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    Teacher Webpage Content Standards and Maintenance Guidelines

     

    These guidelines are meant to be a reference for teachers who wish to create, publish, and maintain teacher websites. A teacher website can be a powerful tool. Its main purpose is to communicate up-to-date class and school information to the students and their parents.

     

    Teachers who post websites are responsible for adhering to the SSD policies regarding the proper use of the internet. The teacher is solely responsible for the content on the website.

     

    Teachers are encouraged, but not required to use the Blackboard template; however classroom pages hosted on other sites need to be linked and seamlessly accessible from your school site. To link teacher pages please provide your school webmaster with your web link!

     

    For more information about how to setup the Blackboard template go to https://www.sesd.org/Page/1388.

     

    Teachers’ Webpage Content Guidelines

    • Teacher’s home page content
      • Welcome and philosophy about the class
      • Areas of classroom study
      • Due dates for upcoming week
      • Recent assignments
      • Teacher’s school-focused Twitter or Facebook (if applicable)

     

    • Links to other pages
      • Classroom calendar
        • Includes assignments, field trips, special events/activities
        • Use the Upcoming Events app in Blackboard.
      • Classroom schedule
        • Daily/weekly classroom schedule, depending on what’s appropriate (e.g. library on Monday mornings, music after lunch on Tuesdays, or first and third period sixth grade science; second, fourth and fifth period advanced sixth grade science)
        • Link to bell schedule
      • Homework policy/make-ups/testing
      • Contact me: hours of availability for parents/students, best way to contact, classroom #, classroom phone #, twitter handle, if available
      • Optional extras
        • Additional resources such as suggested reading/videos/websites (Make sure to include a disclaimer if linking to an external site that the District does not sponsor that site)
        • Classroom photo gallery (Make sure only post photos of students with photo permission)
        • Teacher’s weekly announcements, blog, podcast, videos
        • Classroom expectations

     

    Teachers’ Webpage Maintenance Guidelines

    • Beginning of school year (by the end of the second week of school)
      • Develop your page
      • Post (at least) next two weeks of assignments
      • Post next two weeks of events on your class calendar
    • Weekly
      • Update calendar or sync with Google Calendar by going to the calendar and click on the pencil to edit. On the top right corner click on App Options and click on Google Calendar Integration. Choose sync both ways to be able to add or edit the calendar both in Blackboard and Google. Select Calendar and save!
      • Update assignments and due dates
    • Monthly (optional)
      • Update photo gallery, suggested reading

     

    Additional communication guideline for teachers

    • Once a month (at least), send a short blurb to your principal (could even be a photo with a caption) for inclusion in your school’s newsletter describing something your class is doing.

     

    Contact District Communication Coordinator Alia Wilson, alia.wilson@sesd.org or 408-522-8200, ext. 1084 for questions building your page and/or linking it to your school’s site.