eLearning at Hagley College

Hagley College's Microsoft Outlook Email and Calendar can be accessed via online or desktop app. The Outlook desktop app will be preinstalled on your laptop, or you may like to use the online version. To access online email and calendar type Hagley Portal in to a Google search. The first result is Hagley's online student portal.  Your email can be accessed here, so too can many other tools such as OneDrive which is a personal online file storage facility with unlimited capacity.  Once you have entered your school username and password, you can access your email. Please also use the calendar to see when what is happening at school and you may like to use Microsoft's To Do list which helps with productivity. Many of the other Microsoft apps can be accessed from here too.   

Kamar is Hagley College’s Administration and Management Software and is needed for every lesson every day. Access Kamar via: k.hagley.school.nz 1. How to take the class roll: Open Kamar, enter your username and password and select Logon . From the dashboard, click Attendance and Enter Attendance: You will need to click on each student's box to mark them Present, not in Class, or Late. If a student is late, use the pencil icon to record how late. If a student has notified the school that they are away from class, this will appear in another box . There is no need to enter anything for these students.  If you are teaching a double period, ensure you complete the second hour too. For a double period, there is the option to 'Copy Attendance to the Next Slot" to mark the second period too.  2. How to send an email to the caregivers of students in your Tutor Group.  From the dashboard, go to Students and select Letters: Your personal letter/email area is called Mine . Select ...

  Step 1: Go to the Wi-Fi settings on your device: Step 2:   Select: HCC BYOD Step 3: Select Connect automatically Step 4: Enter your username and password – Do not tick Use my Windows user account For Android & Chromebooks: Chromebooks may require your full email address (firstname.lastname@student.hagley.school.nz) under identity . 

Video calls are designed to check in with students, ask about their well being, and the overwhelming feedback from students is that they must gain value from being present in the call. While listening to you and watching the screen is important, students need to be active and engaged in learning during the video call.  1. Using Forms for a quiz or survey.  Forms involve students contributing to either a survey or a quiz . There are instructions here on how to create a Form and once you have the link to share, you can paste this in to the meeting chat for students to complete during the Video Call. 2. Contribute to a shared file.  To enable students to work in the same place at the same time, you may like to create a Word or OneNote file in the Files section of your class Team. Remember not to put the file in the Class Materials folder, as this folder is read only for students.  You may like to create a table for students so they know where they are expected to work ...

  Students can access all class Video Calls via the Teams Calendar:  The Teams Calendar is similar to the Outlook Calendar and will populate with all Video Calls which teachers have created via inviting the Team channel . Students can join the meeting via clicking on the invitation and selecting "Join"  The Teams Calendar is the best place for students to access class Video Calls as it shows all scheduled video calls in one place. However, individual Video Calls for each class Team can also be accessed via the Class Team Posts section: 

Teams meetings are great and there are a few settings which can be adjusted so that the experience is positive for all. This post offers a few suggestions for:  Setting up meetings properly Using the Lobby Requesting Participants to Join Muting Participants Disabling Chat Using Captions Setting up your meeting: Make sure you set the meeting up so that you have control over it. Once you have created the meeting, edit the meeting options by clicking on the meeting in your calendar and click meeting options: Here you can alter the ability for the students to present/share their screen ( and the ability to mute you! ) so ensure you select ' Only me " for the Who can present option:  You may also like to remove the ability for students to begin the meeting without you via the lobb bypass option. Select only me if you don't want students to begin without you.  Using the Lobby: If you set the meeting up so that only you can bypass the lobby (which prevents people joining the mee...

  Setting up for the Video Call: Use the Teams Calendar to  schedule your video call with your class .  Prepare your lesson as you normally would planning a range of online and offline tasks for students. You may like to use the Class Notebook inside Teams to create a page of work to distribute to your students.  Click here  for details about using the Class Notebook in Teams for remote teaching. Immediately before the video call: About 10mins before the Video call, go to your  Class Team  or  Teams Calendar  and Click “ Join ” in the scheduled meeting.  Once you have selected your meeting join options, you may like to  blur your background  by clicking the  ellipsis : Ensure you are set up to share your computer screen - close any programmes and internet tabs which are not relevant to student learning. Keep your microphone and camera on throughout the video call . Keep vocal energy & eye contact (at the camera lens) a...

 1. Share to Teams: This feature allows you to share an email directly to a class Team or Team Chat message. I use this feature with the weekly Careers email, which I share to my Tutor Group Class Team:  This creates a new post in the Post section of the Tutor Group Team.  2. To Do List: The To-Do list is great for keeping track of tasks. Tasks can be given due dates and reminders and files can be added to tasks too. To-Do is now well integrated in to the Outlook online version and appears in the top banner:  To Do list tasks can be entered directly, or you can highlight text within an email message and select 'create task'. This will automatically create a To Do list task.  It may also be handy to download the Microsoft To Do list app to your mobile phone so that tasks are accessible across two devices. 3. @mentions in Outlook: When creating an email, if you @mention the person who you want to receive your email in the text, this will automatically list them in...