Expectations

What is eLearning?

School districts that meet the criteria for an e-Learning district as determined by the South Carolina Department of Education may use up to five eLearning days to allow for the make-up of short-term disruptions to in-person teaching and learning.

An eLearning day can be used on the specific day that schools would otherwise have had to close due to an unforeseen emergency or when a make-up day would normally be used. The eLearning days are designed to offer more flexibility to avoid loss of instruction due to school closings or to manage necessary make-up days that are already included in the school calendar.

What does eLearning look like?

Instructional time is valuable in FSD5, so as an approved eLearning district, we can extend learning into the home and keep everyone safe during inclement weather or other emergency closure situations.  The goal of eLearning is to keep students learning, even when face-to-face options are not available.  An eLearning day is designed to provide assignments that are very similar to what’s received in the normal school day so as not to disrupt the flow of instruction and learning. 

On days where students cannot report to school due to inclement weather or other emergency situations, students will continue learning at home, if the emergency situation permits.  Each eLearning day will be 5.5 hours for students in kindergarten through grade 8 and 6.0 hours for students in grades 9-12.  Lessons provided should require a minimum of 200 minutes of instruction (video, reading, listening); the remainder of the time is for student engagement, studying and work completion, etc. These times are cumulative across subjects. 

Students will have regular assigned instruction and classwork on Schoology posted by 9 am the morning of eLearning.  Teachers will be available electronically throughout the day.  Students will be required to submit all assignments within three days of return to school to get credit for attendance of that eLearning day. 

Students may access Schoology, PowerSchool, and other helpful links via the Quick Links tab on each school’s webpage:

Schedule

Teachers will be expected to be available for students and to track attendance based on completion of assignments. Teachers will be available via email from 9 am – 3 pm.  TEAMs or Zoom conferences may be scheduled per individual student request. 

Troubleshooting

Computer Issues

Restart and charge your computer if your computer is experiencing:

• freezing
• glitching
• keyboard/mouse issues
• other computer issues

PowerSchool/Schoology Issues

Contact your Media Specialist if your experiencing:

• issues after you restarted your computer
• log in issues with PowerSchool/Schoology
• blocked videos or websites

Contact your teacher if:

• your unable to open or submit your assignment
• links are not working
• videos are not working properly 

Additional troubleshoot help can be found at: