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PSAT Testing Prep #26

Open masonclassicalacademy opened 11 months ago

masonclassicalacademy commented 11 months ago

I’d like to summarize the technology plan for the PSAT:

  1. Toward the end of the school day tomorrow, cart numbers 2 through 7 will be reprogrammed to boot to the Bluebook application.

  2. Friday, the students gather (at your designated time) in the North Hall to have each laptop removed from the six carts and test login authentication you provide students on each. Mr. Alberti and I will assist.

  3. Following the trial session in the North Hall, the carts will be locked and relocated back to the area by the elevators upstairs. Miss Case, Mr. Alberti and I have our own sets of keys to the carts.

  4. Tuesday afternoon, we’ll stage (and charge) carts as follows: cart2 – Rm 201, cart3 – Rm 211, cart 4 – Rm 245, cart5 – Rm 247, cart6 – Rm 246, cart7 – Hall between 246/245

  5. Wednesday morning, Mr. Alberti and I will unlock the carts and be fully available to assist as needed.

masonclassicalacademy commented 11 months ago

Mr. Abbott and I checked the laptops, moved them into the cafeteria in preparation and started charging them. We also visited with Mr. Schmitt on the plan for tomorrow and next week.

We need to work on documentation for our cart organization and structure in google admin.

masonclassicalacademy commented 11 months ago

A couple of observations from this morning's design/setup as we had students go into the cafeteria and complete the setup for bluebook and registration for the PSAT:

  1. There was too much time spent rebooting computers and getting bluebook "ready" to use. This took over 30 minutes of valuable instruction time and even required us running around the room helping dozens of people reboot machines. My thought is we should not be using the student's time for this- we should be prepared and have the laptops ready on behalf of the students and Mr. Schmitt.

The follow-up here is we need to prioritize this going forward for testing to be ready for student use immediately since time is very precious for our students.

  1. Having the students locate the cart home of each laptop, and find their slot, plug them in- one by one created a massive line of one student at a time at a couple of carts. This ultimately increased time spent standing around for the bulk of students. Worse yet, we had to go back and recheck and plugin things - as there were several mistakes and unplugged laptops with their assistance.

To my point, as the line queued up at the cart I was at, I told students to just set their laptops on the table near me. Everyone cleared out in less than 2 minutes, while the cart where we were making students put them away, waited at least an additional 5 minutes. Moreover, i was able to seat properly and validate the cart one time and it was finished before the carts that had student's assistance.

So- this should be standard operating procedures going forward unless there is good rationale to deviate, when it comes to testing. Mr. Abbott and I need to prioritize having laptops ready for student use, not setup.

mca-it commented 11 months ago

We got the proctor laptops ready and Mr. Abbott placed them in the OU for managing them. He got to talk about the process for the proctors tomorrow during the staff mtg yesterday.

mca-it commented 11 months ago

Came in this morning and unlocked carts for teachers and assisted with a few items to prep rooms (Calculators, etc). Everything went smoothly- only had a couple of laptop trade outs. Again, the network load did seem to be pushed/strained with all the laptops running. I think we should consider adding temporary access points to handle the load. - Mr. Abbott indicated he added an access point in 145 as of last year's plan. So his comment about 'network issues' may have been taken out of context...somehow.