Documents

Tutorials

Back to School Guide - a guide to renaming your class, finding properties you created last year and adding them to your new classes

Quick Start Guide - set up a class and create a Bulletin Board

• Add Staff to Class - add another teacher or admininistrator to your class as a student to enable them to view class page contents
• Add Remote Students to a Class - add students or teachers from other schools to a class
• Bulletin Board - communicate to students and parents
• Class Page - create a class page for the library, a club or an administrator's page for teachers and staff
• eLF - An e-Learning Folio (eLF) is a means of collecting, organizing, tracking, and presenting activities,
  lessons and resources.
• Event Calendar - view and schedule events, appointments and assignments for class use
• DIY - Do It Yourself Property - format text with style and color, include numbered and bulletted lists, embed audio/video files and insert external web links
• Discussion Room - moderate real-time online discussions
• Feed Reader - RSS - view an RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0 feed
• Files Box - upload and store files so you can access them from any computer and save them to the local computer
• Forum - Students can participate in a password-protected blog on a variety of subjects. (The nature of this property requires setting up sharing rules for each of your students.)
• Frequently Asked Questions - create a searchable list of questions and answers
• Image - display a GIF or JPG image
• Journal - personal or collaborative online journal
• Sharing a Property Within Your School - share properties with other staff in your school so they can add your property to their class pages
• Search For and Add a Property - seach for a property you created or that was created by another user and add it to your page
  Simple Templates - This offers a range of templates for creating informative Properties. Each template provides a different layout for your Property’s content, and may contain a combination of text, images, and hyperlinks.
• Text and Image Area - add a paragraph of information, a bulleted list, a picture, a hyperlink, or any combination thereof
  
• Vote For - invite the students in your class to vote on a question, suggestion or idea
  

All documents are in pdf format.

Accessing myPISD.net from home

Teachers: In order to have access to your network drives, you will need to first log in through remote access (http://mydesk.pisd.edu). Then launch Internet Explorer and type in your school's myPISD.net address (http://schoolname.mypisd.net). At the myPISD login screen, use your district user ID and password.

If you do not have remote access, please email Douglas Floyd (douglas.floyd@pisd.edu) for information.