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My Louisville - What's New for August, 2020?

Looks like some things have been improved or moved around as they update the system for this new school year. Here are some tidbits for whenever you get around to these things, no rush.

To import assignments from last year, go to the Assignments page for the class. Then, the …

 Remember to EDIT SETUP on your gradebooks so it calculates in the way Department chairs, please help inform your members of how this is to be set for your department. I will show new teachers that next week.

 In Topics, each element on your page now has a “gear” for settings that allows you to make a publish date/time for the element on the page. That’s super cool because if you put stuff on the page that you don’t want them to see until class time on Wednesday, you can set it that way.

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Topics can be placed in a TOPIC BANK so other teachers can IMPORT a copy of it and modify it as needed.

Topics can be shared with another section… you select the other teacher and course, and allow them to edit it or not. You can do these things at the time you create it, or click the share button on an existing topic.


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