Before starting an assignment, read these to find out what to do and what to include.
What are the directions or instructions?
After rereading the directions and trying an example, you can get help by asking one of these that identifies exactly where you’re stuck.
What is a specific question?
Or AI (Raina, Gem)
Your password and home address belong to this category of information.
What is private or personal information?
This Google program uses slides to organize presentations—including your DIJO.
What is Google Slides?
This friendly ghost is famous for being much nicer than the spooky reputation of most ghosts.
Who is Casper?
This count lives in Transylvania and has an extreme dislike of sunlight.
Who is Dracula?
This Google Classroom tab organizes assignments, quizzes, and materials by topic. This tab is usually the best place to find your assignments organized by topic instead of digging through the Stream.
What is Classwork?
In OMS Tech, school technology should be used for this kind of purpose during instructional time.
What is academic?
What is an academic purpose?
Before posting a picture of another person, you should get this.
What is their permission or consent?
The nine-dot Google menu that can quickly take you to Drive, Gmail, Classroom, and other Google apps is commonly called this.
What is the Google Apps Waffle?
This superhero is a billionaire by day and a caped crime-fighter in Gotham City by night.
Who is Bruce Wayne/Batman?
This classic movie monster is brought to life by Dr. Frankenstein.
Who is Frankenstein's monster?
To see your assignments and their current status, including graded, turned in, or missing, without hunting through the whole class page, go to Classwork and choose this.
What is View your work?
Using one style with friends and another with teachers, employers, or formal schoolwork is an example of this communication skill.
What is code-switching?
A message promises a free prize if you enter your password. This is the appropriate response.
What is ignore it, do not enter my password, avoid the link, and report it or tell a trusted adult?
Pressing these three Windows keys lets you capture part of your screen as evidence.
What is Windows + Shift + S?
This web-slinging Marvel hero was bitten by a radioactive spider.
Who is Peter Parker/Spider-Man?
This spooky holiday character is known as the Pumpkin King of Halloweentown.
Who is Jack Skellington?
This section in Google Classroom gives you fast access to class tools like Raina, Typing.com, and other frequently used OMS Tech resource links without hunting through old assignments.
What are Quick Links?
This school safety system can flag concerning or inappropriate content created or shared through your school account, so “I deleted it” does not necessarily mean nobody saw it.
What is Gaggle?
AI can help explain, brainstorm, translate, or tutor, but you still need to do this because AI can confidently hallucinate or give incorrect information.
What is confirm, verify, or fact-check the answer?
This shortcut reverses your most recent action on a Windows computer.
What is Ctrl + Z, or Undo?
This Addams Family daughter is known for her braids, deadpan delivery, and love of the macabre.
Who is Wednesday Addams?
This horror-comedy family includes Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, and Uncle Fester.
Who or what is the Addams Family?
Before choosing Chill Commons, compare your finished work with these to make sure you completed every required part.
What are the actual assignment directions or instructions? THE ACTUAL LISTED SET OF DIRECTIONS OR INSTRUCTIONS.
This OMS Tech rule says we do not turn real people—their bodies, identities, disabilities, appearance, or suffering—into entertainment or humiliation.
What is the Human Dignity Rule?
A useful AI tutor should help remove a barrier or help you understand—not quietly and completely do this instead.
What is do the completing/learning/thinking for you?
This keyboard shortcut lets you search a webpage or document in order to find a word or phrase instead of scanning, scrolling, or staring at the screen hoping the answer reveals itself through telepathy.
What is Ctrl+F?
In Ghostbusters, this giant marshmallow mascot becomes a very large problem.
Who is the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man?
This supernatural comedy features three witch sisters named Winifred, Mary, and Sarah.
What is Hocus Pocus?