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The modernized Mastery Connect user experience delivers a sleek, responsive interface rebuilt for full accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA). Redesigned Trackers, Assessments, and Curriculum Maps feature faster workflows, keyboard navigation, enhanced screen reader support, seamless Canvas integration, and simple view toggling for educators.

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Due to funding changes, Utah is transitioning to the Nearpod Platform Package. Nearpod remains free, and you will not lose your created lessons, but access to the premade Nearpod Lesson Library, Math/Social Studies Programs, and shared School/District Libraries will end.

🛑 Teacher Action Required By June 30

To keep your instructional materials for next year, you must manually save them to your personal account:

  • Move Shared Content: Copy any crucial lessons out of your School/District Shared Libraries and into your personal account.

  • Add Library Lessons: Download any global Nearpod Library lessons you want by adding them to your account and making a quick edit (e.g., renaming it to "The 2026 Olympics - Smith").

  • Save & Exit: As detailed below, always use the "Save & Exit" feature to fully preserve your content, activities, and future editing capabilities.

Refer to the following guide for best practices on organizing your folders and refreshing your content before leaving for the summer.

Save Nearpod Lessons

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We know how much you and your students love using Canva to bring creativity to the classroom. To make collaboration even smoother, we have a quick but important reminder about how we organize our Canva teams.

Why the Switch?

Back in the Fall of 2025, we updated our Canva structure so everyone is grouped into individual school teams rather than one massive district-wide team.

While anyone who used Canva prior to the switch will have continued access to the now Archived Jordan District team, anyone new to our district does not get that access. Because students cannot share outside their specific team, working out of the archived district team creates sharing roadblocks. If you or your students are still working in the archived team, assignments and group projects can easily get stuck.

By ensuring your account and your students are working from your current school team, you’ll instantly eliminate those sharing frustrations and ensure everyone can collaborate seamlessly.

Switching Teams and copying to another team
Instructions for how to switch Canva Teams and how to copy designs to another team - Click to expand and view

 

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USBE and Google Training
☀️ USBE / Google For Education Summer 2026 Training Series

USBE and Google for Education have developed a training series this summer for our Utah K12 and Higher Education groups. This training is free and open to any educator in Utah. Google is targeting three groups for this training series: 

  • Educational leadership from Superintendents to Principals to Deans and Presidents. This program is a fully virtual program that shares information on policy, rollout, and developing supports for AI within your organization. 
  • English Language Arts, Math, and Science secondary educators or introductory college course instructors/professors. This program is an 8-week course with 7 virtual weeks and one two-day session in person to develop a best practices program around AI. This program is limited to 200 people. 
  • Third, IT professionals either in K12 or Higher Education. This program will include time to ask questions with the Google Engineering team.

You can use this site to register for the training, but more resources will be added in the coming weeks: https://sites.google.com/schools.utah.gov/aitraining2026/home

Google AI Educator Series
☀️ Google and ISTE+ASCD AI Educators Microcredentials 

The AI skills you need, delivered the way you need them. The Google AI Educator Series provides free, standards-aligned AI literacy training for every educator across K-12 and higher education. Learn from Google through bite-sized sessions designed to meet your schedule, and earn digital badges along the way. Spend the summer growing your Googleyness by earning the first half of the set with more to be released on September 2. Try them out: Google AI Educator Series

Google Certifications
☀️ FREE Google Certifications 

Google Certified Educator Level 1, Level 2, and Gemini Certification Exams are now free of charge indefinitely! Start your journey today: https://educertifications.google/