teachers for making your laptops available to Joe for updates. HH is all done and we appreciate your flexibility.
MCAS: For those administering MCAS, here is a link to the HH MCAS website, which has been updated with Spring 2019 information. Please refer to this website for login information, practice sessions, and live testing day procedures. We will be reviewing this information in your training session. You can also find the link under For Staff - Technology. Please let Michelle or I know if you have any questions.
New Features on Teacher MacBooks: There are a few new features available on your teacher laptop since the upgrade of the operating system (OS) to Mojave.
1. Screen Lock
2. Light and Dark Mode
3. Screenshot annotation
Here is a short video demonstrating these 3 features.
Subscription Update: Thank you to those who responded to the 2019 Spring Subscription survey. With continued limits on the budget, we have decided to not renew Culture Grams.
The rationale for not renewing:
Teacher Laptops Tips: A few teachers mentioned that their computers are slow to wake up and sit at the black screen for longer than usual. The update may have helped. If not, here are a few things to try:1. Screen Lock
2. Light and Dark Mode
3. Screenshot annotation
Here is a short video demonstrating these 3 features.
Subscription Update: Thank you to those who responded to the 2019 Spring Subscription survey. With continued limits on the budget, we have decided to not renew Culture Grams.
The rationale for not renewing:
- only used to support 1 or 2 units of study
- one of those units was already completed for this school year
1. Restart your computer on a regular basis.
2. If you use Google Chrome and have a lot of tabs open (I'm guilty for sure), this uses a lot of memory. Close some of those tabs!
3. When you disconnect from your projector, it may take longer for the computer to wake up as the internal display needs to switch settings.