hello and welcome to the best practices
in content creation in campus. Women are.
My name is Ernesto Gonzalez and I work with the innovative Learning
Department, as well as my colleague Adam Rizzi, who
also will be presenting a portion off. These women are,
I would like to show you our agenda for these women are.
First, you will learn how to add an image
to your course card, how to set up your home
page, how to add announcements
to your home page, how
to set up the course, navigation menu,
organizing modules and lastly tips and tricks to
enhance your modules. At this time, I will
head to my campus dash poor
on my dashboard. I can see all of my courses.
The course that I will be using for demonstration purposes is this one.
Name a campus course. As
you can see, this course doesn't have any images
or an image to identify this course.
We believe that is very important, that you add an image to your
course car because if your students have
multiple classes, it will be easier for
them to
recognize your course right away. When they open their
dashboard. The campus dashboard. They confined your course right away.
As soon as they recognize the image that you added to this
course card, I am going to open my course,
and now I am on my course
home page. In a minute, I will show you. When we
get to the Settings portion, I will show you how to add the image to
your course card. But now I would like to focus your attention
on this course home page, this course
home page. It is set up to be the
modules by default. By default, campus
courses have the modules as the home page.
However, this home parish would be associate ID
with the home link in your course navigation and is the
first page scene for each course.
Each course home page can have different layouts, depending on
your preference
in power. Connie, we prefer, and we
suggest that you set up your homepage
to be the sea Levels homepage. The syllables
in campus makes it easy to communicate to your students
exactly what their baby what they will be required to do.
The syllables may include a correspond, er, welcome message and
description of your course expectations, and many
other important links or information
to change your modules home
page to the syllables on page, you will click and choose
home page and then select the last option, which is
syllabus.
As you can see in the syllables home page, I have added
different bottoms or links. Two
important resource is us to the modules, so my
students have direct access to the course content as
well. The students could check their grades because
this would be linked to the course progress. Also, as a teacher,
you cannot welcome message to make your of course more
welcoming. You can ask classes, schedule a class,
uh, image or another sort of
image that eyes related to the Soviet area that you teach.
You can add teacher information, your contact
information, your office hours.
But another part of this Sea Levels home page, which we
found to be very important, is the course
summary. The Syllabus page
provides a student with the core summary, which automatically
is generated based on the assignments and events within a
course.
Another thing I would like to mention about this homepage is that, as you may
have noticed, it requires a little bit of designing for you
to create a home page that looks similar to this one. No
necessary. You need to have some sort of designing skills
or special tools to create a home page like this in this
case, this home page in Positive from
Commons. I would like to show you that when you go to the Commons
Library after you filter
to Broward County public schools approved material,
you can type in Brauer home page template.
And then from here, you can select any of these options
on, then imported into your course on Reuse It
us your course homepage.
So I would like to go back to my course because
the other thing I want to show you it is how to add
announcements to your course home page.
All all courses home page layouts can display recent
announcements at the top of the home page. The teachers can
show recent announcements as part of your course homepage
that can be set up to a specific number.
To do that, you will go to settings,
and under the course it tells stop.
What you will do is you will click. You will scroll down
and click on more options next,
you will select the second option, which is sure recent
announcements on course home page notice that if you open the
drop down menu, you can actually select
up to 15 announcements to be displayed on your home page.
However, we do not recommend
to add so many announcements to your home page because it
would take too much space. So we believe that
three. It will be a good number off recent
announcements display on your home page on If the students
need to see all the announcements, they can simply click on the
announcements link, and then they can see all of the
announcements that you have, uh, posted earlier.
So after I select this, then I will
click update course it tells, and let's take a quick look, uh,
my recent setting.
So now my most recent three announcements that will be showing
on my course at the top of my course home page
are we go back to settings because I would I would like to take the opportunity
to now that we are talking about different
settings to add an image to my course card. As I
mentioned before, it is important that your course cards has an image that
helped the students to easily find your course and have
access to the You could upload an image from a local
storage on your computer. Or if you click on Splash
Tab, you can type in, for example, the
the name off your Sabia area
and then select one of these images.
And now this image has been added to the course uh,
card. I was crawled down, and then again, I will click
Update course, he tells
Once I have done this. I would like to go into the student
view to take a look at how my students now can
see my course homepage. They can see the recent
announcements as I show you before at the top.
Now they can see this new, newly designed
homepage where they can have direct
links to the course content.
They have some sort of important information, and lastly, they
have the course. Summers noticed that one of the things that
is, uh, additionally to the
course summary. Your students can see
many calendar that we
highlight the different items that they have to complete
with on the specific dates, and they still can see the to
the least as well. So all of these help the students to keep track
off what assignments are due and what they need to
complete. On the left side, we
find what is called the course navigation, as you
can see here, my students, they have multiple options,
including home announcements, modules, course
progress, which is the same as great
assignments, quizzes, discussions and files.
As an instructor you can control, which links up here in your course
navigation campus include a set of default course
navigation links that are shown by default
and cannot be renamed. Depending on your
course configuration, all the links may be available, and
by me do you make customizing. However, our district
recommends as best practices to simplify your
student course navigation and on Lee, make
the following links available to students, home
announcements, modules and course progress.
The reason why is because, uh, if
you allow your students to have access to assignments through the assignments,
links and quizzes of discussions under these
pages, you will see at least off all of the assignments
that were previously published. In this case, I do not
have too many, but Joe's in mind that if you have bean
important content from common. So if you have been created,
uh, multiple other assignments, squeezes,
etcetera, all of those items will be displayed
on this page. And then now you're students. We have to look through these
pages and to find a specific assignment that the most
complete same thing with, Cui says. And
this cautions etcetera. Therefore, what we
recommend is excised before is to Onley.
Keep available for your students, home announcements, modules,
course progress. And the reason
why we're not keeping assignment with some discussions is because
Asus Adam will be explaining to you shortly.
We will like that our teachers be able to organize
all of their content into German modules.
So how do we simplify this course? Obligation
for our students is very simple. I will leave my student view
and then our weekly concerns.
After I click on settings are we click on the
navigation top and now I can't
remove any of the items that are no necessary.
In order for you to remove it, you could do two different things.
You could simply, uh, drag and
drop the items that are not necessary
from the list at the top to the list at the bottom, or
you can click under three dots, more options and click disabled.
Once you have rearranged and simplify your course
navigation for your students, then I will scroll
down and click safe,
and I will like to review so far what we
have learned to do. First I went on my
dashboard. Or if I could go to my dashboard, you will see that I have
to sexually added an image to my
course card. So my students can easily find these
course next,
which switch from the
course modules, as's your home page
to your syllables as your home page. And then
probably you added some important information on links to this
home page, and you allow your students
to see the course summary by using the syllables page a summary
off the different assignments in chronological order.
Also, we added their most recent
announcements to the top of your home off
your home page, of course, on page, and lastly, I go back
to my student view to find
that my students now will be able to always
go back to the home page by clicking at home click announcements to
see all of the announcements. New on all announcements
click the course progress, which is the same as grades to keep
track off what they have submitted or what didn't submit if they
receive. Ah, great. If they have a common from the
in structure And lastly, my students will
have direct access to the content off this course
by clicking on module, which is where we recommend you
to organize all of your, uh, course
content. And on dot modern, my colleague
Adam Breezy will be walking you through
how to better organize all of the content of your course
within the modules. And he will also give you
some very useful tips on how to
enhance these organization in
your modules.
Thank you, Ernesto. And for everyone. My name
is Adam, Rosie and I to him with innovative learning. What I'm gonna do is
just switch over to show my screen. So if Ernesto of you can tell me if
you can see my screen now,
yes is visible now. Perfect. Thank you.
So as Ernesto mentioned, I am going to spend
the next 30 minutes or so kind of talking you through some
best practices on how to organize your content in
canvas through modules. Our Nesta has already
talked to you about some Broward standards in regards to setting up our course
navigation and also setting up our home page as well
as our announcements. But now, as teachers have been
creating or continue to create content in canvas,
we want to really take a deeper look at that content and design
different strategies and structure toe organize
it in a matter that's more easily accessible for
students. But before we actually go deep into
modules, let's look at an infographic and really get in
idea off what canvas modules are
all about. So I'm going to zoom in and start with the
blue rectangle at the top. Modules
is where everything starts inside of canvas. I like to use
the analogy. It's your WalMart. It's your super target. It's where you can
go to get anything and everything you need for your daily
living. In this case, your modules. We're gonna be
everything you need to present to your students. You're going to put
them here, and this is where your students are going to go to get everything they
need. And exactly what I'm talking about is
everything goes there right when you start to formulate
your modules and organized content, they become your
placeholder almost like a filing cabinet. And when we talk about what
can you put in there? We're talking about items like
pages, pages that are information pages that are
just specific content that you want to share with your
students. This could be the overview of the week, which is the best
practice. This could be a schedule. This could be directions.
It could be just about anything. Also,
along with pages we can add into a module, discussions,
assignments and quizzes. Discussions
aware teachers can provide students a
prompt ah question of video, and students can then have
dialogue among their class where they go back and forth in a form of
banter or form of debate or just simply ah, class
discussion. We can also add in assignments,
assignments that could be very low order or very simple or very
high order in complex, where we asked the students to
do some sort of activity and submit work back to
us, and then also quizzes informal and
formal assessments with multiple question types that have the
option of being graded within canvas, and this can then
show the student's mastery of a given topic or skill.
So right off the bat, in the last two minutes, I've
mentioned four items pages, discussions,
assignments and quizzes, four items that could go directly into a
module where students no longer have to click on four
different tabs in the course navigation to gain
access to it. On top of those four, we
also can include files, files in the sense of
word documents, power points, excel, spreadsheets,
PDFs, audio and video files and more.
We also talk about external you RL's links from the
outside, that we want students to access something like a
study jams or something like a read works that is not in
clever and is not in canvas. But we still want to give them
access to. And then finally, we also can bring
in external tools these external tools air coming from
the outside that actually work directly inside of canvas,
things like near pod things like news Ella,
things like stem scopes in vocabulary dot com for fifth through
12th grade, and the list goes on. So again, all
these things that you might have your students wandering all over canvas
looking for We can put into one place directly into
those modules. So with that said, we really want
to focus on the blue at the bottom. Here. How will you use
modules in your canvas course? How are you using them?
And over the next 30 minutes, when I show you some best
practices, what best practices can you take away
to help restructure or reorganize your modules in
a more student friendly way? So I'm gonna leave
this infographic, and I'm going to go to this course
now. I do want to give you a little heads up on this course.
This course that I'm gonna walk you through today is actually a course
that was created. Probably 90% of it was created
by a group of first grade teachers in a Broward elementary
school that prior to this whole pandemic, we're
not utilizing canvas on a regular basis,
not only because they were first graders, but they didn't have a full set of class
devices. So I want you to keep that in mind as we look at the
progression and the practices that they implemented throughout
this course. So as you look right away,
you'll notice that our courses are broken into modules.
Bye week. We have Week seven and the date Week
six and the date and then counts down.
One thing you might recognize right away is that the module start with the
most recent at the top. Whenever you create a new
module, for instance, I click on this blue plus and I
go to create a new module. That new module, right.
If I add that and I'm just gonna put Webinar as an example
and I add that new module, it defaults not at the
top, but it defaults all the way to the bottom.
So what? One best practice we recommend is as you work through
your modules and weak eight is coming, I can
actually grab this week by crossing over
to the front, hovering over the dots at the beginning of the
title and simply dragging it to
the top. In that way, the most recent
work will be the first thing students see when they
log in. Now let me put that back so I can show you again.
Just hovering over the title of the module sliding to the left with the
dots are your hand becomes across hair the cursor,
and then you can drag and move that module around.
You might also notice that the modules are
collapsed. These black triangles that
are located in front of the module allow you to expand
and collapse your module. That way,
as you move through and you're searching for items, you don't have an
excess amount of work that you have to scroll all the way
through to get to the next module. You can
simply find that black triangle and clinic
it to collapse it to move on to the next module. So
too little features that are nice to use hovering over those cross
there and being able to drag your modules to reorder them by a
date, you feel best or to click on
the triangles, to expand and collapse to view
content that is in there. You might also notice
that we have courses. Oops, I apologize. We have
modules that are published and then we have modules that
air not published. That is because these teachers are working
ahead. Obviously whatever is published is visible to the
students. So if I open up a week, you'll notice the content is
green as well, because those current weeks are published for the
students, whereas in weeks that air coming up
assessments we haven't used yet whether math or science
or practice content or delete material are down
below and not published for student viewing. And
what's nice about this is we can then start to build out
Week eight. We can start to build out Week nine, and
then when it gets there, we can then move it to the top and
publish this content for our students, kind of like
front loading or pre planning. Also, you might notice
at the bottom we have a module for math
assessments and for science assessments and then also a delete
module. And what I love about what these teachers they're doing is they're
separating their content that they're not currently using that way.
Course content isn't overwhelming to the teacher and student,
and what you do is you create a module and name it, and then when
you open it up, if you have a previous week and you have content in here,
you're not going to use. You can simply grab that
material and drag it to another module.
Not only can you put it in a module for future use, these
teachers even created a module title. Delete. This
is where they are placing any material that they
see themselves never having to use in canvas
that they imported it from another teacher. They created it or
simply they brought it in from comments they never planned to use it.
So they made sort of like a recycled in. They put
that material in here, and when they're ready, they could go to that module,
slide to the right, click the three dots and delete the
entire module with the content at one time.
Just a little heat of advice. Make sure whatever you have in here,
you plan to never use again because once it is deleted, it will
remove it from your course. So a nice way to kind of
get rid of things, um, once click at a
time. So as we've created our modules
and ordered them in a way that we felt was best, we began
to build content. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take you
through a walk from week one up to
currently where we are at Week seven, and I want you to
look at the progression of this course as we
transformed are virtual learning over a
course of seven weeks. So when I click on Week One and expand
it, you'll notice that there is a variety of content in
here. There is a page, there's a quiz, there
is a discussion and the list goes on. There's also
links and more, and you'll notice that
as I look through this, there is an overview page. But there's just a
list of assignments for students to dio.
I also want to give you a little heads up in a little disclaimer,
though this is Week one, this is all subjects from an elementary
class. They've decided as a classroom that had never used
canvas before to put everything in homeroom
because of the situation we were in. We allowed that, and we
encouraged it, actually, in the district for teachers who had never been using canvas at the
elementary age to go ahead and just use home room, put all
the course material in there and just deal with one course. Keep in
mind when you do that you do lose the sink to
Pinnacle, however, other teachers air
utilizing each subject area, reading and reading, math and
math, science and science, social studies and social studies.
Also from middle school. In high school, they're using their respective curriculum
content area, so it varies slightly. But what you're seeing
today is all in one course, but again, the best
practices can be transferred to any course you are using.
So when you look at this, a couple of things we notice is that there's no
organization. There's no structure. It's just a list
of information. But I was glad to see they
did use one of Broward's best practices by creating an overview.
However, when I click on the overview, there's really not
much substance to it. I look at it and it just gives me
a quick glimpse off what is going on for the week.
So after this week with a you know, parents and
teachers were kind of ends with phone calls going back and forth,
emails going back and forth, I don't understand. Can you explain this?
Can you do this? Can you do that? So we met US
teachers and just like we do when a lesson doesn't go as well as we
planned. We take a step back and we re think the lesson
in this case we re think the module and say, What can we dio
to better structure this for our students? So as I close
Week one and look at Week Two, you'll notice Now
Not only do we have an overview, but we also have some help
in guidelines, and then we also have broken it up in two
days. So here's Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
So we've begun utilizing what we call Tex
headers. And these texts letters allow us to chunk the
content within a module by however you want. In
this case, they're doing it by day. You might choose to do it by
standard or topic. That choice is yours.
So one we've started utilizing text headers.
Second thing you might notice is after each assignment they
started using these words called Must Use and May dues.
They're exactly what they say must do's are mandatory.
You must do this as a student where the May dues
are just optional, and our goal is that these may
dues lend to the must do's they provide
support or a backbone for the must do's to help the
students move through the content. You'll also notice
that the teachers began to in Dent not really
sure the purpose of inventing here. But you can see they
tried to utilize that feature, which again, I'll show you in a few
minutes, along with the text headers so weak to got a little
better Week two. We've started to chunk are content in
today's Week two. We've started to itemize each
individual assignment and label them with May
dues and Must Do's so as you
expect the phone calls in. The emails declined a little
bit, but they were still coming. So I said to the teachers,
Ah, couple things. Number one when you assign
work, when does it all dio number two. When you
assign work, how much are you assigning? If you're in elementary
school, are you signing one assignment for every subject and in
middle school? Are you assigning multiple assignments a day?
And these air things we took into consideration. We went back
to our drawing board and we moved on to week
three. Now, Week three, I want you to look at
how linear this is. Look how clean the
modules look. We've gone ahead and created an
overview that we asked that they read first had to log
in and some information to begin the week. But then you see
Monday with no date after it. You see Tuesday
with no date after it. You also see less
assignments, right? Because now it's not about
quantity. It's become about quality. What work are
we giving them? And is it quality work? You'll also
notice that they put all the must do's at the top of the
day, and then it may dio musters, and then it may
dio must do's and then the maid ooze. So that way,
students day by day are focusing on the must do's
before they mess around with the maid ooze.
Now why did they take away the dates? Why are they
adding must and May dues? Well, let's take a look at the overview.
If I go back to Week two and I look at the
overview, I want everyone to look at this just for a second.
If I look at this overview for the week, it's very basic.
It's very plain However, if I go back
and now we jump to Week three, I want you to see
the difference in the overview just how more
detailed it has become. So when I
collapsed, too, and I open up three, you'll notice
the same layout Monday, Tuesday and the must do's and made
news. But now, when we look at the overview, I want to
take a closer look at how detailed it has become,
not just with the subjects and what they're going to be
teaching but the description of the week ahead.
Not only did they give him a layout of the week, but they have also written
directions down at the bottom about how assignments will be opened one day at
a time. For instance, Monday night we release
Tuesday's work Tuesday night. We release Wednesday's
work, and these teachers have decided to do it this way because
they're first graders. Giving them all the work at
once is overwhelming. Now, if you're in middle school or high
school or you have a stronger class, maybe an
enrichment or a gifted class, maybe you choose to assign all
the work at once. That is up to you, but the best practices
to release content in the best way,
manageable for your students. So you know your students better than anyone,
and you can make that decision. Also, look at the due
date. Due date for all assignments is Sunday evening.
They've decided if I go back to the module, work will
be assigned on Monday. Work will be assigned on Tuesday and Wednesday
and Thursday and Friday. However, all of them must do's
must be due by Friday. And when talking with
teachers, this has seemed to be a consensus and a best practice.
And the reason why is students may not be able to
complete their work in a given day on Monday or on
Tuesday and situations at home we might
not be familiar with, or we might not know what's
going on in these students houses. Also, you don't know if they're
sharing devices even if they have Internet. So by providing
them ample amount of time to complete work, it gives them that
personalization to complete and do their work at their own
pace, which is a beautiful thing. So again, all
of their work is due on Sunday, so right off
the bat from week one to week three, we've seen a huge
transformation and growth within how these
teachers are organizing their modules. Notice I
have not talked about their work creation because their
content they're created has been staying the same. What's
changed is the structure and the
accessibility for students to find their
assignments. So now, as we three ends,
parents were a lot happier. Parents were feeling their students were
becoming a lot more successful because they were understanding how
to get things done. So as I open up week
for I'm going to show you that we for again pretty
much stayed the same. We have an overview, and then things were
broken down into Monday into Tuesday. We also have the must
do's and the maid oohs. And now we've kind of put in a word mandatory
here because must, yeah, you have to do it. But mandatory kind of tells
them Yep, this is where you need to start. This is what you need to dio
also notice that the top we've begun to bring in
emojis emojis toe itemize and help
differentiate the items. For instance, I want you to look at
this. This is something I love, right? My class. Schedule
a check off list a note and announcement.
Maybe you're using the green books to show enrichment where the blue
books mean it's on level so we can begin to use
these emojis to itemize or differentiate
You are assignments, so I will show that again in a
minute. But let me show you their overview. When I
click on their overview, you're going to notice right away
that now the overview looks similar to before we've
added in a video to kind of tell them, Welcome back. Here's what the week
is ahead kind of Give them a visual right from me.
As the teacher, we also talk about what's gonna happen in
reading and math and science and the same as before,
with the instructions down below and the layout for the week.
But now, as I hit next and I go to the next item in the
module, you'll notice they've created a class schedule.
And what I love about this class schedule is the teacher puts in the
meeting link and then created a word
document to tell students when they needed to attend
virtual meetings right through Microsoft teams.
So what this teacher does is every week
creates an outline for the students. On Tuesdays and
Thursdays, the Green Group comes to the link, clicks on
it and joins the meeting at 10 15. They leave
15 minutes later, at 10 30 the red Group clicks on the
link and joins at 11 15. They leave
and the same thing for the blue group. 11 30. They click on the
link and join, and at 12 15 they leave.
What else is nice about this? If I scroll down on Wednesdays,
we do a teacher read aloud at 11 a.m. And on
Fridays, we do a share out at 11 a.m. For mental wellness.
How is your week? Tell us about your week, anything you're looking
forward to over the weekend and kind of have ah
share out with their students before the weekend arrives.
So now having this schedule available to parents
makes it easy for them to help their students know when and
where to be online for these meetings.
Also, you'll notice that the document is here, so if a parent
wants to click on it, they can download it, print it, put it on the fridge aerator,
and we have what we call an auto line in line
preview our auto open in line preview
notice. I'm showing this here because it pops up when I
logged in. In that way, it's kind of for lack of better words thrown into the
students face so they can see it right in front of them.
Whereas if I click the next button, you're going to
see that a page was added entitled Check
off list week of April 20th. And there's a
document here that I can click on and I can download,
or I can click this little preview button, and that way
I can then see what the document entails.
One of the things that we recommend is utilizing an auto open
in line preview. And how you do that is the following
you're gonna click on edit and this could be on a page, a
document, um, anything you are doing inside of
canvas. Once I've brought in my file,
you're gonna then we'll see that this file link is
here inside of the rich content editor. If you have
not brought in a file yet, you would simply go up to files on the top,
right? Look through the files that are currently in your
course and select it. If it is a file
you haven't used before, you would select, upload a new
file and choose that file from you. Our
computer, once you've chosen that file from your
computer and it attach is you would hit, upload,
and it would put the link to you. Our file inside of
you are page, discussion, assignment, whatever
it might be. However, that does not provide you the auto
Open. So what you're gonna do is once the link is here and that link
must be a word document Ah, Power Point and Excel
Spreadsheet or a pdf You can click anywhere
inside of this link. I'm gonna click between the two and the
four. So once I click it, you're gonna look at your rich content
editor toolbar. Find the second row third item
which says link to U R L. When I go ahead and click on
that, you get this pop up window. When this pop
up window shows up, you'll notice the link is already here and then you have
two options you're going to select the auto
Open the in line preview. Once you
select it, be sure to click update link. If you
do not click to check it off and then update
link, it will not work. So update link.
And now you'll notice that nothing has happened. That
is because you are still in edit mode. So again, once you
have clicked anywhere in the link, hit the third button toe
link. It chose auto open and hit update link.
Nothing will happen once you go down to the bottom and hit
Save. That is when you will see the in line preview.
So if I hit save now, you'll notice
that the in line preview will show up for
students. Give it a second. It takes a second to render. And
then there it is. And now, instead of students having to click and
wonder what the checkoff is, they can actually see it right
in front of them. And what's beautiful about this check off list is
students will Onley get there must do activities right
for the week, and they can print this, print it out, put it on
the refrigerator, just download it and then re type on it and
edit it, and they can check off items as the week
goes, and they complete their content.
Just a nice way for students and parents to keep track at
home. Off what assignments? Quizzes,
discussions The students have already completed.
So really nice way to present content to your
students. So now, as I go back, I
want to pause for a minute and show you a couple things. I
want to also talk about what has happened from Week one
two, week four from Week one. There was no
structure. There was no framework to the modules. So
through the first four weeks we've upgraded, we've transformed
this module into a much higher level off
work. We've added texts, letters we've added the must do's and the
maid ooze. We've added a class schedule and a check off list
and the emojis. We've also begin to use Thean Dent
correctly to show that these two pages relate to this
one. If I scroll down, I can see that this page
relates to that assignment. I can see that this link
relates to this assignment, and now everything is being
used correctly within canvas. So let's talk about
how we add a few of those things. Number one
If you are looking to bring in any content from pages, quizzes,
assignments, discussions no, that no content is lost in
canvas as their nest. As Ernesto mentioned at the beginning of the
webinar, we recommend that you turn these off for students
and they access work through their modules. Well, once you create
your module and you have your module title, as we do here week
for April 20th through 24th, I can slide to the right
of that gray bar and click this. Plus,
when I do that, it will give me the option for an assignment,
a quiz, a discussion, and all of them will be listed
below. So anything that was an assignment in your course
navigation will now be listed here. I can
select the one I want and add that item to my
module. If I'm looking for discussions, I can click
discussion. And then all of the discussions that were in my
course navigation will now appear here. I can
select the one I want and add that item to my
module. Also within this drop down is where you
confined text headers. These text headers could be in the
form of a day Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday, it could be in the form of
topics or whatever you feel is best for your
students. Just keep in mind when you add a
text header or anything else through this edition
button. That item will automatically go to the
bottom of that current module. This is then where you would have to go
to the front of it. Grab that cross hair and then move that
text. Header that item that discussion and move it to
whatever you want within the module. So
again you can go to the title of the module, slide
to the right and click the plus. And then this is where you can bring in
any item from your course navigation as well as ad
your text headers.
Also in Module four, you'll notice that they began to use
Thean Dent Feature as well as must read. Read
first must do. And what's nice is when you find that
page or that assignment, you can slide all the way to the
right, and if you wanna add a must do or may do,
you can click edit and that way I can come in here and
I can add or edit the title to the
end of my item title. So if I
put must read and hit update, you'll notice now spelling
city homework must read. I can also come over to
those dots and choose to in dent in case I want to
increase the invention for that. In this
case, assignment, when you have items like this that
are already indented, not only will give you the option to
invent more, but it will also give you the option to
decrease. So to review, we've talked about
how to bring in items from your course navigation into your module
by slide into the right and clicking the plus and bringing those
items in. We also talked about adding a tech center from
this plus as well. We've also talked about
editing any of your titles as well as
inventing or decreasing the in Dent.
The next thing I want to show you before I get into week 56 and seven
is the Emojis. Since we're here, let's go ahead and talk about them.
These emojis are what we have been using on a
Windows 10 device that has been provided for the
district. So if you're using a Windows 10 device,
preferably your little Novo, you should have access to an
on screen keyboard down in the bottom,
right next to where your time and date is on the computer.
Hopefully, you have a keyboard, as you can see on mine. If I click
at once, a keyboard will come up on the screen.
You'll have some options here, right to play with, such as a
clipboard, your microphone and settings in case you want to change the
language. But then down below, you have the face. This
is where your emojis reside. When I click on that, you
have a bunch of options along the bottom. The
clock represents your most frequently used
emojis things you are using most frequently. Then you
have faces that you can scroll through and see a
variety. You have people, not just
people, but you also have sporting events. If I keep on
going sporting and then hand gestures and hand signs,
you also have food and beverage, as well as
transportation, housing and world symbols.
All right, so you can see. And then the two that I use most
often are the balloon and the heart. The
balloon is where these air common everyday items,
from celebrations to household
items. And if I scroll to the right, you'll see more and more,
and this keyboard will allow you to then pick what you want.
But my favorite is in this balloon. You have microphones and
headphones and tools. But then, if I keep going to the
right, this is where I get to school items such as books,
note pads, papers, money and if I keep going,
envelopes, mailboxes, pencils, papers, folders,
calendars, all that good stuff. And it's
really easy to add items in. If I wanted to add
something to this grade one, I go to the right and click
the three dots and I hit Edit in front of the
word grade. I click, and if I just wanna put let's say
this little envelope, I can click it. There's my
emoji, I hit space bar and update. And
just like that, the emoji is in, and what's great about
it is you can do it in your headings. For your assignments. You can
also click on a specific item like this page,
go into edit mode at the top, right? And
then you can insert the emojis inside of a page, a
quiz, a discussion and assignment as well.
Really cool feature. Now, if you do not
have that keyboard in the bottom right hand corner,
don't worry. It's probably you just hidden, and all you're going to do is
slide to the left and find what we call the carrot, this little up
arrow. If I go ahead and I click on that
arrow, I want to make sure that I am using the right
click. If I right click on it, I get this
pop up right about in the middle. I see one that's a
show touch, keyboard button and notice.
It's checked. If I uncheck it, my keyboard is
gone. However, if I go ahead back to that arrow and I
right click, I can then go ahead Fine
touch keyboard button and selected again. And now my
keyboard is back, and then you can begin putting some
emojis in throughout your module in throughout your
assignments. Your quizzes, wherever you want to make it
more visually appealing or differentiated
for you are students. Another really cool thing to
use with your kids in their digital
courses. So we've talked about a
lot and really seen some progression occur over the
first four weeks off digital learning or
virtual learning. So now we wanna look at how
can we continue building? We wanna look at this as a bigger
picture, right? You're listening to this webinar, right? And you're
thinking to yourself Well, I may never use this again. We want to think the
opposite. We want to think. How can I continue to use this? Whether
you have a class set of devices or not, We want to think about the
pedagogical behind it or the pedagogy behind it. About
how and why are we doing this? How can we
differentiate? How can we personalize our
instruction from a distance to our students?
So now, as we've done that week, five stayed the same,
they really didn't do much. Everything else stayed the same. The
made news and the must do's the Monday Tuesdays. The text headers,
the class schedule, the overview. But then on week six
and on week seven, they decided to try something new.
What we've also been doing with the must do's and the maid Ooze is what's
called playlists, and these teachers have created a sort
of playlist to show their students where if they click on the
overview instead of having to go through the list of assignments Monday,
Tuesday Wednesday, they've created an overview that outlines the
entire week not just for reading, math, science and social
studies. But here's their check off list. So if I want to click that, I
can see the check off list is here. I can minimize
that to take it away. They've also added directions on how to submit a
Pdf assignment. But then what you're looking at is a table
that lays out the entire week, and
what's great about it is students can access any of their
assignments directly from this table.
And I thought this was fantastic because now, instead of students going
back to the module and scrolling through Monday and scrolling through
Tuesday, they can come to this one table
inside of their overview and have access to all of their work.
For instance, if I come to Monday and click on The Daily Journal,
it links to the actual assignment
for that day. Once the students are complete with their
activity. You'll notice there's a button or a tab at the
bottom that if the student clicks, it will take them directly
back to the overview. Now I can move on to my next
assignment. I can click on. It takes
me to my assignment for the day, and when I'm done, I
can click back toe overview, and it takes me directly
back to that overview page. And now, in
Week six, students began to fool around
with this in a sense and play with it and navigate and kind of get their feet under
them. And then, as you come to the final week,
that is in this course Week seven Same format Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday. Our goal is to eventually eliminate Monday
Tuesday, Wednesday, so that the only button students will need to click
on is the overview. And when they click on that
overview again, their checklist will be here their
discussion and information for the week. But now all their
course content for the week is here on this one
page. So if I wanted to get to the branch of government, I can
click it. I could do that for Thursday. I can
participate in my assignment, and when I'm done, I
can click back to overview, and it will take me right back
to the overview page. So what I really feel is
really unique about this course is that teachers are
continuing to build teachers air continuing toe
learn themselves because as we get better, as teachers
are, instruction gets better. Our delivery gets better, and in
turn, the presentation to the students get better. And
as a result, students are more likely to
participate students, arm or engaged, right, and you're gonna
get return of higher quality work.
So a lot has gone on from week one to Week seven
within this course and a lot of good things.
So as we begin to wrap up this webinar and we're looking at
Week seven and you might have questions regarding any
information that is in here before we leave today, our
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Today again, you can always go back. Rewind Review the
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anything. But hopefully as we wrap up again this
webinar I hope you notice the transformation that
has taken place from week one to week seven. So what I
want to do is I want to pause. I want to close Week seven and I wanna
open up Week one. I wanna look at Week One
just briefly, and as I scroll through, I just want you
to look and think
and notice the lack of structure, the lack of organization,
the lack of life within that module. And now, as I
closed that and I look at Week seven, look at the
difference and look at the variety that
has occurred and the transformation that has taken place
to then also better may or I should say, make it
easily accessible for your students. It's just overall, making it
better. So Ernesto and I want to thank you for joining
the Webinar today again. If there's any questions,
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