United Streaming

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Discovery Education, formally United Streaming, is a web-based subscription application for LISD educators that provides on-demand streaming educational videos for use in the classroom. Discover Education provided videos for all subject areas, some with lesson plans and black-line masters to help integrate the video into your classroom.

Always use Google Chrome - Refer to adding extension section below

Add Extension to Google Chrome

- Always use Google Chrome to view videos from Discovery Education to avoid problems. It will not work correctly in Internet Explorer

1. Open LISDComm > Google Extension:

2. Make the window smaller if it is on full screen by clicking the Restore Down icon.

3. You may re-position the window on your screen by holding the mouse button down on the top blue bar. Drag it to the side to make room for another window.

4. Now open Google Chrome and click the Restore Down icon, if needed, to make that window smaller.

5. You should now be able to see both windows at the same time. Illustrated below:

6. On the Google Chrome window click the icon in the top right corner that has 3 black lines

. It is located just below the red X.

7. On the window that pops up go to Tools to Extensions. An extensions window will open.

8. Click on the LISDComm window to bring it forward so you can see the file located inside the folder

. It is named

.

9. Drag the file on top of the Extensions window opened in #7. A message should appear that says Drop to Install.

10. Let go of the mouse button and the Confirm New Extension window will appear.

11. Click Add.

12. In some cases this step has already been done on your computer. Click the

icon again and select Settings. Under the Appearance section place check-marks in front of Show Homepage and Always show the bookmark bar. Suggestion: Change the homepage to www.lisd.org/proxy if it is set on Google search or other.