An Important Message for Students

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ConcentricSD on August 19th, 2020 at 01:30 UTC »

It’s a real thing right now. Have had to explain to my 16 yr old that her teachers are just as lost as she is. It’s gotta be hard for kids to wrap their heads around the fact that their superiors don’t have all the answers at times

ineedabuttrub on August 19th, 2020 at 02:05 UTC »

And sometimes it's not a problem with a user, it's a problem with the software.

Let's use Zoom as an example. If you have a child abusing chat, what are your options? You can try to put them in a breakout room, but the child has to accept. If not, it doesn't work. And if you want to disable chat for the problem student only, you can't. You have to turn it off for everyone.

Not only are teachers having to learn new technology, that technology is fucking garbage and not suited to classroom use at all.

Edit: it seems auto breakout rooms exist. Thank you to those who suggested it.

ToastyNathan on August 19th, 2020 at 02:30 UTC »

I work in a school districts IT Department. Teachers are being such good troopers about all of this. God bless them. The average person has no idea how much new stuff not related to teaching a teacher has to learn only a few weeks ahead of time. "Which website are we using to submit student rosters and roll call? Why do these two students not show up in my list when I export it to this other website? What is Flash??" are all questions teachers need answers to on top of dealing with shitty internet providers who take hours to respond to our tickets. The teachers have to learn how to use Zoom on a device that is going to no longer support it in October.

Please email your old teachers and thank them. They really appreciate it.