And welcome to Getting Started with DocsTeach: Assigning and Viewing Student
Work. I am going to provide an overview of how to assign online activities on
DocsTeach to your students and how they can complete the activities and turn
them in to you. First I will show you how to assign activities and access your
students work in your DocsTeach account. So let's go ahead and get started, now I
should point out that I have already logged in to my DocsTeach account and
I'm going to go ahead and find an activity to show you as an example, so
I'm going to go find some activities here and I'm going to search for an
immigration activity. So we'll go ahead and pick this first activity here, How
Have Americans Responded to Immigration? And we have landed on the teacher page
here with information about the activity and some teaching instructions, now if I
click on either this image of the activity or this orange start activity
button, which I will do now, that launches the student page. So here we are now at
the student activity and the URL up here for the student activity, if you share
that with your students in any way they will come to this page where they can
respond to an activity. So we're going to just go ahead and act like a student
here for a moment and imagine we're here, we can read the introduction to the
activity, and for this particular activity we're moving documents to the
scale they can click on a document to go check it out in greater detail and
explore the activity, or excuse me the document, learn more about it they can go
back to their activity and place it, in this case, with this particular activity
on the scale so that's the action of this activity, they're placing documents
on the scale according to which interpretation it supports. So we're
going to kind of fast forward here and imagine that we are closely examining
each of these documents and moving them onto to the scale to complete this
activity. Now I'm just going to put a few of them up there but we
imagine the student has has looked at all these documents move them to the
scale, they scroll down here to the when you're done section and there's some
follow-up work or questions that they need to respond to. So they can type
again their student name here and
whatever response they're going to type they can do it here and then they would
click in this to field and type in your email address. This is the email address
that you have associated with your DocsTeach account, make sure they have
that and they can type it in there. Now notice when I did that, that please
choose a group from the list below popped up. So within my account I had the
ability to create groups of my students so from my drop-down menu I just have
period one, period four, period seven, so I'm going to imagine I'm a student in my
period for class I select that group and go ahead and send that response. It'll
give me a confirmation that it was submitted and and that student work has
been submitted. So I'm going to close that student window now and go back to
my teacher page, my my teacher account, where again I'm logged in, and I'm going
go now and access this student work that was just submitted. So I'm going to click on
menu and again I'm logged into my DocsTeach account as a teacher, click on menu,
my account and I'm going to go down to my students responses, and here I can see
all the work that my students have submitted to me
here's the one that I just completed now, How Americans Responded to Immigration
and if you look over on the side here at this icon if you click on this it's
going to launch the students work and so you will notice this looks just like the
page we just left, it's really a snapshot of the work, it shows this image showing
where they place things in the activity and it also includes whatever they
responded with below any text they entered here so you have this
shot of every student's work right in your DocsTeach account. Now you also have
the ability to work with this information on this page so you could
search for for student work that's been submitted, you can refine, you know by a
date for instance, if you wanted to see just work that had been submitted in the
last week or the last two weeks, you can also click on a group and just show your
students work for you know, I have period one or period four are the examples that
I have created here, so you can sort your your students into groups and and just
see their work that way. You can also you also have the ability when you're done
with any of these activities you you don't need to see them anymore
you can click next to them and from this menu you can choose to archive them and
if you click go then you will no longer see those
activities, so if you want to keep this cleaned up to just current work then you
could, you could do that. If you ever want to see that work again, however if you
just go up above here and click on show archived responses and search now this
work will reappear and you can see it, and if you look all the way on the the
right hand side you can see these folder icons that indicate which of these
activities have been archived. If you wanted to show them again you can just
click on them, click on show them from the drop-down menu, and click go and now
they will appear in your account again and you have access to them all at once
again. You also have some some more control about about your account and how
students send work to you. So there's this My Response Settings page so you
can either click here or another way to access it is to go to menu, my account, and
my response settings and here you can change some things up if you choose for
instance if you'd like your students to submit their work to a different email
address not the one that's associated with with your account, you could enter a
different email address here and it will not change the
address associated with your account but it's a second one. Now the default by
default you will receive an email anytime a student completes an activity
you will receive an email that has a link to that snapshot of this completed
student activity. If you prefer to turn that off, you don't want to receive all
those emails and instead you would prefer to come log in to your DocsTeach
account and go to my students responses to see all of their work, then you just
simply uncheck this box and save your settings. You also, if you scroll down
below here you can create these groups that I was talking about. So if I want to
create a new group for instance I just simply type in period 3 for instance add
the group and now that's available as one of these groups and the next time
one of my students logs in and excuse me doesn't login but the next time they
they complete an activity then that group will be available for them to
choose and I should mention that students don't need to log in at all
they don't need to include any of their information other than their name
but that's up to you and to them what they type in that field so students do
not need an account to to send you any of their work. So the next thing I'd like
to show you is this is the way that you could use your DocsTeach account to
receive your students work I'd also like to show you if you use a learning
management system so for instance you use Google Cassroom or Blackboard
Canvas, Moodle any of the learning management systems or LMS is that your
school or district might have, I'll show you how to assign work that way. So again
I'm going to go back to activities I'm going to go ahead and find that same
activity we were just working with.
Here it is. And again I'm going to click on either the image of the activity or
the start activity button to launch the student page, and I'll point in to the
URL here you can copy this URL if you use a learning management system any of
those that I listed you can just copy this URL if you have the ability to
create assignments in your learning management system then you just paste
this URL and your students can click on this URL and it will bring them to this
student page to respond to. Now if you use Google classroom specifically
there's the button right here above the title of the activity if you click on
that button and you are logged into your Google account then that will launch the
Google classroom interface and you will have the ability to include this link as
an assignment in one of your units in your Google classroom. Now again we'll
just kind of emulate that we are a student here very very quickly just
pretend we have completed this activity and again we go down to this when you're
done field where we, the student can their name and their response and they
can put in your email address if you'd like them to as sort of a backup to have
this in your account but also if you'd rather not do that then they actually
have they could just leave this blank and then click on the send response
button now you receive a confirmation, and something what you can point out to
your students is that this URL, if you take a look at it, notice that it now
ends in student response with a number at the end, if a student provides you
with this URL this will give you the snapshot of that particular student's
work exactly as it looks on this page. So they just need to submit this URL to you.
Now if you have the ability to receive assignments in your learning
management system, your students can can assignments there, they would just need
to paste in this URL to you and once you click on that then you will see the work
that they've completed and again if you're using Google classroom in
particular this is a Google classroom button right above the title of the
activity your students can click on this button if they as long as they're signed
in to their Google account it will open the Google classroom interface and they
will be able to add this as an assignment they should add it as a link
to one of the assignments that you have created in in one of your Google
classroom units. So they just need to give you that and and when you get that
link again you can click on it you see this snapshot exactly of their activity.
All right I'm going to close this student activity again and I want to
show you another way that you can assign activities to your students. I'm going to
go back and find some more activities so back to our activity search, this time
I'm going to search for civil rights activities, and what I'm going to show
you is a way to add multiple activities to a DocsTeach classroom so if I click
on this activity about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 since I am logged into my
account I have the ability to click and star this activity, book mark it, I can
choose which classroom I put it in I'm going to just put it in my default
classroom for now, I could have created a Civil Rights classroom ahead of time but
I haven't yet. What I'm going do here once I have added this, it takes me to my
my activities page, and I can see that this activity is here in my default
classroom. Now and if I want to make a civil right classroom for my students I
can just click to create the folder and you can see it's been created here. To
move this activity that I just bookmarked into that activity I just
click from the drop down menu, take selected items and move them to, I choose
the folder civil rights, click go and now you will see that this activity
is in my civil rights folder. I should note too, that you can, just like
I did, you can find an activity that was created by another educator, bookmark it
and add it to a folder, you can also create your own activity or if you have
an activity you've created then it would also be in your default classroom and
just use the same process that I just used, you just click and move it into
this particular classroom. I'm going to just quickly go find one other activity
to add to our Civil Rights classroom and I'm going to choose this activity here
about Selma, and again here I am I'm just going to click the star and add it to a
classroom, this time when I click from this drop down menu Civil Rights, my
Civil Rights folder that I just created, that's one of the options so I'm going
to add it directly to that folder. And again this is going to bring me to the
my activities page where i can see that my civil rights folder is here and has
these two activities. I'll show you how you can share this with your students as
well. First i'll point out there's this edit icon here where you could click to
rename this folder if you ever need to and then there's a link icon right next
to it on the right that i can click on, and it gives me a couple links. So the
first is to share this with other teachers so that would be if i was
collaborating with fellow educators and i wanted to share these activities that
would share links to the teacher page with the teaching instructions what
we're talking about here for sharing with students is this link to share our
classroom with students, and if I click on that you can see our civil rights
classroom here ,now this will share these activities, the student activities with
with our students and again if you click this URL and copy this you can share it
anyway. If you you know you are using a learning
management system like Blackboard or Moodle or Canvas etc, you can just paste
that in and your students will click on that link and be brought directly to
this page. And if you're using Google classroom in particular there's a Google
classroom button right above the civil rights classroom title and you can
click on that button, again as long as you're logged into your Google account,
it will open that interface and allow you to add this as an assignment in one
of your units and Google classroom. And when your students click on this link
they will be brought here, if they click on either of these activities any of the
activities in account you'll see it brings them to the student page of the
activity just like we saw before with the immigration activity, and they can
complete the activity and submit it to you using one of the one of the ways
that we talked about before. One other thing I want to point out I closed the
student activity and back on in my account in my activities page, you may
have noticed there's also this classroom code for iPad app here, another way that
you can share activities with your students is to create a classroom and if
your students have the DocsTeach app installed on their iPads they can open
that up, they can type this particular code into the iPad app and it will share
just those activities that you have put into the classroom for them and they can
complete those activities and and turn them in and just like they would on the
computer. So you certainly don't need to be using the iPad app, but if your
students do have that app then that's another way to do it. but DocsTeach
activities work on on the iPad outside of the app, they work on Chromebooks
tablets, computers, you don't need the specific iPad app to use them on
tablets. Now for so those are the the variety of ways that you can assign
student work to your students and they can turn them in to you, I want to show
you an overview of what we've talked about here, if you click on menu,
resources, and manage assignments here you'll see some written instructions and
overview, much like I've talked about here today for how to
assign activities to your students and how students can turn them in again
through your DocsTeach account by using Google classroom or through learning
management systems or the DocsTeach app for iPad and that's the process for
assigning and turning in activities. If you have any questions or comments about
this or anything about DocsTeach, you can always contact us using the contact
us link on DocsTeach or on Twitter @DocsTeach.