Saving Lessons for Substitutes (from HOME using Citrix)
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Description:
Teachers - you can now save lessons, notes, documents,
PowerPoints, Inspire and Notebook files, etc. for your
substitute to use on days your absent.
You can create your lesson plans in Word, or scan your
lesson plans, and save them directly to your substitute
folder. You can also copy flipcharts and PowerPoints to
your substitute folder for the sub to use. You can do all this
from school or at home, via Citrix.
Please note: Do not store all your flipcharts on the substitute drive permanently. The substitute drive should be
thought of as a temporary place for sub plans for just a day or two. After the plans have been used, please delete
the files from this folder. If you are going to be out several days, you may want to create separate folders, within
your substitute folder, for each days plans and flipcharts (Instructions are below)
You no longer have to give substitutes your username/password. Each substitute will have their own login enabling
them to reach the files that you save into folders that the Tech Department has created in all school STAFF
directories.
These instructions are the pretty much the same as the ones for transferring files from school. We don’t make
available online instructions for using the Citrix system because there’s not enough logins to cover all students. For
that reason, Citrix from home is for Teacher use only. Please do not share any information with students. If you
wish full instruction on how to use Citrix, please contact your technology resource teacher or technology
department.
Please follow the steps below carefully. This process might be easier to understand if you view the movie that
describes the entire process. Check out this corresponding movie. Be patient – it’s a long movie.
Citrix from home
On your home computer, connect to Citrix using the web address. If you have never done this
before, get the directions from a Tech Resource Teacher or the tech department
1. After putting in your username and password,
there will be a series of dialog boxes. Most are
self explanatory. When the one below shows
up, check the Full Access radio button before
clicking OK
2. When the login finally completes, you’ll have
various choices of software to start. Click the
Staff Desktop
3. A desktop like at school will then appear. If you open My Computer on your
desktop, you’ll now notice that you see your S drive, and all your other network
drives. Notice that you also see your home computer’s C drive in which you could
transfer files from using the steps below.
4. With all these drives available to you from home, you should be able to ‘move’
files from most anywhere into the SUB folder within the STAFF directory.
(Optional – creating a dated folder within the SUB folder within the STAFF directory)
Create a folder in the substitute
folder for the date you’re absent
A. Open My Computer from the
desktop
B. Find the sub folder within the
staff directory within the
T drive
C.
Open your folder
D. File / New / Folder
E.
Name the folder the date of
your absence
a. Use a dash, not a
slash
b. Example: 3-30
Drag and Drop Files
One method of transferring files is drag and dropping files from one folder to another, or one
window to another.
You can drag flipcharts to this drive
from home using Citrix even though
you cannot open flipcharts in Citrix.
Here’s how:
A. After logging on to Citrix,
access the drive the file you
want to transfer is in and the
student drive so that a
window is open for each drive
Note: Open both My
Computer and My Documents
to complete this task
B. You can then click and drag
flipcharts and other files from
your drive to the substitute
folder on the T drive.
Log out of Citrix:
Start / Log off
Close out of your Browser
(Internet Explorer)
This page last updated: Thursday, April 01, 2010
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Author: Kurt Thonnings