In the messenger program on infinite campus, you need to include your name and email in the body of the message. The email has a standard address, so you will not be able to tell who the email is from. It is also good to include your name and the school in the subject. Parents have been calling the front office questioning who these emails are from. Also, create and save templates in the messenger so that you can reuse tehm. If you use the failing grades notice template, then that is what is in the subject line. If you create a new template called "Superior Work Notice," your parents will not get a heart attack. Be sure to test before you send, especially if you are copying and pasting, to make sure that it is not giving strange characters for the formatting. Beta Program on gradebook will be up and running sometime around mid-month. It will happen soon after the update takes over. There will be two gradebook links under your instruction tab in gradebook. One will be marked Beta. You will be able to use either one. Both will store data, so if you want to experiment you can. If you do not want to use it, you do not have to. On the teacher web pages, there is clip art available. While working on your web pages, put the cursor (sp?) where you want it, and then hit the bottom right button in the manager, preview and insert the clip art. Notice when you are working on your web pages and you are on the design page, there is a "History" link you can click on right next to the "Edit" link. You can recover any different version you have saved in the past. Very handy if you want to have your web page build over the year. You can make the different versions live as you progress through the year.

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Be prepared at a moments notice to do a think pair share. Do this regularly so the students are used to it. Right from day one. When you are discussing the first reading, pull this out. "OK, now what did you think of what Jessica was just saying Jeff?" While they are doing that, prepare to regroup everyone.