So, to get to your SchoolFusion Message Center, click FusionTools/View My Profile. Your Message Center is located just below your profile picture.

Although all of the messages sent to staff members through SchoolFusion are also delivered to your GroupWise inbox, it is still a good idea to check the Message Center every once in a while to make sure nothing was skipped. Also, even if the sender does not have an email address in the system, you can still respond to their message through the Message Center. Britt B. has found that feature especially handy lately!

To see everything that is on the Faculty Calendar, login to SchoolFusion and click My Calendar on the left. You can search for specific group events by checking/unchecking the boxes below the calendar.

If there is anything missing from the calendar that you believe should be included, again, please contact your friendly ITRT.

These are a wonderful tool to remind us of what’s coming up in the next few days, but have you ever wondered where the information for these reminders comes from? Log in to the Hylton’s website and click My Calendar. This calendar rolls all the events and assignments from all your class and faculty pages in to one location for you! This is your “one stop shop” for all your faculty events!

To make this easier for you SchoolFusion provides you with the “view printer-friendly page” option at the bottom of most of the pages.

It isn’t easy to see, but it’s there. Using this link, you can print to your heart’s content. And, if you are like me, “hole-punch” the document and put it into one of your shiny notebooks!

Keep in mind, however, that the webpages you are printing change often, so you shouldn’t rely on the printed copies. Go to the webpages themselves for the most up-to-date information.

To give you a taste of what will be presented, here’s a really nice mini-byte that should make entering your homework assignments at the end of the day much easier than it used to be! (Please note: The AfterClass tools are only available to teachers who have created their AfterClass profile)

1. Log in to Hylton’s website (aka SchoolFusion)
2. Click the AfterClass Tools link
3. Click Add Homework Assignment

Whereas previously you had to navigate to your class webpage(s) to add assignments, the AfterClass tools give you this shortcut and many others!

AfterClass training will be Thursday, September 18, in the IT Lab from 2:15 until 3:15!

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SchoolFusion’s AfterClass suite of tools allows you to easily communicate with your students — even those without an email address in the system!

In order for students to easily send a message to you, you must first complete your AfterClass profile. Once that is done, students just go to your profile and submit a message through the message center. Copies of the message are then sent to your GroupWise mailbox and to your SchoolFusion Message Center.

When you respond to the student’s message, copies are sent to their message center and email (if they have one in the system).

Given this conversation, those of you not currently using the Discussion Board feature might want to give it a try. If you are interested, here’s how to enable and use it:

To enable:

1. Log in to SchoolFusion and go the your class webpage.
2. Click Update Class/Section Configuration.
3. On the right under Class/Section Settings, click the pencil next to Message Board.
4. Adjust your message board settings as desired and click Click here to edit the Message Board Setting.

To use:

1. Return to your class/section webpage. You should now see a section called Discussion Board on the right side.
2. In the Discussion Board section, click start a discussion.

1. Go to http://cdhylton.com and login.
2. Go to your class or section webpage.
3. Click Update Class(or Section) Configuration.
4. Click Email Entire Class.
5. Complete the email message and click Send Email.
6. The next window will display a list of all the students who did not receive the email because they do not have their email address in the system.

For those of you extra kind teachers who want to provide students with the steps to add their email information, here you go:

1. Go to http://cdhylton.com and login.
2. Click My Personal Settings.
3. Add your email address to the Email Address field.
4. Click Change Information.

1. On you class webpage, click Update Class Configuration.
2. On the bottom left, click Export.
3. Select the content you wish to save and click Export to Zip File.
4. Click Click here to download the zip file.
5. Click Save and choose a location to save the file.