Subscribing to CDNIS Calendars directly on your iPhone or iPad

Posted on Fri, December 7 2018 by Gladys Cheung

Subscribing directly using the iCal links below means adding the calendar directly to the Calendar app on your Mac or mobile device.

When you subscribe to a calendar directly on your device. The calendar will not be linked to your CDNIS Google Account and you will not be able to view it on your Google Calendar Website.

Visit http://cdnis.edu.hk/
Find the little 3 lines on the right hand corner
Find About CDNIS > Calendar Of Events
Find “Subscribe to the School Calendars” at the bottom of the page, Choose the Calendars that you want to subscribe
Choose “Add(xxx)”
Choose “New Calendar…”
Type the Calendar name like “Upper School Events” > Choose the color that you like (Remarks: choose different color will be easy to define) > Choose “Done” to finish, it may take few seconds to upload the data to your calendar
Open the Calendar on your device after it finished upload
Choose “Calendars”
Choose “Show All Calendars” or the Calendars that you want to show > The events will show up on your calendar

Subscribing to CDNIS Calendars directly on your iPhone or iPad

How to Download Report Cards in Veracross

Posted on Thu, November 29 2018 by Gladys Cheung

Step 1: Log into your Veracross account.

URL: https://portals.veracross.com/cdnis/parent/

Step 2: Beneath your child’s name, click “Reports”

Step 3: Below the heading “REPORT-CARD“, there are 3 links–one for each grading period.

Click “MS First Reporting Period” for MYP Interim Progress Report (Grade 7 to Grade 10).
Click “Provincial Report MS First Reporting Period” or “Pronvincial Report US First Reporting Period” for Ontario Provincial Report (Grade 9 to Grade 12).
Click “US First Reporting Period” for DP First Progress Report (Grade 11 and Grade 12).

A new window will open displaying the report card.

***Veracross makes available only the current year’s reports. In order for you to have complete records, you must print or save your child’s reports to your computer. To print a report, click Print to PDF at the top right. You may then print the report or save it to your computer.***

Create a Gmail signature

Posted on Thu, November 22 2018 by Ben Lau

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8395?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

An email signature is text, like your contact information or a favorite quote, that’s automatically added at the end of Gmail messages as a footer.

Add or change a signature

You can put up to 10,000 characters in your signature.

Open Gmail.
In the top right, click Settings Settings.
In the “Signature” section, add your signature text in the box. If you want, you can format your message by adding an image or changing the text style.
At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.

Modify Parent Directory Preferences in Parent Portal

Posted on Thu, October 11 2018 by Gladys Cheung

Click Directory Preferences
There are switches for “Student Directories” and “Household Directories”
If the preference has been changed to “Visible”, parents can select which contact type should be visible by other users.Note: both student and parent can access to “Student Directories” and “Household Directories”. Therefore, if the preference is set to “Visible”, other students and parents can see the information on the directories.