Educational Technology TIPS cards
Technology Integration Progress (TIP) is a framework for teacher technology professional development created by the Granite Educational Technology department.
- The goals of the initiative are to:
- Provide easy-to-find and access technology training resources for teachers
- Encourage teachers at all levels of technology usage to increase or improve their use of technology to support instruction
- Access TIPS Cards
- CANVAS course for TIPS

Technology Work orders
- Use the Technology work order Icon on your computer to create work orders for other technology issues/requests such as:
- peripheral hardware installation; printers that are not automatically installing or not on the printer server.
- Canvas and Gradebook problems
- other software (GSD) owned
- AV issues with projector/camera/speakers
- Networking problems both wireless and wired
- Help desk work orders can also be accessed inside the GSD portal.
Connect to a Network Printer
- connecting to a networked printer in the faculty copy room (printer & high capacity copy machines), media center printer, or networked department printers in the school:
- Open Internet Explorer and click on the star in the upper right corner for a list of your Favorites.
- or type in this URL https://gsd-prntsrvr1/printers/;(works ONLY inside of the GSD Domain.)
- bookmark this link in Chrome
- Select the Granite School District links folder and
- click on Printers for Secondary Schools.
- Find the printer you wish to connect to by the school code (648) followed by the room number. 648-COPY-xxxxxx; 648-MEDIA-HPLJ601
- select the printer name you wish to connect to. (must start with 648)
- Click on Connect in the left-side menu.
- Click ‘Yes’ to install the printer.
- To add another printer, click on All Printers to go back to the list of printers.
- BE CAREFUL YOU ARE NOT CONNECTING TO OFFICE PRINTERS!
GSD Workspaces

- the GSD Workspaces icon on your computer gives access to several website or program shortcuts and allows self install of common programs.
- Use the search option and then select applications available to install. (Adobe Creative Cloud, SMART board tools, IPEVO camera)
- Access Gradebook, Canvas and Portal
Student Login & Passwords
- Currently enrolled GSD student passwords expire every 365 days, regardless of transferring schools within district.
- Staff have the ability to reset lost/forgotten passwords through the helpdesk/ work order page under User Management.
- Watch Video to review the instructions
- Be sure you are setting the password to the default, School1, and check the box ‘force reset’ so that students are forced to change it at login.
Yearly Teacher Technology Tasks
- Update your password if necessary!
- Put 2 challenge questions in the Password Manager application inside the PORTAL so you can reset your own password.
- Use the requirements; 7 character minimum, 1 Capital letter, 1 number or special character, don’t repeat an old password or use First/Last Name.
- Favorite/Bookmark these URLs in your browser:
- GSD Portal: portal.graniteschools.org
- School Website: https://schools.graniteschools.org/taylorsvillehigh/
- CANVAS LMS: https://graniteschools.instructure.com
- HELPDESK: https://helpdesk.graniteschools.org
- It will only show current outages or problems district wide if you are on the public (outside facing) page.
- Only inside the domain can you access the work order system. It is accessible inside of GSD PORTAL.
- Know where the work order Icon is on your computer or use the URL
- Merge your courses in CANVAS once you decide on which will be the Parent/Master course that will be edited regularly.
- If you do this after adding assignments with scores, all data may be lost! Do not merge once you have student data in the courses such as assignments and scores!
- Use the Canvas Commons to use a GSD Template scheme to layout your new course.
- Review how to merge your Canvas courses.
Step by step cross listing Courses in Canvas
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