Getting there with fewer clicks

Teachers,

Where do you go to take attendance? Or to get to Moodle?

You may be missing out on a much easier way.

If you:

• Go to the CVSD website.
• Click through to the CVU website
• Click the Faculty/Staff portal
• Click the icon for Attendance or Enriching Students,

THAT'S A LOT OF CLICKS!

It's important to understand that the icons on the dashboard are simply shortcuts for URLs (the addresses of the respective tools). So, clicking on, say, the Google Drive icon just brings you to https://drive.google.com.

INSTEAD, TRY THIS…

Go to the Chrome omnibox (the place where you type in website addresses).

Type "gra" or "moo"

By the time you've even started to type the third letter (or often even after the first letter), Chrome will have already found the site you're looking for (provided you're on the device you usually use or are logged into Chrome).


For example,

If I type moo, this happens (see how Chrome remembered the rest of it-- in blue?)




And if I type gra, I get this (note that "normal" attendance is through grades.cvsdvt…)




In most cases, the first few letters of the name of the app will get you where you want to go.

Here are the first few letters of each of the commonly used tools at CVU:

To get to….	Type...
Attendance (non-Connect)	gra
Enriching Student (for Connect)	enr
Moodle	moo
Google Gmail	mai
Google Drive	dri
Google calendar	cal
JumpRope	jum

Not sure of an address?  The dashboard will still be there to remind you!

You can also bookmark the sites or add them to your Chromebook desktop or "shelf."

Hope that save you a few clicks.