1. Warm Up 8/27 Turn in your signed Safety Contract on the front table
Put your Science composition book on your desk.
Turn in your signed Safety Contract on the front table
If you forgot to get it signed, do so ASAP
On your computer, go to NetSchool (
Log into NetSchool
Under Navigation, click on “My Courses”
Unenroll from any of last year’s classes
(Click on the class, then click on “Unenrol me from this course” listed under Administration)

2. Warm Up: Sign up for “Remind” Remind (formerly Remind101) allows teachers to text message students about class reminders such as homework and upcoming tests. This service enables both the teacher and student to keep their numbers private from each other; the phone number below is assigned to me through the website

3. Computer Organization
Today we will:
Enroll in NetSchool
Set the following as “Favorites”:
NetSchool home course page
eGrades
Optional: Set up on your iPhone
Pin apps to Taskbar
Pin apps to the Start Screen
Optional: Download Word and PPT for iPhone
Create sticky notes for homework reminders
Set up folders for organizing & saving files

4. NetSchool Enrollment Instructions
On NetSchool, click on “Home”
In the search bar titled “search courses”, type in ‘Christian’
Click on the correct title:
Click on ‘Administration’ on the right hand side of the page. Select “Enroll me in this course”
Enrollment Code: christian(period #)
Example: If you are in my 5th period class, your code is christian5
Case sensitive

5. Making your “Favorites Bar” show up
There are different instructions for how to get your Favorites Bar to show up depending on which internet browser you are using.
The next three slides will show you how to make your Favorites Bar show up in:
Chrome
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Follow the directions for the slide that corresponds to your preferred internet browser.

6. In Chrome:
If you do not see this favorites bar, you need to go to the settings button in the top right corner Bookmarks 
Show bookmarks bar

7. In Internet Explorer:
If you do not see this favorites bar, you need to go to view Toolbars 
click on Favorites bar

8. In FireFox:
If you do not see this favorites bar, you need to go to the settings button in the top right corner Bookmarks Toolbar 
View bookmarks bar

9. Set NetSchool Courses page as a “Favorite”
Click on “My Courses” at the top left corner
Step 1:
This is where you will see all of the courses you have enrolled in

10. Favoriting on Internet Explorer
Right click on the link 
change the name to
NetSchool

11. Click on the star next to the “Google Bar.” It will turn blue.
For Chrome and Firefox
Step 2:
Click on the star next to the “Google Bar.” It will turn blue.
Click on it again and this box should appear.
3. Change the Name to
NetSchool
Change the Folder to
Bookmarks Toolbar

12. You have just created a quick access button for your NetSchool pages.

13. Click on the A+ symbol at the top right of the page.
Set eGrades page as a “Favorite”
Go to
Click on the A+ symbol at the top right of the page.
OR click on the ‘Grades’ icon on my NetSchool page

14. Click on the star next to the “Google Bar.” It will turn blue.
Click on it again and this box should appear.
Change the Name to eGrades
Change the Folder to Bookmarks Toolbar

15. Set Email as a “Favorite”
Using your favorite bar, go to my NetSchool page
Click on the picture
“Favorite” it by double clicking on the star and adding it to your Bookmarks toolbar.

16. Optional: Setting up email on your iPhone1 3 2

17. 5 4 achristian@nisdtx.org Type YOUR email.
Your password is your Student ID number
Description is whatever you want to call this account

18. 7 6
Select all options that you want to sync together. I always sync my mail and my calendar.

19. Pinning to the Task Bar
To get applications to “pin” to the bottom of your screen, as shown below…

20. Touch here
Swipe
To pull up the “Search” function, touch your finger on the right side of the screen and swipe it to the left.

21. Click on “Search”

22. In the Search bar, start typing Microsoft Word
and it should appear in the list.
RIGHT CLICK on it and these options will appear.
Select
Pin to Taskbar

23. Repeat for Microsoft PowerPoint
RIGHT CLICK on it and select
Pin to Taskbar

24. (instead of Pin to Taskbar…or do both to get them in both locations)
Pin to Start
If you want any application to show up on your home screen, select “Pin to Start”
(instead of Pin to Taskbar…or do both to get them in both locations)

25. Optional: download PPT and Word to iPhone
There are often times where you forget your computer or it is in technology and you are able to use your phone as a backup.
From the App Store, download:
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word

26. Sticky Note for homework
Use the “Search” function to find
Sticky Notes
Click on it

27. Create a sticky note for each of your classes
Put the sticky notes in order of your class schedule
Right click to change the color of your sticky notes
Add homework and other reminders throughout the day as it gets assigned

28. Set up folders on to save documents
2. Click on Desktop on the left hand side
Click on the FOLDER icon at the bottom of your screen

29. RIGHT click on the open space
Select New
Select Folder 2 1

30. Change the name to 7th Grade 15-16
OR 8th Grade 15-16

31. Create 4 more folders to make a folder for each core subject
Save all documents to these folders.