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Kami is an approved app for use in the Peninsula School District as shown on the Student Digital Learning Resource Approval Site.  As per our state and district policies, parent permission and contact is required to use this app with your students. Please see the Student Digital Learning Resource Approval Site and the Kami Help Center for more information about how Kami works and how to obtain parental consent.

PSD does not have a district license for this tool, therefore the LTI app will be installed and managed by individual staff who choose to use this app and not Service Central Help Desk staff. Service Central and DLI staff are able to walk you through any elements of the steps below if you need additional support but because this is a peripheral tool, Service Central and DLI staff may have limited ability to troubleshoot issues beyond what is available in the Kami Help Center.

If you are not using Kami/Schoology integration, you can use the steps in the video:

Link to help center: Using Kami With Schoology Integration [UPGRADED]

The following was posted on the Kami Help Center and was current 12/14/2020.  Please see link above for the most current information directly on Kami's help center.

Kami's streamlined Schoology integration allows teachers to easily send work to their students from Schoology and allows students to easily turn in their work to the teacher. . This integration is only available with a paid Kami Education plan (i.e. the Teacher, School, and District plans).

Note: This integration uses the Kami Google Chrome extension, and will only work with Chrome.  It also requires that the Teachers and Students have Google accounts as it integrates with Google Drive - support for Microsoft accounts is coming soon.

Creating an Assignment using Kami and Schoology

• Ensure the Kami Extension is installed. There is no need to install a Kami app from the Schoology App Store - instead, the Schoology integration relies on the Kami extension being installed for Teachers and Students. You should see the blue K icon showing at the top right of your Chrome Window - if its not there, go to the Chrome Web Store to install the extension. For the best experience, we recommend that your IT department rolls out the extension to all your users following the instructions here.

• In Schoology, browse to your course and choose Add Materials -> Add Assignment
• Choose 'Kami' under the Assign From App section

• Choose a file from your Google Drive, or upload one using the 'Upload' tab. You can select a PDF file, or a different file type which Kami supports for conversion, e.g. Image Files, Word, PowerPoint, and many other formats.

• Finish creating the assignment in Schoology as you normally would

Opening Assignments and Turning In Assignments (For Students)

• Students find assignments as they normally would in Schoology, and when they click on one, there will be a new 'Complete Kami Assignment' button:

• When Students click that button, Kami will open and load the file. The File will be automatically uploaded to the Student's Google Drive, and also shared with the teacher's Google account, so that they can view the work in progress.
• Note: The first time a student uses Schoology with Kami, we will ask them to select the Google Drive account for the "Kami Schoology Assignments" folder.

• Note:  If the students come back to Schoology later and click the 'Open Assignment' button again, they will get the same copy of the file so they can continue their work. Students can also open the file with Kami directly from their Google Drive, and continue their work or turn in that way.
• Once the student has finished their work on the assignment, they can click the 'Turn In' button at the top right inside Kami:

• This will export the document with their changes, and return them to Schoology, where they can simply click 'Submit' to complete the submission:

• The file is now attached as a normal Schoology assignment submission, and you can mark it and assign grades using the usual Schoology tools.

Can I see my students' progress in real time?

You can see your students' work before they turn their work in. When you send your students a Kami Assignment from Schoology, a shared copy of their work will appear in the 'Shared with me' folder in your Google Drive. 

Grading Assignments using Kami and Schoology

Click on your students' names as they appear under the submissions list on the right side of the assignment page.

Once you're in Schoology's grading view, you can turn on the "Grade with Kami" feature by clicking on the checkbox on the top of the screen. This enables you to give feedback to your students' assignment submission.

Here's a video that can be used with students: