- Hello, and welcome to this video
about Double Helix lessons from CSIRO.
Today I'm gonna take you through how to edit a lesson.
One of the great things about
Double Helix Lessons is that it's curriculum complete
and ready to implement into your classroom right away.
But, there might be occasions
where you may wish to edit some of the content
and add in your own flavour.
For example, I spoke to a teacher
whose school was near a wetlands
and she wanted to be able to add in areas
to the adaptations unit, where students can
add in their own field notes and photos
from recent field trips, and thanks to the
style platform, this is very simple to do.
Throughout the platform, you will see
editing tools which are very similar
to the tools you're already familiar with
in other software and word processing softwares.
So, let's get started.
First, once we are in the unit that we want to edit,
let's click on the first lesson
and take a look at some of the
editing tools that are available to us.
Note that you need to be in teacher mode
to see these editing tools, students are
unable to, and I'll just flick
to students to show you the difference.
We've got the blue banner at the top
and no editing tools around any
of the content that we can see.
Whereas when I go back to teacher view,
we have the green banner at the top,
we have an edit tool up here, and some other edit tools
on each of the content types throughout the lesson.
So the first thing you may wish to do
is change the cover image.
You may wish to use an image from your schools surrounds
or your classroom, just to give
your kids that personalised flavour.
You may wish to change some of this intro text,
in which case all you need to do is
click on the edit button and some tools will pop up
just like you might see in Microsoft Word.
Bold, italic, and so on, and you can type
straight into this box.
Volcanoes in Australia, well yes there are.
And once you're happy with that, you can press done.
But before I do that, I also just want to point out
that since you've changed the text,
you may wish to change the narration on this text.
So all you do is click on this link,
and press start recording if your laptop
or computer has a microphone, or you can
upload an existing audio file of your new text.
This will just help students
who might have some reading difficulties.
They can just listen to the text rather than read it.
Once you're happy, click done,
and now you'll see my new text has been saved.
You can edit all kinds of content type
for example, you can also edit videos.
Again, press edit, and perhaps you
wish to choose a different video.
If you click on choose a different video,
that'll take you to Youtube, and then you can
select your new video.
But in this instance, perhaps I just want
this video to be a bit shorter.
Currently it is just over 43 seconds,
so I just want to trim it back a bit,
and you can just grab one of these toggles
and literally pull them until you are
at the spot where you want the video to end.
Same with the starting toggle,
I don't want this bit, so I'm going
to just pull it until
the video is at the point where I want it to start.
And once you're happy with that, press done.
I'm going to discard my changes though,
because I've just changed my mind
and decided the video is really good after all.
The other thing you can do is also delete content,
and it's pretty simple to do that.
If you click on the more button,
you can just simply hit delete
and that content will go away.
Or, perhaps you want to copy that content,
or duplicate it, which you can do very easily here too.
A side by side layout just means
that where content like this for example,
doesn't need to take up the whole space,
you can actually fit something else
over here to the right.
But I don't want the side by side layout
so I'm going to remove that again.
Great!
Now one other thing that we can do
is decide whether a lesson is assessed or un-assessed.
Up at the top here, you have an orange tab
that says assessed on it, that indicates
that there are marks available for some of the
questions in this lesson, and that those marks
will end up in the markbook, which is a topic
we will go through in another video.
And to change whether it's assessed,
we simply click on the change word
next to the word assessed, and here you will see
the two options, not assessed, and you can
see what that means, and assessed,
and you can see what that means here as well.
And once you're happy with whether it's
assessed or not assessed, press save.
Finally, one of the last things that we can do
is decide whether we want to set a due date
for this particular lesson.
So you may wish to get your students
to complete it by the end of the week.
Simply click edit at the top here
where you can, by the way, also edit
the heading of your lesson, and here you'll see
due on, for all students.
Let's select a due date.
I would like it done before Christmas please.
I'm very mean.
And you can even select what time you want it done by.
Now, if you are teaching multiple classes,
you may wish to only select a due date
for one of your classes, so if you click
I want to set a single due date...
Sorry, a due date for one of my classes,
then you will see all three of your classes
pop up here, and you can actually set
different dates for each class.
Once you're happy with your due dates, simply press save.
Okay, well now that you know how to
edit your lessons, you are ready to go teaching your
brand new personalised content for your class.
Watch other videos to get other tips and tricks
on how to use Double Helix Lessons from CSIRO.
Thank you.