Gaggle is a student learning program that Commerce ISD utilizes. It encompasses many blended learning pieces including the following:
- Email: Gaggle Email includes extensive text filtering, inappropriate image detection and human monitoring.
- GaggleTube - Allow safe searching of YouTube videos even when YouTube is blocked by your district filters. All YouTube access is logged, filtered and monitored. Teachers can also upload videos, and saved videos can be shared, embedded and linked in multiple ways.
- Assignment Drop Boxes - Enable teachers to easily create, assign and collect assignments for a truly paperless classroom. Assignment Drop Boxes are integrated with Google Apps and GaggleTube for a full, rich media learning experience.
- Digital Lockers - Provide online file storage with integrated editing of Word documents, spreadsheets, photos and more. Individual files and folders can be shared with specific students, classes or the entire school or district. All files are filtered for appropriate content and accessible from school or at home.
- Discussion Boards - Support curriculum and extend learning with ongoing classroom discussions. Teachers can create discussion boards restricted to specified students and classes.
- Social Wall - Provides profile-based connections with sharing, similar to the most popular social networking experiences.
Plus, there's an app for that!
The latest addition is the integration of Google Docs. Students can use their Gaggle login to log into Google Drive where they have access to all of the Google Apps for Education. Google Drive is a wonderful resource for students to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Their work auto-saves and is web based for access across any device and even offline editing.
The good news is that EVERY STUDENT and TEACHER already have a Gaggle account! All logins follow this
Username: firstname.lastname@cisdtigers.
Password: network login
Happy Gaggling!
Heather
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