Pandemic preparedness is more important now than ever, due to an increasingly globalized and mobile world. Whether it’s from a coronavirus outbreak or the seasonal flu, schools, hospitals and businesses could very quickly be incapacitated. Reduce the risks for your staff and constituents by having a comprehensive pandemic preparedness plan in place.
ConnectYard's pandemic preparedness solutions provide everything you need to protect your organization should an outbreak of COVID-19 or other health emergency occur – including expert communication strategies using a combination of the world's most popular messaging services such as WhatsApp, Twitter and SMS alerts, extensive training programs and more.
Don't wait until it's too late...join us on the 25th of March at 11AM Saudi time to learn expert best practices for ensuring the health and safety of your entire organization during COVID-19 outbreaks.
Be one of the first ten registrants and receive a FREE 1-month subscription of ConnectYard's Pandemic Alerts offering.
This Webinar is sponsored by ConnectYard in partnership with Board Middle East, and Global Dimension for Education and Training.
We encourage you to register in advance as there are only a limited number of attendee slots available!
"Everything we do before a pandemic will seem alarmist. Everything we do after will seem inadequate" -M. Leavitt
Given the concern of the coronavirus and its impact on all of our schools, we understand that communication with students and staff throughout this crisis is crucial. As such we are offering a FREE 1-month subscription to our ConnectYard Pandemic Alerts offering, which can be used to send out COVID-19 updates or other important and timely notifications via the world's most popular messaging services; including WhatsApp, Twitter, SMS and more directly from Blackboard!
With the Free trial in mind, today’s session will focus on the benefits of ConnectYard to the faculty, when trying to maintain some sense of normalcy during this stressful time! I encourage you to register as soon as possible since enrollment will be limited for this important and timely session and demand is expected to be significant! I hope you will join us?
It's become clear that email alone is no longer an effective tool for reaching and engaging today’s student body as it's one of the last places students (especially remote learners) check for something new or interesting; largely because it's become a source of constant spam. Yet, many student service organizations still rely heavily on email to promote support services, events and other activities that are key to overall student success. ConnectYard allows you to easily deliver important and timely notifications to students via WhatsApp, Twitter DM, Facebook, SMS (no data plan required), MMS (rich text, picture and video messaging), Voice (text-to-speech, speech-to-text) using Amazon Poly (Alexa in 29 languages) and other SPAM-FREE places they are more likely to check than email; especially those with disabilities or limited or no internet at home.
Given the closures brought about by the coronavirus, many universities are challenged with how to best deliver examinations remotely; especially to large numbers of students. ConnectYard's WhatsApp Building Block allows you to administer online examinations while eliminating potential connectivity issues. With WhatsApp you know once the student has received your question, which is key for timed tests, as well as their location, which is key for identity verification. In addition, WhatsApp is tied to a university confirmed phone number, which helps further verify the identity of the test taker. Lastly, WhatsApp is highly scalable, so even when the system or connection is slow, it will be fast!
Please plan to join us on Tuesday the 21st of April at 11AM Saudi time to learn how Dr. Khalid Al-Utaibi at University of Hail plans to leverage ConnectYard's WhatsApp Building Block to remotely administer examinations!
This Webinar is sponsored by ConnectYard in partnership with Board Middle East, and Global Dimension for Education and Training.
We encourage you to register in advance as there are only a limited number of attendee slots available!
About the webinar
As the Coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, there has been a massive increase in Learning Management Systems (LMS) usage as part of the COVID-based transition to virtual instruction. Given the increased student volumes and resource demands, having a plan in place to ensure continuity of teaching and learning should your LMS become unresponsive, or slow enough to be unusable, is essential. Being prepared to scale your connectivity to your students is a multi-faceted endeavor - from including assurance that assignments and assessments can be submitted on-line and on-time, to providing your instructors and academic staff with alternate channels to reach their learners with important and timely information. Join this webinar to hear steps your institution can take to ensure operational continuity by using ConnectYard's Building Block for Blackboard, App for Canvas or Module for Moodle.
During this session we will provide suggested practices for ensuring content is online and accessible for your learners during times of crisis. Discussion topics include:
- Ensuring Assignments and Assessments are Always Available
- Enabling Instructors to Post and Reply to Your LMS from Email
- Allowing Instructors to Confirm Who has Viewed their Posts
- Q&A with ConnectYard team
Who is this webinar for?
This webinar is open for anyone involved in administering or delivering teaching and learning; especially system administrators, eLearning technologists, IT managers, Heads of Teaching and Learning, faculty and academic staff. Please feel free to share with your colleagues.
All webinar registrants receive a FREE 60-DAY TRIAL of ConnectYard's Building Block or LMS Module.
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Dozens of data points are generated each day about online activity from your teachers. Google Classroom Analytics helps district administrators automatically log and report this data to meet State compliance requirements, conduct more effective classroom observations and make informed intervention decisions.
During this 30-minute session we will provide best practices for using Google Classroom Analytics to:
- Log and report activities across all your teachers and classes
- See how long it takes teachers to respond to student inquiries
- Provide engagement scoring for top and low ranking teachers
- Allow you to see your highest and lowest performing classes
- Enable you to share key teacher communications with parents
- Receive summaries of class activities at the end of each day
All webinar registrants receive a FREE 60-DAY TRIAL of our Google Classroom Analytics offering.
Students and parents seem to fall into one of two camps: 1.) "Ugh! I'm so tired of all of these emails!" 2.) "Ugh! What email?" Sound familiar?
Your district community might be suffering from information fatigue. In this 30-minute session, we're going to unpack some of the root causes of information fatigue and how schools can improve communication throughout the COVID-19 crisis.
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All webinar registrants receive a FREE 60-DAY TRIAL of ConnectYard's Pandemic Alerts offering.
Dozens of data points are generated each day about online activity from your teachers. Google Classroom Analytics helps to provide administrators with automated systems and data around teacher effectiveness that are critical for charter school renewals and evaluations.
During this 30-minute session we will provide best practices for using Google Classroom Analytics to:
- Log and report activities across all your teachers and classes
- Provide engagement scoring for top-to-bottom teacher ranking
- Allow you to see your highest and lowest performing classes
All webinar registrants receive a FREE 60-DAY TRIAL of our Google Classroom Analytics offering.
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The nation is mourning the tragic and senseless death of George Floyd, killed by police in Minneapolis. We recognize that the racial inequity in our district communities and institutions of higher learning continues throughout the crisis and our country has much to do to realize liberty and justice for all. Maya Angelou said, "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
Now is our opportunity as educators and equity leaders to do better. Please join Reverend Alfred Cockfield, Founder & Executive Director of Lamad Academy Charter School; Demond Pearson, Senior Program Director at Good Shepherd Services; Michelle Henry, Proud Parent of 6th Grader at P.S. 109, Brooklyn, NY; and moderator, Dr. Grant Warner, Co-Founder & COO at ConnectYard for this important conversation on "Ensuring Educational Equity in an Era of Crisis" as we discuss tools and strategies to better serve our most vulnerable students and families in these uncertain times.
Together they’ll address the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Distance Learning and Racial Justice on structural equity issues including: access to technology devices and reliable wi-fi; households with multiple students; opportunities for academic support (classroom, civic and community-based); parental support and involvement; caregiver considerations, and more.
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Black learners are 2 times more likely to experience food insecurity; 2.5 times more likely to be without reliable internet and computing devices at home; and 2-3 times more likely to suffer learning loss depending on quality of remote instruction, home support, and the degree of engagement.
With this in mind, what is our collective responsibility to Black leaners? How are we developing and selecting solutions, and is equity at the forefront of our design and decision making processes? Where are our funding priorities when it comes to backing Black founders and executives that are often close to these problems?
Join our panel of equity experts and thought leaders on Wednesday, July 22nd at 4:00PM ET for a 1-hour, live webinar as we discuss community challenges and technology driven solutions that better serve our most vulnerable students and families in these uncertain times. #BlackLearnersMatter
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