Getting Started

Student Passwords

To help keep your NNDSB account and the information accessible from your account secure, a password policy is applied for students. While changing passwords may be inconvenient, it helps reduce the risk of exposure and avoids a number of other dangers.
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Password Criteria:
JK - Grade 3:
- Password must be at least 3 characters long
- Good for 2000 days

Grades 4 - 6
- Password must be at least 4 characters long
- Cannot be the same as the last 2 passwords
- Good for 2000 days

Grades 7 - 8
- Password must be at least 6 characters long
- Cannot be the same as the last 2 passwords
- Good for 365 days

Grades 9 - 12
- Password must be at least 8 characters long
- must contain at least 1 character from 3 of the following 4 categories:
- uppercase letters (A-Z)
- lowercase letters (a-z)
- numbers (0-9)
- special characters (e.g. ! @ # $ %)
- Cannot be the same as the last 2 passwords
- Good for 365 days

Clever: iPad Passport to Learning

Accessibility Features

iPad Accessibility

You say it. iPad types it.

Dictation lets you talk where you would type. You can reply to an email, search the web or write a report using just your voice. Navigate to any text field, activate Dictation, then say what you want to write. You can also use various editing and formatting commands. So you can turn on Dictation and tell your iPad to bold a paragraph, insert punctuation, delete a sentence or replace a word.

Click here to learn how to setup dictation on your iPad

Have your iPad speak text that’s on the screen

Tap and hold on some text (drag the blue handles to highlight a larger section) and and have your iPad read it out loud to you. This feature works in a web browser, PDF and other applications that contain text.

Click here to learn how to setup text-to-speech on your iPad

Microsoft Office Support

Microsoft Teams

Accessing Office Online Applications

Accessing Microsoft Office Applications:

You can access Office applications (Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint) online using the Office 365 link in Clever or by signing into the downloaded apps on the iPad.

Online through Clever:

Sign into Clever (see above) and select Office 365 from the Tools for Learning section:

From the list of apps, choose the One Drive icon (Cloud)
From One Drive you can create a new folder to stay organized and then select New > Word / PowerPoint / Excel / One Note

Accessing Downloaded Office Applications

Accessing Microsoft Office Applications:

You can access Office applications (Word, Excel, OneNote, PowerPoint) online through Office 365 (Chrome browser is recommended) or by signing into the downloaded apps on the MacBook.

Sign into the downloaded Office applications:

Open the Microsoft app on your iPad
Click the Sign-in button and enter your full last##@nearnortshools.ca
(Replace ## with your day of birth)

Save your work to your OneDrive:

Click the arrow in the top left corner and select your OneDrive – NNDSB:

Immersive Reader

Office Lens

Office Lens

Office Lens is a scanner app that allows you to digitize notes, posters, story book pages, whiteboards, chalk boards etc. It also features character recognition technology and has the ability to capture text, export it to a word processing application or have it read aloud. With the new Immersive Reader, students can have text read back to them. Adjust speaking rate, font size and spacing within the app.

Text can also be exported to Word, OneNote, Powerpoint or Outlook. Documents can be saved as images in the camera roll or exported as PDF's. When selecting PDF as an export option, the file is automatically stored in an "Office Lens" folder that gets created in OneDrive.

Click here to learn how to scan text and have it read back through the immersive reader

Edsby

Edsby is a virtual learning platform that allows you to stay connected with what's going on in class, view assessment information and submit work or upload images and videos of your learning.

Edsby Mobile App:

Download the Edsby app on android or iOS.

Edsby Capture:
Edsby capture allows you to take pictures of your work and upload them for your teacher to review. When published, your photos will show up in your Learning Story.