- Hello, and welcome to this demonstration
of Getting Started with Double Helix Lessons from CSIRO.
First of all, what we're going to do, now that you've
got a subscription to Double Helix Lessons, is log in.
So we will click the log in button
and enter your email address and password, which you would
have been given with your Stile subscription,
and click Log In.
Now you'll see a screen very much the same
as the last one with a few minor differences.
My name is at the top here.
I've got notifications.
And over on the left, there is a home button,
which is what I'm going to click now.
Double Helix Lessons is built
with the Stile Education platform.
So, if you have a subscription to any other Stile products,
they will also appear here.
But, today, I only have a subscription
to Double Helix Lessons, so that's the only item
that I can see in this list, and I'm gonna click it now
to access my content.
Just gonna minimise that.
When you first sign up, you actually won't see
anything here.
So I have Earth and Space Sciences: Natural Disasters,
but you won't have anything.
What you will need to do is actually import the units
you want from your lesson library.
So first of all, we're gonna click on the blue button here,
Browse the Lesson Library.
And select Double Helix Lessons.
And here, I can see all the different units available to me
with my Double Helix Lessons subscription.
Now, I can either just simply click on this blue button,
Add a Copy of All Lessons to My Subject,
which will immediately import them all, or if I want
to have a look to see what each one is all about,
I can click them individually, get an overview,
see how they match to the curriculum, and then decide,
"Yes, I want to copy this particular lesson to my folder,"
click that blue button, and close that tab.
And now, let me just minimise that,
I will see this new unit, Biological Sciences: Fungi,
has appeared in my dashboard.
Fabulous.
So once you're happy and you're satisfied
that you've imported all the units you're going to need,
the next thing we're going to want to do is add our students
and create a classroom.
So up here, in this green ribbon, we can see
a number of menu items.
We're already in Lessons, and over to the right
we have Students, Markbook, and Options.
The Markbook we will go through in another video,
but for the moment, what we want to do is click on Students.
Now, I've already got some students signed up,
some very smart looking students,
and some classrooms set up.
However, you will need to add a new class by clicking
Add Class.
And then sign up your students.
You can rename your class.
And then you can either send your students an invite
by clicking on this link and entering a code,
or if you have the email addresses of your students,
you can simply type them in this box down here
and click on Add Students.
Now once you do that, they will receive an email
which is similar to this one here,
with a link that they need to click to get started.
And once they've accepted the invitation,
then they will be added to your class list
and you will see them appear here.
Now you'll notice in addition to having your classes
along the side, there's also a tab for Teachers.
And that tab is green.
One great thing about Double Helix Lessons is that
throughout the platform, everything is colour coded.
So if you are viewing something in Teacher Mode,
then it is green, whereas students see things
with a lot of blue.
So for example, on the left here, I can see immediately
that my teachers are written in green font,
and the students, the classes underneath, are blue
which show me instantly that they are classes.
Also, at the top here, my ribbon with my menu bar
is also green, whereas the students actually see
a blue menu bar
which is great for teachers because you can actually flick
between teacher and student mode and instantly see
which mode you're in as you're navigating
Double Helix Lessons.
So now that we're happy and we've signed up a class
and all our students have accepted, let's go back
to the lessons.
The first thing is,
and here's this tab to click between Student View
and Teacher View.
So, I'll just click that quickly to show you the difference.
In Student View you have a blue ribbon, as mentioned,
and you can also see slightly different things
to what the teachers can see.
But we will stay in Teacher View.
Here's a little overview of the anatomy of your unit.
Looking at Natural Disasters, which is the free,
the trial unit, which is available for free,
if you want to sign up if you haven't
actually paid for a subscription yet.
And over on the left, you can see all the lessons
that are part of your unit.
And on the right, there's a little bit of an overview
of what that unit is going to be all about.
Some information on how to teach the unit,
teachers' notes, notes on how it maps to the curriculum,
and model answers and hand outs.
There are quantitative and qualitative questions
throughout Double Helix Lessons.
So while the platform is very good, of course, at instantly
marking any questions that have yes or no answers
or multiple choice answers,
there are some instances where your students
might write their own answer into a variable text field
and that's where the hand outs and model answers
come in really handy.
Looking at the lessons on the left,
we've got quite a number here that we can teach.
And notice that we've also got
these funny little markers here,
My Class and Students.
And My Class, you might remember, is the new class
we just set up.
So what these are is, perhaps you only want your students
to view the first three lessons available in this unit,
so they don't get distracted and jump ahead
to other content you're not ready to teach them.
Just select My Class, and grab it and drag it down,
and now you can see only the first three lessons
have been highlighted.
This means your students will only see those lessons
and not any of the others.
And if you are teaching multiple classes,
this can be quite handy if your classes
are at different levels and working at different paces.
Now that we have set up our units and added our students
and created a class, you are ready to teach
Double Helix Lessons from CSIRO.
Check out the other videos available for other tips
and tricks on how to edit, create new lessons,
or use the Markbook.
Thank you very much.