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Teacher User Manual

Features of

INTERACTIVE CLASSROOMS

@

Home

(ICR@Home)

Version – 3.0

Teacher User Manual School 2 Home

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Trademark Acknowledgements

All products are registered trademarks of their respective organizations. All software used is for education purposes only.

NIIT/SLS/Nguru/School2Home/Teacher User Manual.

Copyright © NIIT 2012. All rights reserved.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.


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Table of Contents

Using School 2 Home Page No.

Features :

1 Teacher’s Login 4

2 View Content 5

a. Lesson Plan 7

b. Glossary 9

c. Web Links 10

d. Digital Library 19

e. Dynamic Quiz – Let’s Play 25

f. Assessment – How to Create? 31

3 Reports 38

a. Content usage report 38

b. Assessment Report 44

4 Assignment 55

a) Create Assignment 58

b) View Assignment 63

5 Create Notification 66

6 Upload Image 68


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1. Teacher’s Login

1. Go to Web Portal www.niitnguru.com/school2home. 2. Enter the ‘School code, ‘Teacher username’ and ‘password’, click on Login

3. Following window appears.

http://www.niitnguru.com/school2home


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2. View Content

To View Contents follow the steps given below

1. Click on ‘+’ sign of ‘View Content’ Node.

2. List of teacher’s subject appears.


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3. Click on a subject. List of chapter appears. Click on a Chapter



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a. Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan contains features, as mentioned below:

A. Getting Started – i. Objectives: A list of the objectives to be accomplished for a

particular concept. ii. Teaching Aids: A guide to aids that can be used for teaching the

lesson. iii. Introduction: A background of the concept, detailing why the

concept is important for students to learn, thus setting the context for learning.

iv. Teaching Plan: A recommendation on how the class could be conducted to optimize the teaching learning experience.

v. Summary: A recapitulation of what has been learnt in the topic. vi. References: Additional reference materials on the topic that the

teachers and students can refer to.


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B. Assessments - i. Questions for Evaluation: Enable teachers to gauge the level of

understanding of the class ii. Challenging Problems: Provide opportunities to engage bright

students to further their learning iii. Reinforcement: Lists a set of questions that the teacher can ask the

students to reinforce their understanding of the concept

C. Curiosity Corner -

i. Fascinating Facts: Provides trivia or interesting facts about the topic being learnt.

ii. Frequently Asked Questions: Contains standard questions that keep coming up from students while learning a topic.

iii. Misconception and Exceptions: Captures the most common exceptions and misconceptions for each concept, which makes the learning complete.

D. Explore - i. Real-Life Applications: Is used to connect the learning to life

outside the classroom. ii. Activities: Details some activities that students can undertake on

their own or that can be taken up in the class.

Note: Click the Answers button to access answers to Reinforcement, Questions for

Evaluation, Frequently Asked Questions and Challenging Problems.


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b. Glossary

Glossary contains a list of technical terms with their brief definitions and has been collated.

This provides learners as well as teachers an easy access to the relevant term.

On clicking the Glossary link, a new window opens.

Clicking each word button displays the meaning or definition of that word in the bottom

panel.

There is a provision for navigation through the Previous and Next buttons, in case the

word list includes more than eight words.

Previous Next

A word can alternatively be accessed from the Alphabet menu at the top.

Alphabet

access

List of

words

Word’s

explanation


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c. Web Links

Web links are additional resources wherein the students and teachers are provided with a library of Web links to sites with content and resources directly mapped to the school curriculum.

Salient features of Web links:

A list of Web site links identified for the concepts that are available.

The salient Benefits of the Web site are displayed on the right-top panel.

The Features available on the site are identified on the right-bottom panel.

A teacher can do Rating of web links. Web links get displayed as self-organizing links. Most admired links appears at the top.

The link provides access to the Web site.

Clicking the Web link opens a new window.

Benefits

of the

website

Rating

Panel

Features

available

in

website


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Web links are divided into two categories:

1. Standard Web links: These links are provided as a part of Eguru ICR application. The links have been identified by a network of teachers familiar with the school syllabus and who directly contribute to the learning process. Many of the sites go beyond the curriculum, giving students a chance to explore and learn more. Standard web links can’t be added/modified/deleted at school level.

2. Custom Web Links: These are the links - which are added by the school teacher in the school ICR server. In case if teacher knows an important web link which is not part of the application then it can be added into application at school itself. So this is another collaborative feature of the application which allows knowledge sharing across school teachers. Once added this link would be visible to all the school teachers. Custom Web links can be deleted/modified at school by the owner teacher who has created it.

Web Links – How to ADD? :-

1. Click Add Web link icon available on the bottom of the web link page as shown below.


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2. Following screen appears.

3. Enter the web link in the text box as shown below. Web link should always start with http:// or https:// or ftp://


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4. Enter the description of the web link in the text area as shown below. Teacher can enter the description up to 400 characters only.

5. Enter Keywords in the text area as shown below. All keywords that user enter must be comma separated. These keywords will help user in searching their own created web links later on. So keywords should be important concepts which are getting addressed with the weblink being entered.

6. Select the relevant features which are available in web link. Twelve features are mentioned as shown in figure. Check the check boxes appropriately.


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7. Click Add button to create the custom web link.

8. Following message appears. Click OK.

Note: Teacher can modify or delete their own creation only.

How To Delete\Modify Custom Web Links? :-

Steps to Delete a Custom Web links:

1. Click Remove Web link icon as shown below.


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2. A confirmatory message appears as shown below. Click OK to confirm or Cancel to exit.


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Steps to Modify a Custom Web links:

1. Click Modify Web link icon as shown below.



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3. Update the fields as per your requirement and click Update button.

4. Following message appears. Click OK button.


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Web Links – How to Rate? :-

Rating flags are available in the front of every web link.

1. Green flag is used to rate positive and red flag is used to rate negative.

-To Rate Positive - To Rate Negative

2. A teacher can click on any of the two flags to rate a web link.

3. A teacher can rate a web link only once. 4. Web links are ordered in a list according to their positive rating from top to

bottom and they are self-organizing. Most rated web link would appear at the top.


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d. Digital Library

Digital Library is the repository of subject resources. Resources can be presentations, word documents, image files, etc. This repository can also include images of your writing on the Interactive whiteboard, captured and saved for future use.

Digital Library is divided into two categories:

School Resources: These are the resources which are uploaded by the school teacher in the school. These resources are visible in School Resource area as shown in the image given below. Once uploaded, a resource will be available only in the respective class, subject and chapter.

Eguru Resources: These are the resources which are provided by the Eguru ICR application. These are some basic and important resources provided by the application to enhance the student knowledge and provide new ideas to teacher also.

These resources help in the form of extra learning.

Click to

view

uploaded

resource Teacher’s

name

School resources area

Button to

upload

resources

Click to

delete

resource

Eguru resources

Click to

view

Eguru

resource

s


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To upload content, follow these steps:

a. Click the Upload Your Content button as mentioned above. The following screen appears.

b. To find the file that you want to upload, click the Browse button.

c. A dialog box appears. Browse and select the file to be uploaded. (File size should not be more than 10 MB.)


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d. Click the Open button.

e. Next, Give the Topic name and Description.

f. Click the Upload button. Wait until the file is uploaded.


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g. Following screen appears if upload is successful. If you want to upload more resources then click Upload more... link else click Close button.

Note: While uploading the file, you may get following message:

Check the file size you are trying to upload, and make sure it is less than or equal to 10 MB.


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To view uploaded content, follow these steps:

a. A list of school contributed resources appears under School Resources area. If you find only the Upload Your Content button, it means that no contributed resources are available for the chapter.

b. To view content, click the link given under Topic Heading.

c. The File Download dialog box appears.


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d. To open the file, click the Open button.

Note: Some files like, .jpg, .pdf, .html,.jar may open directly in the browser window.


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e. Dynamic Quiz – Let’s Play

Dynamic Quiz is fun based Quiz. It picks up & displays Multiple Choice questions which are dynamically picked up from question bank. Questions are picked up from the selected chapter. Teacher can use this module to get an understanding of student’s knowledge for the respective topics. Student can also play quiz to test their memory and understanding skills.

This module can be accessed through four different logins.

a. Teacher b. Student c. Management d. Parent

Follow the steps to play this quiz

Click on ‘Quiz’ tab.

1. Following window appears. Select the topics by clicking on the checkbox available in front of topic. Questions would be picked up from selected topics only. Click ‘Start

Quiz’ button to play the quiz.


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How to play??

Question appears on the basis of selected topics. Let’s see and understand different component of this module.

1. Quiz Screen Components:

Question

Counter

Question

Answer

Options

Solution Hint


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Following are the Quiz screen components:

Question Counter: It shows the current question number and total number of available questions in the quiz.

Question: It contains the text of the Question.

Answer Options: It contains available options for an answer.

Solution Hint: This is a hint to the user to answer the question. Hints may be available only in few of the questions.

Skip: User may skip the question if required.

2. To provide an answer to a question, User has to click on top of any one of the available options.

3. If answer is correct then

Background color of the option changes to ‘green’.

You would hear a sound clip saying “That’s Correct”.

Rest of the options gets disabled.

‘Skip’ button changes to the ‘Next’ button.

‘Explanation’ of the answer gets displayed below the next button.


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4. If answer is wrong then

Background color of the option changes to ‘red’.

An audio saying “Oops, That’s incorrect” plays.

‘That’s Incorrect!!’ gets displayed below the skip button.

Note: User can attempt the same question multiple times.


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5. ’End Quiz’ button displays at the bottom once user reaches to the last question. User can click on ‘End Quiz’ button to end the quiz.

6. It redirects the user to the start page of the quiz. User can start quiz all over again


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f. Assessment – How to Create?

Follow the steps to create an Assessment

1. Click on Assessment tab.

2. Following window appears. Click on ‘Add’.



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4. There are two types of Paper that student can generate:

a. Static Paper Generation.

b. Dynamic Paper Generation or Smart Assessment.

a) To generate static paper follows the steps given below:

i. Select ‘Manual’ from ‘Question Selection Criteria’ option buttons.

ii. Select the ‘Question Type’. Options available are ‘Objective’ and

‘Subjective’.

iii. Select ‘Level of Difficulty’, ‘Type’ and ‘Marks’.

iv. Enter ‘Instruction’, ‘Paper Title’ and ‘Time Duration’ for the Paper.

v. Select paper availability ‘From’ and ‘To’ date.


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vi. Click on ‘Next’. Following screen appears.

vii. Click on ‘ ’ icon. Following screen appears.


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viii. Select questions by clicking on checkboxes in front of each question.

Selected question will be highlighted.

ix. Number of questions with their marks and total marks is also displayed

by question paper tracker.

No of

Questions

Total Marks

No of 1 marks

Questions


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x. Click on ‘Submit’ button to generate a paper.

xi. Paper will be created.

xii. Student can download this Paper in Student Home device application

after 10 mins.

b) To generate dynamic paper follow the steps given below

i. Select ‘Dynamic’ from ‘Paper Generation Criteria’ option buttons.

ii. Select ‘Question Type’, options available is ‘Objective’ and ‘Subjective’.


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iii. Select ‘Level of Difficulty’ and ‘Type’.

iv. Select topic by selecting checkboxes in front of each topics.

v. Enter ‘Instructions’, ‘Paper Title’ and ‘Time Duration’.

vi. Select paper availability ‘From’ and ‘To’ Date.

vii. Select ‘Next’. Following window appears.

viii. Enter the no of questions in ‘Required Questions’ textbox. Click on

‘Generate ‘. Following window appears.


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ix. Click on ‘Submit’.

x. Paper will be submitted.


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3. Reports

There are two types of reports:

a) Content usage report. b) Assessment report.

a) Content usage report

To see content usage reports follow the steps given below

1. Click on ‘+’ sign of ‘Reports’.


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2. Following link appears.

3. Click on ‘Content Usage Report’. Following screen appears. Click on ‘Details’.


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4. Following window appears. Click on user name highlighted below.


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5. Following window appears. Select checkboxes in end of each row.

6. Click on ‘Show Details’.


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7. Following window appears. Click on ‘Details’.


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8. Following window appears. Click on ‘View Chart’.



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b) Assessment report

To see assessment reports follow the steps given below

1. Click on ‘+’ sign of ‘My Reports’.

2. Following link appears. Click on ‘Assessment Report’.


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3. Following window appears. Select ‘Classes’.

4. Select ‘Chapter’. Following screen appears.


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5. Following screen appears. Click on paper title.



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7. There are various types of assessment reports

a. Mark Sheet: To view mark sheet follow the steps given below

i. Click on ‘Mark Sheet’.

ii. Following window appears.


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b. LOD Marks Distribution: To view ‘LOD Marks Distribution’, follow the steps

given below:

i. Click on ‘LOD Marks Distribution’.



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c. MCA Marks Distribution: To view ‘MCA Marks Distribution’, follow the steps

given below:

i. Click on ‘MCA Marks Distribution’.



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d. Question Wise Analysis: To view ‘Question Wise Analysis’, follow the steps

given below:

i. Click on ‘Question Wise Analysis’.

ii. Following window appears. Select student from dropdown.


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iii. Following window appears.

e. Marks Sheet – Question Wise: To view ‘Marks Sheet – Question Wise’, follow

the steps given below:

i. Click on ‘Marks Sheet – Question Wise’.


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f. Class Marks Percentage Distribution: To view ‘Class Marks Percentage

Distribution’, follow the steps given below:

i. Click on ‘Class Marks Percentage Distribution’.


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g. Chapter Marks Distribution: To view ‘Chapter Marks Distribution’, follow the

steps given below:

i. Click on ‘Chapter Marks Distribution’.


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4. Assignment

Steps to Create and View Assignments

1. Once Teacher has logged in, following screen appears.

2. Click on ‘+’ sign of ‘Miscellaneous’ to expand, ‘Assignment’ node appears.


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3. Click on ‘+’ sign of ‘Assignment’, ‘Create Assignment and View Assignment’ node appears.


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a. Create Assignment

1. Click on ‘Create Assignment’. Following screen appears.

2. Select ‘Class/Section’.


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3. Select ‘Chapter’.

4. Enter ‘Assignment Title’.


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5. Select ‘From’ and ‘To’ date.

6. Write the details of ‘Assignments’.


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7. If required document can be uploaded in the Assignments, The types of documents that can be uploaded specified in green highlighted text below.

8. Click on ‘Submit’. Following message appears.


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b. View Assignments

To View Assignment Submitted By Students follow the steps given below:

1. Click on ‘View Assignment’, following screen appears.

2. Select ‘Class/Section’.

3. Select ‘Assignment’.


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4. Following screen appears, showing list of students to whom assignment is allotted. Click on link under ‘Assignment Doc’ of the students who has uploaded their assignment.



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6. Click ‘Open’ to view the document or ‘Save’ to save the document to view later. If open is selected following window appears.


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5. Create Notification

To Create Notification, follow the steps given below

1. Once teacher has logged in, following screen appears. Click on ‘Create Notification’.

2. Following window appears. Select ‘Class/Section’.


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3. Select ‘Notification Type’.

4. Enter ‘Description’.


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5. Click on ‘Submit’.

6. Following message appears.


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7. Upload Image

To upload your photo, follow the steps given below:

1. Click on ‘Upload Image’.

2. Following screen appears. Click on ‘Browse’.


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3. File Open dialog box appears. Select the image and click on ‘Open’.

4. Following screen appears. Click on ‘Upload Image’.


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5. Image will be uploaded.

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Teacher User Manual - dcw.niit.co.indcw.niit.co.in/Portal/User Manuals/ICR@Home_Teacher_Manual_1.0.pdf · Teacher User Manual Features of INTERACTIVE CLASSROOMS @ Home (ICR@Home)