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Tutor Learning Suite at AIS: Teacher Guide

1 de mayo

2011 Tutor is a Student Information System integrated with Social Networking tools created to transform communications within Latin American Schools. Teachers and Students will now learn from each other speaking “Digital”, the language of the 21st Century.

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Tutor Learning Suite at AIS: Teacher Guide 2011

Teachers’ guide 1. What is tutor

2. Tutor’s sections

What students see

What teachers see

3. My profile

4. How to manage my subject

Editing Benchmarks and Activities

How to grade

How to create a reminder

5. How to maintain my subject’s site

How to write Blog Posts

o Content Tags

o How to integrate multimedia content

Youtube

Slideshare/Scribd/Others

How to upload pictures

6. Other topics

Bookmarklet

Facebook Integration

How Parents see Grades


WHAT IS TUTOR

This Student Information System with Social Networking tools allows:

Students and parents to monitor their grades live. You will be able to organize your

curricular map (Benchmarks, Activities, and Percentages) from any place on Earth

with an Internet connection.

Generate Thought Leadership in each community member by allowing them to

create individual profiles with Photos, Blogs, and a comment wall. These blogs feed

the School’s public website (i.e. Extranet).

Complete surveys, forums, send direct messages and share multimedia content with

Students, Colleagues, and Administrators.

Tutor is a Cloud Application, no need for burdensome server or IT personnel

investments.

TUTOR’S SECTIONS

What students see

Blogs: Blogs belonging to every user, group and/or subject within the network.

Knowledge is freely shared, following our Open Source philosophy.

People: A directory of every user in the platform. You can perform a search.

Groups: A directory of all student and teacher Groups that are not directly related to

a subject but any other topic (an extracurricular, common interest, work group, etc)

Subjects: A directory of every subject in the network, along with each of their sites.

Calendar: An agenda of all tasks that teachers have assigned. Students can see any

homework or deadline assigned to the courses he/she belongs to.

Grades: A record of his/her grades

My profile: General information about the student. Pictures, interests, Wall and

Avatar.


What teachers see

MAIN MENU

Teaching School: Professional Development Forum. Created exclusively for teachers

and administrators.

Blogs: Blogs belonging to every user, group and/or subject within the network.

Knowledge is shared freely, following our Open Source philosophy.

People: A directory of every user in the platform. You can perform a search.

Groups: A directory of all student and teacher Groups that are not directly related to

a subject but any other topic (an extracurricular, common interest, work group, etc)

Subjects: A directory of every subject in the network, along with each of their sites.

My profile: General information about the staff member. Pictures, interests, Wall

and Avatar.

CONTROL PANEL

Administration Screen: Dashboard with every subject that has been assigned to the

given teacher (who logged in)

o Edit subject: Change benchmarks, activities (within those benchmarks) and

percentage weights of each.

o Grade subject by users: Evaluate performance on activities and benchmarks by

individual user.

o Grade subject by period: Evaluate benchmarks on a Group level (every student at

once, grading per task )

Edit profile: Make changes in your avatar, interests and information.

Edit account: Changes in your password, username, etc.

Manage Posts: Add, edit, or delete any of your blog posts

Inbox: Direct messages you have received.

My profile: Shortcut to your profile.

My Blog: Shortcut to your Blog.

My Photos: Shortcut to your photos.

My clippings: Shortcuts to all the content that you have clipped using our

Bookmarklet. Read more about the Bookmarklet at the end of this handbook.


MY PROFILE

Your photo

album

Comment

Wall

Your Posts

Groups and Subjects to

which you belong


HOW TO MANAGE MY SUBJECT

1. Log in and click on your Administration Screen.

2. You will find any and all subjects that have been assigned to you, a Homework

Calendar, and the option to Grade by User.

a. Homework Calendar: Here you will be able to create reminders on a Calendar

that your students will see, so that they can complete homework, essays, and

Projects on time.

b. Grade subjects by user: Here you will be able to grade each student on an

individual basis, looking at his/her progress throughout the different tasks and

evaluations during the current period.


c. Edit Subject (i.e. File Folder with your Subject’s Name): Allows you to edit your

curriculum map, the weight that each of the activities has on the Benchmark’s

final assessment, and each of these benchmarks’ weight on the final subject

grade. You can also grade all students at the same time, on a per activity basis.



How to maintain my subject’s site

You will find links to each of your assigned subjects on your Profile. Click on any of them to

edit the site.

A subject’s site looks like this:

Miembros

Administration

Panel

Subject’s Blog

Topics indexed

through TAGS

Photo

Albums


HOW TO WRITE BLOG POSTS.

Option A: Click on “Write a Post!” in the Administration Panel on your Group/Subject’s right

sidebar.

Option B: You can also go to “Manage Posts” (which we explained previously on What

Teachers See”) and post from there –indicating that it is related to your subject and selecting

which one from a combo box.

Content Tags: All posts are organized around Tags, as topics are known in Web 2.0. Just

think of a good name that summarizes what your post is related to and write it on the “Tags”

field as you create it. It will be indexed immediately with all other posts in the platform, and

also on an individual tag directory within your own group.

Surveys: Take advantage of your post to survey readers. Write a question and create several

options. The system will calculate percentages as your students vote for their favorite

answer.


How to integrate multimedia content Youtube – scribd- slideshare- others

When you’re writing your post, you can integrate multimedia content from any other

platform that gives you an HTML code. With these lines of code, which you can easily get

from Youtube, Scribd, and Slideshare, you will give your communication a twist. Each of

these platforms has a unique way to point at this HTML code, but it generally appears under

the title EMBED—which means, “to insert code into another website”.

The steps are:

1. When creating your Blog Post, click on HTML

2. Paste on this dialog box any code that you obtained from an external site


3. Click on Update.


Other topics

Tutor Bookmarklet

Go to your Control Panel. Inside “My Clippings”, you will find a module from which you can

drag the phrase “Tutor It” into your Browser’s bookmark bar. Once it’s there, just click on

“Tutor It” anytime you feel like sharing interesting content and our bookmarklet will

automatically create a post on Tutor for you. With Tutor sharing with your students is fast

and fun!

Facebook Integration

If the email account that you registered on Tutor is the same as your main email account on

Facebook, welcome to the new phase of Facebook Connection! Log into Tutor with a simple

click, using your Facebook password & account. We will be launching great features

involving Tutor and Facebook in a near future, so be on the look for changes!

How parents see Grades

Parents must click on “Solicita las Calificaciones de tu Hijo en Tiempo Real”, one of the main

links at www.altamira.edu.co . Once their email has been registered by the administrator as

belonging to a given child’s parent, he/she will receive an instant grades report whenever

needed.

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