No Audio & Using a Phone?

TRY THIS IF YOU ARE USING A PHONE for TEAMS 

& can't hear the sound or the PPT looks weird... 

If is probably because you are using the TEAMS app.  

It didn't work for me either.  

Try this (which DID work for me):

1. Do a google search for office 365 login (with those spaces.)  It should come up office.com.  If it does, click on that one.  
2. Sign in like you would at school.  
3. On mine, I get a whole list of icons once I sign in - Outlook, Word, Excel, PPT, TEAMS. Not sure what you have access to as a student.  
4. If you have this & a PPT icon, please click on that & see if you have access to either of the PPTs posted for your class.  I did, but it's my file.  I was able to view it normally & the audio worked.  

Please try this & report back, because this is our last way until someone higher than me changes their mind about videos.  If it doesn't work, you'll need something that isn't a mobile device to hear the lecture, sorry.  Out of my control.  

Please remember to post on TEAMS (see the TEST 3/22 post for the assignment details.) 

DUE SUNDAY 3/22: TEST GRADE Read Post

I absolutely, 100% have to know if you can see & hear the PPTs I posted for you (I posted 2 so far.)  IT IS A TEST GRADE TO RESPOND IN TEAMS THAT YOU CAN OR CANNOT - I AM MAKING IT AN ASSIGNMENT THERE & WILL PUT IT IN THINKWAVE.  You must COMMENT "I can hear the audio in each slide" or "I cannot hear the audio & tried the long way on my phone."  Typing one of those 2 answers by 10 pm Sunday will earn you a test grade of 100.  If you don't, you know what happens...

If you are using an iPhone ( don't know about other phones, people have only responded this issue with iPhones) AND you cannot hear the PPT  audio & it looks like the slides are kind on on top of each other, do this:

For the PPTs - TRY THIS IF YOU ARE USING A PHONE... so a google search for office 365 login (with those spaces.  It should come up office.com.  If it does, click on that one.  Sign in like you would at school.  On mine, I get a whole list of icons - Outlook, Word, Excel, PPT, TEAMS. Not sure what you have access to as a student.  If you have this & a PPT icon, lease click on that & see if you have access to Ch 17 Sec 1 PPT.  I did, but it's my file.  I was able to view it normally & the audio worked.  Please try this & report back, because this is our last way until someone higher than me changes their mind.  If it doesn't work, you'll need something that isn't a mobile device to hear the lecture, sorry.  Out of my control.  PLEASE REPORT BACK.

No one has had an issue using a laptop or desktop, and I think it's the app tat's causing the problem.  The above is the long way but a work-around for you - I did it that way on my iPhone & it worked (it did not work when I used the app.)

I'm giving you easy grades to boost your average & get us set up because, as of now, you still have Regents Exams to take.  And either way you still have a course to pass.  Take advantage of these easy ones!

TEAMS PPTs & Word Docs

Please DO NOT write in or change any document in TEAMS.  You can access them & use them, but is you change them in any way, you cause your classmates to not be able to do the assignment & I get a notification of who did what.

Please access them, use them, print them view them...but DO NOT CHANGE THEM OR WRITE DIRECTLY IN THEM!  Thanks!

To be clear...

We have no idea what's going on, either, so we're just moving on because, as you know, that's what we do.  That said, it is expected that you are keeping up with your homework since that is NOT new & you have been told all year to be checking the blog at least daily.

Add to that TEAMS...you should be checking into TEAMS at least twice daily - once in the late morning OR your class period time frame, and once "after school" for any updates or things posted since you checked in earlier that day.

TEAMS records the date & time of your comments, which is basically your attendance.  Right no, checking in once a day at midnight is not sufficient, & I see a lot of you are doing that.  It's like missing class.

So, be sure you are checking the blog for updates AND checking into TEAMS during your class period time (I posted them for you in the one about keeping a normal schedule) & once "after school."  You re required to either ask a question, respond to a question, or coplete a task I may post daily to verify you are "in class" & get credit.  Things may change moving forward, but this is the policy as of now. 

If there are any issues with this, please email me.

Moving Forward with Reviews...

I think we found a workable solution to all of the "you can't do this" instructions we're getting.  If you are on an iPhone & can't hear the audio in the PPTs, please try the option I posted in TEAMS.  Just about everything else can be done on your phone, though it may be a little trickier.  

I can't solve every problem we're running into with distance learning, sorry about that.  Do your best with what you have available.  That's all any of us can do.

Due dates for new work will be posted April 3rd-ish, since we'll have a better idea of how much longer we;ll be out by then, if we're still out past that date.

PLEASE NOTE: When we finally return to school, we will pick up where we leave off in TEAMS.  So if on our last day home we do Ch 34 Sec 2, the next day in school we're doing Ch 34 Sec 3.  Be sure you keep on top of your work at home!

Accessing the REQUIRED PowerPoint Lessons

I don't know what you see as students so I'm doing screen shots 

of mine.  They will  look different, but this is the general idea.

Yes, I know this is a US PowerPoint 
but the steps are the same.  
I have uploaded Ch 30 Sec 2 FYP for you.

Click on our class.  In this case, I used Per 4 because the PPT uploaded to that class before the others.

Go to the top (or where ever the stuff shown on the top of this picture is on the student version.)

Click on "Files."

Click on the PPT (it's the only PPT there right now.)

Double or single click, it should open.  Does it look like this? I mean with the slides on the side?

If so, go to the bottom right & click on the screen icon (I know you guys know this way better than me, but just in case.)

Then I need you to look in the middle of the slide.  There is either an arrow or audio icon.

Click on it.  I think it's a single click, it takes a minute t start working.  I need to know f you can hear me & it's working.  I need to know this for ALL of the sides.  The slides with video, if any, will not have an audio icon.

Vocab.com QUIZ GRADE Due 3/20: Must Join Not Optional

This will count as a QUIZ GRADE

Please go to: 

http://vocab.com/join/7JVM7M

and make a free account.  I anticipate using this for your vocab quizzes so this is a requirement, not an option.

Remember, you must your your real first & last name as a username is you are given a choice of usernames!

Please do this by tomorrow night (3/20.)

Thanks!