ISPP Secondary Technology Support

Here is a quick tour of the new ManageBac user interface (UI). If you notice any issues, you can always contact Ms. Chelsea by email, or you can contact ManageBac Support by clicking on the Help and Support link at the top right of the page. When you first log in you will be in your Dashboard: You can click on your name (top right) to view your profile and change your password. You can see your Dashboard with your calendar and the upcoming events and deadlines for the next few weeks.  On the left is your navigation menu with links to sections of your ManageBac. I will now go through the options in the left hand navigation menu in the order in which they appear. When you click on Calendar: You can choose to view by month or week and you can scroll through the calendar. At the bottom of the page, you can add a personal event and you can subscribe to the calendar.  To add your ManageBac Calendar to your Google Calendar, check out this blog post ...

Log into ManageBac (for parents, click on the arrow at the top of the page to select which child's calendar you would like to add)  Click on Calendar on the left   Click on Subscribe to xxx calendar (you may need to scroll down) Click Open Calendar  Click command c (Mac) or Control C (PC) to copy the URL (if you use iCal, you can click 'subscribe' and the calendar will be added to your iCal). Go  to your Google Calendar, click on the down arrow next to Other Calendars and select Add by URL Click command v (Mac) or control v (PC) to paste in the URL and click Add Calendar Click the down arrow next to the new calendar (it will be named with the messy URL beginning with webcal://) Choose Calendar Settings. You can also change the color of the calendar here. Enter a new name for your calendar and press save.  To add the ISPP calendar to your Google Calendar, follow the same steps beginning with Step 5, but copy and pa...

At ISPP, our vision is learning together, growing together, each making a difference . All students blog about their learning, and when we read each other's blogs and support and encourage one another with comments and conversations, we help make that vision a reality. We need our blogs to be public, so that anyone with the link can view them, but we also do not want our blogs to show up in a Google search! We hide our blogs from search engines and Blogger blog listings so that we can easily share our blogs within our community. To check your settings: Go to your blog and on the left scroll down to select settings, Basic. Make sure it is not listed on Blogger and not visible to search engines. If you need to edit, the screen looks like this. Click No and No and then save.  Scroll down to Blog Readers and make sure it is public.  If you need to edit, the screen looks like this. Choose public. If you ever need help with your blog, you can ...