email address and phone number(s) by clicking on the Registration icon and then Contacts - (Edit).

Later this month, we will notify you when you will have access to your child's report card online through Home Access Center.

Kind regards,
Leisha Simon
Director of Technology

 2. Printing Report Cards - Here is a google doc with directions on running a report card report (same steps that Jim forwarded to you). 

Headphone Extenders: I purchased headphone extenders to assist with the use of headphones and iPads. Some headphones have an "L" shaped plug or are wide which cause difficulties for students to plug them into the iPads. This has caused some headphones to break off inside the headphone jack. Sometimes Joe is able to fix these iPads and sometimes he is not. 

 My hope is that with the use of the headphone extenders we will no longer see headphones breaking inside the iPad headphone jack. 

 Please keep track of your extenders as I do not have extras. I will be providing extenders for use with the iPad cart in the computer lab. The extenders will stay plugged in and should stay plugged in at all times. Please make sure that if you borrow the computer lab iPad cart that you return the cart with all extenders intact. Thank you.

Tech Committee: The Tech Committee met this week. We had a great conversation regarding student equipment needs and eSchool access. The notes from our meeting can be found here. Our next meeting is Wednesday, February 7th @ 2:30 in the computer lab. All are welcome to attend and join in the discussion.