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Here are some of the frequently asked questions and answers regarding technology that we get at the end of the school year. What should I do with my laptop over the summer?A. Don’t leave your laptop or charger in your classroom. Either turn them into the ...

This article will show how to view student information in TAC, including demographics, parent contacts, schedule, report cards, transcripts, missing assignments, and current classwork. This works for students rostered in your class but can also be used for any...

In some previous articles, we have shown how to use AI to accomplish research and analysis-style tasks. This is a hugely helpful style of AI technology, but there is another, more immediately impressive (and somewhat terrifying) form of AI as well. Where all ...

Curipod is a unique tool that allows teachers to combine the power of AI with the tool feature set of something like kahoot. In this introduction, we will use curipod to generate a custom lesson on a novel. We will utilize the provided activities to get bette...

The secure testing browser is rather picky about programs that have been opened. On a lot of occasions, you will get a message that the student may not test until Snipping Tool and or Google Chrome is closed. This should be simple… Just close the program. But...

Ohhhh Boy! This one is fun! Today, we will be looking at AI Studio, a Google product, sort of a user interface, for the Gemini AI platform. In this demo, I will be using my microphone to interact with Gemini in real-time. I’ll have it observe, analyze, and di...

17ec5461-3225-4627-beae-48ef36b17d14_1920x12001456×910 23 KB NotebookLM is a free, AI-powered tool from Google designed to help users interact with and learn from their documents. Described as a “personalized AI research assistant,” NotebookLM summarize...

Orange Modern Attractive YouTube Thumbnail1280×720 87.7 KB   Newsletters have been a great way to communicate for ages! With digital design and delivery, print-based newsletters have gone out of fashion, and digital newsletter platforms like smorehave be...

Windows 11 introduced a change, moving the start menu from the traditional bottom left of the screen to the center. This doesn’t bother some people😊, but others find it infuriating😡! If you are in the latter group, it only takes a few clicks to move the start ...

Dark Mode is an optional setting in Windows 11 (and many other apps and operating systems) intended to reduce eye strain and conserve battery life. It also makes the screen less jarring in low-light environments. To enable it for Windows 11: Click on the s...

If a student is missing the Secure Test Browser for ATLAS testing, follow these instructions. Press the Windows key on your keyboard Type in chocolatey You should see “Chocolatey GUI” as an option. Click on it. It takes a little time fo...

If an application is frequently used, consider adding a shortcut to the start menu or the taskbar to save searching for or navigating to it. To get started, click the Windows icon and type in the application’s name. In this example, we will use the calculator...

Pressing the Windows Key and V in Windows 11 opens a powerful tool that allows you to paste anything you have recently copied as well as emojis, gifs, math symbols, and language symbols from an expansive library. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Pre...

The Windows 11 Calculator has come a long way since its humble beginnings in Windows 3.1.While the standard mode is not too different from the “good old days,” the current version has modes for scientific calculations, Graphing, Programming, Date Calculation, ...

The color copiers offer two delivery options for scanned documents. Scanned documents can be sent by email or saved directly to Google Drive in PDF format. To get started, use your badge to log on to the copier.From the home screen, click the Scan button. ...

If your computer goes to sleep more quickly than you like or prompts you to log in more frequently than you like this article is for you! Press the Windows key on the keyboard and type sleep Sleep 1783×790 64.3 KB Click on Power, sleep, and battery sett...

Whether scanned from the copier, downloaded from the Internet, or received in an email, PDF files are by design easy to open but difficult to edit. This article demonstrates two of the many tools available to make changes to PDF files. ilovepdf.com is a pow...

This is pretty huge news if you are someone that loves Canva (or hates it) but feels like sometimes it is a little too… limiting. Recently Canva purchased the Affinity company. Affinity is company that produces the most comprehensive and direct competitor t...

If you are a Virtual Arkansas student and need to install the Respondus Lockdown Browser, follow the steps below. Press the Windows key on your keyboard Type in chocolatey image805×751 52.8 KB   You should see “Chocolatey GUI” as an op...

Certain models of the student Windows devices have a function key that turns on/off the trackpad. This can be helpful if they are accidentally hitting the trackpad while trying to type. More often, it gets pressed by mistake and they think their device is dama...