Graham Quince

We're running a series of webinars on home learning, covering not only the basics but looking at the system from a student and parent point of view, creating quizzes, the question bank and how to monitor homework. How to get greater value from home learning Thursday 14th of June @3.30pm Homework – a student and parent perspective Tuesday 19th of June @3.30pm How you can increase engagement through quizzes Tuesday 3rd of July @3.30pm FrogPlay a unique homework aide Tuesday 10th of July @3.30pm How to effectively monitor homework with Assignments Tuesday 17th of July @3.30pm You can sign up here: https://www.frogeducation.com/community/events

Now that you can embed the assignments apps in pages, can you use that method with a text widget to set your own titles? That way you can create a use experience which more or less removes the assignment terminology.

For BTEC I’d use the eportfolios and set keyword widget, along with site list widgets. Great for project work

Send a copy to would send the students a notification, it would appear on their timeline and in their Frog Documents. Alternatively, you could use the ePortfolio system to create a site for each student and then have a place for multiple documents - should you wish to add more later. You can still use send a copy to but send it to their site instead of the person. Both these options are nice and secure, if a little time consuming. Since @ADT mentioned HTML and not being concerned about security as much, then the easiest option would be to adapt the File Drop tutorial. https://www.frogeducation.com/community/tutorials/html-tutorials/file-drop Upload all the files to the file drop on one page. Hide this page from the menu, then on a second page, add the HTML code to read the contents of the file drop, but only display the file which matches the student's upn. If i get time today, are you free to work through this with me?

I wouldn't get too hung up on them not downloading. It's very hard to prevent this. Also, creating and deleting sites on a quarterly basis seems like a lot of admin work. Does the Rules approach not minimise this effort?

Rules could help dates or you could just edit the sites to remove certificates Sending certificates as images and using tags (when sending), will allow the Photo Stream, Image Carousel or Site Timeline to display just those certficates. Giving you that ease of sending and displaying. If you include in the widgets to only display tags with specific year tags - that might work. You'd probably want each year to have it's own page and widgets on. That way historic images wouldn't need to be removed. You could use date Rules on pages to display only the current year. The Site List widget gives you 4 different display options (including the site icon and name)

This is certainly possible with ePortfolios right now. With some thought out setting up and using the Site List widget, you could quickly create a staff directory like this. Each would have to be individually maintained of course. I’m presenting a webinar on Tuesday and will attempt to elaborate on this during the presentation.

How would you have done this differently to option 1 in Frog3? Option 2 gets my vote for the easiest distribution method I reckon

Hi Paul. I actually pulled it a couple of weeks ago in anticipation. I didn't know that the update would introduce a bug into your widget, but at least Adam's "official" one is out in the wild. Thank you for building and sharing your version - it's helped a lot of schools and been a popular widget.

Sounds like you and I need to sit down, Matt. What you're talking about doing is combining these two tutorials: Calling an API: https://www.frogeducation.com/community/tutorials/html-tutorials/apis Using the File Drop widget for more: https://www.frogeducation.com/community/tutorials/html-tutorials/file-drop First tutorial gives you the code to read the contents of a folder, the second is the image carousel code.

I have a widget - not quite finished which supplies a list of every site and who its shared with. I'll try and find time to get this published.

ePortfolios can be used in so many different ways and once they are set up, they make life so much easier for your users. There seem to be a lot of questions around using them, so in this webinar, we'll look to cover not only the basics, but the clever ways you can use Frog's widgets to change content and capture user inputs.

Hi @C Wilson Just to let you know that I’m working on another solution at the moment. Blyth Bridge school approached me about using the assignment system to set detentions. Basically we have a site called Detention and an HTML widget on the page which hides the hand-in button. A teacher can use the Assign a Page to set a detention and their parents are alerted via Push notification. And because the students can’t hand the work in, the detention remains visible in their calendar. And because the detention is named as such, you can use Assignment Monitor to get analytics. The school are helping me with a case study about this and we’ll be sharing soon. Graham

On a google search for your school, does it have a website link in the summary block? You can use Google’s webmaster tools to add the new web address to that summary and you should start to Tahoe up within 24 hrs. https://www.google.com/webmasters/#?modal_active=none

Using CSS in an HTML widget, you can set these columns to not show <style> .widget_attendance_registration_detail .table th:nth-child(7), .widget_attendance_registration_detail .table th:nth-child(8), .widget_attendance_registration_detail .table tr td:nth-child(7), .widget_attendance_registration_detail .table tr td:nth-child(8) { display: none !important; } </style> n-child(7) = Saturday's column, n-child(8) = Sunday's column,

nice one Adam. I’m sure lots of schools will use this

I've been speaking to the development team. In a nutshell, when we developed the initial integration Microsoft had not published their shared folder APIs and in development, they have only just done so really quite recently. We have development planned to relook at the MS, but we've been busy building eportfolios, independent courses, forms, Connect for MATs, crystal menus etc... There's only so many hours in a day and only so long we can push a dev before they meltdown. It is important to us and we will get there.

Here's a really nice use of FrogSnap by Farringdon School, When students like their work, they physically tag it to signal to their teachers that they want a digital copy to show their parents:

I can't answer every point, I'll get @Matt to come back about the historical behaviour points Matt also posted this tutorial about manually importing MIS data:

Hi @nward, We're aware of the requests for that feature, but it's not in the immediate roadmap. What is currently being developed is the ability to edit entries and display the form results for the individual within the page. We know there is a lot of interest in the two-step submission, but the forms system is quite a large system to unpack to add new functionality. As I said, the next developments will allow you to get to the end result you're after, but not directly. For instance, you could set up multiple leave request forms, one for each line manager. When a staff member requests leave, this will email the line manager, who could then approve it by editing the entry. The HR manager could then keep track of each form's results using the data viewer widget. Graham

Hi Chris, We have been busy on that and as part of our preparations we have had an external audit performed and will be very soon be officially announcing that we have passed ‘Cyber Essentials Plus’. This is not directly GDPR it is a significant tick in the right boxes and was a test of the whole business and our systems to ensure we have all the appropriate steps in place and take security seriously across all our IT and HR systems. We'll be publishing an update soon.

Hi, Adam was looking into it just a couple of weeks ago actually and we hit a wall with the usability. There are some big limitations we discovered with PowerPoint's file sharing options. It's a real shame, but the existing solution would cause you more problems than it would solve, however all is not lost. We are going to take a different run at this and see if there's a way to embed office docs into sites. So, it's not a cool as being able to read the contents and convert it, but fingers crossed, we'll get you something.

We looked at: How to set homework quickly How to share homework How to set homework with MyFrog How the Crystal theme can be used to display your dashboards inside MyFrog

I'm just relieved it's not us

@Ashton Taylor has just updated me. He's pushed a fix for the widget into the codebase. Hotfix is due next week, so if you can hand on until then. Ash, you're as awesome as ever