During the period of self-isolation for a very small number of Y11 students, where they remain at home until Friday 4 December (and some others until Sunday 6 December), we are providing Online Lessons, including a Y11 ‘Live Lesson’ Registration each morning with Mr Wappat at 8.30am, for the duration.
Work will be set in the GoogleClassroom each day, for each of the five usually timetabled lessons that day, for each student, lasting approximately one hour for each. For Registration, there will be ‘Live’ Registration at 8.30am where students are expected to join via a GoogleMeet, to register and access help with any technology issues or ask questions they may have.
Trouble-shooting Connection Issues
Thank you to parents for previous feedback on Live Lessons and Registrations, which has been overall very positive.
We have collated a list of additional tips that we have found, in discussion with parents:
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Keep the microphone turned off unless answering the teacher. Leaving the microphone on creates background noise making hard for all to hear the teacher. Students should turn off unless speaking directly to the teacher. A reminder the teacher delivering may not be your child’s usual teacher.
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Turn off other devices using home broadband where possible. Live Lessons are streamed to homes but not buffered by Google, unlike other Apps like Netflix of Sky. This means if devices in the house are using bandwidth, such as downloading a film, it reduces the speed for Google Classroom.
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Turn off other Bluetooth devices where possible. Bluetooth devices such as headphones, Playstation consoles and other wireless devices nearby seem to cause issues.
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Work as near to the router as possible. Because some students are working from bedrooms, the distance from router to their device can make a difference. Students relocate near to the house broadband router helps.
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Use an intranet cable to laptop/PC. If your child is using a PC or laptop, an intranet cable directly plugged into router to device helps as this prioritises bandwidth for their device.
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Join the lesson shortly after the scheduled time of the lesson. A reminder that teachers are moving from their previous lesson and need to get set up. This is why we have scheduled the lessons slightly differently to allow the teacher to arrive at the lesson, log in and then upload the Google GMeet link to the classroom. Please give a chance for this to happen before getting in touch with us.
Accepting Google Classroom Invites
As explained in Computer Science lessons and assemblies, it is vital that students check their school GMail email accounts and follow the links to their classes, or use the Google Classroom App to accept invites to their classes that have been sent to them, which will then contain the Google Meet code to join the live lessons. The invites and GMail links can be checked in advance, but the Google Meet code will only be posted in the classrooms as the lesson starts.
It is particularly important that Y11 self-isolating join the GoogleClassroom called 'Year 11 Self-Isolating Registration'. They were sent a link in the week ending 20
Further details
We ask that parents encourage their children to be involved from the start, and we will be supporting to ensure we quickly move to 100% of students participating each day during the period of self-isolation at home up to and including Friday 4 December, returning to school on Monday 7 December.
Each student has been invited to join a Google Classroom for each of their curriculum subjects. Within each classroom is the work to complete, or in the case of the Registration Classroom, the unique link to join the Google Meet Registration. For safety reasons, the link goes live just as the Registration starts at 8.30am.
Thank you in advance to those Year 11 students now self-isolating and parents for your patience as we resolved log-in issues, both to the GoogleClassrooms, using students previous ‘S’ numbers from before and during lockdown, and also into each GoogleMeet.
If there are issues we try our best to monitor the email address google@normanby.outwood.com which is the best way to report logging in issues. We have written additional guidance to support with this following feedback.
Guidance on joining live lessons:
Joining a live lesson on a PC click (HERE - need to create new links.....)
Joining a live lesson on a laptop click here "here":
Joining a live lesson on a tablet click "here":https://www.normanby.outwood.com/blog/news/4198
Joining a live lesson on a tablet click "here":https://www.normanby.outwood.com/blog/news/4198
Parent guidance on online lesson expectations:
Please can all Year 11 parents read through this guidance with their child by clicking "here":https://www.normanby.outwood.com/blog/news/4234
Access to technology
If you are having challenges or require extra help, please email us via the dedicated email address google@normanby.outwood.com with your child’s name. We will then email you new log-in details for your child, and be able to advise on any technology issues you might have. It would of course help our capacity to support if students made a big effort to recall their details, and only get in touch if they have genuinely forgotten.
Thank you for your continued support.
How to access the Google Classroom - Video HERE
Mrs Beaumont has recorded this video, and it was shown in assembly to all students in assembly earlier in the term, including Year 11. We hope it is useful to parents too as you kindly support us, as we all adjust to blended learning.