Happy Mousey Monday Cache and Cookie readers! The 2012 Presidential Elections are tomorrow! Do you remember the atmosphere in Chicago with the elections four years ago? This Is Our Moment: Election Night 2008 is available to our DE streaming users! Remind your students of the last elections and get them excited about this year’s elections. [...]
Happy Mousey Monday to our Cache and Cookie readers! Mousey is here to help teachers keep their students up to speed with all that is going on with the 2012 Presidential Elections. Teachers can run a search for “election 2012” to pull up our wonderful Election 2012 Content Collection. The Content Collections draw together [...]
Happy Mousey Monday to all the Mousey fans! Mousey wanted to teach our Discovery Education users about the profile options. Teachers and administrators have access to updating their profiles, but students do not. Did you know that you can update your name (if you get married or just decide to have a name change!), [...]
Happy Mousey Monday from Cache and Cookies! Mousey has received a lot of phone calls this week asking about deleting user accounts. Mousey would like to use this Mousey Monday to explain the answer to this question. Discovery Education does not have a delete option on user accounts. The available option is called Archiving. When [...]
Happy Mousey Monday from Cache and Cookies! Professor Mousey wants to bring to your attention the different Media Streaming Settings available to you under your Discovery Education account. The streaming settings can be changed by selecting the pinwheel icon at the bottom right corner of the video. Once you have selected the pinwheel, the [...]
Happy Mousey Monday! Did you know that schools with active Discovery Education licenses can create user accounts for students as well? Well you can! There are two ways to create student user accounts: Teacher-Created Student Accounts 1. Teachers can access the Classroom Manager from anywhere on the site by clicking on Classroom Manager. [...]
Happy Mousey Monday to our Cache and Cookie readers! We have Webinars this week to get our teachers up to speed with Discovery Education during Back to School time! Here is a schedule of upcoming Webinars for this week: Sep 17, 2012 at 7:00 pm EDT – DE Science Middle School 101 [...]
Mousey Monday is back! Did you miss Professor Mousey last week? Today he wants to help our account and site administrators locate their school Passcodes. Steps to Locating a Passcode for a Site Administrator (at the school level) 1. Log into your DE user account. 2. Click “My Admin” in the upper right hand [...]
Did you know that Closed Captioning is available on a majority of Discovery Education videos and for most video formats? Yes, it is! Winnie Kwok from our Sales team had asked us to spread the word about Closed [...]
It’s Back to School time and Professor Mousey is here to help with bulk imports of teacher and student accounts. Here’s his three favorite import tips: 1. Usernames must be unique relative to the entire Discovery Education database, not just unique to your school or school district. Common usernames such as “johnsmith” will already [...]
Mousey is super excited about Discovery’s Shark Week! So, for this week he will tell you what Shark Week means to him and how he feels about sharks. Click on Professor Mousey to find out his answer! Mousey is not the only one who is excited about Shark Week, check out some of the ways [...]
Happy Mousey Monday! Thank you to Brian and Janet Hallstrom for voicing their enthusiasm for Professor Mousey. He appreciates all the love! Brian asked, “What has been the overall reaction from the parents” (in reference to Discovery Education products)? Click on Professor Mousey to find out. Parents often call the Discovery Education Support team to [...]
Happy Mousey Monday!! As the new school year approaches, one of the most frequently asked questions is regarding passcodes. A passcode is an 8 character alphanumeric identifier that is unique to each school that subscribes to Discovery Education’s digital services. A passcode can be used to create new teacher accounts for Discovery Education, or to [...]
It’s Monday and Mousey is back to answer your questions! This week’s question is “What can Discovery do to help teachers make the beginning of the school year better?” Click on Professor Mousey to find out his answer! Every Discovery Education customer has access to Discovery Education’s Builder tools under their Discovery Education account. Discovery [...]
Welcome to Cache and Cookie’s first Mousey Monday! We received one question last week from William Chamberlain via Twitter. He wanted to know, “How did Professor Mousey learn to type?” Click on Professor Mousey to find out his answer! As we get more questions for Mousey, we will bring the answers to you. In [...]
As we launched our brand new twitter account this past Monday, we decided to bring in a special guest once a week to help respond to any questions that might spark an answer lengthier than Twitter’s 140 character limit. This adorable little Chihuahua is Professor Mousey. Hash tag your questions, comments and topics you’d like us [...]
We would like to welcome Lina Tran to the Discovery Education Technical Support Team! She will be a superb addition to our colorful cast of characters and you’ll see a lot more of her on this blog since she will be a regular contributor! Now a bit more about the new girl: My name is [...]
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