Category Archives: Employee Resources

How to log into BrainPop

April 6, 2020Employee Resources, Student ResourcesSamantha Maselli

Select “Log In” near the top right corner

Then choose “G Suite for Education”

Use your Dana Hall email and password to sign in.

You are now ready to use BrainPop!

How to log in to the Zoom App on your Computer or MacBook.

April 1, 2020Blog, Employee Resources, Parent Resources, Student ResourcesSamantha Maselli

Click the link to download the Zoom app – https://zoom.us/download –

When you open Zoom for the first time you will be prompted to sign in. Please choose “Sign In with Google”.

A new browser window will open. Select or enter your Dana Hall email account.

You will then be prompted to open the Zoom app.

You are now ready to use the Zoom app on your Computer or MacBook. You can click on your account by selecting the top right icon.

Log into Zoom for Chrome Extension

April 1, 2020Employee Resources, Parent Resources, Student Resources, UncategorizedSamantha Maselli

To properly log into your Zoom Chrome Extension you will need to use the Google Sign In method:

Securing Meetings with Zoom

March 31, 2020Blog, Community Resources, Employee Resources, Parent Resources, Student Resources, TechDeptNathan Flanagan

Privacy and security are a top priority in the world today and securing our virtual classrooms should not be treated differently.

Zoom is great where it allows several options to keep your meetings secure and safe so only the people we want in our meetings can join. After you schedule a meeting, you can go into the meeting and edit the security settings.

They have options for passwords, different Meeting ID formats and to have no one allowed in the zoom chat until you, the host, joins first.

Please password protect your meetings by enabling these settings below:

For Zoom’s official security page click here

Using other apps with Zoom on iOS

March 25, 2020Employee Resources, Schoology, UncategorizedSamantha Maselli

You may have trouble using split screen with Zoom on your iPad but you can still multitask!

Here is a quick screencast showing you how:

For more info on this please check out Apple’s article here

Where to find – Zoom Settings

March 25, 2020Employee Resources, SchoologySamantha Maselli

Check out your settings by clicking your name in the Chrome Extension for Zoom or by going to https://www.zoom.us/profile

You will be brought to this page where you can go through the different settings.

Zoom Schedule Settings

March 25, 2020Employee Resources, Student ResourcesSamantha Maselli

How to change some settings for Scheduled Zoom meetings.

Here are some ideal settings – you may change some based on your need.

Explain Everything Whiteboard

March 25, 2020Employee Resources, Student ResourcesSamantha Maselli

For a limited time Dana Hall will have access to Explain Everything Whiteboard (free in the App Store). Although it is a different app then Explain Everything EDU ($13.99), it has the same tools you are familiar with. We will have cloud storage of up to 250GB shared. This ends April 12th but this date could change.

*Explain Everything Whiteboard app is highlighted in yellow*

First download the Explain Everything Whiteboard app from the App Store and then log in with your Dana Hall account:

Download Zoom from AppStore for iOS

March 24, 2020Blog, Employee Resources, Student ResourcesSamantha Maselli

Locate the App Store icon on our iOS device and open the app.

Search for Zoom.
Select the may see the “cloud icon” or “open” or “get”. Choose any of those options.

Zoom should now be on your Home Screen

Signing into Zoom for the first time on the iPad

March 24, 2020Blog, Employee Resources, Student Resources, UncategorizedSamantha Maselli

When you first open the Zoom app you will need to select “Sign In”

Choose “Google” as your sign in method

A Google Accounts message should appear. If you see your @danahall.org account you may choose it, if not you can select “Use another Account” and add your Dana Hall account there.