#04 · Teachers2:35 film

The teacher dashboard: what needs you before your next class

Teacher Home answers one question: what needs you before your next class? Then Set work, and where everything lives in the menu.

Every screen in the films is the real product, shown on a demo school made for them.

A teacher opens the dashboard between periods, with a few minutes at most. Teacher Home puts the urgent things first: work past its due date, answers to mark, and students who need a word, before anything else.

This film reads a demo teacher's Home on a normal working day, opens Set work to show the kinds of work you can give a class, and goes through every place in the menu so you know where things are before you need them.

Step by step

  1. Read Needs you first

    At the top, Needs you lists only what is waiting for you. If nothing is waiting, the list is short.

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  2. Work past the due date

    A row tells you how many pieces of work are past their due date and how many submissions are still missing.

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  3. Answers waiting for marking

    The next row says how many students have answers waiting for your marking, and how old the oldest one is.

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  4. Students to help

    Students who need your attention are flagged on participation, score or lateness, so you can speak to them before the next test.

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  5. Messages and quiet classes

    Unread messages come next. Last, Home names any class you have not set work for in ninety days.

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  6. Check your classes

    My classes shows each class and subject you teach, with its students, what is left to mark and the class average.

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  7. Open Set work

    Press Set work to see the six choices: chapter topics, questions, notes or keywords, an online test, a viva, a writing task, or one file or link.

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  8. Learn the menu

    The menu has seven places: Home, Classes, Library, Tests, Marking, Reports and Messages. Several have tabs: Classes holds Classes, Students, Graded work and Shared with classes; Library holds Subjects, the Encyclopedia and My uploads.

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  9. Know where tests, marking and reports are

    Tests holds Online tests, Exam papers and Viva. Marking holds To mark and Answer sheets. Reports has Overview, Subjects, Classes, Students, Overdue, Chapters taught and Outcomes.

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Good to know

Home is a to-do list, not a report

Everything on Needs you is something you can act on now. Reports are one press away when you want the bigger picture.

One place to set any work

Whatever you want to give a class, it starts from Set work, so there is only one button to remember.

A real working day, read only

The film reads the demo teacher's Home and changes nothing.

Questions

Where does a teacher find answers waiting to be marked?
On Teacher Home, in Needs you, and under Marking, then To mark.
What kinds of work can a teacher set?
Chapter topics, questions, notes or keywords, an online test, a viva, a writing task, or one file or link, all from Set work.
How does a teacher see which students need attention?
Teacher Home flags them on participation, score or lateness, and Reports has a Students tab for more detail.
What the film saysThe narration, scene by scene.

One question. This is Teacher Home. It answers one question: what needs you before your next class?

Needs you. Needs you lists only what is waiting.

Past the due date. Two pieces of work are past the due date, and it says how many hand-ins are still missing.

Waiting for you. Then what is waiting for your marking: from how many students, and how old the oldest is.

Students to help. Students who need your attention are flagged on participation, score or lateness.

Messages and quiet classes. Unread messages come next. Last, any class you have set no work for in ninety days.

My classes. My classes shows each class and subject: its students, what is left to mark, and the average.

Set work. Press Set work. There are six choices. Chapter topics. Questions, notes or keywords. An online test. A viva. A writing task. Or a file or link.

The menu. On the left are seven places: Home, Classes, Library, Tests, Marking, Reports, and Messages.

Classes. Some have tabs. Press Classes. Its tabs are Classes, Students, Graded work, and Shared with classes.

Library. Press Library. Subjects, the Encyclopedia, and My uploads.

Tests. Press Tests. Online tests, Exam papers, and Viva.

Marking. Press Marking. To mark, and Answer sheets.

Reports. Press Reports. Overview, Subjects, Classes, Students, Overdue, Chapters taught, and Outcomes.

Coming up. Next: a whole chapter, ready on day one.

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