- North Stafford High
- Student and Staffulty Google Accounts at Our High School
Your Google Workspace for Students Account
About Your Student G Suite for Education Account
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Our high school is proud to be a Google Workspace for Education school, along with our entire school division. Our high school wants to continue to challenge our students and bring life skills into the classroom each and every day to make learning relevant and exciting. Google Workspace for Education allows for our entire school and school division to collaborate with one another on a single platform. Many of the apps provided by G Suite for Education are also available for free on mobile devices.
Student Google Workspace for Student accounts end with @scps.net while Staffulty Google Workspace for Teacher accounts end with @staffordschools.net.
All of our students and Staffulty have Google accounts that have been created for them for school use only. With Google, students and our Staffulty have access to the following features:
- Calendar: Organize your schedule and share events
- Contacts: Manage your contacts and easily contact your teachers and classmates
- Drive: With Google Drive, you can create, share, and keep all your stuff in one place. Share files with others, and edit them in real time (unlimited storage)
- Gmail: Get a fresh start with email that has less spam
- Sites: Create, share, and publish websites (students can only publish websites that are only accessible inside our division's scps.net G Suite for Education domain)
- Hangouts/Meet (Currently not available to students on the scps.net G Suite for Education domain): Collaborate with others in real-time by sharing documents and seeing each other face-to-face
- Classroom: Keep track of what's due on the Stream and begin working with just a click. Teachers can quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback and grades
- Docs: Allows you to create different kinds of online documents, work on them in real time with other people, and store them in your Google Drive
Learn about all of the tools and products our students and Staffulty have access to for free.
Bits and Bytes Digital Wellness Newsletter for Students
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February 2019 Edition
In this edition, explore what Digital Learning Day is all about. Digital Learning Day takes place yearly. This year, it took place on February 28, 2019. It celebrates technology and how it has impacted education in positive ways. The day allows educators and students alike to explore different technologies that exist to improvement student learning and achievement. You will learn a few digital tools that you may not have heard about that you can incorporate into your workflow. There's even information for how students can participate in two national technology challenges: The NPR Student Podcast Challenge and Doodle for Google.
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January 2019 Edition
In this edition, learn about digital wellness with topics covering cyberbullying and digital drama. Learn how you can stop bullying and become an upstander. Explore ThatsNotCool.com where you will find out about how teenagers, like yourself, are stepping up the plate and speaking out against negative relationships. You will also learn how people may be brave behind the keyboard to spread negativity but may not as abrasive in person. The Quick Tip in this edition has you learning how to use the find feature on a Web page or document to easily find characters, words, or phrases on a Windows, Chrome, or Mac device.
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December 2018 Edition
In this edition, learn how social media posts can have an impact on your schooling and job employment. Did you know that what you post on social media with your friends may put them in a good light and land them in a heap of trouble too? Learn how you can Google yourself to put yourself behind the keyboard in what colleges/universities and employers do when looking at potential candidates. Take pride in your digital footprint and showcase the amazing you where you will learn what the acronym, "YAPPY" stands for. You will also learn how to use Google Drive with your scps.net G Suite for Education account.
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November 2018 Edition
In this edition, learn about advice, the positives, and negatives about online relationships with others, including interactions that take place on timelines and comment areas. Do you know what "phubbing" is? We see "phubbing" all the time when people snub someone using their phone. Explore all of our high school's activities that you can be a part of to get away from social media drama. You will also learn how to report phishing and spam e-mail messages from your scps.net Gmail account.
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October 2018 Edition
In this edition, learn about how social media can affect our own lives and the impact that it makes. Find out if you are addicted to your social media accounts and whether or not you are constantly comparing yourself to others through others' social media posts. You will also be able to learn how to set up your own YouTube channel through your scps.net student G Suite for Education account.
What is G Suite for Education?
Accessing Your G Suite for Education Account
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Students and Staffulty alike can login to their G Suite for Education account through the Google Chrome Web browser (recommended) or through the Google mobile applications. Students and Staffulty can point their Web browser to https://www.google.com. Students and Staffulty can access their account in school, at home, or on the go. It is recommended that you use your G Suite for Education account with Google Chrome. Download Google Chrome for free.
A student's username is the first ten (10) characters of their last name, the first eight (8) characters of their first name, and the first letter of their middle initial (if they have one) with @scps.net added to the end of their username. Their username is in all lowercase with no special characters.
A student's password for Google is the two-digit month and the two-digit day of their birthday with the last four digits of their student ID number added to the end in the format MMDDLastFourDigitsOfStudentID. Students will be asked to accept the Terms and Conditions for responsible account use and change their password immediately upon accessing their account.
Students will keep the same G Suite for Education account for as long as they are a student enrolled in our school division plus an additional one year after the student graduates. After the student graduates, the student is encouraged to use Google Takeout to move files, folders, and Gmail from their scps.net G Suite account to another Google account, including a personal, school, or work Google account. In order to retain the G Suite for Education account files, folders, e-mail messages, and other settings, students are responsible for downloading their data from their G Suite for Education account. Learn how to use Google Takeout.
G Suite for Education
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Why Did We Go Google?
Find out why our school has chosen to go G Suite for Education. There are so many benefits and we thought of your child first when choosing a product to fit our needs.
Student Data Privacy in G Suite for Education and Chromebooks
Privacy and safety in an online, collaborative environment is one of our top priorities and G Suite for Education maintains student privacy and safety when they are interacting with their accounts.
Review Google's student privacy in G Suite for Education.
Recorded Webinars
Learn about all of the features and benefits of G Suite for Education Edition. In this recorded online seminar, you will:- Hear why other organizations have made the switch
- Learn how other organizations are using these services
- Watch a demo of G Suite for Education Edition
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