E-Learning

What is the Circle eLearning Campus?

Circle Christian School has invested in creating a new tool to extend and enhance the educational opportunities for students, parents and teachers. This new tool will offer a relevant technology-rich environment that allows students to access documents and engage in discussions outside of the classroom. Circle’s eLearning Campus is an online course management site containing course pages for all of Circle’s courses.  This is a place for communication and extended learning for students and teachers.  Parents are encouraged to come alongside their child as they access and explore the learning extensions offered on this site.

What is Moodle?

Moodle is the name of the software we use on the CCS eLearning Campus. This is a powerful tool used to create online learning courses. Moodle is the software, and CCS eLearning Campus is our website. This year Circle is extending all the course offerings to the eLearning Campus building a “blended classroom” of traditional and online learning for each course. This blended classroom goes beyond a typical webpage. These courses do not replace the classroom teaching at Circle, nor does it replace the parent’s directed teaching. These blended classrooms extend the learning and teaching opportunities of the physical classroom to include graphics, video, websites, directed conversations, peer discussions, assignment submissions and even an educational game or two.  We are excited about providing technology-rich relevant educational opportunities for your student.

How do we use the CCS eLearning Campus?

The CCS eLearning Campus was built with your student in mind. Each student is provided a user account and password. Students are enrolled in the blended classroom or course page that coincides with their physical classroom enrollments at your CCS Campus.  We want to encourage parents to login with their students to see what they are learning and to provide further guidance.  However, in an effort to adhere to strict privacy laws, parents may not post to any forum or any course page using a student’s user account.  If you are interested in obtaining a parent account to oversee your student’s activities and records for the eLearning Campus site, please submit your request for a “parent login” via email to the eLearning Campus Administrator.

Students will need to login and access the course pages for each of their courses each week. Teachers have prepared weekly modules that coincide with that week’s classroom instruction.  These weekly modules can contain but are not limited to support documents, graphics,video, websites, directed conversations, peer discussions, assignment submissions educational games and even virtual field trips.

How do I login to the CCS eLearning Campus?

Go to www.circlechristianclasses.org and login with the username and password provided to your student. Don’t have a username or password? Contact Alice Pauquette, the CCS eLearning Campus Administrator at alicep@circlechristianschool.org.

Once you login you can click the “My Courses” tab at the top of the screen to go to your course pages. Alternatively, you may scroll down and choose the category and then the class name of the course you are enrolled in.

A few things to keep in mind when first accessing the CCS eLearning Campus:

• Please read the CCS Online Course Use document located on the main page of the website.
• The website is best viewed using Internet Explorer or Firefox.
• Cookies must be enabled on your browser.
• Once you login you will be taken to a screen to create your own password.

Once you login….

• Be sure to update your profile with your preferred email address, location and even a profile picture!
• Check to see that all your classes are listed in your profile.
• Write down your new password with your username.

Who do I contact if I am having problems with the website or enrollments?

Alice Pauquette, the CCS eLearning Campus Administrator, will be more than happy to serve you and your student. She is available each weekday afternoon via email at alicep@circlechristianschool.org.

Why do I have to enable cookies?

The CCS eLearning Campus site uses cookies to make it more convenient for you by allowing you to visit pages within our site without having re-enter certain information. We do not use cookies to get information from your computer. You can enable cookies through your internet browser configuration. Please be aware  that by not accepting cookies, you will limit the access and functionality we can provide when you visit CCS eLearning Campus site.

Can I have a parent login for all my students?

The CCS eLearning Campus was designed with students in mind. Allowing our students to submit assignments, communicate with fellow classmates and teachers and access resources that extend their physical classroom. Accounts are designed for student use. K-6 students will access with their parents through their student login. Students in grade 7-12 will login and “attend” their blended classroom taking responsibility for their comments and actions the same as if they were in a physical classroom on the CCS Campus sites. Some parents may desire to control the password and will log into the system with the student, other parents may desire a parent login to oversee their student’s activities.  Whichever approach a family takes, we encourage parents to be involved in the experience with the student.

To request a parent login please submit your request for a “parent login” via email to the eLearning Campus Administrator.

FERPA Compliance

In order to create and maintain educational records necessary to deliver instruction and assign grades and perform related administrative tasks, we collect and use certain educational records that you have provided. In addition, records such as login, attendance, grades, and dialogue are stored on our server to enable us to carry out necessary tasks. You can update your personal information, preferences, and password, either online or by contacting the office.

Educational records are confidential. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) protects the privacy of educational records.

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