A lesson is a place where learning is intended to occur. A lesson is made up of a number of lesson pages. A lesson page contains content such as links, videos, audios, documents (word, PDF etc) and the instructor can also embed content of other external sites such as YouTube. In this article, we’ll talk about how to create and manage lessons.
This article will guide you on:
1. Hover over a card and click Materials of the required classroom.
2. You can also view the list of materials (lessons + assessments) of a classroom by clicking Materials from that classroom's landing page.
3. Add a new lesson within any section of your choice by hovering your mouse pointer over the empty space below or above any material and click + Add link.
4. Select Create Lesson.
5. Enter the lesson title.
6. Click Create Lesson or just press Enter.
7. The lesson will be created and you will be redirected to the edit view of the first page in the lesson. You can right away start adding content in the lesson page. You can click on the lesson title to access the lesson expanded view.
8. Hover over the lesson cover image and click the image icon to change the lesson cover image.
9. Click Choose file and select the required image from your system that you wish to set as the lesson cover image.
The recommended resolution for the Lesson cover image is 900 * 180 pixels.
10. Crop the image as per your requirement within the allowed dimensions. Then, click Submit.
11. The cover image will be set once the auto-save is completed.
After you have added a lesson, you can add lesson goals. Lesson goals gives learners a quick summary about what they are going to learn from the lesson.
1. Delete the default learning goals and type out the required goals for the lesson.
We have the site-level option to set default text values for lesson learning goals' instructions. This can be used to provide the creator some guideline on what should be added in a lesson or to add some default text that is used frequently throughout the lesson instructions at the site level. Kindly contact your site administrator or write to us in order to set a default text value for your Teamie site.
Similarly, the list of pages (by default one page titled Page one) and section description (by default empty) can also be configured on request.
2. You can format your lesson descriptions/goals using the supported rich text formatting tools. Rich text will support the following options: Bold, Italics, Underline, Hyperlink, Bulleted List, Numbered List and Blockquote. You can also use the following keyboard shortcuts to format your task descriptions/goals:
- Bold :ctrl+b
- Underline: ctrl+u
- Italic: ctrl+i
Note: Once a word/phrase is hyperlinked, clicking on it will allow you to modify the URL. For a learner, clicking on the link will open the link in a new tab.
3. Do not worry about saving your changes, whatever changes are made during the lesson creation or during editing will get auto-saved. Yay!
4. Add the lesson (or unit summary) as required.
'Unit Summary' is an optional field that can be enabled on request.
5. Similarly, you can add assessments details if any.
'Assessment' is an optional field that can be enabled on request.
You can also add the Learning Goals, Summary and Assessments Details from inside while editing/viewing a lesson page as wel by clicking the settings icon.
The lesson interface lets you create lesson pages in a jiffy. You can now simply drag and drop media to add them to the lesson page. You can create a lesson page from the lesson expanded view as well as from inside a lesson page. Let's see how you can create lesson pages without breaking a sweat.
1. On the lesson expanded view 'Page One' is created by default during the lesson creation. To create a new lesson page, click Page.
2. The Page will be in preview mode. click Edit Page or Edit to add content to your lesson page.
3. Click the default Page One title of the lesson page.
4. Rename the page title as per your requirement.
5. You can also rename a lesson page directly by clicking the pencil icon that appears on hovering over the title of the lesson page.
Tip: Rename lesson pages directly without opening them can prove to be helpful in case you want to create all your lesson pages first and then add content in them later. This helps quickly create an overall structure of a lesson.
6. Rename the lesson page as per your requirement and press Tick mark / Enter button. Your lesson page will be created.
7. Click the Page label shown next to "Add to your lesson" text to add more pages to the lesson and then rename it as shown in the previous step.
8. Similarly, you can add more number of pages as per your requirement.
In case multiple users are on the same page, such as a lesson page or lesson expanded view, and one of them makes a change, then that will become the latest version of that material. Any other user on the same page will be shown a refresh prompt to refresh the page.
This will be a mandatory action and any user(s), not on the latest version, will need to refresh the page in order to make any changes. This change will make sure that no changes are accidentally overridden when more than one user is editing content on Teamie.
When you are inside a lesson page, you can also click the + icon to quickly add a lesson page after the current page. Clicking the + icon will open a modal where you can input the title of the new page. Once you click the Add Page button in the modal, a new page after the current page will be added to the lesson. Once the addition is completed you will be navigated to the new page in edit mode.
After you have added your lesson page(s), you can edit and add content to your lesson page in a very convenient, interesting and efficient manner. Let's show you how you can do this.
1. Click the lesson page where you wish to add the content.
2. The lesson page creation form opens. The Page will be in preview mode. click Edit Page or Edit to add content to your lesson page.
3. Click the default Page One title of the lesson page.
4. Rename the page title as per your requirement.
5. You can also rename a lesson page directly by clicking the pencil icon that appears on hovering over the title of the lesson page.
Rename lesson pages directly without opening them can prove to be helpful in case you want to create all your lesson pages first and then add content in them later. This helps quickly create an overall structure of a lesson.
6. Rename the lesson page as per your requirement and press Tick mark / Enter button. Your lesson page will be created.
7. To add a heading in a lesson page, click Heading.
You can also double click on any empty space to add items there in the lesson page. Double-clicking on the space will show a floating toolbar with all the Add item options which are shown at the top of the page (Heading, Textbox, Blocks, Upload, Embed, Google Drive). This will allow you to insert the item directly in a required space instead of the item being added to the bottom of the page and then moved up to the required space.
The headings on a lesson page can be collapsed by learners using the chevron icon on the headings. The collapsed/expanded state will be remembered and the next time learners access the lesson page, the heading will be in expanded/collapsed state as set by the learner. By default, the headings will be in expanded state. Click here to know more.
8. Add the required content to your heading.
9. In case you need to delete the heading, click trash on the right side of the heading.
At the top left corner of the Heading, click Change Theme and pick a color of your choice you want to set.
10. Click Text Box to add an item with a title and description.
11. Add the title.
Note - Click the same icon again to hide the title.
12. Enter the description as per your wish.
13. Description supports rich text (bold, italics, underline, hyperlink, blockquotes, bulleted and numbered lists. So make the most of it!
14. Drag the slider of the text box to resize it.
15. To delete a text box, hover over it and click trash on the right side of the heading.
Note: No confirmation message will be shown when you click the delete icon to delete the text box. Deleting a text box will cause other items below it to shift vertically up to fill up its space.
16. Click Blocks to add items to your lesson page with pre-defined layouts.
17. Pick a block layout.
18. After picking a block layout, you can add items to it by:
- Adding text box
- Uploading files from the system (by selecting files from the system or dragging and dropping them)
- Adding link or embedding content from external websites
- Adding files from your Google Drive
- Adding files from your One Drive
- Adding Interactive Content
Tip: Refer to this video to know more about 'Blocks'.
19. Click Upload.
20. Click Select Files to select the files from your computer.
21. Or you can quickly add files by dragging and dropping them from your computer on to your lesson page. You can choose to embed the files using the 'Embed' tick box for each file which will embed the file on the lesson page and allow it to be viewed without downloading and in full screen as well. Take note that if content security mode is enabled for the class, then files can only be uploaded in embedded state.
You can also drop files anywhere within the lesson page and expect it to stay wherever it is dropped. The file will intuitively adapt to the items in its proximity and fit in perfectly. Snug fit as you may like. Furthermore, you can move around any item by dragging it.
When more than three documents are uploaded in a lesson page, the document preview will be hidden by default. Clicking the ‘Show Preview’ button will show the preview and the contents of the document.
22. Click Link/Embed to insert external site links / videos using embed code.
23. Paste the hyperlink that you wish to add to your lesson page and click Done.
24. If you paste any article's link, then the title, thumbnail and description of the article will be fetched and displayed automatically. It really look cool that way!
25. In case you are pasting the link of a Youtube or Vimeo video, then an embedded player will be automatically displayed. You can play the video as soon you add it.
Note: If you are of the adventurous kind, you can also paste any iframe or embed script to embed different kinds of widgets.
Tip: You can also directly embed a YouTube video into your lesson page by pasting its Embed code URL. To get the embed code of a YouTube video, visit its YouTube page, click Embed and copy the HTML code of the video.
26. You can also add files from your Google drive. For this, click Google Drive.
Note: It is recommended to login with your Google account to use Google Integration feature effectively. For additional information about logging in with your Google account, see section, “Logging in with your Google account”.
27. Select the required file from Google Picker.
Note: You can select multiple files by pressing the ctrl key on your keyboard and then selecting the required files by clicking on them once. Then click Select.
28. You can also change the color theme of any item on the lesson page by changing its color. We provide you a few color themes to choose from using which you can make specific items in your lesson page stand out as compared to the rest of the stuff. All you need to do is hover over the lesson page item (in Edit mode) and choose the color of your choice.
29. Click Preview to see how your lesson page panned out.
Tip: You cannot make edits in Preview mode.
30. You can navigate to next or previous page (if any) by using the Prev/Next navigation buttons provided at the bottom of the lesson page.
31. Click the lesson title to navigate back to the lesson landing page.
32. You will be able to view all the lesson pages. You can manage your lesson and lesson pages from here.
As an instructor, you can link/attach an assessment (quiz, assignment, offline test, discussion) within a lesson to allow learners to attempt them in a sequence and facilitate learning. This will enhance the flow of learning by allowing assessments to be shown within the context of the lesson in the form of corresponding lesson pages. Once the assessments are linked to a lesson, they would keep working normally expect for few restrictions depending on the lessons availability. Let's learn more about this workflow.
This article will guide you on:
1. On the homepage, hover over the required classroom and click Materials.
2. On the Materials page, click the required lesson in which you wish to add a new quiz.
3. The lesson expands and all the existing lesson pages will be shown.
4. Click Quiz to create and add a new quiz to the lesson.
5. Enter the quiz title and then click Create Quiz.
6. The quiz will be created and added to the lesson in draft mode. Click to open the quiz and add question(s) to it by clicking the Edit button.
7. Then you can add the quiz questions to the quiz as usual. Refere to this help article to learn more.
8. You can publish the quiz, if required to make it available to learners, once the lesson is published for them to access.
An assessment enclosed in a lesson has restrictions around its published date and deadline, please check this article to learn more.
9. The quiz will be added to the lesson as a lesson page and the total number of lesson pages will include the quiz.
1. On the homepage, hover over the required classroom and click Materials.
2. On the Materials page, click the required lesson in which you wish to add a new assignment.
3. The lesson expands and all the existing lesson pages will be shown.
4. Click Assignment to create and add a new assignment to the lesson.
5. Enter the assignment title and then click Create Assignment.
6. The assignment will be created and added to the lesson in draft mode. Click to open the assignment and edit it by clicking the Edit button.
7. Then you can add the assignment instructions and upload material(s) as usual. Refere to this help article to learn more.
8. Publish the assignment as per your requirement to make it available to learners, once the lesson is published for them to access.
An assessment enclosed in a lesson has restrictions around its published date and deadline, please check this article to know more.
9. The assignment will be added to the lesson as a lesson page and the total number of lesson pages will include the assignment.
1. On the homepage, hover over the required classroom and click Materials.
2. On the Materials page, click the required lesson in which you wish to add a new offline test.
3. The lesson expands and all the existing lesson pages will be shown.
4. Click Offline Test to create and add a new offline test to the lesson.
5. Enter the offline test title and then click Create Offline Test.
6. The offline test will be created and added to the lesson. Click to open the offline test and edit it by clicking the Edit button.
7. Then you can add the offline test's instructions and upload material(s), if required. Refere to this help article to learn more.
8. Add evidence for learners' work and assign them scores/grades for the offline activity as per your requirement.
An assessment enclosed in a lesson has restrictions around its published date and deadline, please check this article to know more.
9. The offline test will be added to the lesson as a lesson page and the total number of lesson pages will include the offline test.
Similarly, you can add a new Discussion to a lesson.
1. On the homepage, hover over the required classroom and click Materials.
2. On the Materials page, click the required lesson in which you wish to import an existing assessment from that classroom.
3. The lesson expands and all the existing lesson pages will be shown, including any assessments linked to it. Click Import to import an existing assessment from the classroom.
4. The Import Assessments page will open showing all the assessments present in the classrooms, in their respective sections, except the ones that have already been linked to any lesson in that classroom.
One assessment can only be linked to one lesson in a classroom. Also, assignments with Peer Review enabled cannot be added to a lesson.
5. Select the required assessment and then click Import.
6. The selected assessment will be attached to the lesson.
An assessment enclosed in a lesson has restrictions around its published date and deadline, please check this article to know more.
7. Similarly, you can import other assessments and link them to a lesson, one by one.
1. Expand the required lesson and then click the gear icon of the quiz that you wish to edit.
2. Then, select Edit.
3. Make the required changes.
While editing the Publishing Options, keep in mind that if the lesson has the Available From and Available Till date set, then you can only set publish date and deadline of the assignment between the available from and available till dates for the lesson. If set outside, an error message will be displayed (even if the lesson is not in the same classroom).
4. Similarly, you can edit any assignment linked to the lesson.
When assessments become part of a lesson, it becomes a prerequisite for the assessment that the lesson is published, and available (ie, after the Available From date and before the Available Till date). Therefore, the assessments linked to a lesson will need to adhere to the following conditions:
- You can only set publish date and deadline between the available from and available till dates for the lesson. If set outside, an error message will be displayed (even if the lesson is not in the same classroom).
- If you are publishing an assessment without adding a Available from dates specifically, then its publish time is shown as the current time, by default. However, if you add a specific Available from date that is in the future, then it will become the default publish date instead of the current time.
- If you change the Available From/Till dates of the lesson such that the enclosed assessments publish deadline/deadline falls outside this range, then system will automatically update the assessments dates, and throw an appropriate info message:
- The assessment <title> had Publish Date outside the lessons availability. It has been updated to <From date/time> to match this change.
- The assessment <title> had Deadline outside this lessons availability. It will be updated to the <Available Till date/time> to match this change.
1. Expand the required lesson and then click the gear icon of the assessment that you wish to delete.
2. Then, select Delete Assignment.
3. A confirmation message appears. Click Yes, Delete! to delete the assessment permanently.
Assessments can only be deleted when there are no attempts made for that assessment. You need to remove the attempts before you can delete the assessment.
1. Expand the required lesson and then click the gear icon of the assessment that you wish to unlink from the lesson.
2. Then, select Remove from lesson / resource.
Resource is a whitelabelled term used for lesson and can vary from site to site.
3. A confirmation message appears. Click Yes, Remove! to unlink the assessment from the lesson.
4. The assessment will unlinked from the lesson.
5. Once the assessment is unlinked from the lesson, it will still remain as part of the classroom with all its current settings, and in the All Materials page of the classroom and it will be positioned right after the lesson, it is unlinked from. Once an assessment is unlinked, the corresponding lesson page will also get removed from the lesson.
6. You can choose to import the removed assessment again, if required. Once imported, it will get linked to the lesson and will stop appearing in the "All Materials" page. It will still be available in the "Assessments" tab.
7. Once linked, a corresponding lesson page will be added for the assessment.
1. Assessments that are linked to a lesson will not be shown on the All Materials page. To access the linked assessments, click the Assessments tab on the Materials page.
2. All the linked assessments will be shown along with other materials available in the classroom. The order and placement of the linked materials, in the sections, will be same as that of the lesson. You will also be shown the lesson with which an assessment is linked with.
1. You can reorder the linked assessment inside a lesson by grabbing the handles and dragging them to the required positions.
2. You can also position a linked assessment in between any lesson pages as well as per your teaching needs.
1. On the Materials page of a classroom, click the gear icon of the required lesson and then select Publish. Publishing makes the lesson available to learners. They will only be able to see pages (including the assessments) that are published.
2. You can also click to expand the lesson and then click Publish from its expanded view.
3. Once the lesson is published it will be made available to the learner. They will only be able to see pages (including the assessments) that are published.
4. You can click the gear icon to revert the lesson as well. Then, learners will not be able to access the lesson and its pages (including the linked assessments).
5. In case you set an 'Available From' and / or 'Available Till' date for a lesson, then the assessments' dates will automatically get updated, in case they are not falling inside the lesson Available From and Available Till date already.
6. You will be notified about the updated assessments availability dates to match the lesson availability, if applicable.
7. The updated dates will be reflected on the assessments linked to the lesson.
1. You can click on any assessment linked to a lesson to view its status, score, weightage, dates, instructions, status of attempts etc.
Any rubric attached to an assessment will also be shown.
2. You can view the learners' attempts for an assessment from the View attempts button on the expanded lesson page or by clicking any assessment and then viewing its attempts from the assessment full view.
1. Access the Dashboard of a classroom by hovering over the classroom card and then selecting Dashboard.
2. As the linked assessments appears inside the lesson, they need to be completed for the user to complete the lesson. In the Dashboard view, we will shown which assessments are linked to which lesson. The assessment(s) will be shown right before the lesson it is part of. If there are multiple assessments in the same lesson, they will be shown in sequence.
3. The completion of the lesson will have any one of the following status:
- Not Started: If none of the pages are read, and the assessments included are not started
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Completed: If all pages are read, and all assessments are attempted
Note: If the classroom has a minimum score completion rule, the assessment also needs to be scored above that value - Not Successfully Completed: If all pages are read, and all assessments are attempted, and at least one assessment has a score less than the minimum required score
- In Progress: Any remaining case
Whenever you access any lesson page, it will be in Preview mode, and you would not be able to add content to it. You can make changes to your lesson page content only in the Edit mode. Let's see how you can edit a lesson page.
1. Click on a lesson page.
2. Click Edit.
3. Now the lesson page can be edited and you can make changes (add new content, modify or delete existing content) in its content as per you requirements.
1. To edit the links and embeds, click the link/embed and select Edit item.
2. Update the link as per your requirement and click Save to save the changes to the embed/link item.
You can provide hover text for any word/phrase for learners to easily understand the reference/meaning of the word/phrase. This can help instructors add definitions of certain words to make them easier for learners to understand.
1. While editing a lesson page, select the required word/phrase.
2. Click Show expanded toolbar to view more options.
3. Click Definition.
4. Enter the required definition. This text will be shown to the learners when they hover over the selected word/phrase.
5. Click Save to save the changes.
6. The word/phrase will now be highlighted and hovering over it will show its definition.
H5P integration allows you to create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content, in the lesson pages, on Teamie. When the learners are reading/taking the H5P content, they will be able to see the content as an embedded item on the lesson page. They can then interact with the content directly on the lesson page, or tap on the Fullscreen icon to see it in full screen mode.
Instructors will be able to view the results for all the learners who have interacted with the embedded content. Furthermore, learners will also have the option to tap on View Results link to see their own results pertaining to the embedded H5P content, if applicable. Let's see how you can add rich interactive content in lesson pages through H5P integration.
This is an optional feature. You can contact your Teamie administrator or write to us in case you wish to enable this on your site, if not already enabled.
2. Click Interactive Content.
3. You will be shown the list of content types to select from. The content type options available for you will be configured at the site level by the Teamie administrator. You can quickly search and use any of the available content type.
For instance, in the following screenshot, an instructor can use any of the available 23 content types out of the total 46 content types available on the H5P platform.
4. Select the interactive content type that you wish to add in the lesson page. For example, we are selecting a Multiple Choice content type to add a flexible multiple choice questions content in a lesson page.
5. The Multiple Choice creation screen opens. Enter the required Title, Question, Option fields and media etc.
You can click on the Tutorial link to open the link for step by step process on how to create a Multiple Choice question.
6. Once you have added the details, media and user interactions as per your requirement, click Save.
7. The content will be added as an embedded item on the lesson page which you can then resize, relocate and delete similar to any other item on the lesson page.
You can add a title and description and change the theme to make the item stand out, if required.
8. Click Preview to view how the H5P content will be shown to the learners.
9. You can also edit the H5P content, in a lesson page, by hovering over the item in the edit mode.
10. Once the lesson page and the lesson is published, learners will be able to consume and interact with the H5P content.
11. Once learners access the lesson page with the H5P content, you will be able to view the results of their interactions with the H5P content.
To view the results, hover over the embedded H5P item and click View Results.
12. The results will show the list of learners who have accessed the lesson page and their stats for the interaction with the H5P content, such as, the Start time, Finish time and Points awarded and the Max points awarded.
13. Similarly, you can add other H5P Content types to a lesson page that have been configured for your site. Following is the link to the H5P tutorials to learn how you to edit different H5P content types once you have embedded them in the lesson pages on Teamie:
You can create a copy of a lesson in the same classroom or copy it to another classroom from the lesson settings. Let's see how you can do this:
1. On the Materials page, click the settings cog wheel of the required lesson.
2. Click Make a copy from the drop-down to create a copy of this lesson in this classroom.
3. The lesson will be copied and you will see the confirmation with a link to refresh the page.
4. Once you refresh the page, you will be able to locate the copied lesson at the bottom of the section from which you have copied the original lesson.
The lesson will be in draft state (with all the lesson pages published). Publish the lesson as per your requirement.
1. On the Materials page, click the settings cog wheel of the required lesson.
2. Click Copy to... from the drop-down to create a copy of this lesson in your other classrooms.
3. Select the classroom in which you wish to make a copy of this lesson.
You can copy a lesson to only one classroom at a time.
4. Select the section in the target classroom in which you wish to copy the lesson. Then, click Copy here.
5. A confirmation message appears and the lesson will be copied to the selected classroom.
6. You can locate the copied lesson in the target classroom. It will be in placed at the bottom of the selected section.
The lesson will be in draft state (with all the lesson pages published). Publish the lesson as per your requirement.
Instructors can quickly copy a lesson page to the same lesson, another lesson or a new lesson, within the same classroom/group.
Some of the ways in which this copying lesson page can be leveraged are as follows:
- Duplicate a lesson page within the same lesson
- Create a new lesson with an existing lesson page within the same classroom
- Copy a lesson page to different lesson within the same classroom
Different instructors might have different use cases which they would be able to achieve with this feature. Some use cases, such as, reusing similar lesson page content or repurposing the layout of an existing page with new content can sometimes be quicker and convenient than creating the page from scratch again.
Let's see how you can:
1. On the homepage, hover over the required classroom and click Materials.
2. Click to expand the lesson where you want to make a copy of an existing lesson page.
3. Click the lesson page that you wish to copy.
4. Click the ellipsis (...).
5. Click Copy this page to... from the drop down.
A lesson page can only be copied in the Preview mode and not in the Edit mode.
6. The Copy this page to... selection page opens. By default the 'Current Lesson' will be set as the destination where the lesson page will be copied, i.e a duplicate copy of the lesson page will be created in the source (original) lesson.
7. Click Copy to initiate the copying process.
8. The copying process will be initiated. The lesson page will be copied shortly.
9. Once the lesson page is copied, you will get a success message. The newly created lesson page and the lesson in which it is created (here the original lesson) will be hyperlinked. Clicking the lesson page name will take you to the newly created lesson page. A prefix 'Copy of' will be added to the original lesson page name for distinguishing purposes.
10. Clicking the lesson name will take you to the lesson in which the lesson page is copied (here the original lesson).
By default the lesson page will be treated as the last lesson page and will be placed at the end of lesson page list. Also, the newly created lesson page will be in draft mode.
11. You can click the newly created lesson page to view its content.
1. Follow steps 1-6 of the article 'Copy a lesson page within the same lesson (duplicate a lesson page)'.
2. Tick the New Lesson radio button.
3. Select the section in which you wish to create a new lesson to which the lesson page will be copied to.
4. Enter the lesson name you wish to give to the new lesson.
5. Click Copy.
6. The copying process will be initiated. The lesson page will be copied shortly.
7. Once the lesson page is copied, you will get a success message. The newly created lesson page and the newly created lesson will be hyperlinked. Clicking the hyperlinks will take you to the respective lesson page and lesson.
By default the newly created lesson will be placed at the end of the section. Also, both the lesson and lesson page will be in draft mode.
Following are the steps to copy a lesson page to different lesson within the same classroom. This way you can move a lesson page to a different lesson in the same classroom by copying the page and deleting it in the original lesson.
1. Follow steps 1-6 of the article 'Copy a lesson page within the same lesson (duplicate a lesson page)'.
2. Tick the Existing Lesson radio button.
3. Select the current classroom from the -- Choose a Classroom -- drop down.
4. Click -- Choose a lesson -- drop-down and select a lesson from the list of all the lessons present in the classroom.
The list of lessons will include all the lesson including the lessons that are in draft mode.
5. Click Copy.
6. The copying process will be initiated. The lesson page will be copied shortly.
7. Once the lesson page is copied, you will get a success message. The newly created lesson page and the existing lesson will be hyperlinked. Clicking the hyperlinks will take you to the respective lesson page and lesson.
By default, the newly created lesson page will be in draft mode and will be placed at the end of the lesson page list.
Following are the steps to copy a lesson page to an existing lesson of another classroom. This way you can copy a lesson page to a different lesson in another classroom.
1. On the homepage, hover over the required classroom and click Materials.
2. Click to expand the lesson from where you wish to copy a page to a different lesson in another classroom.
3. Click the lesson page that you wish to copy.
4. Click the ellipsis (...) and then select Copy this page to... from the drop down.
A lesson page can only be copied in the Preview mode and not in the Edit mode.
5. The Copy this page to... selection page opens. By default the 'Current Lesson' will be set as the destination where the lesson page will be copied, i.e a duplicate copy of the lesson page will be created in the source (original) lesson.
6. Tick the Existing Lesson radio button.
7. Click --- Choose a classroom --- drop-down, select a classroom from the list which displays the list of all the lessons present in that classroom.
The list of lessons will include all the lesson including the lessons that are in draft mode.
8. Click --- Choose a lesson --- drop-down and select a lesson from the list where you wish to copy the page to.
8. Click Copy.
9. The copying process will be initiated. The lesson page will be copied shortly.
10. Once the lesson page is copied, you will get a success message. The newly created lesson page will be hyperlinked. Clicking the hyperlinks will take you to the respective lesson page and lesson.
By default, the newly created lesson page will be in draft mode and will be placed at the end of the lesson page list.
When more than one user tries to edit a lesson page simultaneously, the auto-save feature works only for a single user and the changes made by other users are not saved and thus they end up losing all the changes they have made. This can be counterproductive, therefore Teamie does not allow simultaneous lesson page edits.
When a user is editing a lesson page, all the other users who try to add content to that lesson page simultaneously will be shown a prompt to refresh the page to continue editing it. Once they refresh the page, they will be able to see the new changes made by the other user. This way no changes made by any user will be lost due to simultaneous editing of a lesson page.
By default the newly added lesson will be in draft mode unless you publish it or set an Available From date for it so that lesson gets auto-published. Let's see the different scenario for publishing a lesson.
Note: Published lesson can have unpublished lesson pages.
1. Click Publish.
If you click Publish with no date & time being entered in the Available From box, then it will publish the lesson immediately.
You can also publish a lesson from inside a lesson page as well. Click the settings icon and click Publish.
2. The lesson will be published and learners will be able to access it. Click Settings and select Revert to Draft to put the lesson in draft mode again.
Scenario 1: In case you set an Available From date and time for a lesson and then click the Publish button. Then, the lesson will be published automatically as per the date and time of your system's time zone. For example, if you are in Singapore but your system is set to Beijing time zone, then the date and time entered in the Available From box will be as per the Beijing timezone and the lesson will be available to learners according to the Beijing time zone.
Publishing the lesson with a future Available From date and time will make it visible in the lesson list for learners. But, its contents will be accessible only after the Available From date and time.
Scenario 2: In case you set an Available From date and time for a lesson and do not click the Publish button, then the lesson will be published automatically as per the date and time of your system's time zone. But the lesson will neither be listed on the learners' Material page, nor its content will be accessible for the learners until the Available From date and time.
3. You can also publish a lesson from the lesson list view / card view. Click the gear icon and then select Publish.
4. Click the gear icon again and then select Revert to Draft to make it unavailable for learners.
By default when you add a lesson page to a lesson, it will be in draft mode.
Note: Learners will be able to access the published lesson pages only when the lesson is published.
1. In the lesson's expanded view, you will see the "Draft" label next to each lesson page which are in draft mode.
2. You will see the following options after hovering over a draft page:
- Edit
- Publish
- Delete
Click Publish label to publish a draft lesson page so that it can become visible for the learners.
3. The lesson page will be published and you will no longer see "Draft" label for published lesson pages. Click the eye again to put the lesson page in draft mode.
4. Click Revert to draft label again to put the lesson page in draft mode.
5. You can also publish a lesson page by opening it and then click Publish.
Once a lesson is created and lesson pages are added to it, both are in draft state by default. Once you publish the lesson, the lesson pages added in it dont get published along with it.
A prompt that will be shown to the instructor when a lesson is published with no published lesson pages. This will ensure that no lessons are made available to learners without any lesson pages, unintentionally.
Let's see how this will appear for instructors in the collapsed and expanded lesson view and how can instructor publish all unpublished lesson pages at once for a lesson.
1. A prompt that will be shown to the instructor when a lesson is published with no published lesson pages. This prompt will be shown in the lesson expanded view and will have the option to publish all the lesson pages at once.
2. If you publish a lesson (with all draft pages) from its collapsed view, you will get a prompt that learners will not be able to access any lesson pages. You can then choose to still publish the lesson or expand it and publish the required lesson page(s) first.
This feature is not applicable for SCORM lessons.
You can delete a lesson page from the lesson creation page or the lesson card/list view. Deleting a lesson will delete all its lesson pages (published and unpublished).
Note: Lesson deletion is permanent; lessons once deleted cannot be recovered.
1. On the Materials page, click the Gear icon (cog wheel) of the required lesson and then select Delete Lesson from the drop down menu.
2. A confirmation message appears. Click Yes, Delete! if you are sure about deleting the lesson.
3. Similarly, you can delete a lesson from the lesson creation page.
Both published and unpublished lesson pages can be deleted from a lesson.
Note: Once a published lesson page is deleted, learners won't be able to access it. Deleted lesson pages cannot be recovered.
1. On the lesson creation page, hover over the lesson page that you wish to delete and click Delete.
2. You can also open a lesson page by clicking the ellipses (...) icon and then click Delete to delete the lesson page.
3. A confirmation message appears. Click Yes, Delete! if you are sure about deleting the lesson page.
You may choose to share your lessons with multiple classrooms you are member of, while adding a new lesson or while editing an existing lesson. The shared lesson will be available for readers in all the classrooms it is shared with after it is published.
To share a lesson with multiple classrooms, follow these steps:
1. On the lesson creation page, click Classrooms box.
You can also access the Classrooms selection box from within a lesson page as well from its settings.
2. You will see a list of classrooms you are member of. Select the classrooms you wish to share your lesson with from the drop-down list. The lesson will be shared with the selected classrooms.
3. Your progress will be auto-saved, once you select the classroom from the drop-down list.
4. You can also search a classroom by typing its name and then selecting the classroom from the drop-down list.
5. In case the Select / Unselect all classrooms configuration is set on your site, you will see a Select All Classrooms button under the Classrooms selection box. Click the Select All Classrooms button to share the lesson with all the classrooms that you are part of (regardless of your role in the classrooms).
Sharing a lesson with a new classroom will add it to the last section of that classroom.
6. Click Unselect All Classrooms to remove the lesson from all the classrooms except the current one, in which you are accessing the lesson.
As an instructor, sometime you may wish to share a lesson with classrooms that you are not member of. To do this, you would be required to have "Share with any classrooms" permission and this permission can be granted to you by your site administrator.
Once you have this permission, you will see an extra category in the classroom selection drop-down list called as "Other Classrooms". This will give you the flexibility of sharing your lessons with classrooms that you are not member of. Let's see how you can share a lesson with a classroom you are not part of.
1. On the lesson creation page, click Classrooms box.
2. Start typing the classroom name with which you wish to share your lesson.
Note 1: Matching classrooms start appearing in the drop-down list after you enter at least 3 starting characters of the required classroom.
Note 2: By default, clicking on the 'Classrooms' box will show you the list of the classrooms that you are part of. The classrooms that you are not part of begin to appear under "Other Classrooms" only when you begin typing the name of a classroom.
3. Select the classroom you wish to share your lesson with from the drop-down list. The lesson will be shared with the selected classrooms. Your progress will be auto-saved, once you select the classroom(s) from the drop-down list.
Note: The lesson you have shared with classrooms that you are not member of, would appear as the last item in the last section of that classroom's Materials view
The Lesson Bank is one place to find all lessons that are made public. Within a given classroom, it is an easy way for instructors to share lessons among themselves. A Physics instructor can go to the lesson bank to copy a physics lessons, created by some other instructor in his/her classroom. Teamie creates a copy of that lessons and the instructor can make modifications to it, without affecting the original lesson.
1. Hover over a card and click Materials of the required classroom.
2. Click the required lesson.
3. On the lesson creation page, select Yes from the Share with lesson bank checkbox.
Note: By default a newly added lesson will not be shared with the lesson bank.
You can also access the Share with lesson bank checkbox from within a lesson page as well from its settings.
4. The changes will be auto-saved and your lesson will now be available in the lesson bank. It can now be reused by other instructors in their classrooms.
1. Click Sliding menu and select Lesson Bank under Banks.
2. The lesson bank will open and you will see the list of lessons which have been marked as public or shared with the lesson bank. Use the filters available to locate the lesson you wish to copy.
3. Click Copy from the Actions column.
4. Type in the new title for the lesson.
5. Select classroom(s) you want your copied lesson to be be shared with.
6. Select Copy.
7. The copy lesson action initiates.
8. A confirmation message appears once a copy of the lesson has been created.
As you know, new lessons can be at any location on the materials page (at top, at the bottom or between any two existing items). You can also change the order of the existing lessons as per your wish. Let's see how you can do it.
1. Hover over a card and click Materials of the required classroom.
2. Hold and drag the required lesson to the position of your choice on the materials page.
Note: You can also move a lesson from one section to another.
3. Drop the lesson at the required position.
4. Your lessons will be reordered accordingly on the materials listing page.
Ordering lesson pages within a lesson is as simple as dragging and dropping them in the required order. Let's show how simple it is.
1. Click the required lesson on the materials page.
2. The lesson will be expanded. Hold and drag the lesson page from the left.
3. Drop the lesson page at the required position.
4. The lesson pages will be reordered and will be available for learners in the same sequence when made available for reading.
1. Whenever users are on a lesson page, they have the option to view the overview for all the materials that are available for them in that classroom. This is known as the Materials Overview, which can be accessed from the hamburger menu button on a lesson page's cover image.
2. Clicking this menu button opens the Materials Overview section of the classroom on the left hand side of the lesson page.
3. The Materials Overview can help users to quickly view the available materials and navigate to them in a jiffy.
We have a site-level configuration to automatically show Materials Overview when viewing a lesson page. If enabled, the system will automatically open the Materials Overview whenever any user opens a lesson page. Users can then navigate to any other lesson page or material from the Materials Overview section. This configuration can be enabled from our end. So, if interested, write to us or contact your Teamie account manager to enable this configuration on your site.
For laptop/tablet screens with resolution less than 1280px, this configuration will not open the Materials Overview automatically. Users will need to open the section (in the form of a floating popup) themselves by clicking the hamburger menu icon.
Lessons can be viewed in two views, the card view and the list view. Both have their advantages, card view is a much detailed view while list view quickly lets you gather the required information about the lesson. You can switch between these two views and the choice will be remembered. This means that if you switch to list view in lessons listing page of one classroom and then navigate to lesson listing of another classroom, by default you will be shown the list view of that classroom's lesson.
Note: This toggle between card view and list view will not be remembered if you were to use a different browser or a different computer.
The card view of your lesson shows the following:
- Lesson title
- Number of pages in the lesson (including drafts)
- The cover image of the lesson
- Draft label (if the lesson is a draft lesson)
- Reading progress bar, which shows number of learners who have not yet started reading, number of learners who are in progress (who have read a few pages of the lesson) and number of learners who have finished reading all the lesson pages
- On hover, the publish and delete icon is shown. Clicking on the publish toggles the lesson between draft and publish. Clicking on delete lets you delete the lesson.
- Clicking on the reading progress bar opens a popup that shows a categorized list of learners who have not yet started reading, who are in progress, and who have finished reading.
- For the learners who have not yet started or who are in progress,you can click "Send Reminder" and type out a message to send out an email reminder.
- In case, a lesson is shared with teams/individual learner, then personalized materials information is also shown in the card view.
The list view of your lesson shows the following:
- Lesson title
- Number of pages in the lesson (including drafts)
- Draft label (if the lesson is a draft lesson)
- A donut chart, which shows number of learners who have not yet started reading, number of learners who are in progress (who have read a few pages of the lesson) and number of learners who have finished reading all the lesson pages. The donut chart on hover shows the student progress as a pop over. On clicking the donut chart shows the learner progress.
- In case, a lesson is shared with teams/individual learner, then personalized materials information is also shown in the card view.
You can switch between the card and the list view on the lesson listing page by a single click of your mouse.
1. Click list toggle.
2. The lesson on the lesson listing page will now be shown in the list view. To go back to the card view, click card toggle.
Sending reminders is a very useful feature which allows you to send email reminders to the learners who have not yet started reading the lesson or are in progress (who have read a few pages of the lesson). It is easy, fast and can be done in just a few clicks. Let us see how you can do it:
1. Hover over the donut chart of the required lesson from the lesson listing view to view the Completed, In Progress and Not Started stats for that lesson.
2. Click the donut chart of the required lesson from the lesson listing view to view the list of learners with Completed, In Progress and Not Started stats for that lesson. You can also click the View Progress button to view the list of learners ot send reminders.
You can also click the reading progress bar in the lesson expanded view instead of the donut chart to send reminders to learners.
3. The list of all the learners of the classroom(s) in which the lesson is added will be shown divided into three categories: Completed, In Progress and Not Started. Click Send Reminder corresponding to Not Started to send reminder to the learners who have not yet started reading the lesson.
4. A Send Reminder box opens. The Subject and reminder body field will be pre-filled with the necessary details to send a quick reminder. You can edit it as per your convenience. The reminder body will also contain the link for learners to access the lesson directly from the email reminder. Click Send Email to send the reminder.
5. Similarly, you can click Send Reminder corresponding to In Progress section to send reminder to learners who are in progress (who have read a few pages of the lesson).
6. Click Send Email to send the reminder.
You cannot send reminders to learners if the deadline of the lessons has passed.
As an instructor, you have the option to send a copy of the reminder to all the instructors in that classroom. This is similar to how we use the CC option while sending an email to keep the recipients in loop. Click the Send a copy to instructors checkbox to send a copy of the reminder to all the instructors in that classroom
This can be very handy in case a classroom has more than one instructor as all of them would be informed when a reminder is sent to the learners. Furthermore, this can be used as a record keeping tool by instructors as they would have an email record of when they have sent the reminder and to whom. For instance, an instructor can now have a record that a certain number of reminders were sent to learners before their marks were deducted for late submission.
As an instructor, you now choose to send the learner notifications to their parents as well. This will be practically cc'ing the parents on learners notification and keeping them apprised.
Note: This is an optional feature and can be enabled on your Teamie site on request.
As you know, teachers can view learners' progress for a lesson (Completed, In Progress and Not Started). They also have the option to download the lesson progress report as well. Let's see how to do this:
1. Click donut chart of the required lesson from the lesson listing view. You can also click the View Progress button.
2. The list of all the learners of the classroom(s) in which the lesson is added will be shown divided into three categories: Completed, In Progress and Not Started. You will also see a Download Lesson Progress button at the top right corner of the pop-up. Click on it.
3. The report will be downloaded after the progress bar reaches 100%. Click on the report from your downloads section to open it.
3. By default, the report will show the following info for the lesson:
- Lesson Title
- Lesson Link
- Viewable Lesson pages
- Shared Classrooms
- Report Exported By
- Report Exported on
- Date time listed timezone
Click the next tab on the excel sheet (named as the classroom title) to view the detailed lesson progress report.
4. The lesson progress report will include important data pertaining to the lesson, such as, No. of Lesson Pages Read, Lesson Progress Status, Lesson Completed Date, Lesson First Read Date, Lesson Last Read Date, No. of Times Lesson Read. This will help teachers gauge a better picture of the learners progress.
As an instructor, you invest your time in creating a lesson with a variety of content in its lesson pages and would want to take their content off the platform in order to print it or just view it independently when you are not on the Teamie platform. Downloading and export your lessons out of Teamie might be a convenience for some and a necessity for others. Therefore, we are now allowing you to download and export your lessons from Dash.
1. On the Materials page of the required classroom, locate the lesson and click its gear (settings) icon. Then, select Download.
2. Export process will start. Once the export process is completed, a zip file for the lesson will be downloaded for you to access your lesson outside of Teamie.
3. The zip file will have the index.html file as the main file, which you can open to view the lesson description and its table of contents with clickable lesson page links.
4. Each page will have a HTML file for itself and all the items listed linearly as per the original lesson. Each item will have the corresponding title, media (if any), and the description. Images, videos (including the embedded videos), and audio will be shown inline. Also, documents uploaded in a lesson page will be linked to the attached file. In order to keep the look and feel of the exported lesson, as close as possible to the original lesson, the items will also be styled with themes as set on Teamie.
Embedded content will require internet access to work.
How to create lesson and lesson pages?
How to add content to lesson pages?
How to copy a lesson page?
How to download lesson progress report?
How to download a lesson to view offline?
How to send reminders to learners for materials?
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