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School Online Resources: Do you use them? (1 Viewer)

Does/do your child's teacher(s) post important info, lesson plans, due dates on their webpage?

  • No clue. Never checked.

    Votes: 3 8.8%

  • Yes. It seems to be constantly updated.

    Votes: 14 41.2%

  • It's pretty meh

    Votes: 12 35.3%

  • Not good. I can't find anything there.

    Votes: 2 5.9%

  • My kid's teacher doesn't have a webpage.

    Votes: 3 8.8%
  • Total voters
    34
Officer Pete Malloy

Officer Pete Malloy

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For those of you with kids (K-12).

Question 1: How would you rate your kid's school's website in general? Can you go to it and find information about buses, schedules, early-outs, etc? Does it seem to be updated regularly?

Question 2: Can you access your child's grade(s) by going online? If so, does they system work well?

Question 3: Does your child's teacher (or teachers) have a webpage where important information? Is it useful? How often do they update it?

Feel free to comment or rant about specifics.

 
No on all accounts - private catholic schools too. No excuse but total ####### laziness - I ####### hate my kids schools but my wife wants them to go to catholic schools.

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
For those of you with kids (K-12).

Question 1: How would you rate your kid's school's website in general? Can you go to it and find information about buses, schedules, early-outs, etc? Does it seem to be updated regularly?

Question 2: Can you access your child's grade(s) by going online? If so, does they system work well?

Question 3: Does your child's teacher (or teachers) have a webpage where important information? Is it useful? How often do they update it?

Feel free to comment or rant about specifics.
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My answers are a bit skewed because my situation doesn't completely match the specifics. I have a 6th grader and a 3rd grader in public schools.

1- school uses multiple web interfaces. The main website for the school is a sub-page on the school district site. The site is horrible, looks like a 16 year old designed it as a geocities site in 1998. Half of the information won't display unless you are using internet Explorer.

2- The 3rd party web portal used to see grades is pretty good, reliable, and updated constantly by most teachers. There is a "calendar" section that each teacher can post assignments on, but none use it.

3- Most teachers don't have web pages, except for one. My 6th grader is in "Project Lead the Way" which is a national program for stem based learning. PLTW has their own web portal for assignments, documents, etc. students can upload assignments directly through that portal like any other LMS. Wish all the classes had this.

 
Kid in 7th grade.

School Website isn't real easy to navigate, but the information there is timely and accurate. The activities calendar is buried behind some links, but after bookmarking it directly I've found it quite useful.

Online grade-viewing system is real easy to use. All of kid's current teachers usually have grades posted within a couple days, easy to bounce back and forth to check different classes in one session.

No school standard on teacher Website. A couple teachers update their Websites regularly and have assignments, study guides, due dates, etc., readily available. Probably update twice a month. A couple of teachers send out weekly e-mail blasts of what to expect over the next couple weeks, sometimes attaching important class documents. One teacher has a Remind101 setup and sends irregular updates via text message. By "irregular", I mean there isn't a predictable publishing schedule. Texts will be stuff like, "remind your kid to bring (X-Y-Z) to class tomorrow for in-class work".

 
Website is decent.

The new portal to check grades this year is way better. My daughter is in 5th grade and all the kids go to a new school once they hit 5th grade. I feel like the teachers as a whole make a better effort to update their sites.

My biggest pet peeve was the school and teachers would always pimp their accessibility and easily obtained information, yet they would take forever to reply to an email Or never update their personal page.

 
1st/3rd graders.

Each teacher has their own website that is updated a minimum of once per week. Week's curriculum, activities, birthdays, homework.... anything I need or my son loses is there to be found. Love it. :thumbup:

I honestly don't know about the grades being online.. my kids usually show us their grades immediately so I can't say I have tried.

 
I always complain about the school I work at, but then I read threads like this and feel much better. Your schools are slacking big time.

 
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I didn't vote yet but my sons isn't bad. He's only in 1st though so I mainly use it to check his lunch balance (they give them a card that we add money to). I know it tracks abscences and I believe it has his state test scores or whatever

 
I get an email notification whenever something posts, he goes to the nurse, or gets sent to the principal. Thankfully haven't gotten the last one yet. I like it because I don't need to waste time looking for something that may or may not be updated. I get told when it's there and get a link directly to it.

My wife says the portal is good, but as long as the email notifications are sufficient and he's doing well I probably won't ever go on there.

 
They changed to a new one this year. Haiku? I have no clue how to find it or log in - I tried once and gave up after a few minutes. I view all of this as facilitating helicoptering that people then complain about on all sides.

 
Sometimes I feel like my dogs want to learn online but there's just no products available.

Thanks, Obummer. Ruff life they have.

 
Just to add. My daughters school from last year was the one where teachers didn't update their content. 4th grade.

Our school district has 1 website, with links for each school directly. The sites are all "the same" look wise. Some of their information doesn't make sens where they put it but as a whole it better.

This year is much better with the content and updating of grades by the teachers and their personal pages.

The other small issue we would run into in the K-4 school is this. My daughter is in advanced math, so they would pull her out of class but that teacher had no website

 
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middle school - grades are posted as they are recorded by the teacher, automatic email to parents for a missed assignment. Very easy to access. There is a separate site for assignments - all are kept together, by grade, but it is really hit or miss by teacher as to how current. One thing I wish was posted - copies of assignments that are passed out in class - particularly math sheets. Can't be that hard to upload

Elementary - grades posted to same school-wide site as above. No homework site, or teacher site.

 
I never check my kids grades, but my wife does pretty regularly, so I voted how she would vote. She can see grades, assignments, and lesson plans, although the consistency of the latter varies quite a bit from teacher to teacher. She finds this very helpful, and I would definitely access this material if she wasn't doing it.

 
Have a middle school and high school kid. The district uses Schoology and I am able to check up on assignments/quizzes/tests/current grade at anytime (try to go on once a week). I believe the kids go on there for assignments too, but I don't really pay attention to that area.

 
3rd grader in public school...

School website is easy to access- a lot of the basic info is there.

Teachers are left to their own devices for setting up their own Class-specific interface- this year's teacher is using blogspot for the class. She does a decent, not perfect, job updating it. She does a good job emailing regarding class specific trips, projects, etc. We have two class parents who fill in the rest of the gaps via email.

fwiw, regarding shared info, our principal just sent out the following email last night:

"In the recent weeks, I have been thinking a lot about our exposure on the internet and that may create some unsafe issues. I have realized that in order for a classroom teacher to give out very specific information about what is happening in the classroom, they may have to include some sensitive materials (such as dates and times of trips, class birthdays, etc.). I am not comfortable with that information living on a public site.

So, we are going to make some immediate changes to our website and the classroom pages. Beginning immediately, all classroom newsletters will be EMAILED directly to families. They will no longer live on the website. Class pages will also be removed. All important classroom information will be emailed directly to families."

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We don't get grades online- only in person.
 
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Officer Pete Malloy said:
For those of you with kids (K-12).

Question 1: How would you rate your kid's school's website in general? Can you go to it and find information about buses, schedules, early-outs, etc? Does it seem to be updated regularly?

Question 2: Can you access your child's grade(s) by going online? If so, does they system work well?

Question 3: Does your child's teacher (or teachers) have a webpage where important information? Is it useful? How often do they update it?

Feel free to comment or rant about specifics.
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Our district is using Skyward and it's great for assignments, missing assignments, grades, upcoming tests. It's not the greatest app in terms of navigation but we really like it.

 
5th grade. No grades online as far as I know.

District website is pretty good. Calendars, Lunch menus, Happenings, etc.

Most of the teachers' pages seem to be good, as far as I can tell. Some of the assignments are posted online so when my daughter "forgets" the paper, we can pull them up online. Reading book (Journeys) available online. Chorus and Music schedules all on their pages.

Every Thursday, an envelope is sent home with all kinds of flyers and announcements. They just started publishing those online, which is great, so I don't have to worry about which things I should maybe keep.

 
Do these schools have tech departments? I work in a small district and we have a tech department, online gradebook, teacher websites, email blasts, parent texts, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

 
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