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Engage your students by using Ready-to-teach lessons or by building a new lesson with your favorite learning resources.
Using Ready-to-teach lessons
- From Home, in the search bar, enter the subject or topic you’re looking for, and Ready-to-teach lessons relevant to your search will be displayed.
- You can also access these from Templates.
- On the side panel, select Education. From here, you can browse Ready-to-teach lessons.
- To see all Ready-to-teach lessons, you can side scroll and select See all or from the side panel, select Resource Type, then select Lessons.
- Select a lesson. A pop-up will appear with a preview of the lesson. In the preview, you’ll see what grade and subject the lesson is for, and you can also view the different designs in the lesson.
- Select Use Lesson. The lesson will be saved to Projects. The lesson will have the Teacher answer keys and the lesson.
- To view and edit the Teacher answer keys, select the main folder of the lesson.
Creating a lesson from scratch
- From Home, select Projects.
- At the top right corner, select Add new, then select Lesson.
If you have a folder you want to turn into a lesson, in the folder, select More, then select Turn into a lesson.
If you’re looking for inspiration, you can browse ready-to-use templates by selecting the Subject, Grade, or Resource type. You can also filter templates by subject, topic, color, grade, or Resource type.
Editing lessons
In the lesson
To update the Lesson name or Banner, select More, then select either Rename or Banner. To edit the Description, select the text box below it.
- Designs are sequenced and are called activities. Select an activity to edit its contents.
- To add designs to the lesson, select Add an activity to your lesson.
- If you want your students to work on their own copy of an activity and submit it back to you, you can update the Activity Experience to Solo Work. You can do this by selecting the down icon and choosing between Resource or Solo work. Solo work activities let students edit their own copy of the activity and then share it back to you.
- To rearrange the activities, select and drag the activity to your desired sequence.
- To remove an activity, select the More on the activity and select Remove from folder. To delete the design, select Move to trash.
- To see what your lesson sequence looks like, select Open Lesson to open the editor.
In the editor
- The activities are available in the Navigation menu.
- Easily switch between designs by selecting the design you want to edit or present, without having to leave the editor.
Previewing lessons
View or take the lesson as a student would.
- Open the lesson you want to view as a student.
- Select and open any lesson activity.
- In the editor, on the side panel, select View as student.
- At the top of the editor, a banner will indicate that You’re viewing this lesson as a student.
- You can now progress through the lesson and activities as a student would, making it easy to preview the experience or even take the lesson. If you make any edits or changes, we’ll create a new copy of the activity so that the original content doesn’t change.
- Once you’ve finished, select Back to editing in the banner to go back to your regular lesson experience as the teacher or creator.
Sharing and assigning lessons
If you want to collaborate with other teachers on building this lesson,
- In the lesson, select Share.
- Add the names of the people you want to share the lesson with.
- After sharing the lesson, you can send them a link to the lesson by selecting Copy link.
Once you’re ready to deliver the lesson to students,
- In the lesson, select Assign lesson.
- If you want to create a class, select Create a class. Add the name of the new class and select Create a class. Add your students then select Create a class.
- In the search bar in the popup, type in the name of the class or the names of the students you want to assign it to.
- Select the toggle if you want to notify your students of the assignment.
- Add a message (optional)
- Select Assign.
- A popup confirmation that the lesson is now assigned will appear. Select Copy link to copy it to your clipboard. You can send the link to your students directly.
Tracking lesson completion
In the lesson’s Reporting tab, you can track your student's progress. The summary will show how many have Not started, are In progress, and have Completed the lesson.
Check out this page to see how students can complete lessons.
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