1. August 27th, 2013 K12 Michigan http://k12michigan.weebly.com/password is “lighthouse” Something to add to the site? Send it to Erin Terpstra at eterpstra@k12.com!

2. Agenda • Pat Topping – Technology • Jennifer Spencer – Art • Katherine Downie – Art • Amy Altman – PE and Health • Loren Roumell – Social Studies • Callie Barr – English • Susan Duda-Osborne – Family and Consumer Science • Amy Dawson – Music • Janelle Hoenle - Math • ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Course assignments • Course set up • Drop in hours with Tonya/LMS drop in • Toolkits and course changes • Gen Net in Blackboard • Monday Count • Michigan Training • Need help? • Engagement team/flyers/drop in hours

3. Course Assignments 9/3 eCollege (JST, Pinckney, MVCA/MGLVA) and OLS courses (JST and Pinckney) are being assigned this week. 9/17 eCollege sections will be assigned the week of 9/9. Blackboard MI14 sections are being assigned as enrollments come in. More information about Gen Net Blackboard soon… I will email you when I assign you a course.

4. Bb Course Set Up – Email confirmation • Blackboard courses have been set up with these items: • 1.      Gradebooks are set up/color coded • 2.      Passwords have been verified and activated • 3.      Navigation buttons are present and in appropriate order • 4.      General banner posted • 5.      General welcome announcement posted • Communication Journal posted • Voiceboardlink, if needed • You will need to complete these items: • Add your staff information • Create your 24/7 Office hour link in Blackboard Collaborate • Add your new banner • Confirm that all graded items are in the grade book and ordered correctly • Verify that ALL items on the course checklist are completed. Within 24 working hours of being assigned a course, please email me a confirmation that they are set up per the checklist. THANKS!

5. eC Course Set Up – Email confirmation • eCollege courses have been set up with these items: • Syllabus posted • Announcements (5) ~ Late Policy ~ Technical Support ~ Have you read your kmail ~ Plagiarism ~ Keep Our Course Current • 3. Doc Sharing • ~ExamGuard • ~Course Calendar • Course Scheduler is completed. • Course Calendar posted as a Word document in the blue navigation button. • Disabled Tools • You will need to complete these items: • 1. Complete teacher contact info in Teacher Contact Information • 2. Complete and attach the ClassConnect doc. • 3. Add your personal “Welcome to the course!” announcement • 4. Verify that ALL items on the course checklist are completed. Within 24 working hours of being assigned a course, please email me a confirmation that they are set up per the checklist. THANKS!

6. Toolkits/Course Changes We have Instructional Services Team Toolkits for you. -OLS -eCollege -Blackboard -Michigan Toolkit Please do not make any changes to your courses regarding the items set up for you by the course set up team. If something doesn’t look right, please reach out to Tonya Westra for eCollege questions and to Tiffany Snyder for Bb questions. And thank you!

7. Gen Net Sections in Blackboard • In order to be assigned a Gen Net course in Blackboard, you will need to have an additional role added to your account in PEAK. I will take care of that  • You will have to toggle between your • Aventa instructor role and your Gen Net • instructor role. • You should only have MI14G sections • in your Gen Net instructor role. Please • contact me if this is not the case. • Due to the nature of these sections, my administrator permissions are different from those I have with our general MI sections. Our service delivery team will be making the assignments per my spreadsheet I send to them. • All MI14G sections will be assigned by next week regardless of enrollments.

8. Monday count/Info Update • Monday Count will be sent via email each Monday.  • Please hit “reply” to the email from Tonya and complete the form and “send.”  • There is no need to save this email or re-send.  A new email form will be sent every Monday Michigan Team Master Contact List Update Tonya will be sending a follow-up email to those who have yet to complete the form.  You will need to select “reply” to the email, complete the form to update their contact information and then “send.” THANK YOU!

9. Michigan Training - September All Michigan teachers, regardless of platform, will be assigned the Michigan Training through K12training in September!

10. Need help?

11. Engagement Team Our national engagement team has been formed and is ready to go! As we start the school year, the engagement team will be hosting orientation sessions as well as student drop in hours for those students struggling with the nuts and bolts of getting started with their online work. I will send you the flyers to post in your courses this week.

12. Thank you! Tuesday, September 10th 7:30 pm Eastern • Michigan Regional Meetings • 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month • 7:30 – 8:00 pm ET